A new paper by Carl Caleman and David van der Spoel has just been published (on-line) in Angewandte Chemie . The paper describes siumulatios of  the melting of ice by a laser pulse. The laser deposites energy in the OH bond-stretching, and this excitation is tranferred into melting a few ps after the pulse. The paper is in the VIP (Very Important  Paper) category according to  the two referees  (less than 5% of  papers in Angewandte reach this status), and it will be featured on the cover of the printed edition in February 2008. A movie from the simulations is available here .

Some coverage in the popular press of this paper is here (Swedish):

• http://www.nyteknik.se/
• TV4 Uppland (after 4:39 into the program, and in Swedish)
• http://www.uu.se/
• http://www.forskning.se/
• http://tentakel.vr.se/

 And international:

The group recently got a prestigious grant from the DEISA (ditributed european infrastructure for supercomputing applications) organization in collaboration with groups from Groningen, Stockholm, Gottingen, Kuopio and London. According to the proposal, entitled XXL-BioMD, we will perform very large scale molecular dynamics simulations using (predominantly) the GROMACS MD code. A press release from DEISA is here .