CHICAGO AREA NMR DISCUSSION GROUP
2012 MEETING
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN  47907

                     October 14, 2011

Dear NMR Colleagues,

            This year’s final program for the CANMRDG meeting on November 10 at the Chemistry Department, Purdue University West Lafayette  is now posted on our website: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/canmrdg/CANMRDG%20Program%202012_FINAL.pdf

The meeting will be held in the Wetherill Building (WTHR) Rm 104 and begins at 8:40 am (Eastern Standard Time – one hour ahead of IL). Please complete the Lunch Registration form on the web-site so we can make appropriate local arrangements. Directions, parking and hotel information are available as links on the website. There is free parking in Purdue parking garages on weekends – just avoid the few specially marked reserved spaces. There are virtually no parking spaces on the main campus.  

            We are honored to have two expert NMR scientists as our keynote speakers:

Dr. Ed Olejniczak (Vanderbilt University) and Dr. Robert Tycko (National Institutes of Health).

In addition, we have a wide ranging group of papers submitted by our community members. It looks like a great day of high quality science.

            Please thank our faithful sponsors for their continued support for the meeting – Agilent Technologies, Bruker Biospin, Cambridge Isotopes Lab, and ISOTEC-Sigma-Aldrich. Links to our sponsors’ web-sites are found on our home page. The people at Purdue look forward to welcoming you to campus

            Your attention is called to the following items so that the meeting can run smoothly.

1. Registration: Please complete the registration form on the web Midnight Wednesday, November 7.

It will allow us to prepare effectively for the breaks, name-tags.

2. Lunch: The price is $15 per person. A special discount rate of $10 per person is available for students courtesy of a generous donation by a sponsor. Advance registration for lunch is essential for catering purposes. Please click the “Yes” button on the registration form on our website by noon Monday November 5 to guarantee your lunch. The lunch list will be updated each day on the CANMRDG web site between 4:30 and 5:00pm so you can check your lunch status. No registration means no food! Once again no shows will be requested to pay for unused meals.

3. Maps, Lodging & Parking Information: These can be found under the links on the website at

Directions: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/canmrdg/CAdirections.html

Lodging: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/canmrdg/CAlodging.html

The Grant Street and Marstellar Street parking garages are the most convenient to the Wetherill

Chemistry building.

Yoshitaka Ishii (Illinois-Chicago); Chad Rienstra (Illinois Urbana); Nikolai Skrynnikov (Purdue); Christina Szabo (Baxter), our incoming organizing committee for future meetings will be attending. Your input is invited.

I look forward to seeing you on November 10. Don’t forget to register for lunch on the web by November 5^th. Any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me -your local host- by email, at grutzner@purdue.edu

or call 765-494-5247 (afternoons).

                                                                                                Yours resonantly,

                                                                                                John B. Grutzner