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<h3><strong>MatSQ Upcoming Webinar | Tue. 9th of July 2024: 2-3 PM CEST</strong></h3><p> </p><p>We are thrilled to announce another fascinating episode in our Webinar Series at Materials Square, to which you are all invited to participate!</p><p> </p><p><strong>Please follow this link for free registration: </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.materialssquare.com/webinar"><strong>https://www.materialssquare.com/webinar</strong></a></p><p> </p><p>Webinar Title: "Modeling structural transitions in condensed matter: order parameters and kinetic rates from affordable amounts of simulation data"</p><p> </p><p>Presenter: Dr. Fabio Pietrucci (<span class="gmail-speaker-info">Associate Professor, Sorbonne University) </span></p><p> </p><p>Materials as well as chemical and biological systems display a wealth of structural transitions between metastable states: understanding and predicting these processes in terms of mechanisms and kinetics is a crucial challenge in many disciplines, and computer simulations (in particular molecular dynamics) can be a central tool. Common examples of condensed mater transformations are phase transitions, like the crystallization of a liquid, or a chemical reaction like the breaking of a solvated molecule into two fragments, or the folding and unfolding of a protein. The probabilities of the different states of the system are depicted by a free-energy landscape as a function of the order parameter, and kinetic rates can be extracted from the diffusion properties on such a landscape.</p><p><br>I will address two fundamental questions: What is a good order parameter for a given structural transformation? Can we infer, at the same time, the optimal order parameter, the associated free energy landscape and the kinetic rates from limited, affordable amounts of simulation data? I will present basic principles as well as the computational approaches we recently developed to address these questions that circumvent the expensive techniques available today. </p><p> </p><p>The webinar will be held according to the following international schedules:</p><p>Tue, July 9, 2024, 05:00 ~ 06:00 | Los Angeles (PDT)</p><p>Tue, July 9, 2024, 08:00 ~ 09:00 | New York (EDT)</p><p>Tue, July 9, 2024, 14:00 ~ 15:00 | Paris (CEST)</p><p>Tue, July 9, 2024, 15:00 ~ 16:00 | Riyadh (KSA)</p><p>Tue, July 9, 2024, 17:30 ~ 18:30 | New Delhi (IST)</p><p>Tue, July 9, 2024, 21:00 ~ 22:00 | Seoul (KST)</p><p> </p><p>As always, registration for Materials Square webinars is completely FREE. A participation certificate will also be made available for download to all members of the audience at the end of the event.</p><p> </p><p>We look forward to welcoming you virtually! Many thanks for your interest and your consideration,</p><p> </p><p>The Virtual Lab Team</p><p><br></p><p> </p>
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