Dear SCM customers and other SCM relations,

Bert te Velde, CEO at Scientific Computing & Modelling NV (SCM), has accepted
a job offer for a management position at a larger Dutch software company.
He will be leaving SCM at the end of this February.

We wish to express our gratitude to Bert for his efforts to build SCM from
a modest start exactly six years ago to the well-established company it is
today. SCM and the ADF development groups in Amsterdam, Calgary and Groningen
owe Bert a lot. We wish Bert every success in his new job.

His position will be filled by Stan van Gisbergen, who is already
employed by SCM, and worked before in the Theoretical Chemistry group
in Amsterdam. Stan is intimately familiar with the ADF code,
after research and applications in response properties, linear scaling,
parallelization and so on.
SCM will be looking for suitable people to extend the SCM team as soon
as possible.

There will be no major changes in the way SCM operates. In particular,
our goals of full support to the ADF user community and of continuous
improvements to the ADF package will be upheld. This applies (in no
particular order) to stability, efficiency, as well as functionality
and ease of use.
For example, we are currently working on a graphical user interface,
improved and extended basis sets, a linear scaling implementation,
and new properties like spin-spin couplings and a time-dependent DFT
implementation for the ADF-BAND program.

Of course, SCM will continue to cherish the cooperation with the
theoretical chemistry groups of Prof. Baerends (Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
Prof. Ziegler (Calgary, Canada), and Prof. Snijders (Groningen,
The Netherlands), where most of the new functionality in ADF and BAND
originates.

For suggestions, bug reports, and all other questions about ADF or SCM,
please use the E-mail addresses given on our web site (http://www.scm.com),
such as support_at_scm.com.

We hope that we have sufficiently informed you and are always ready
to answer your questions.

On behalf of SCM and the research groups in Amsterdam, Calgary, and
Groningen,

Dr. S.J.A. van Gisbergen
Prof. Dr. E.J. Baerends
Prof. Dr. T. Ziegler
Prof. Dr. J.G. Snijders
Received on 2001-02-19 15:52:52