CoMSEF is a forum for the combined community of engineers and scientists who are developing and applying molecularly based theories, modeling, and simulation. Its scope of technical interests includes chemical, biological, and materials processes and products. A key feature is joining molecularly based modeling with the other computational methodologies that are used in the chemical engineering sciences for research, development, operations, and education.

Meeting Minutes November 2007

Posted November 20th, 2007 by site admin

The CoMSEF/ Area 01a meeting at the AIChE annual meeting took place on Wednesday at 6:15pm in room 155F of the Salt Palace Convention Center.

Area 1a Reports

2007 Graduate Student Awards in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering

Posted November 15th, 2007 by site admin

Congratulations to the 2007 CoMSEF Graduate Student Award winners:

Chethan Acharya, University of Alabama
Advisor: C. Heath Turner

Harish Vashisth, Drexel University
Advisor: Cameron Abrams

Forums, newsletters, and meeting minutes are now publicly available

Posted November 15th, 2007 by site admin

Previously, the CoMSEF forums and a few other parts of the web site (newsletters, meeting minutes) were only accessible to members after logging in to the site. This was done to preserve these features as "members-only" benefits. However, that limited the availability of this information and also made it a bit less accessible to members too. Therefore, the CoMSEF executive committee decided to make the forums, newsletters, and minutes public. Login will no longer be required for accessing them. Login is still required to make posts, comment on posts, vote in elections, etc.

New Liaison Directors

Posted November 15th, 2007 by site admin

 Two new CoMSEF Liaison Directors were recently elected and announced at the CoMSEF meeting in Salt Lake City:

  • Ed Maginn, University of Notre Dame - homepage
  • Brian Peterson, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. - bio

 The role of liaison director includes the following responsibilities:

Keith Gubbins Festschrift

Posted October 25th, 2007 by site admin

The special issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C honoring Keith Gubbins is now available online: link

Note that the current CoMSEF newsletter includes a tribute to Prof. Gubbins written by Ken Cox and that Prof. Gubbins will be honoried at two sessions during the AIChE annual meeting in Salt Lake City:

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

8:30 AM-11:00 AM

Grad Student and Post-Doc Openings

Posted August 31st, 2007 by site admin

Information regarding a grad student and post-doc openings at the University of South Carolina have been posted in the "Jobs" section of the CoMSEF forums: link

Post-Doc Opening

Posted July 6th, 2007 by site admin

Information regarding a post-doc opening at Vanderbilt University has been posted in the "Jobs" section of the CoMSEF forums: link

CoMSEF Forums

Posted May 3rd, 2007 by site admin

A group of forums (discussion boards) have been added to comsef.org for the benefit of CoMSEF members. Currently, there are areas available for general discussion and also for job postings (both for folks looking for jobs and people looking to hire).

The forums can be accessed here: link .

New Officers for 2006-2008

Posted December 14th, 2006 by site admin

The elections concluded in early November. Thanks to everyone who ran and who voted! As a result, the new members of the executive committee are:

Vice Chair and Program Chair: Clare McCabe, Vanderbilt
Secretary-Treasurer: Joe Golab, Innovene
Liaison Director: Perla Balbuena, Texas A&M
Liaison Director: Roland Faller, UC Davis