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Novel Simulation Approaches to Soft Matter Systems
International Workshop: September 20 - 24, 2010
Scientific coordinators:
Juan Jose Cerdà Pino (Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Computational Physics, Germany)
Christian Holm (Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Computational Physics, Germany)
Kurt Kremer (Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany)
Organization:
Sofja Roscina (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany)
Soft Matter Science has enjoyed significant advances in the last two decades. Understanding of these complex fluids relies often on our ability to simulate model systems on various scales. One of the advances came with the development of new simulation techniques for soft matter systems. However, these are increasingly becoming more complex and significant advances, for example by combining some of these methods, requires a more active collaboration and communication among different scientific groups. Especially for newcomers to the field it is becoming harder to get acquainted with those techniques and be in the position of making significant new contributions to this research area. The workshop aims to help both experienced scientists and newcomers to get acquainted to new approaches. Furthermore, the workshop will offer an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and methods, and to design new concepts for the future.
Topics include:
- Adaptive resolution schemes
- Multiscaling approaches
- Coarse graining strategies for various soft matter systems
- Various techniques for mesoscale hydrodynamics
- Rare events
- New sampling schemes
- Inverse Monte Carlo problems
Invited speakers (* to be confirmed):
| K. Binder (Germany) | P. Bolhuis (Netherlands) | R. D. Buscalioni (Spain) |
| M. E. Cates (UK) | C. Dellago (Austria) | B. Duenweg (Germany)* |
| A. Garcia (USA) | G. Gompper (Germany) | T. Head-Gordon (USA) |
| E. Kaxiras (USA)* | A. Louis (UK) | Löwen (Germany) |
| A. Lyubartsev (Sweden) | V. Mavrantzas (Greece) | M. Müller (Germany) |
| W. G. Noid (USA) | I. Pagonabarraga (Spain) | Parrinello (Switzerland) |
| P. Wolfgang (Germany) | C. Peter (Germany) | M. Praprotnik (Slovenia) |
| K. J. Schulten (USA) | G. W. Slater (India) | S. Succi (Italy) |
| B. Sundaram (India) | N. van der Vegt (Germany) | M. Wilson (UK) |
Applications are welcome and should be made by using the application form
on the workshop web page.
The number of attendees is limited.
The registration fee for the international workshop is 120 Euro and should be paid by all participants.
Costs for accommodation and meals will be covered by the Max Planck Institute. Limited funding is available to partially cover travel expenses.
Please note that childcare is available upon request.
Deadline for applications is June 30, 2010.
For further information please e-mail to: nsasm10
pks.mpg.de
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