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)
