Winter School: Computational Soft Matter: From Synthetic Polymers to Proteins

Winter School, 29 February - 6 March 2004, Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, Germany

Scope

Computational Soft Matter has now become a very active field of research. Characteristic features are the nontrivial geometric structures that occur from the atomistic scales to the mesoscopic scales, importance of entropic effects, and cooperative complex dynamics. Different application fields
profit from the recent progress of simulation methods.

This Winter School will cover – after an introduction to Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics and approaches dealing with hydrodynamic flow – the following research topics:

• Neutral polymers in solution, melt and the glassy state
• Surfactants and membranes
• Liquid crystals
• Polyelectrolytes
• Biopolymers, including proteins

The target group of the School are graduate students, postdocs, and young researchers in the areas of theoretical/computational physics, chemistry, and biophysics with basic knowledge of classical, statistical, and quantum mechanics. They will benefit from this School by learning about recent methodological advances within and outside their field of specialization. The Winter School is organized by the John
von Neumann-Institut für Computing (NIC, Forschungszentrum Jülich), Institut für Physik (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung (Mainz), and Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie (Göttingen).

Proceedings

The proceedings have been published in the NIC Series:

NIC Series Volume 23:
Computational Soft Matter: From Synthetic Polymers to Proteins - Lecture Notes
edited by Norbert Attig, Kurt Binder, Helmut Grubmüller, Kurt Kremer
Winter School, 29 February - 06 March 2004, Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, Germany
ISBN 3-00-012641-4
February 2004, 440 pages
URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2128/2933
Computational Soft Matter: From Synthetic Polymers to Proteins - Lecture Notes (pdf)

Posters

Abstracts of the poster presentations have been published in the NIC Series:

NIC Series Volume 22:
Computational Soft Matter: From Synthetic Polymers to Proteins - Poster Abstracts
edited by Norbert Attig, Kurt Binder, Helmut Grubmüller, Kurt Kremer
Winter School, 29 February - 06 March 2004, Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, Germany
ISBN 3-00-012374-1
February 2004, 120 pages
URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2128/2934
Computational Soft Matter: from Synthetic Polymers to Proteins - Poster Abstracts (pdf, 949 kB)