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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Dear Colleagues,</span><span><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">It is our pleasure to invite you to give a lecture at the IAQMS
satellite meeting entitled “Computational Chemistry meets Artificial
Intelligence CC2AI” (</span><a href="https://cc2ai.epfl.ch/"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://cc2ai.epfl.ch</span></a><span style="color:black">). This 3-day collaborative
opportunity will take place on June 13 - 15^that EPFL, Lausanne,
Switzerland.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Artificially intelligent algorithms are becoming an increasingly
prominent field of research, with interesting applications in molecular and
material property prediction, structural and compositional analysis as well as
chemical compound and materials design. The main goal of this conference is to
bring together research groups from biomolecular simulations and ab-initio
computation with those from machine learning and evolutionary/stochastic
optimisation to further encourage the development of these fields.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">The deadline for the submission of posters and contributed talks
is 15^th April 2018.<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Analysis
of high-dimensional molecular simulation data with the help of feature
selection algorithms<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Biomimetic
design of proteins via stochastic optimisation<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Density
functional optimisation and development<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Dimensionality
reduction and collective variables<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Descriptor
identification<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Machine
learning of static and dynamical properties of molecules and materials<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Machine
learning of phase diagrams and classification of new phases<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Machine
learning of potential energy surfaces and atomic forces<span></span></span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Machine
learning based force fields<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span>Invited speakers include <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">   Paul Ayers, McMaster University - Canada</span><b><span><span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">   Albert
P. Bartok, STFC - </span><span>United Kingdom<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">   Kieron
Burke, </span><span>University of
California - United States<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">   Pablo
Campomanes, University of Fribourg - </span><span>Switzerland
<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">   Clemence
Corminboeuf, EPFL - </span><span>Switzerland <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">   Anatole
von Lilienfeld, University of Basel - </span><span>Switzerland
<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">   Nicola
Marzari, EPFL - </span><span>Switzerland <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">   Michele
Parinello, ETH </span><span>Zurich <span style="color:black">- </span>Switzerland <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>   Alessandro De Vita, </span><span>King's
College London - United Kingdom <span></span></span></p>

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