20-04-2009 Lisez-moi - Read me

SIMU NEWSLETTERS
 
Table of Contents
 
Editor: Dónal Mac Kernan

The SIMU newsletter aims to encourage communication of new results and ideas within and outside of the SIMU community. The biannual newsletter includes reviews, articles, commentaries and a list of scientific and software links, books etc.

All Individual articles are in pdf format

ISSUE 4

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  1. European Collaboration in ab-Initio Computer Simulation, commentary by Volker Heine 1
  2. Interview, Berni J. Alder by Dónal Mac Kernan and Michel Mareschal 15
  3. Dissipative Particle Dynamics Revisited, review article by Pep Español 59
  4. Conformation-Dependent Sequence Design: a Review of the Method and Recent Theoretical and Computer Simulation Results, review article by Alexei R. Khokhlov, Pavel G. Khalatur, Victor A. Ivanov, Alexander V. Chertovich, and Alexei A. Lazutin 79
  5. Atomistic Computer Simulations of Friction between Solids, review article by Martin H. Müser and Mark O. Robbins 101
  6. The Quasicontinuum Method Revisited, article by Jens Jørgen Mortensen, Jakob Schiøtz, and Karsten W. Jacobsen 119
  7. Cambridge University Centre for Computational Chemistry (CUC3) , group report by Jean Pierre Hansen 137

ISSUE 3

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  1. Order from Disorder - Entropy s Silent Power, commentary by Daan Frenkel 1
  2. Interview, Kurt Binder by Dónal Mac Kernan 7
  3. Slow Events in Complex Systems: Potentials of Mean Force and the Smoluchowski limit in biological systems, review article by Herman J.C. Berendsen 31
  4. Adding Quantum Effects to Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations via the Semi-classical Initial Value Representation, review article by William H. Miller 49
  5. Excited-State Molecular Dynamics, review article by Irmgard Frank 61
  6. Computational multiphysics with the Lattice Boltzmann equation, review article by Sauro Succi 79
  7. Theory and Modelling in Material Physics at the University of Lyon I, group report by Jean-Louis Barrat 99

ISSUE 2

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  1. Daan Frenkel and the Spinoza prize, commentary by Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker 1
  2. Feature Interview, Michele Parrinello 5
  3. Classical density functional methods for the simulation of complex fluid, review article by Simone Melchionna and Jean-Pierre Hansen 17
  4. A Statistical Mechanical Approach to Protein Molecular Evolution, review article by Michael W. Deem 27
  5. Studies of Solvation in the Atomistic Simulation Group at Queen's University, Belfast, article by Ruth M. Lynden-Bell 51
  6. Condensed Matter Theory Group Report, University of Mainz 59

ISSUE 1

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  1. The Computer, Machine of the Dreams of Theoretical Physics, Commentary by Giovanni Ciccotti 5
  2. Industrial Aspects of Mesoscale Modeling, Letter by Hans Fraaije 13
  3. Hierarchical Modelling of Polymers, Review article by Doros N. Theodorou 19
  4. Bridging the time-scale gap: Homogeneous nucleation, Review article by Pieter Rein ten Wolde and Daan Frenkel 41
  5. Molecular Modeling and Simulation of a Photosynthetic Reaction Center Protein, Review article by Matteo Ceccarelli, Marc Souaille and Massimo Marchi 59
  6. From Molecular Dynamics to Dissipative Particle Dynamics, Article by Peter V. Coveney, Gianni De Fabritiis, Eirik G.Flekkoy and James Christopher 73
  7. The elements: A Beowulf class Computer, Technical note by Stavros C. Farantos 97