Hauptseminar Theorie und Simulation der weichen Materie SS 2014

Overview

Type

Blockseminar (Talks and Discussion)

Date and Time

to be discussed

Location

Institut für Computerphysik, Seminar room 1.079

Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems, Seminar room 5H7 (directions)

Credit Points

2 SWS = 3 CP

Teachers

Prof. Dr. Christian Holm (ICP)

Dr. Jens Smiatek (ICP)

Dr. Olaf Lenz (ICP)

Dr. Felix Höfling (MPI für Intelligente Systeme)

Dr. Matthias Krüger (MPI für Intelligente Systeme)

Dr. Markus Bier (MPI für Intelligente Systeme)

Course Number

04570

Modules

PO 2011: 31620 Hauptseminar in Theoretischer Physik (benoteter Leistungsnachweis)

PO 2010: 28300 Fortgeschrittene Vielteilchentheorie (unbenoteter Leistungsnachweis als Prüfungsvorleistung)

Language

Englisch

Requirements

We expect the participants to have fundamental knowledge in classical and statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, electrodynamics, and partial differential equations.

Topics

• Grundlagen der Molekular-Dynamik und Monte-Carlo-Simulation (Jens Smiatek, Christian Holm)
• Simulation von Polymeren mittels Monte-Carlo und Molekular-Dynamik-Methoden (Jens Smiatek, Christian Holm)
• Mesoskopische Simulationsmethoden: Lattice-Boltzmann, Dissipative Particle Dynamics und Stochastic Rotation Dynamics (Jens Smiatek, Christian Holm)
• Behandlung von elektrostatischen Wechselwirkungen in Polyelektrolyt-Simulationen (Jens Smiatek, Christian Holm)
• Poisson-Boltzmann-Theorie: Vergleich zwischen Simulation und analytischen Resultaten (Jens Smiatek, Christian Holm)
• Phasengleichgewichte (Jens Smiatek, Christian Holm)
• Methoden zur Berechnung von freien Energien: Wang-Landau-Sampling, Umbrella Sampling und WHAM, Thermodynamische Integration (Jens Smiatek, Christian Holm)
• Proteinfaltung (Jens Smiatek, Christian Holm)
• Einführung in die Flüssigkeitstheorie (Markus Bier)
• Dichtefunktionaltheorie (Markus Bier)
• Langzeit-Anomalien bei der Diffusion in Flüssigkeiten (Matthias Krüger)
• Diffusion in Vielteilchen-Suspensionen (Matthias Krüger)

Getting the credit points

To get the credit points for the seminar, the following criteria should be met:

• All participants have to be present in all talks and play a part in the discussions.
• Instead of writing a report after the talk, we expect the participants to distribute a handout in the week before and send it to Jens to be put up on the web page.
  • The handout is to be written in English.
  • All participants are expected to read the handout as preparation to the talk.
  • It should describe the contents of the talk, written out in full.
  • It should have 5 to 10 pages.
  • If available, up to three original articles can be attached to the handout.
• The talk is to be given at the arranged time.
  • The talk is to be held in English.
  • The talk should take 40 to 45 minutes.
  • We recommend to prepare electronic slides for the talk.
  • They can be displayed on your own laptop or on the institute's laptop. In the first case, please check whether the projection works before the actual date, in the latter case, please contact us well beforehand so that we will bring the laptop.
  • After the talk, there will be a discussion on the talk, where all participants are expected to actively contribute.
  • After the discussion, we will give hints on how to improve the presentation.
• For the participants that require a grade (PO 2011), the following aspects will be important:
  • Quality of the talk (contents, presentation, slides)
  • Quality of the handout (contents, readability)
  • Contributions to the discussion