Organisers

• Berend Smit (Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley)
• Peter Nielaba (Physics Department, University of Konstanz)

Supports

 COST - MolSimu

Description

Agenda

1. Welcome to participants


2. Adoption of agenda


3. Minutes of last meeting


4. Report from the Scientific Officer
   
   
   
   • News from the COST Office
   
   
   • Status of Action
   
   
   • Number of Signatories
   
   
   • Budget Status, budget allocation process
   
   


5. Year Budget planning




• Overview on past workshop activities


• Workshops 2005 in Lyon / CECAM


• Workshop of Coppens


• Summer school in Erice (July 2005)


• Budget allocation for 2006




6. Elections: Election of new chair-person for WG3: recommendation: J.L. Barrat


7. STSM status, applications


8. Publications, annual report


9. Evaluations


10. Request for new members


11. Non-COST participations


12. Web news
    New web-site


13. Progress report of working groups


14. Long-term planning




• Future activities / 2006


• Application-, decision-, and reporting- procedures for workshops


• New ESF programm SimBioMa / joint activities


• Position concerning the Lincei initiative (12./13.7.05)




15. Time and place of next meeting


16. AOB

Draft Minutes

1. Welcome to participants
   
   The chairman noticed that not all MC members gave a notice of absence, which made the local catering more expensive that necessary. In addition, the raporteur indicated that such a low attendances often indicates a lack of interest.
   
   
   


2. Adoption of agenda
   
   Agenda was accepted
   
   



3. Minutes of last meeting
   
   Minutes were approved
   
   



4. Report from the Scientific Officer
   
   As no COST officer was present, this report was given by the chairman.
   
   





• News from the COST Office


• Status of Action


• Number of Signatories
  
  The total number of Signatories has increased to 17
  
  



• Budget Status, budget allocation process
  
  In January a preliminary budget indication was given of 75kEuro + possibly 10% depending on the budget pressure. Recently, the scientific officer has indicated that the revised budget is towards 45kEuro.
  
  
  
  The COST office expressed there concern as no report has been received of the P13 Action. Berend Smit noted that some reports have been sent. The MC decided that all reports should be sent to the chairman and a copy placed on the website. CECAM has agreed to update the new website with the old workshop information. This will probably be finished in the fall of 2005.
  
  
  
  
  In the discussion the large number of workshops at CECAM were discussed. Berend Smit mentioned that the COST support was used to increase the total budget of the supported workshop. To this the Chairman added that this extra support made the COST program very visible in the scientific community and therefore was seen as a very good means of promoting the MolSimu activities.
  
  
  





5. Year Budget planning




• Overview on past workshop activities


• Workshops 2005 in Lyon / CECAM
  
  An overview of the past activities was given. Total amount of budget that is already spent is approximately 45kEuro. For the agreed activities that are upcoming additional budget will be requested.
  
  
  


• Workshop of Coppens
  
  The MC was very favourable of the interactions of the Chemical Engineering community with the MolSimu community. The proposal, however, lacked sufficient details and the given budget difficulties made it impossible to support this proposal at present. The authors will be encouraged to resubmit for 2006 via the CECAM workshop procedure.
  
  
  



• Summer school in Erice (July 2005)
  
  The MC was very favourable of the support request. The chairman will propose to COST support of this important event.
  
  
  


• Budget allocation for 2006
  
  The raporteur indicated that it will be very unlikely that clear budgets will be available before the end of the year. Therefore he advised to put forward our plans for our activity as requested by the MolSimu community.
  
  
  




6. Elections: Election of new chair-person for WG3: recommendation: J.L. Barrat
   
   Jean-Louis Barrat was unanimously elected.
   
   
   


7. STSM status, applications
   
   Six successful STSM have been completed and one has been rejected because of mobility within one country.
   
   
   
   A new web based application form has been created by Cost. This form can be found by clicking here .
   
   
   
   


8. Publications, annual report
   
   
   Publications resulting from MolSimu report should contain an acknowledgment and a copy should be sent to the chairman.
   
   
   



9. Evaluations
   
   Next year the mid-term review is due. For being successful it is very important that the management meetings will be organized at a time more people can attend.
   
   
   


10. Request for new members
    
    Not applicable
    
    
    


11. Non-COST participations
    
    Prof. Valdimir Pokropivny from the Ukraine has requested membership. The chairman will inform at COST about the status of this application.
    
    
    



12. Web news
    New web-site
    Berend Smit gave a short demonstration of the functionalities of the new web-site (www.COST-Molsimu.cecam.org). The MC decided to adopt the new website and to ask the Warwick site to make a redirection to the new site.
    
    
    
    The MC requested that all old and new activities will be available on the website. Berend Smit indicated that at CECAM someone will take care of this.
    
    
    
    The raporteur asked whether this site would be available for other COST actions. CECAM was very happy to provide this service.
    
    
    


13. Progress report of working groups
    The chairman gave an overview of the past and upcoming activities of the working groups. The chair of WG 4 gave further details on the activites.
    
    
    
    In the next MC meeting more care will be taken in the planning to ensure that all WG chairs can be present.
    
    
    


14. Long-term planning




• Future activities / 2006
  
  The MC has decided to send an email asking for 2006 activities. Preferentially, they should submitted through the website and if possible before October 1st for the joined CECAM/MolSimu procedure. However, this year applications for MolSimu support only will be considered until December 1st.
  
  
  
  The MC has decide to allocate only budget for the first half of the year and only confirm the remainder if COST has approved the requested budget.
  
  
  
  As to the preliminary announcement of the workshop of Kremer, Doi, and Grumbsch; the MC would like to see more details, preferentially via a submission through the website.
  
  
  


• Application-, decision-, and reporting- procedures for workshops
  
  The new website should be used as a standard tool.
  
  
  


• New ESF programm SimBioMa / joint activities
  
  The chairman mentioned the successful submission of the ESF program SimBioMa, which might start in 2006 if the a-la-carte funding of ESF is successful. Synergies between MolSimu and SimBioMa were discussed, but as the budget of SimBioMa is not yet certain it was decided to put this on the agenda again next year.
  
  
  


• Position concerning the Lincei initiative (12./13.7.05)
  
  Giovanni Ciccotti explained the Lincei initiative to structure the computational infrastructure with respect to scientific software development at the European level. The discussion that followed addressed to role and importance of the Molsimu community. As Europe is leading in this field, obtaining support for maintaining and creating a software research infrastructure is seen as very important by MolSimu.
  
  
  




15. Time and place of next meeting
    
    It was decided to have a meeting in June as possible location Mainz was suggested.
    
    
    


16. AOB