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2025 Irvine in-person meeting planning

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

Day

Morning

Afternoon

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

 

Friday

Hackathon (cookiecutter practice)

Hackathon (website / blog)

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