So my task or pleasure, both at the same time, is to tell you what the Atomistic Simulation

Center actually is about. You've heard already or read in the invitation, it's the Atomistic

Simulation Center of Patebo on Erlang and Berlin. And it's a virtual center spanning

the three organizations, the three and each our centers there. And so a virtual symposium

like we have here is totally appropriate to do this as much as we all like to meet each

other in person, we can do this in the future. So with a slide you are asked to keep in mind,

I remind you also here of two things that are shown. So these are the application fields,

life sciences, physics, chemistry, where atomic stick simulations do play a role, not only

there but there very often. And these are the three centers in Patebo, in Berlin and

in Erlang, which have their focus on this in this realm. And we decided to cooperate.

So this is where this triangle comes about. And to cooperate means we decided to join

forces, share our expertise, bundle our competence, so as to be better in the atomic stick simulations,

so as to be better in using software, using the hardware to improve also in serving the

community for that. So this center comes of course with people. And here's a non-exhaustive

I've been told list of people involved. So the PI, so our vice president spoke about

many people being involved in the application. There were many people in this application.

We have people everywhere in Patebo, in Berlin and in Erlang. And I will not disseminate

where they are, but I would like to rather show you in which fields they work or where

their competence in atomic stick simulation actually lies. And there are two broad fields

and a group this and really condensed this a lot. So this is one picture, not even a

sentence, per group or sometimes per several groups. One application area is in the material

sciences and these colorful pictures show you a few examples of these. So some of those

are some of the people you just saw the list before are looking into materials which are

important for catalysis. So these are, I don't have a pointer, okay. So from the left to

the right, there are liquid metals being simulated at atomic detail, so which can serve as catalyst.

There are wetting or de-wetting effects on surfaces being simulated. This is also important

for catalysis. These are ionic liquids which are looked at. There are self-embedded molecules

on surfaces, so that we have molecular and materials research combined of course. Very

important in catalysis are also crystals, nanocrystals, fractures in there, their mechanical

properties, not only for catalysis of course, also for let's say solar cells to look a bit

into the future. So that of course also nanowires are important. Electron transport and other

photophysical properties, you name it. So there are many, many interesting fields where

the atomic detail is important, very often also the electronic, but detail, the electronic

structure and very often also the greater assemblies or the greater pictures, but the

atomic simulation or atomistic simulation is key here to solve these problems. And the

other broad application area is life sciences or soft matter, which is very often also the

same. And the zoo of application possibilities or examples here spends, well not the entire

world of course, but again goes from particles, atoms to electrons. So there are receptors,

there's drug design as an area of application. So one looks at ligands binding to membrane

proteins. People here are in our, there's my pointer, in the atomistic simulation center,

look at how membranes actually are formed and how they interact with the proteins in

there. Viral proteins have become very, very important. People have looked at this a lot

more intensively in the last couple of months, again for drug design. DNA repairs one, then

transports, molecular design, how water behaves, one of the most, if not the most important

biomolecule I keep saying is very important. And then of course the dynamics of the soft

matter or the biomatter at interfaces or in solution and in crowded environments, all

that is important, all that we love to tackle. And for all that again, atomistic simulations

are either the key to solve this or are the linker between electronic structure, even

deeper and coarser models, which are also used. So it's not that the atomistic simulations

stand there alone, but they are of course part of a richer research environment in the