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The V Girona Seminar is organized in Honour of Professor Haruo Hosoya.

The 5th GISEM will be structured into three events. Theoretical Chemistry taken in the broadest sense possible will be the protagonist of these meetings. Procedures, general applications and specific problems will be studied. Assistants can choose to assist to the whole set of events up to one of them. The details of the three events are sketched as follows:

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Chemistry (TheoChem)

Co-Chairman: J. Karwowski (Torun)

Start: July 12 / End: July 13.

Emphasis on original and newest aspects of algorithms, mathematical structures, computational details, theoretical developments… more than in simple numerical results, which will be kept at a minimum level.

Co-Chairman: R. Ponec (Prague)

Start: July 16 / End: July 17.

Any new aspect of Molecular Similarity is welcome. Applications to QSAR and reactivity, as well as shape analysis and other related topics would be treated. Several density function theoretical aspects will be added as an event branch. Electrostatic Potentials and Protein structure will be also included as event topics.

Quantitative Structure –Toxicity Relationships (QSTR), QSPR & QSAR

Co-Chairmen: E. Benfenati (Milano) & A. Grauel (Paderborn)

Start: July 19 / End: July 20.

General features on the subject will be included. The related fields of QSAR and QSPR will be hopefully present. This is a practically oriented event. However, theoretical insight towards the evaluation of the molecular eco-toxicity will be present. Original computational points of view will be also present. Molecular Similarity QSTR modelling will be one of the topics.

Chairman: R. Carbó-Dorca (Girona)

MAIN SCOPES

The previous editions of the Girona Seminars have always been directed to the training and learning of young students and assistants. Besides to the assistance to the main lectures, the students are encouraged to present oral poster sessions, which in the last Seminar dating of 1998, was organized as a set of short spoken conferences aided by computer generated slides, which the students where asked to prepare. This time, due to the success of the last version the poster sessions will be organized in the same manner. The students are forced into exposing their work in front of a senior audience, who can pose some questions at the end. Besides this student high level training sessions, there will be present several forum sessions where all the assistants can discuss on topics related to the seminar event. Students will be encouraged to participate. Moreover, student work if considered of sufficient entity will be forced to be written in a paper and published after revision.

PUBLICATION

Girona Seminars have become stable high-level biannual scientific gatherings (see i.e. IV Girona Seminar in Molecular Similarity). Every seminar has had printed a speakers’ lecture collection in form of a book. For further information see seminar’s book collection.

The 5th GISEM will be no exception: Lecturers will be invited to bring a manuscript. Events 1) and 2) will form at least a volume, probably published by Kluwer in the Mathematical and Computational Chemistry series book and event 3) will be published in: SAR & QSAR in Environmental Research. Oral Posters’ Sessions and Discussion Forums on specific aspects of theoretical chemistry will be also scheduled.