The seminar provides an overview of recent topics in soft matter physics with focus on theoretical results and modern simulation methods. Each student will present one topic during 45 minutes with subsequent discussions.
The seminar is limited to 14 participants.

Possible topics:

1. Molecular dynamics simulations
2. Theory of Brownian motion
3. Anomalous transport in crowded media
4. Phase transitions
5. Free energy calculations by Monte Carlo simulations
6. Polymer theory
7. Poisson-Boltzmann theory
8. Algorithms for electrostatic interactions
9. Diffusion in many-particle suspensions
10. Long-time anomalies of the diffusion in liquids
11. Hydrodynamic interactions
12. Simulation methods for coarse-grained solvents
13. Physics of the glass transition
14. GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations

Voraussetzungen: good knowledge in classical and statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, electrodynamics

Zielgruppe: M.Sc. Mathematik, M.Sc. Physics