Welcome!

Dear colleagues,

  On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the IAQMS 16-ICQC Satellite Conference on "Computational Chemistry meets Artificial Intelligence" which will take place at EPFL, Lausanne - Switzerland.

  Artificially intelligent algorithms are becoming an increasingly prominent field of research, with interesting applications in molecular and material property prediction, structural and compositional analysis as well as chemical compound and materials design.

  The main goal of this conference is to bring together research groups from biomolecular simulations and ab-initio computations with those from machine learning and evolutionary/stochastic optimisation to further encourage the development of both fields.

  Hope to see you Lausanne to have a very fruitful meeting full of scientific and social activities.