Hauptseminar Theorie und Simulation der weichen Materie SS 2013

Overview

Type

Seminar (Talks and Discussion)

Date and Time

Tuesday, 13:45-15:15 (1st date: April 9)

Location

Institut für Computerphysik, Seminar room 1.079

Credit Points

2 SWS = 3 CP

Teachers

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)

Veranstaltungsnummer

04570

Zugeordnete Module

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

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

Kurssprache

Englisch

Requirements

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

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

Talks

Date	Topic	Speaker	Tutor
9.4.	Preparatory Meeting, How to give a talk
23.4.	Introduction to Molecular Dynamics and Monte-Carlo Simulations	Kim Kafenda	Olaf Lenz
30.4.	Theory of Liquids	Martin Bauer	Markus Bier
7.5.	Theory of Brownian Motion	Caterina Clausen	Felix Höfling
14.5.	Track 1: Density Functional Theory	Hendrik Bartsch	Markus Bier
	Track 2: Electrostatics Algorithms	Gabriel Sichardt	Olaf Lenz
28.5.	Track 1: Liquid Crystals	Venkata Cherikuri	Markus Bier
	Track 2: Hydrodynamics	Udo Höfel	Felix Höfling
4.6.	Track 1: Nucleation	Kilian Dietrich	Jens Smiatek, Joost de Graaf
	Track 2: Mesoscopic Simulation Methods	Johannes Schmidt	Jens Smiatek
11.6.	Common Talk: Poisson-Boltzmann Theory	Kai Szuttor	Jens Smiatek
18.6.	Track 1: Polymer Theory	Eva Schöll	Markus Bier
	Track 2: Diffusion in Many-particle Suspensions	Moritz Förster	Matthias Krüger
25.6.	Track 1: Polymer Simulations	Samuel Wagner	Olaf Lenz
	Track 2: Anomalous Transport	Moritz Scholze	Felix Höfling
2.7.	Track 1: Computing Free Energies	Larissa Dill	Jens Smiatek
	Track 2: Long-time Anomalies of the Diffusion in Liquids	Cedric Kiefer	Matthias Krüger
9.7.	Track 1: Electrophoresis	Florian Jung	Jens Smiatek, Owen Hickey
	Track 2: Microswimmers	Jannick Fischer	Jens Smiatek, Joost de Graaf