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It is always interesting to observe conference experiments taking place. The traditional model involves travelling to a remote venue, staying in a hotel, selecting sessions to attend from a palette of parallel streams and then interweaving chatting to colleagues both old and new over coffee, lunch, dinner or excursions. Sometimes conferences occur in clusters, with satellite meetings breaking out in the vicinity, after a main conference has done the job of attracting delegates to the region. Here I bring to your attention one such experiment, the Bond Slam<\/a>\u00a0which is part of a satellite meeting in Aachen to be held September 2-4 2017 on the topic of Chemical Bonds at the 21st Century<\/a>, following on from the\u00a0WATOC 2017 congress<\/a> in Munich Germany a few days earlier.<\/p>\n

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The Bond Slam involves participants selecting a challenge from 16 topics of current interest and is exposed using a Wiki. A selection of the challenges will be presented in person at the conference, but you don’t have to go to Aachen to contribute virtually to discussion. This sort of format can have novel outcomes.[1]<\/a><\/span> If your interest is piqued by any of the challenges or you cannot resist adding your own, do go visit the site and browse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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References<\/h2>\n
  1. P.L. Ayers, R.J. Boyd, P. Bultinck, M. Caffarel, R. Carb\u00f3-Dorca, M. Caus\u00e1, J. Cioslowski, J. Contreras-Garcia, D.L. Cooper, P. Coppens, C. Gatti, S. Grabowsky, P. Lazzeretti, P. Macchi, ?. Mart\u00edn Pend\u00e1s, P.L. Popelier, K. Ruedenberg, H. Rzepa, A. Savin, A. Sax, W.E. Schwarz, S. Shahbazian, B. Silvi, M. Sol\u00e0, and V. Tsirelson, \"Six questions on topology in theoretical chemistry\", Computational and Theoretical Chemistry<\/i>, vol. 1053, pp. 2-16, 2015. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.comptc.2014.09.028<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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