For whom:
The Summer School is targeted to graduate students & postdocs working in soft / condensed matter physics. The number of participants is limited to about 50 due to hands-on exercises that require access to computers. Early application is therefore strongly encouraged.The emphasis is put on lectures and hands-on exercises in order to give the students a good theoretical and practical knowledge of the new methods and methodologies. These will be complemented by a few focused research seminars and a poster session.
Language:
All lectures, exercises & course material will be in English.Topics:
The lectures comprise various topics including
- General aspects of modeling and computer simulation of soft matter systems
- Statistical mechanics: the foundations of modeling & computer simulations
- Molecular dynamics & non-equilibrium molecular dynamics
- Importance of hydrodynamics and how to include hydrodynamics in simulations
- Dissipative Particle Dynamics & Smoothed Particle Dynamics
- Malevanets-Kapral model
- Phase field modeling
- Hybrid models - practical approaches to connecting different length and time scales in simulations
- Electrostatics
Format:
- Each lecturer will have 3 lectures of 45 min - 1 hour.
- There will be hands-on assignments for the participants.
We will organize a good number of PC & free seminar rooms
that will be available for the students for the
duration of the School. We will also organize teaching
assistants to help the students in the assignments.
- In addition to the lectures and assignments, there will be
a small number of tutorial sessions. The idea is that after the
lectures and the assigments the students can ask more
questions and discuss with the lecturers.
- The lecture notes will be published. The journal / series
is still open.
Organizers:
- Mikko Karttunen (Helsinki)
- Ilpo Vattulainen (Helsinki)
- Ari Lukkarinen, CSC Scientific Computing Ltd.
Comments/questions? Mail to softsimu2002@lce.hut.fi
Last updated Sept. 25, 2001