Summer School: Simulating soft matter across scales with ESPResSo and waLBerla

[Jean-Noël Grad]

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the CECAM Flagship School "Simulating soft 
matter across scales", taking place in Stuttgart, Germany, from October 
7-11, 2024.

The school will focus on coarse-grained and lattice-based simulations 
methods to model soft matter systems at mesoscopic length and time 
scales. We will simulate coarse-grained ionic liquids in electrolytic 
capacitors, coarse-grained liquids with machine-learned effective 
potentials, polymer diffusion, hydrodynamic interactions via the 
lattice-Boltzmann method, and electrokinetics and catalysis with 
diffusion-advection-reaction solvers. Lectures will provide an 
introduction to the physics and simulation model building as well as an 
overview of the necessary simulation algorithms. During the afternoon, 
students will practice running their own simulations in hands-on 
sessions using ESPResSo and waLBerla. Time will be dedicated to research 
talks and poster sessions.

Many of the lectures and hands-on sessions will be taught by developers 
of ESPResSo and waLBerla. Hence, the school will also provide a platform 
for discussion between developers and users about the future of the 
software. Moreover, users can get advice on their specific simulation 
projects. Time will also be dedicated to research talks, which 
illustrate how the simulation software is applied, and which provide 
further background in the field of multiscale simulations. All 
participants are invited to bring a poster and present it during the 
lightning talks.

Invited speakers:
* Timm Krüger, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
* Tristan Bereau, University Heidelberg (Germany)
* Christine Peter, University of Konstanz (Germany)
* Frederik Hennig, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Germany)
* Matej Praprotnik, National Institute of Chemistry (Slovenia)
* Pablo M. Blanco, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

Attendance to the summer school is free of charge. To register, go to 
https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/1324 and write a short motivation 
and CV. You can submit a poster abstract until September 1, 2024.

Feel free to forward this announcement to interested colleagues. A flyer 
is available at: 
https://members.cecam.org/storage/workshop_files/flyer-1715854439.pdf

Best regards,
Jean-Noël Grad
Institute for Computational Physics
University of Stuttgart
Allmandring 3
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49 711 685-67715