PRELIMINARY TIMETABLE

SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1996
Afternoon: Registration and Distribution of Congress Material,
General WATOC Meeting
Evening: Informal Welcome Reception

MONDAY, JULY 8, 1996
Morning: Opening Ceremony and Award of WATOC Prizes
All Day: Congress Sessions
Evening: Poster Session

TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1996
Morning and Afternoon: Congress Sessions
Late Afternoon
and Evening: 		Tour of Jerusalem and Visit to the Israel Museum

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1996
Morning: Congress Sessions
Afternoon: Tour of Jerusalem
Evening: Poster Session

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1996
All Day: Congress Sessions
Evening: Banquet (optional)

FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1995
Morning: Congress Sessions and Closing Ceremony
Afternoon: Optional Post-Congress Tours

CONGRESS TOPICS

Research on all aspects of computational chemistry is appropriate for presentation at the Congress.
The Program will consist of Plenary Lectures, Invited Talks, Oral Presentations and Poster Sessions (including an electronic Poster Session). Congress Sessions will be roughly divided according to the three main topics below:

DEVELOPMENT OF THEORETICAL METHODS:

AB INITIO, SEMIEMPIRICAL, FORCE FIELDS, DENSITY FUNCTIONAL, PSEUDOPOTENTIALS, VALENCE-BOND, ELECTRON CORRELATION, PERTURBATION THEORY, ETC.

APPLICATIONS IN ORGANIC, INORGANIC, AND ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY:

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, REACTION MECHANISMS, CATALYSIS, SOLVENT EFFECTS, PHYSICO-CHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS (NMR, IR, UV, ETC.), MOLECULAR PROPERTIES, FRONTIER ORBITALS, CONFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS, THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS, ETC.

BIOCHEMICAL/BIOMEDICINAL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS:

PROTEIN STRUCTURE/FUNCTION, ENZYME ACTIVITY AND MECHANISMS, NUCLEIC ACIDS, MEMBRANES, RECEPTOR STRUCTURE/FUNCTION, PROTEIN-DNA INTERACTIONS, CARBOHYDRATES, MOLECULAR DYNAMICS, MONTE- CARLO, QUANTUM MECHANICAL/MOLECULAR MECHANICS CALCULATIONS, SOLVATION, DRUG DESIGN, ETC.