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Faculty Award Reminder

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:39:59 -0700

Please be reminded that the deadline for the CoMSEF faculty award is July 1st. The nomination package, consisting of the nominee’s CV, a nomination letter and two supporting letters of recommendation, should be sent as a single file in pdf format to the CoMSEF Chair, Clare McCabe ( c.mccabe@vanderbilt.edu ). Please note self-nominations are discouraged.

Full details of the award can be found on the CoMSEF web page at: http://comsef.org/comsef-early-career-award

FOMMS 2009

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:28:16 -0700

There's still time to make plans to attend FOMMS 2009: Foundations for Innovation which will be held July 12-16, 2009 at the beautiful and relaxing Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, WA. In addition to outstanding lectures and discussion on a range of topics in molecular modeling and simulation, the conference will include a mini-workshop on open source code development for molecular simulation, tutorial sessions on massively manycore chip architectures and GPUs for scientific simulation, and a special, inaugural FOMMS Medal banquet.

For more info, see the FOMMS web site: http://fomms.org/

post-doc position at The University of Alabama

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:23:58 -0700

post-doc position at Northwestern University

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:19:53 -0800

Molecular Simulation of Nanoporous Materials

Group of Prof. Randy Snurr, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University

http://zeolites.cqe.northwestern.edu/

Free CoMSEF Membership for Students

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:55:30 -0800

AIChE's ScaleUp program provides complimentary AIChE student membership for interested U.S. undergraduate students. This is a new AIChE initiative and is designed to facilitate the relationship between undergraduate students, industry and AIChE. ScaleUp is made possible by sponsorship from BP, Rohm & Haas, DuPont, Praxair, Merck, Dow and UOP. As part of this program COMSEF is pleased to announce that it will offer free membership to undergraduate students, so please enourage any undergraduates that you may have working with you to get involved!

Director, Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:03:53 -0800

We are seeking outstanding candidates for the position as Director of the Center for Research Computing at Notre Dame. This is a highly visible position with responsibility for developing computational infrastructure in support of the research mission of the University. Inquiries can be directed to Jeffrey Kantor, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Notre Dame [kantor.1@nd.edu]. Additional information regarding the center can be found at http://crc.nd.edu/.

2008 Annual Meeting Minutes

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:46:45 -0800

The minutes from the CoMSEF planning meeting at the AIChE annual meeting in Philadelphia are available here: link.

Congratulations to the 2008 CoMSEF Graduate Student Award winners

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:58:39 -0800

Congratulations to the 2008 CoMSEF Graduate Student Award winners:

Rachel Getman, University of Notre Dame (link)
Advisor: Bill Schneider

Jeremy Purvis, University of Pennsylvania (link)
Advisor: Scott Diamond

Thermodynamics 2009

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:31:49 -0700

September 23-25, 2009 @ Imperial College London, U.K.

First Announcement

On behalf of the organizing committee, I am pleased to announce the "Thermodynamics 2009" conference. The 21st meeting of this series will be held at Imperial College London from Wednesday 23rd to Friday 25th September 2009.

Thermodynamics 2009 will focus on innovative approaches for better understanding the relationship between the atomic structure of materials and their macroscopic properties. For this purpose, molecular simulation, classical thermodynamic approaches (equations of state) and experimental tools will be considered with equal balance.

The conference will feature the 2009 Lennard-Jones Lecture and Prize awarded this year to Prof. Dr. Kurt Binder by the Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Other confirmed lectures include:

Peter Bolhius
Norman Carnahan
Michael Cates
Charles Knobler
Lev Gelb
Keith Gubbins
Laurent Pitre
Doros Theodorou
Carsten Tschierske
Alfons von Blaaderen.

In addition, the Christopher Wormald Prize will be awarded to a research student nominated by members of the community. The winner will receive a cash prize and be given the opportunity to present an oral contribution at the conference.

We encourage you to refer to the conference web page : www.thermodynamics2009.org which is regularly updated and to an consider oral or poster presentation in line with one of the topics proposed:

Statistical thermodynamics
Molecular simulation of soft matter and complex fluids
Thermodynamic modelling and equations of state
Phase diagrams and supercritical fluids
Experimental thermodynamics

Should you have any question, or if you wish to be added/removed from the mailing list, please feel free to contact me.

Kindest regards,

Erich A. Müller, Chair
Thermodynamics 2009
e-mail: chair@thermodynamics2009.org (click the ... to access the address)
Tel: +44(0)20 7594 1569
fax: +44(0)20 7594 5700

2008 CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:05:20 -0700

Reminder: Nominations for the 2008 CoMSEF Graduate Student Awards are due by October 1, 2008, to Randy Snurr (snurr@northwestern.edu) (click the ... and fill in the captcha to access the address).

