About
Our history
CECAM was founded in 1969 in Paris by Carl Moser.
For over 50 years our organisation has contributed to the development of fundamental research in advanced computational methods. It has given scientists an opportunity to meet in a stimulating atmosphere, promoting open discussions and encouraging new perspectives of investigation.
Below, you can navigate some of this rich history by browsing our Historical Archive. The Historical Archive is a long-term project intended as a testimony of CECAM's role over the years. It holds a repository of photographs, videos, proceedings and other publications, marking special moments and daily life at CECAM.
CECAM has affected the professional and personal life of many of us in different ways. With your help, this Archive will contribute to transmit and maintain what is unique about its spirit, in Carl Moser's words, its continuing mission: "to encourage a cooperative goal towards scientific development".
We welcome contributions to the Archive from all members of the CECAM community. Please contact us if you have material that you think would be appropriate or wish to share CECAM recollections.
1969-1980
Carl Moser, CECAM Director 1969-1990
Conference organised in 1974 at Wageningen, The Netherelands
1981-1990
Carl Moser, CECAM Director 1969-1990
CECAM workshop "Computer simulation and theory of chemical reactions in solutions" 16-20 August 1988, Paris, France
International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", 23 July - 2 August 1985, Varenna, Italy
1991-2000
Giovanni Ciccotti, CECAM Director 1990-1994
Stefano Baroni, CECAM Director 1994-1998
Workshop in Iceland in 2000
Working @ CECAM, 2000
CECAM 30 years anniversary: "Atomic and molecular simulations in physics, chemistry and biology", 21st May 1999, Lyon, France
CECAM Postdocs, 1999
CECAM Workshop on Recent Developments in the Theory of Wannier Functions and Other Localized Electronic Wavefunctions, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon (France) - June 1999
Conference organised at Cecam in 1996
CECAM in Paris, 1992
Conference in Alghero, Italy 1992
2001-2010
Michel Mareschal, CECAM Director 1998-2004
Berend Smit, CECAM Director 2004-2007
Mauro Ferarrio, CECAM Director ad-interim 2008
CECAM 40 years anniversary, 2009
Lou Verlet
Maximally Localized Wannier Functions - June 2007
Workshop in les Houches 2002
Workshop in Lyon, 2001
Alder Boltzmann Medal in Cancun, Mexico, 2001
CECAM workshop, 2001
Workshop organized in Lyon on nonequilibrium MD 2001
Workshop organised in 2001 in Erice, Italy
2011-2020
Wanda Andreoni, CECAM Director 2009-2012
Dominic Tildesley, CECAM Director 2013-2016
Berni J. Alder Prize 2016
CECAM 50 years group photo
Lou Verlet