<commit_before>---
title: "2018 Avogadro User Meeting"
categories: News
author: ghutchis
date: 2018-05-01
---

We're excited to announce the first annual Avogadro User Group meeting.

The meeting will take place on August 25, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is hosted by Prof. <NAME> at the University of Pittsburgh. The meeting will take place in the Department of Chemistry, Chevron Science Center.

Full schedule will appear in July. 

- **Morning**: Talks, lightning talks, roundtable discussion of development plans.
- **Afternoon**: Tutorials and hackathon

There will, of course, be social activities, including dinner after the event.

Registration is free.

[Register today](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-avogadro-user-meeting-tickets-44952554300)<commit_msg>Update for 2018 UGM results<commit_after>---
title: "2018 Avogadro User Meeting"
categories: News
author: ghutchis
date: 2018-05-01
---

![2018 UGM Title](/images/2018UGM.png)

We're excited to announce the first annual Avogadro User Group meeting.

The meeting will take place on August 25, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
hosted by Prof. <NAME> at the University of Pittsburgh.
The meeting will take place in the Department of Chemistry,
Chevron Science Center.

There will, of course, be social activities, including dinner after the event.

Materials are available through GitHub: https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadro-ugm2018

## Schedule

|Time|	Speaker|	Topic|
|:-------:|:-------|:-------|
|9:00-9:30|<NAME>|	Welcome, Intro & Community Feedback|
|9:30-10:00|	<NAME>, Kitware|	Avogadro 2, Open Chemistry |
||Break		
|10:20-10:40|	<NAME>, U. Buffalo|	Extended Hückel, Solids and Avogadro|
|10:40-11:00|	<NAME>|	Quantum chemistry modeling of
 local solvation effects|
||Coffee Break		
|11:15-11:35|	<NAME>, Pitt|	Contributed Talk (TBA)|
|11:35-11:55|	<NAME>|	CANDIY & GUI-CANDIY|
|12:00-12:30|	10-minute Lightning Talks
|12:00-12:10|   |
|12:10-12:20|   |
|12:20-12:30|   |
|12:30-2:00|	Lunch (On Your Own)	|
|2:00-3:00|	Roundtable Discussion (Avogadro 2 Roadmap)	|
|3:00-6:00|	Hackathon & Tutorials	|
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