In the general statement: "The Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Collective is an international collaboration between industry, academia, and national labs aimed facilitating and promoting the use of molecular simulation methods for the prediction of fluid properties." we sell the field short by expressing a restriction to "molecular simulation methods". True, parsing the words "molecular simulation" includes any kind of simulation, yet conventionally, methods and results based on computational quantum chemistry are not part of the field of "Molecular Simulation". Even within the conventional definition, quantum chemistry is increasingly used to develop and improve forcefields. I would prefer that the statement of purpose explicitly widens the purview to "the use of molecular modeling and simulation methods for the prediction of fluid properties." Even better, I'd prefer that we modefied the name to the more accurate "Industrial Fluid Properties Prediction Collective" because, as the statement of purpose emphasizes, prediction is our goal...Phil -- Prof. Phillip R. Westmoreland Dept of Chemical Engineering, Univ of Massachusetts Amherst 157A Goessmann; 686 N Pleasant; Amherst MA 01003-9303 413-545-1750 (Sect'y at -2507), eFAX 775-254-2509 http://www.ecs.umass.edu/che/faculty/westmoreland.html [July 06-June 08: Program Director for Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA 22230 703-292-8695; FAX 703-292-9054 ] ======================================================== The Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Collective is an international collaboration between industry, academia, and national labs aimed facilitating and promoting the use of molecular simulation methods for the prediction of fluid properties. discuss-ifpsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx is an email list for discussing issues related to the Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Collective...fluidproperties.org If you are not subscribed, you can do so by sending email to discuss-ifpsc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field You can unsubscribe by sending email to discuss-ifpsc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject. These and other types of changes (switch to digest mode, get RSS feed, etc.) can also be made here: //www.freelists.org/list/discuss-ifpsc Online, searchable archives of this list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/discuss-ifpsc