Energy Landscapes 2010
23.06.2010 — 03.07.2010 pentahotel Chemnitz
The Energy Landscapes workshop is a meeting of researchers in the field of complex energy landscapes.
It will extend over nearly two weeks, in order to give everyone an opportunity to present his/her current work or important issues of concern in the area of energy landscapes to the participants. This will allow lots of time for the crucial extensive and intensive but constructive quizzing of the speaker by the audience. This also allows the participants to exchange ideas in detail, and experience has shown that many collaborations have resulted from these meetings.
Regarding the specific topics, this workshop has always attempted to bring people from different communities together; thus every contribution is welcome that addresses issues in the field of complex energy landscapes - ranging from abstract models, issues in optimal control and global optimization problems over algorithm development to system specific applications in e.g. molecules (clusters, proteins, etc.) or solids (crystals, glasses, spin glasses, ionic conductors, etc.).
Participants & Topics
| Presenter | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, 23.06.10 | ||
| 18:00 | Opening Dinner | |
| 20:00 | Organizational Meeting | |
| Thu, 24.06.10 | ||
| 9:00 | David J. Wales | Energy Landscapes for Soft Matter |
| 11:00 | Christian Schön | Introductionary remarks |
| 13:30 | Peter Salamon | Shape landscapes in mitochondria |
| Fri, 25.06.10 | ||
| 9:00 | Frédéric C. Calzals | Geometric Models for the Description of 3D Molecular Systems (part I) and High-dimensional Point Cloud Data (part II) |
| 11:00 | Jörg Behler | Representing High-Dimensional Potential-Energy Surfaces by Artificial Neural Networks |
| 13:30 | Klaus Doll | Ab initio structure prediction for molecules and solids |
| Sat, 26.06.10 Day trip to Dresden and Saxon Switzerland | ||
| Sun, 27.06.10 Trip to Freiberg | ||
| Mon, 28.06.10 | ||
| 9:00 | Andreas Fischer | Understanding Preferential Trapping |
| 11:00 | Nikolaj Becker | Thermodynamic geometry used to optimize optically driven multistep processes |
| 13:30 | Dejan Zagorac | Structure prediction and energy landscapes in solid state research |
| 16:00 | Frédéric C. Calzals | Reconstructing 3D compact sets - (Gentle) Introduction to Computational Morse Theory and Persistence Analysis |
| Tue, 29.06.10 | ||
| 9:00 | Bernd Hartke | Global optimization in chemistry: from abstract tests to practical usefulness |
| 11:00 | Teresa Head-Gordon | Energy landscapes and water abnomalities |
| 13:30 | Scott M. Woodley | Modelling point defects |
| Wen, 30.06.10 | ||
| 9:00 | Christian L. Müller | Black-box optimization of landscapes and the number of minima problem |
| 11:00 | Paolo Sibani | Complex dynamics made simple: colloidal dynamics |
| 13:30 | Arnulf Moebius | Remarks on heuristic combinatiorial optimization |
| Tue, 01.07.10 | ||
| 9:00 | Stefan Bromley | Low density polymorphism in inorganic solids / Fluxional states in inorganic clusters |
| 11:00 | René Haber | parQ - A transition matrix method to calculate the density of states |
| 13:30 | Katharina Wagner | ETA-Graphics - An Interface to Endoreversible Thermodynamics |
| 14:30 | Thomas Schönfelder | Reactive Force Fields in Particular ReaxFF and Application Possibilities |
| Fri, 02.07.10 | ||
| 10:30 | Janett Prehl | Diffusion on fractals and space-fraction diffusion equations |
| 13:30 | Wrap Up Session | |
