Check it out if you’re in the area! Here’s the poster that the UD grad students put together for my talk. I believe the students thought that I did not look cool enough to talk about the Social Media…so they spruced up my photo to make me look a bit “edgier”. 
Hello Dear Readers!!
Looong time no blog posts! I apologize for my absence this summer. There has been a LOT of traveling. I promise an update on all that’s been happening with me and with MVP Modeling Solutions in the past 5 months, shortly.
Meanwhile I wanted to give a head’s-up to all of you attending the American Chemical Society Boston meeting this week. I am organizing one of the sessions at the meeting called: Computer Modeling: The Wave of the Future. We have a great variety of wonderful speakers for this session – intention of all of the talks is to provide more information on computer simulation and modeling in sciences and engineering.
Below is the schedule for the talks (to be presented on Thursday, August 26th). We tried to make sure that there is something for everyone at this session – from modeling of bio-materials to information on patenting of computer simulations (which I am personally very interested in hearing).
I hope to see some of you in Boston this week (please say “hi” if you’re there).
Keep an eye out for a “Where has Masha been?” blog post (or maybe even a Vlog (video blog – term learned from my teenage son:)).
Cheers!
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Computer Modeling: The Wave of the Future and its Benefits for Small Business Owners
Location: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
Room: Room 212
Cosponsored by: CINF, COMP, PROF
Duration: 8:30 am - 12:55 pm
8:30 am Introductory Remarks
8:35 am Best practices in scientific computer modeling Dr. Masha V Petrova
9:05 am New wave of computational tools for the leads selection in biomedical industry
Dr. Aurora D. Costache PhD, Prof. Doyle D. Knight PhD, Prof. Joachim Kohn
9:35 am Computational modeling of soft condensed matter and biomaterials
Dr. Jayeeta Ghosh
10:05 am First-principles computational approach for the characterization and design of novel organic electronic materials
Roel S Sanchez-Carrera PhD, Prof. Alan Aspuru-Guzik
10:35 am Intermission
10:50 am Recent advances in structure-based drug design
Woody Sherman
11:20 am Computer simulation of ligand binding to a flexible protein target
Dr Philip W Payne
11:50 am FAST Predictions of protein stability and flexibility
Prof. Dennis R. Livesay, Dr. Hui Wang, Prof. Donald J. Jacobs
12:20 pm Patentability of computer simulations and models
Noah Malgeri
I am not a big fan of movies, but last weekend, my three year old son forced me to watch “Flubber” with him, which is a 1997 family comedy about a kooky, but genius science professor (Robin Williams) who invents a new energetic material called “Flubber.” My son’s favorite scene was when the cute, giggly “flubber” creatures started dancing around to some catchy Latin tunes. My favorite scene was the absent-minded professor walking into an art class and carrying on a lecture, obviously meant for his physics class, un-phased neither by the confusion of the students nor by the presence of the two nude models in front of his desk.
This cute family flick got me thinking – does a scientific genius always require the absence of skills that human race has been evolving over thousands of years? Skills, like talking to other humans so that they understand us. Making other people feel comfortable around us, thus allowing us to build strong communities and survive as a species. Abilities, like reading facial expressions of our audience to make sure that we are not presenting a physics lecture to a room-full of art students, or simply not boring our audience to death. Read more »
