Group Meeting Notes

A collection of notes from group meetings prepared by members of the Stratt group. This page has not been updated since I left Brown in 2019.

2019

• January 29 & February 5 - 2D Super-cooled Liquid (.pdf)
  Given by Andrew Ton

2017

• September 19 - Geodesics for the Free Polymer (.pdf)
  Given by Arthur Avkhadiev
• August 1 - Computing Geodesics in the Landscape Ensemble (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Vale Cofer-Shabica
• July 25 - Constrained Dynamics with RATTLE (.pdf, source repository)
  Given by Arthur Avkhadiev
• July 18 - Why Geodesics? A path integral leads the way (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Vale Cofer-Shabica

2016

• February 23 (and subsequent) - Center of Mass Invariant Geodesics for Heterogeneous Systems (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Vale Cofer-Shabica

2015

• November 3 - Roaming Molecules: A Review of a Novel Reaction Mechanism (slides, literature review)
  Given by Vale Cofer-Shabica. Joint meeting with the Weber group.
• May 24 - Geodesic Pathways through the Potential Energy Landscape of Liquid Crystal Formers (.pdf)
  Layne Frechette's honors thesis, which earned him Best Thesis in Chemical Physics for 2015
  

2014

• November 18 - A New Method for Finding Geodesics in Soft Systems (.pdf)
  Given by Qingqing Ma
  November 18 - Green's Function for a Small Step in a Paramagnetic System (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Yan Zhao
• October 28 - Spurious Center of Mass Translation in Geodesics (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Vale Cofer-Shabica
• October 7 - Path Integrals and the Green's Function in Polar and Spherical Coordinates (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Layne Frechette
• September 23 - Monte Carlo Sampling in the Potential Energy Landscape Ensemble (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Vale Cofer-Shabica
• July 8 - Analyzing Geodesics (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Vale Cofer-Shabica
• June 24 - Path Integral Motivation for Geodesics (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Vale Cofer-Shabica
• June 17 - Diffusion in Liquid Crystals (.pdf, .tex)
  Given by Layne Frechette