We invite you to participate in the 18th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry organized together by Jackson State University and US Army ERDC. The CCTCC-18 meeting will be held at Hilton Jackson Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi on October 30 -31, 2009.

Topics to be cover
The conference topics will include current progress in development of computational methods and their applications in research. Among the CCTCC-18 topics are:

1. Developments of the DFT methods.
2. Applications of computational methods towards biological species.
3. Solvent effects
4. Environmental fate of nitrocompounds
5. Computer design of new materials
6. Interactions of Nerve Agents with environment
7. Properties of nanomaterials
8. Kinetics of decomposition of explosives
9. Application of Computational Chemistry for atmospheric reactions
10. Stability of chemical compounds

Tentative list of invited speakers:

Cary Chabalowski, US Army
Mark Gordon, Ames Lab/Iowa State University
Oleg Shishkin, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota
Ben Kohler, Ohio State University
Kenneth Jordan, University of Pittsburgh
Gabor Naray-Szabo, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
Alex Tropscha, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dominik Marx, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
Sylvio Canuto, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Harry Kroto, Florida State University
Anna Krylov, University of Southern California
John Perdew, Tulane University
Tamar Schlick, New York University
Matthias Bickelhaupt, der Vrije University, Holland
Victor Batista, Yale University

Please see more information at the conference web site at http://cctcc.icnanotox.org