Virtual Winterschool

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Not everyone is able to travel to attend scientific conferences, for financial, health, family reasons or teaching duties.

Examples are: students from developing countries that have insufficient financial resources, women with babies or young children, university lecturers or professors with large amounts of teaching studies.

Also, ecology becomes more and more important as we are running out of Earth’s resources. As a scientific community we have the duty to think about sustainability and our ecological footprint. Although international conferences are excellent environments for scientific discussion and networking, the combined environmental cost of all the travel by particpants is huge.

Virtual lectures have the advantage that they can be followed from home without the need to travel and the recordings allow people to watch them at a suitable time. We offer free registration and speakers are requested to give an introduction at a basic level.

This ensures that scientific lectures can be followed by every scientist all over the world, without restrictions on financial, health or family basis.

Further, the online format facilitates the communication with peers from all over the world. We aim to built a fertile platform to facilitate international communication on computational chemistry and the exchange of ideas between specialists of different fields.

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The format of the Virtual Winter School ensures that scientific lectures can be followed by every scientist and facilitates scientific communication

• The virtual winter school focuses on providing inter-level accessible talks. Speakers are requested to start from the basics and to give enough background information so that non-specialists on the subject can follow the talk. Time slots for the talk are 90- minute long providing enough time for introduction on the subject.
• Speakers can present what is relevant to them at the moment. This can be: elaborate on well-established ideas (e. g. in a course format), but also discuss new research. (e. g. view point talks discussing new ideas, introducing new software as a workshop).
• PhD students and young post-docs are encouraged to present their work as a Single Figure Presentation on a forum. A jury picks the best SFP’s (from different categories: developing countries, students, post-doc). These are awarded with a lecture slot in the next edition of Winter School to present their work.
• Live lectures take place using virtual meeting software: you can see the slides of the presentation and hear the voice of the speaker as well as any annotations they make (no video involved)
• Lectures are recorded and available for download (after agreement of the speaker)
• All information to our participants is provided through our website and news letter
• We offer a discussion forum and chat sessions during the lectures.
• We aim to cover a wide variety of subjects related to computational and theoretical chemistry
• Registration is required (login), but free