AIChE's Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) is soliciting nominations for its 2008 graduate student awards recognizing excellence in research by graduate students. The intent of the awards is to reward significant contributions to research in computational molecular science and engineering by students. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium. Two awards are given annually. The 2008 awards will be presented at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

Nominations should consist of a nominating letter from the student's research advisor and the curriculum vitae of the nominee. These should be sent by the advisor via e-mail in pdf format to the CoMSEF Chair, Randy Snurr (snurr@northwestern.edu), by October 1, 2008. Note that the nomination letter and CV are required and are important parts of the nomination; this is not just a poster competition.

In addition, nominees must present a poster at the CoMSEF Poster session. The nominee must be a graduate student at the time of the poster presentation, and the faculty nominator must be a member of CoMSEF.

Nominations will be selected by a committee composed of CoMSEF officers based on the student's CV, the nomination letter from the advisor, and the quality of the poster presentation.

FOMMS 2009

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:13:06 -0700

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The FOMMS 2009 Conference will be held July 12-16, 2009 at the beautiful and relaxing Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, WA. In addition to outstanding lectures and discussion on a range of topics in molecular modeling and simulation, the conference will include a mini-workshop on open source code development for molecular simulation, tutorial sessions on massively multicore chip architectures and GPUs for scientific simulation, and a special, inaugural FOMMS Award banquet.

Stay tuned for program and registration details.

Post-Doc Positions Available at the University of TN, Knoxville

Wed, 28 May 2008 06:24:07 -0700

Post-doc opening at Washington University in St. Louis

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:08:44 -0800

One postdoctoral position is available in the Gelb Research
Group at Washington University in St. Louis.

Topic: First-principles simulations of phase equilibria

Fluid phase equilibria at extreme conditions will be studied with
Monte Carlo simulations based on first-principles (ab initio) energy
evaluations. These methods will be applied in a survey of the
high-temperature fluid phase behavior of elemental systems across
the periodic table, including liquid-liquid and liquid-vapor

Meeting Minutes November 2007

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:19:06 -0800

The CoMSEF/ Area 01a meeting at the AIChE annual meeting took place on Wednesday at 6:15pm in room 155F of the Salt Palace Convention Center.

Area 1a Reports

Election results: Dave Ford (.doc, 29 KB)
Session report for 2007: Dave Ford
Session report for Spring 2008: Scott Shell (.ppt, 118 KB)
Fall 2008: Martha Mitchell (.ppt, 340 KB)

read more

2007 Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:02:31 -0800

Congratulations to the 2007 CoMSEF Graduate Student Award winners:

Chethan Acharya, University of Alabama
Advisor: C. Heath Turner

Harish Vashisth, Drexel University
Advisor: Cameron Abrams

Forums are now publicly available

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:29:05 -0800

Previously, the CoMSEF forums and a few other parts of the web site were only accessible to members after logging in to the site. This was done to preserve these features as "members-only" benefits. However, that limited the availability of this information and also made it a bit less accessible to members too. Therefore, the CoMSEF executive committee decided to make the forums, newsletters, and minutes public. Login will no longer be required for accessing them. Login is still required to make posts, comment on posts, vote in elections, etc.

Postdoc Opening at Rutgers

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:01:35 -0700

Postdoc position is available at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering of Rutgers, the state university of NJ.

The research project will focus on studying molecular interactions and self-organization in nanosegregated polyelectrolytes, prospective materials for fuel cells and protective membranes.

Post-doc opening at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:03:46 -0700

Virtual Reality in Computational Biology - Postdoctoral position at IBPC, Paris, France

Postdoc position
FlowVR Nano: a virtual laboratory

PhD student positions available at the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:38:24 -0700

There are a number of open PhD student positions available (4-4.5 years), on subjects ranging from GPU and streaming computing to docking, bioinformatics and membrane protein structure prediction.

More information is available at

http://www.cbr.su.se/content/view/354/2/

Postdoc openings at the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:29:19 -0700

As part of a European Union-funded project (EDICT - European Drug Initiative for Ion Channels and Transporters) we're looking for a talented postdoc with a general interested in simulations, free energy calculations, and docking. The initial appointment is for two years, starting 2008. We're primarily looking for intellectually outstanding candidates rather than specific background, and the right person will have ample opportunity to have input on the research direction.

More information is available at