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Soft Matter Physics: Theory and Computational Methods
The course provides an overview of different soft matter classes. It consists of two parts: theoretical and computational. The theoretical part introduces the physics of polymers, liquid crystals, and passive and active colloids. The computational part presents three simulation techniques (molecular dynamics, Brownian dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations) and illustrates them through programming tutorials. The language of instruction is English.
Lecturer: Dr. Milos Knezevic
When attending this course 6 credit points within the ECTS system can be obtained.
Students are required to attend the lectures and computational tutorials, and complete homework in order to receive a Schein at the end of the semester.
Lectures
Wednesday 10:15-11:45
Friday 10:15-11.45
In certain weeks there will be programming tutorials instead of lectures in the same time slots.
The lectures start on Wednesday 4th of November.
The lectures take place as an online meeting via Zoom. Further information can be found at the course webpage:
https://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php?id=21191 [1]
Topics
- Polymers
- Liquid crystals
- Elements of nonlinear elasticity theory
- Liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers
- Colloids
- Active colloids
- Biophysics of the immune system
Computational tutorials
- Molecular dynamics simulations; Practical project: Simulating a glass transition
- Brownian dynamics simulations; Practical project: Emergent collective behavior in active colloids
- Monte Carlo simulations; Practical project: Simulating pathogen recognition by the immune system
Zusatzinformationen / Extras
Direktzugang
Hilfsfunktionen
https://www3.itp.tu-berlin.de/menue/lehre/lv/ws_202021/wahllehrveranstaltungen/soft_matter_physics_theory_and_computational_methods/