Description of the school:
The purpose of this summer school is to provide an overview of computational and experimental studies of soft matter systems, with the focus being on biomolecular systems. This field is inherently multi-disciplinary and progress requires a close interaction between traditional disciplines such as physics, chemistry, medicine, biology, and pharmacology. The school is targeted to PhD students and young postdoctoral scientists.The aim of this school is to provide a broad understanding of computational techniques which can be used over a wide range of scales, starting from the nano-regime and going further to larger scales in time and space. The program will cover methods ranging from quantum-mechanical, to classical atomistic, and to modern mesoscale techniques. One of the main themes is coarse-graining techniques that can be used to move between different time and length scales.
Applied topics, such as modeling biomolecular interactions, docking of biomolecules, and methodological issues such as long-range interactions, free-energy calculations, and force fields will be discussed. The purpose is to demonstrate the impact of the above techniques through topical applications.
Lecturers:
- Prof. Roland Faller, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Davis, USA
- Dr. Hannu Häkkinen, Dept. of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Dr. Leonor Saiz, Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
- Prof. Andre Juffer, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oulu, Finland
- Dr. Alex de Vries, the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Dr. Kimmo Mattila, Finnish IT Center for Science - CSC, Finland
- Dr. Tomasz Rog, Lab. of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology and
Dept. of Biophysics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
and the following invited speakers on special topics:
- Dr. Emma Falck, Lab. of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology
- Prof. Kin Wah Yu, Dept. of Physics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Dr. Lorna Stimson, Lab. of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology
- Dr. Emppu Salonen, Lab. of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology
Organizers:
- Dr. Ilpo Vattulainen, Lab. of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology
- Prof. Kari Laasonen, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Oulu, Finland
- Dr. Mikko Karttunen, Lab. of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tentative program now available
Time: May 30 - June 1, 2005
Location:
Kiljavan opisto.
About 50 km from Helsinki.
Applications: By April 20, 2005
Limited to 50 participants.
Send your application
(short description of your research, possible publications & names + emails of two referees)
to the email
address below as regular ASCII file. No MS Word files will be processed.
Fee: 200 Euros. Includes program, meals and accommodation.
Financial support: Not available.
Email:
biomolecular@lce.hut.fi
Web: www.softsimu.org/biomolecular/
and Graduate School of Computational Chemistry and Molecular Spectroscopy (LasKeMo).