Chemistry Webmasters 3

Future Technologies for Chemistry on the Internet

Following the success of the first and second UK Chemistry Webmasters meetings (November 1995 and June 1996), a third FREE meeting is being organised on behalf of the CLIC Consortium by The Royal Society of Chemistry on Thursday July 10 th, 1997 at the University of Oxford Chemistry Department. To register or submit a poster for Chemistry Webmasters 3, please email Becky Allen.

The Programme:

9:45 Arrival and Registration
10:00 Lectures:
 
Welcome
Professor Graham Richards, (Chair of the University of Oxford Chemistry Department)
Publishing CD-ROMs of Internet Sites and Electronic Conferences
Dr Henry Rzepa, (Imperial College)
Programming web sites - Hyperwave
Dr Omer Casher, (Imperial College)
11.15 Coffee Break
11.30 Lectures:
 
Stylish chemistry web pages and how to plug them
Dr. Mark Winter, (University of Sheffield)
ChemWeb - a chemical community site - an overview of the technology which drives it
Bill Town, (ChemWeb)
Chemical Data on the Internet - CML and XML
Dr Peter Murry-Rust, (Nottingham University)
1.00 Lunch - Oxford Pubs
2:15 Workshops - two parallel sessions of two talks and hands on
Java  ---------------------------------  Multimedia & Datasbases                
Peter Tebbutt
Java- Chemsymphony (Cherwell Scientific),
 Dr. Karl Harrison, (University of Oxford)
Virtual Laboratory
 Dr. Hugh Cartwright, (University of Oxford)
Java- Web Physical Chemistry Experiment
Gavin Cameron Muscat with (CLIC, RSC) project
 Intelligent searching
 3.15  Tea
 3:30  Web Posters and Tea
 Canning the Internet for Third World Laboratories: Scientific Nexus CD-ROMs in Crystallography and Alife for Remote Scientists  Lachlan Cranswick, Melbourne, Australia
 Computational chemistry resources for teachers  Keith Wilkinson, Winchester College, UK
 Undergraduate chemistry projects and the world wide web  Paul Yates, University of Keele, UK
 Computational solid state chemistry group  Dr Simon Bedford, University of Bath, UK
 Title to be announced  Mark Harper, Rhone Poulenc, France
 Chemistry Images and the Chemistry Video Consortium  Dr David Moss, Nottingham, UK
Alkane Conformation Hunt: a web-based chemistry competition Dr. Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge
 4.30  Issues Forum
Future Directions and Funding Issues
Chair Dr. Mark Winter, (University of Sheffield)

A map and directions to the venue for the meeting will be added to the http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/chemwebmasters/chemwebmasters3.html Oxford server in the next few days. All delegates will be notified by email in the week preceding the meeting.

Organising the Chemistry Webmasters 3 are Becky Allen (RSC) and locally Karl Harrison at the University of Oxford. To register for Chemistry Webmasters 3, please email Becky Allen.