Biological Physics (SS 2006)

Dates

The idea is to meet on each thursday at 11:15 in the usual room Phys 1.114. The other dates can be fixed according to what fits best.

Thursday, may 11

extraordinary seminar given by Silvina Matysiak, on Coarse grained protein simulations and polymer translocation through pores.

eMail: matysiak@mpip-mainz.mpg.de

Web: http://leonardo.rice.edu/~cecilia/publications/

Tuesday, may 16

Intro to classical Density Functional Theory (DFT): Mehmet Suzen

Thursday, may 25

Holiday

Thursday, June 01

Poisson-Boltzmann Theory: Olaf Lenz

Thursday, June 08

Beyond Poisson-Boltmann Theory: Sandeep Tyagi

Thursday, June 15

Holiday

Thursday, June 22

Proton transfer studies between titratable amino acid side chains and solvent molecules for Q-HOP MD towards an application to Quinol: Fumarate Reductase (QFR) (Elena Herzog, something about her Ph.D. thesis)

Topics

• Strong coupling theory and beyond for strongly charged systems (S. Tyagi)
• Intro into treatments of long range interactions (C. Holm)
• Coulombic Ewald sums and its efficient treatments (P3M) (JJ Cerda)
• Electrophoresis of charged macromolecules (K. Grass)
• Intro into Lattice Boltzmann (U. Schiller, probably only early next semester...)
• What's inside cells lecture (C. Holm??)

• Maybe: one more lecture out of the book "Biological Physics" (NN)