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  Computational Soft Matter Physics (Seminar)

Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke, Dr. Matthieu Marechal

Details
Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, ECTS credits: 5, Sprache Englisch, ggf. Ort und Zeit nach Vereinbarung
Time and place: 14:00 - 18:00, TL 1.140; 8:00 - 12:00, SR 00.103; 12:00 - 18:00, HB

Fields of study
WPF Ph-BA ab 5
WPF PhM-BA ab 5
WPF Ph-MA ab 1
WPF PhM-MA ab 1

Contents
This seminar will explore some of the diverse areas of research in soft matter physics.

There will be an advance meeting to allocate topics, held on Monday 20 July 2015, at 14:00 in SR 01.683 (Theorie 1).

Students are expected to prepare their talk during the term, with support by the tutors; results will be presented in a workshop at the end of the term, from 16 to 18 February 2016.

Some of the topics, marked [num], offer the possibility to do an additional numerical project as part of "CP2" (module WP-2).

Foams and minimal surfaces

  • Liquid Foam Structure and Topology

  • Aging and coarsening of liquid foams (Evolver) [num]

  • Self-assembly of triply-periodic minimal surfaces

Melting in confinement and other phase transitions

  • Melting in two dimensions (Metropolis Monte Carlo, XY model) [num]

  • Packing on curved surfaces: Topological defects [num]

  • Nucleating a crystal (Molecular dynamics) [num]

  • Liquid/gas transition in a LJ fluid (Wang-Landau) [num]

  • Percolation: Conductance of carbon nanotube assemblies [num]

Liquids

  • Density functional theory for liquids [num]

  • Swimming at low Reynolds numbers

Granular Media

  • Granular Media: Jamming as a phase transition?

  • Numerical simulation of jammed packings (Lubashevsky-Stillinger) [num]

  • Imaging granular media by computed tomography [num]

ECTS information:
Credits: 5

Additional information

Assigned lectures
UE: Computational Soft Matter Physics (Tutorial)
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke, Dr. Matthieu Marechal
Time and place: Tue 16:00 - 18:00, CIP-Pool in der Physik; Thu 14:00 - 16:00, CIP-Pool in der Physik; comments on time and place: Anteroom of CIP-Pool

Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
Startsemester WS 2017/2018:
Advanced Projects in Computational Materials Physics (WP-2-MAT)
Advanced Projects in Computational Physics (WP-2)
Seminar: Computational Soft Matter Physics (PS)

Department: Chair of Theoretical Physics
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