The purpose of this CECAM workshop is to highlight and discuss recent advances in simulation methodologies for dealing with the disparate scales of length and time which characterise the physics of soft matter systems such as polymers and colloids. The topics to be addressed range from optimising brute-force fully atomistic MD simulations of complex molecules, through novel biased MC sampling schemes for exploring free energy landscapes, to mesoscopic (coarse-grained) simulation approaches capable of exposing long time hydrodynamic phenomena. The workshop will assemble scientist from diverse regions of the soft matter simulation community for the purpose of forging new intellectual links and facilitating cross fertilisation of ideas. This should engender fruitful new synergies and (ultimately) bring us closer to the goal of realising efficient global simulation approaches which marry (in a self consistent fashion) methods which currently focus only on single regimes of length or time.
For further information, please contact: Erik Luijten or Nigel B. Wilding