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Posted by: sxc1
on Oct 26, 2005
Melik C. Demirel, Allen Pearce Assistant Professor, will teach ESc 497B "Simulation and Design of Nanostructures" spring semester 2006. A brief outline of the course follows below.
Students will learn the simulation techniques and the design rules of nanostructures. Basic concepts of computer modeling will be introduced using quantum and classical approaches. Fundamental physical phenomena encountered in the molecular fields of computational physics, chemistry, and biology will be studied. Applications are drawn from a broad range of fields including soft and condensed matter to build an understanding of nanostructures.
The course will assume knowledge and skill developed in the core courses of the engineering or equivalent. Students are expected to combine knowledge from other courses with information presented here to develop sophisticated interpretations and understanding of physical and chemical principles of nanostructures and their design rules. Students will use commercial or educational computer codes (e.g. Matlab, Mathematica, AMBER, CHARMM, VASP, etc.) which are available at our high performance computing clusters (http://gears.aset.psu.edu/hpc/). Students will use the computing clusters to perform simulations which are accessible from any classroom or laboratory at Penn State. The clusters consist of 129 1U Dell 1750 machines (128 compute nodes, 1 head node).
Students wishing more information may way to visit the course website.
ESc 497B meetings MWF 3:35 - 4:25 p.m.in 121 EES. The registration code is: 628993.
Dr. Demirel may be contacted at mcd18@psu.edu
Students will learn the simulation techniques and the design rules of nanostructures. Basic concepts of computer modeling will be introduced using quantum and classical approaches. Fundamental physical phenomena encountered in the molecular fields of computational physics, chemistry, and biology will be studied. Applications are drawn from a broad range of fields including soft and condensed matter to build an understanding of nanostructures.
The course will assume knowledge and skill developed in the core courses of the engineering or equivalent. Students are expected to combine knowledge from other courses with information presented here to develop sophisticated interpretations and understanding of physical and chemical principles of nanostructures and their design rules. Students will use commercial or educational computer codes (e.g. Matlab, Mathematica, AMBER, CHARMM, VASP, etc.) which are available at our high performance computing clusters (http://gears.aset.psu.edu/hpc/). Students will use the computing clusters to perform simulations which are accessible from any classroom or laboratory at Penn State. The clusters consist of 129 1U Dell 1750 machines (128 compute nodes, 1 head node).
Students wishing more information may way to visit the course website.
ESc 497B meetings MWF 3:35 - 4:25 p.m.in 121 EES. The registration code is: 628993.
Dr. Demirel may be contacted at mcd18@psu.edu