Going to California

Dr. Karl Kirschner (Department of Computer Science) recently presented joint research of  Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and the University of California (UC) at the "251st American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition" in San Diego. An impressive total of 16,398 people attended the conference. Kirschner gave a talk in the division of Computers in Chemistry (ie COMP) entitled "Optimizing molecular models through force-field parameterization".

Furthermore, he recently became the associate chair of the ACS's COMP Division Awards Committee and thus will be responsible for coordinating the Chemical Computing Group awards to outstanding graduate students. 

Karl Kirschner also met PhD candidate Martin Schenk and Prof. Dr. Dirk Reith (both H-BRS department of electrical and mechanical engineering) at UC Davis. Schenk has just finished a several week visitation to Prof. Dr. Roland Faller's research group. This summer H-BRS will in turn host one of Prof. Dr. Faller's students for several weeks, where he will do some force field optimization and other computational research. Kirschner gave a talk in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science which was entitled "Theoretical Modeling: Force Fields, Carbohydrates, Lipids, Ribosome and Water Clusters".