News
Psi-k 2020 (EPFL, Sept. 14-17): Registrations are open!
This is the largest event worldwide in first-principles simulations; it is held every 5 years (the last two editions, in Berlin in 2010 and in San Sebastian in 2015, had more than 1’000 participants each), and with 7 plenary talks, 140 invited talks, and 170 contributed talks it promises to be the most exciting, defining event in the field.
PhD available at IIT Genoa, deadline for application March 6th 2020
Molecular and material simulation at the turn of the decade: Celebrating 50 years of CECAM
This has been a very successful event, shaped by CECAM’s mission: enabling scientists to meet in an atmosphere that combines excellence and open discussions and paves the way for new scientific perspectives and collaborations.
The conference has brought together old and new friends to discuss state of the art methods and current challenges, celebrate 50 remarkable years of activities, and reflect on the future of CECAM and of our scientific field.
Registration Open:
Hermes 2020 computational Summer school
We are pleased to announce that registration has opened for the Hermes 2020 Summer school!
Molecular Simulation 2020: Present, Past and Future
The conference is a special event on the occasion of Prof Michael Klein’s 80th birthday to highlight the vitality and future perspectives of the field, starting from his numerous important and remarkable contributions to chemistry, biophysics, materials science, and, in particular, computer simulation.
2019 Berni Alder CECAM prize awarded to S. Succi
The Berni J. Alder CECAM Prize for 2019 has been awarded to Prof. Sauro Succi, Italian Institute of Technology, Center for Life Nanosciences at La Sapienza in Rome.
Post Docs and Phd students at the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Laboratory for Molecular Modeling at the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana (https://www.ki.si/en/departments/d01-theory-department/laboratory-for-molecular-modeling/) is hiring postdocs and PhD students.
Postdoctoral positions will soon be available at SISSA
Two postdoctoral positions will soon be available to work in Stefano Baroni’s group at SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Post-doctoral position: Research on CO2 conversion at the Theoretical Heterogeneous CatalysisGroup, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, ICIQ (Spain)
Starting date: March 2020
Research project: OpenFoam COMSOL
Loup Verlet (1931-2019)
We are sorry to share the news of Loup Verlet passing away. Prof. Verlet was a pioneer in molecular dynamics simulations and a fundamental figure in the early days of the community in Europe. We are thankful to Jean-Pierre Hansen and Dominique Levesque for the short portrait published below.
Several research group leaders, post-docs and PhD students available
The very recently established EU-funded NOMATEN Center of Excellence in Multifunctional Materials for Industrial and Medical Applications with the central node in Warsaw (Poland) is hiring several research group leaders, post-docs and PhD students. Prof. Mikko Alava (Aalto University and NCBJ, Poland) is the director of the CoE.
Post-Doc position available at Northeastern University (Boston, USA)
The Lopez group (Northeastern University) seeks an enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher with a background in theoretical chemistry and/or machine learning.
Call for CECAM flagship programme in 2020.
This is our invitation for you to submit a proposal for the CECAM flagship program in 2020. The call is open from 25 April 2019 to 16 July 2019.