CECAM - School on Understanding Molecular SimulationsSchool on Understanding Molecular Simulations

School on Understanding Molecular Simulations

Location: Intructional Computing Classroom (ICC) Centre for Computational Materials Science Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore 560064 India Tel: +080-2208 2899 - fa

Organisers

This course is aimed to give an introduction in the basic molecular simulation techniques: molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo. The idea is to give an understanding of principles underlying these techniques and to use this understanding to optimize a simulation code. The more advanced topics include molecular simulations in the various ensembles (NVE, NVT, NPT, grand canonical, etc), free energy computations, phase equilibria, rare events, configurational-bias Monte Carlo. The morning sessions are lectures introducing the methods and in the afternoons there are computer exercises in which these methods are applied. The course does not assume any previous knowledge in molecular simulations. However, elementary knowledge in thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamics is assumed.The course will follow the structure of the book "Understanding Molecular Simulations" Frenkel and Smit (Academic Press, 2002).

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India

Niels L Ellegaard (JNCASR) - Organiser

Srikanth Sastry (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research) - Organiser

Surajit Sengupta (S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences) - Organiser

Netherlands

Edith Beerdsen (University of Amsterdam) - Organiser

Switzerland

Berend Smit (EPFL) - Organiser

United States

Patrick Charbonneau (Duke University) - Organiser

Maddalena Venturoli (Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences NYU) - Organiser

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