Summer School: ESPResSo and Python: Versatile Tools for Soft Matter Research

[Jean-Noël Grad]

Dear ESPResSo users,

you are cordially invited to this year's ESPResSo online summer school.
Please find the announcement below.

Regards,
Jean-Noël Grad


Learn to simulate soft matter systems using ESPResSo and Python

Summer School
ESPResSo and Python: Versatile Tools for Soft Matter Research
Date: October 05, 2020 - October 09, 2020
Location: online event
Registration: https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/28

Due to the uncertainty related to the current Covid-19 situation, we 
have decided to virtualize the school, although maintaining the highly 
interactive format. Hands-on sessions will be tutored by experienced 
ESPResSo users and developers in small groups of participants, remotely 
via videoconferencing. There will be additional opportunities for 
scientific exchange during the social event, the user & developer 
meeting and the interactive talks.

The coding sessions will take place in the afternoon, Central European 
Summer Time (UTC+02:00). Some tutoring groups could start earlier or 
later to accommodate for participants from different time zones, if 
there is sufficient interest. Registration is now open on CECAM 
(https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/28).

Although this course is offered online, it is not designed as a MOOC: 
participation will be highly interactive, which limits the number of 
participants we can accept in the tutoring sessions. When registering 
for this course, please mention whether you are interested in taking 
part in the tutoring, or if you're just interested in watching the 
lectures and talks. The lectures and talks will be recorded and made 
available on our website after the event, accessible to everyone 
enrolled in this course.

In this school, participants learn to conduct simulations in the fields 
of statistical physics, soft matter and active matter using the software 
ESPResSo (espressomd.org). It is an open-source particle-based 
simulation package with a focus on coarse-grained molecular dynamics 
models. In addition, it offers a wide range of schemes for solving 
electrostatics and magnetostatics, hydrodynamics, electrokinetics, as 
well as algorithms for active matter, rigid bodies, and chemical 
reactions. ESPResSo consists of an MPI-parallelized simulation core 
written in C++ and a scripting interface in Python. This allows for good 
interoperability with other science and visualization tools for Python.

After an introduction to particle-based simulations and the simulation 
software, a wide range of topics will be covered: colloids, gels, 
polymers, magnetic fluids, and active matter. Lectures will provide an 
introduction to the physics and simulation model building as well as an 
overview of the necessary simulation algorithms such as electrostatics 
and hydrodynamics solvers. During the afternoon, participants will 
practice running simulations in hands-on sessions with the help of 
developers of the software. Participants can also get advice on their 
specific simulation projects. The final day of the school will be 
dedicated to research talks on projects that have been conducted using 
ESPResSo.

Program:

- Analysis and management of scientific data
- Basic simulations in ESPResSo and Python
- Understanding and quantifying simulation errors
- Polymer melts
- Polyelectrolyte electrophoresis
- Colloids and gels
- Long-range interactions, electrostatics, magnetostatics, P3M algorithm
- Hydrodynamic interactions, lattice-Boltzmann method
- Electrokinetics
- Molecular dynamics
- Rigid body mechanics, virtual sites
- Magnetic fluids
- Active matter
- Monte Carlo

Attendance to the summer school is free. A more detailed schedule will 
be made available on our website 
(http://espressomd.org/wordpress/invitation-to-the-espresso-summer-school-2020/) 
at a later point in time.