The tutorial will be held at Templeman Library SR7, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NH, United Kingdom.
Monday, July 04
09:30 - 09:45 | Training course opening |
09:45 - 11:00 | Basics of MBN Explorer and MBN Studio Short description of main features of MBN Explorer and MBN Studio: universality, tuneable force fields, multiscale approach, computational efficiency, etc.; areas of application of MBN Explorer and MBN Studio |
11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
11:20 - 12:00 | Setting up the calculation Specification of input files and formats, and instructions on how to run MBN Explorer |
12:00 - 13:00 | MBN Studio An introduction to MBN Studio - a multipurpose toolkit for MBN Explorer - and an overview of its main features; overview of the MBN Explorer examples library, which contains the trial case studies representing certain physical experiments and demonstrating capacities of the program |
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 - 16:00 | Gases, liquids, crystals, plasmas Description of setting up simulations of gaseous, liquid and crystalline media with MBN Explorer; different types of boundary conditions; energy and temperature control in MBN Explorer |
16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
16:20 - 17:30 | Atomic clusters and nanoparticles Description of setting up calculations involving atomic clusters and nanoparticles; construction of clusters and nanoparticles with MBN Studio |
Tuesday, July 05
09:30 - 11:00 | Thermo-mechanical properties of materials Investigation of thermo-mechanical properties of crystalline, nanostructured and amorphous materials by means of MD simulations of the nanoindentation process |
11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
11:20 - 13:00 |
Biomolecular systems Exploration of dynamical processes with biomolecular systems; use of the molecular mechanics potential for setting up calculations of biomolecular systems; simulation of bond breakage processes in biomolecular systems using MBN Explorer |
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 - 16:00 |
Irradiation induced transformations of biomolecular systems Exploration of dynamical processes related to the irradiation induced thermo-mechanical damage of molecular and biomolecular systems |
16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
16:20 - 17:30 | Collision and irradiation induced processes MD simulation of collision and irradiation-induced processes in organic and inorganic molecular systems and materials |
Wednesday, July 06
9:30 - 11:00 |
Reactive and irradiation driven molecular dynamics (RMD and IDMD) RMD and IDMD principles and case studies |
11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
11:20 - 13:00 |
Multiscale modelling by means of stochastic dynamics Application of the stochastic dynamics approach for computational modelling of Meso-Bio-Nano systems |
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 - 16:00 |
Relativistic dynamics of particles propagating through medium MD simulations of propagation of particles in various media, such as heterocrystalline structures, bent crystals, amorphous materials, solids, nanotubes, and biological environment, etc. |
16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
16:20 - 17:20 |
Novel lights sources beyond Free Electron Lasers Presentation of the European EIC-PATHFINDER project TECHNO-CLS and related tasks |
17:20 - 17:30 | Tutorial closing and concluding remarks |