ACIT: Purposes and goals
Révision datée du 28 septembre 2018 à 14:28 par Benoit (discussion | contributions)
What do we want to ultimately achieve (in the medium/long run) ?
1. INCREASE INSIGHT INTO CHEMISTRY:
We want:
- to help experimentalists and computational chemists to rationalise the results of their (computer) experiments,
- to give meaningfulness to the ever-increasing data that is generated
2. CLARITY OF AVAILABLE CONCEPTS AND TOOLS:
by helping the method/model developers, in each sub-community, to collectively:
- define/clarify the terminology they use in their method/model
- precise what each method/model can and cannot do
- establishing bridges between different angles of insight, coming from different classes of methods
3. NEW DEVELOPMENTS OF USEFUL CONCEPT AND TOOLS:
by promoting the interaction and collective work within, and between sub-communities of theoreticians and experimentalists.
4. DIFFUSION OF CONCEPTUAL TOOLS AND MODELS IN THE CHEMICAL COMMUNITY:
by helping chemists understand:
- in which situation(s) and for which question(s) each specific tool/model can/cannot be used
- the common ground, but also differences in viewpoints and capabilities between related tools/models
- the terminology used by different methods.
5. DIFFUSION OF CORE CONCEPT IN CHEMISTRY
at three different levels:
- in the university
- in high school
- in the general public