News from the NIC Scientific Council

The Scientific Council of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) held its annual meeting on 19 April 2012 at DESY in Zeuthen. Prof. Kurt Binder, chairman of the NIC-SC since January, chaired the meeting. Prof. Guy Brasseur, director of the Climate Service Center, was elected as a new member and will begin his term in January 2013. Several new members were also elected to the NIC Peer Review Board: Prof. Nikolaus A. Adams (Technical University Munich), Prof. Frithjof Anders (Technical University Dortmund), and Prof. K. Helmut Grubmüller (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen). They will begin their term of office at the next meeting of the Peer Review Board in October.
(Contact: Dr. Walter Nadler)

from JSC News No. 204, 24 May 2012