“Priority for the research budget is crucial for achieving economic prosperity and solutions for global challenges. Read the text of the petition and voice your concerns on the EU budget to the heads of states or governments.

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The 7^th Molecular Quantum Mechanics (MQM) congress will be held in Lugano (Switzerland) in June 2013. It is focused on theory and method development in molecular quantum mechanics. This edition of MQM will be to the honor of Professor Rodney Bartlett (University of Florida) for his seminal contributions towards the treatment of electron correlation.

Thomas Giroday, M. M. Montero-Campillo and Nelaine Mora-Díez will present a work. Professor Mora-Díez will attend the conference.

Finding financial resources for scientific research in Spain is as difficult as finding a unicorn in the forest.

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Valera Veryazov’s group in Lund is looking for a person who can work as a post-doc in Lund. Some knowledge of ‘inorganic’ calculations and solid state is the bonus. The programs which supposed to be used are Turbomole, Mopac, Molcas, and optionally some periodic. It is a one-year position.

The deadline of the application is 8th of March. Read more here: http://www.kilu.lu.se/om/tjanster

I will attend the 15th International Conference on Density Functional Theory in September.

I hope to see you in Durham, UK !

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Julia Contreras-García, Robin Chaudret, Jean-Philip Piquemal and Erin Johnson organize in Paris a workshop about topogical approaches to intermolecular interactions. The workshop will be held in Paris from 26-28th of June.

There are no registration fees!

Some of the confirmed speakers are Odile Eisenstein, Paul Popelier, Frank de Proft, Manuel Yáñez and Weitao Yang.

Read more about this event here: Workshop Paris

“A critical stance is essential to science. Proving other people wrong is a favorite private and public satisfaction -there is nothing some scientists like better.”

From “Ironclad History or Rashomon Tale?“, by Pierre Laszlo and Roald Hoffmann, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, No.1, page 123.

Do you know this blog from Jan H. Jensen?

You should take a look at it 🙂

A postdoctoral position in Computational Chemistry at Prof. Natália Cordeiro‘s group (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) is available. The title of the project is “Molecular Simulation of Sol-Gel Synthesis of Nanoparticles”.

Work plan: Under the project, the fellow will perform molecular dynamics simulations of sol-gel synthesis of nanoparticles considering the design of new materials for molecular imprinting, as well as the development of theoretical methods for this type of simulations. The techniques used will include: force fields of the Lennard-Jones type, or ReaxFF; Morse and harmonic potentials. Therefore, the candidate should have experience and skills suitable for the application of methods involving several types of potentials and also experience in molecular dynamics simulations.

Candidate’s profile:

The fellowship is designated for holders of a Ph.D. in Material Sciences, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a similar discipline, with curriculum adequate for the work to be performed. The candidate will be chosen based on the following criteria:
• Indicators of scientific production, such as publications, conference presentations, books etc.
• Additional experience (courses, training etc.)
• Expertise in molecular dynamics (with preference given to the users of the GROMACS or LAMMPS)
• Programming skills.

Read more here: www.eracareers.pt 

… or contact with Prof. Cordeiro by email at ncordeir (at) fc.up.pt before 8th Dec.