Previous announcements

ACMM Fall Symposium

Friday, 9 December, 2011

The next ACMM mini-symposium is scheduled for Friday, 9 December. We have invited a number of internationally renowned speakers, who will give lectures on several aspects of Multiscale Modeling, ranging from physical chemistry to biology. There is no registration fee and the symposium is open to computational scientists, students, and anyone else with an interest in the ACMM.

  • Details and program will follow here.

Marieke Schor thesis defence

September 20, 2011

Marieke Schor will defend her PhD thesis entitled From peptide chains to chains of peptides -- multiscale modelling of self-assembling polypeptides. This will take place at 14.00 in the Agnieten chapel.

Francesco Colonna thesis defence

June 7, 2011

Francesco Colonna will defend his PhD thesis on Wednesday, June 7 at 10.00 in the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam. The title of his thesis is On the Stability of Old and Novel Carbon Phases; A computational study.

ACMM Spring Symposium

April 28, 2011

The next ACMM mini-symposium is scheduled for the afternoon of November 18. The symposium is free and open to anyone with an interest in multiscale modeling.

Jocelyne Vreede wins publication prize

March 14, 2011

Jocelyne Vreede has been awarded the Women in the FNWI prize for the best publication, with her paper Predicting reaction coordinates of millisecond light-induced conformational changes in Photoactive Yellow Protein with Jarek Juraszek and Peter G. Bolhuis in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2010, vol 107, p 2397-2402.

Photoreceptor meeting

December 16, 2010

Experimental and computational scientists from Amsterdam and Utrecht are meeting at this mini-symposium at the University of Amsterdam to talk about photoactive proteins.

ACMM Fall Symposium

November 18, 2010

The next ACMM mini-symposium is scheduled for the afternoon of November 18. The symposium is free and open to anyone with an interest in multiscale modeling.

  • Details and program will follow here.

Dutch Molecular Dynamics Meeting

November 4, 2010

Colleagues from the groups of Prof. Bolhuis (Amsterdam), Prof. Hilbers (Eindhoven) and Prof. Marrink (Groningen) will give an overview of the work done in their groups at this meeting. Of course participation is open for researchers from other groups as well.

Research highlight

October, 2010

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics features a Perspective article entitled "Recent progress in adaptive multiscale molecular dynamics simulation of soft matter" by Steven Nielsen (UT Dallas), Rosa Bulo (VU Amsterdam), Preston Moore (USP Philadelphia) and Bernd Ensing (UvA Amsterdam). The paper is also highlighted on the cover.
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Seminar Nikos Doltsinis

March 24, 2010

Nikos Doltsinis from King's College London will visit the Computational Chemistry Group at the University of Amsterdam and give a seminar entitled Multiscale Modelling of Photoactive Materials on Wednesday, March 24, at 2 PM in room B4.32.

Glasser visiting professor

March 14, 2010

Bernd Ensing accepted an invitation to be 2010 Glasser Visiting Professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP). From March 14 until 27, he will give a series of lectures and collaborate with computational scientists at the West Center for Computational Chemistry at USP. Read further here...

PNAS paper: Seeing is believing

February 10, 2010

Jocelyne Vreede, Jarek Juraszek, and Peter Bolhuis present their latest computer simulations of the photoactive yellow protein with a paper in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA entitled Predicting the reaction coordinates of millisecond light-induced conformational changes in photoactive yellow protein. Their transition path sampling results predict the microscopic reaction pathway that is followed when the protein absorbs a blue light photon and transforms from the dark "off" state into the signaling "on" state.