Thursday, September 21, 1995:

 9:00 -  9:30 am        Welcome and Introduction.
                        Fred Roberts, DIMACS Center.
                        Tim Havel, Harvard Medical School.

 9:30 - 10:20 am        Mathematical Problems in Molecular Docking.
                        Irwin D. Kuntz, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
                        U.C.S.F., CA.

10:20 - 10:50 am        Coffee break.

10:50 - 11:40 am        Searching for Receptor Site Models by Controlled
                        Resolution.
                        Gordon M. Crippen, College of Pharmacy, Univ. of
                        Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

12:00 -  1:30 pm        Lunch.

 1:30 -  2:20 pm        Drug Discovery and Design Using Molecular
                        Superpositions.
                        Michael D. Miller, J. Christopher Culberson,
                        Simon K. Kearsley and Kristine Prendergast,
                        Merck Research, Rahway, NJ.

 2:20 -  3:10 pm        Sampling Conformational Hyperspace.
                        Richard A. Dammkoehler (C.S. Dept., Washington
                        Univ, St. Louis, MO).

 3:10 -  3:30 pm        Refreshment break.

 3:30 -  4:20 pm        Dealing with Flexible Molecules: Strategies for
                        Searching Conformational Space in Gas Phase and
                        in Enzyme Binding Sites.
                        Colin McMartin & Wayne C. Guida, Ciba-Geigy Corp.,
                        Summit, NJ.

 4:20 -  5:10 pm        Charge and Dielectric Smoothing in the Solution of
                        the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation and its Application
                        to the Prediction of Bioavailability.
                        Robert E. Bruccoleri, Jiri Novotny, Kim Sharp and
                        Malcolm Davis, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharm. Research

                        Inst., Princeton, NJ (K.S. @ Johnson Research Found.,
                        Biochem. & Biophys., Univ. of Penn, Philadelphia).

 5:10 -  6:00 pm        Discussion and problem session.

 6:30 -  8:30 pm        Workshop dinner (informal).


Friday, September 22, 1995:

 8:30 -  9:20 am        Embedding with a Rigid Substructure.
                        Timothy F. Havel and Igor Najfeld, Biol. Chem. and
                        Molec. Pharm., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

 9:20 - 10:10 am        Series Design and Multivariate Modelling in Drug
                        Design.
                        Svante Wold, Inst. of Chemistry, Univ. of Umea,
                        Umea, Sweden.

10:10 - 10:40 am        Coffee break.
10:40 - 11:20 am        Applications of Electrostatic and Steric Field Fitting
                        to Problems in Molecular Similarity and Alignment.
                        Marvin Waldman and Hong Li, BIOSYM/MSI, San Diego, CA.

11:20 - 12:10 am        Representation and Manipulation of Surface Shape
                        Descriptors.
                        Dave Weininger, Daylight Chemical Information Systems,
                        Irvine, CA.

12:10 -  1:40 pm        Lunch.

 1:40 -  2:20 pm        Combinatorial Library Design and Analysis.
                        Jeffrey M. Blaney, Chiron Corp., Emeryville, CA.

 2:20 -  3:10 pm        Genetic Algorithms in Ligand Docking and Design.
                        Scott Dixon, Smith-Kline-Beecham, King of Prussia, PA.

 3:10 -  3:40 pm        Refreshment break.

 3:40 -  5:00 pm        Software demonstrations.
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DIMACS thanks Biosym Tech, Ciba Geigy, Merck, National Center for Human Genome
Research, the National Science Foundation, the New Jersey Commission on Science
and Technology, Rutgers University, and Smith Kline Beecham.
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