2025 Irvine in-person meeting planning
Goals
Dates
Feb 17, 2025 - Feb 21, 2025
Logistics
Fly into SNA (John Wayne Airport, Orange County) if possible
Stay in an airport hotel (e.g. Hampton Inn and Suites Irvine Orange County Airport Hotel )
David will provide shuttle service from airport hotels to campus each morning / evening
Meetings will be held on campus at UC Irvine, mostly in Burke Hall. No visitor badges needed.
(Some) Morning sessions will be hybrid on zoom.
Attendees
@James Eastwood
@Jeffrey Wagner
@Lily Wang
@Jennifer A Clark
@Matt Thompson
@David Mobley
Trevor Gokey
Meghan Osato? as they are interested
@Michael Shirts
@Anika Friedman
Julianne Hoeflich
Barbara Morales
@Michael Gilson
@Willa Wang (limited days, tbd)
@Chapin Cavender (Thursday - Friday)
@John Chodera
@Daniel Cole (via zoom for morning sessions)
Finlay Clark
Micaela Matta (via zoom, when schedule allows)
@Hannah Turney (via zoom, when schedule allows)
Schedule
Day | Morning | Afternoon |
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Monday | Roadmap status updates ForceBalance replacement (ft. DCole via zoom) Maybe OpenFE benchmarking update | Roadmap status updates |
Tuesday | Roadmap brainstorming | Roadmap planning + communication strategy |
Wednesday | Product roadmaps (Interchange, BespokeFit, PTM workflow, docs) | Product roadmaps cont. |
Thursday | Product roadmap – protein force field Deep Dives - Informal user+developer discussions on focus areas (likely: polymers, QM level of theory, modified proteins, lipids, water models, dataset archival/access, Interoperability, atomic charges, nonbonded training and functional forms, PL binding/free energy calcs) | Deep Dives cont., possibly beginning of hackathon
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Friday | Hackathon (cookiecutter practice) | Hackathon (website / blog) |