supported by the European Science Foundation NEWSLETTER ISSUE 4 March 2002 Editor: D´ onal Mac Kernan Centre Europ´ een de Calcul Atomique et Mol´ eculaire Ecole Normale Sup´ erieure de Lyon, 46 All´ ee d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France Tel: 00-33-04-72728632 Fax: 00-33-04-72728636 email: dmack@cecam.fr The SIMU programme aims at building cooperation across Europe in the field of computationl physics and chemistry of condensed matter, with particular emphasis on the development of novel computa- tional techniques to perform multiscale molecular simulations. URL: http://simu.ulb.ac.be/