SUMMER & WINTER SCHOOLS
2016 SJTU Soft Matter Summer School
Brief Introduction
This summer school provides ten-day long introduction to the field of experiments, theories and simulations on soft-matter materials. Soft matters, including biomaterials, colloids and polymers, etc. are essential in our daily life. Understanding the structure, function and dynamics of soft matters as well as their interplay is crucial in the fields of biology, chemistry and material science, etc. Our program brings together experimentalists, modelers and theoreticians to illustrate the diverse approaches in this exciting field. The 2016 SJTU soft-matter summer school is sponsored by the SJTU Institute of Natural Sciences, the SJTU Zhiyuan College, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Time
June 22 ~ July 1, 2016
Program Committee
Lecturers
Venue
Room 602, Pao Yue-Kong Library, Minhang Campus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Application and Registration
No registration fee. Please register online. Apply Online
Program
Mathematical Molecular Biology: a worked example
By Bob Eisenberg
Course time:
- June 22, 3pm - 5pm
- June 23, 3pm - 5pm
- June 24, 3pm - 5pm
Outline:
- What is special about Life? It is inherited.
- Electrical Signals in Nerve Cells: Some of Life can be Computed
as a Physical System
- Nerve Cells at Rest: Electrical Properties and the Telegrapher’s
Equation.
- Nerve Cells in Action: Ion Channels as Sources of Electrical
Current
- Nerve Cells and their Action Potential Signal: Ion Channels as
Amplifiers
- Physical Models of Ion Channels
- How to ask Biological Questions and get Physical Answers.
Slides:
SJTU FIRST DAY Molecular Biology.pdf
SJTU SECOND DAY Maxwell and Law of Mass Action.pdf
SJTU THIRD DAY Stochastics PNP EnVarA PNPF.pdf
Theory and algorithms for electrostatic simulation
By A. C. Maggs
Course time:
- June 28, 9am - 11am
- June 29, 3pm - 5pm
- July 1, 9am - 11am
Outline:
- Intro, overview of major algorithms, FFT, interpolation, multipole
- Field theory formulations, collective variable methods
- Duality (potential <–>D), convex formulations in terms of electric fields
- Local algorithm for D, effective dynamics, link with maxwell equations
- Fluctuations, Casimir, evaluation via sparse matrix methods
Notes:
0_intro.pdf
1_maths.pdf
2_PB.pdf
3_mc.pdf
4_dielectric.pdf
5_applications.pdf
Atomistic modeling in soft matter
By Franci Merzel
Course time:
- June 27, 9am - 11am
- June 28, 3pm - 5pm
- June 30, 9am - 11am
Outline:
- Introduction to computer simulations
- Quantum mechanical and classical level of theory
- Local properties of complex systems and experiments
- Advanced molecular dynamics and coarse graining approach
- Free energies and phase equilibria
- Statistical mechanics of fluids
- Water and hydration effects
- Biological macromolecules
Onsager’s variational principle and its applications
By Tiezheng Qian
Course time:
- June 27, 3pm - 5pm
- June 29, 9am - 11am
- June 30, 3pm - 5pm
Outline:
Based on the reciprocal relations for kinetic coefficients, Onsager’s variational principle is of fundamental importance to non-equilibrium statistical physics and thermodynamics in the linear response regime. For his discovery of the reciprocal relations, Lars Onsager was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The purpose of this Short Course is to present Onsager’s variational principle and its applications to first-year graduate students in physics and applied mathematics. The presentation consists of four units:
- Review of thermodynamics
- Onsager’s reciprocal symmetry for kinetic coefficients
- Onsager’s variational principle
- Applications:
- Heat transport
- Lorentz reciprocal theorem
- Cross coupling in rarefied gas flows
- Cross coupling in a mixture of fluids
- The moving contact line problem in immiscible two-phase flows
notes.pdf
notes2.pdf
Chenye Chang
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