Week 2 Presentation:
An introduction to coarse-graining and multiscale modeling
Dr. Marina Guenza
Department of Chemistry
University of Oregon
Recent technological innovations in biology, materials science, and
information science are bringing about both the need and the potential
to organize, understand, and formalize the huge amounts of available
information in terms of well-defined theoretical approaches.
Computer simulations are extremely useful research tools since they
provide the necessary information to build the understanding of the
microscopic physical processes underlying the macroscopic behavior of
interest. Unfortunately, several practical barriers impair the ability
of performing simulations of complex fluids because they involve a
hierarchy of time- and length-scales at which relevant processes take
place. For these systems, an atomistic simulation is often impossible
to conduct because it would require far too many supercomputers and far
too many years to complete due to the limitations in speed and computer
hardware. A way to overcome this problem is to develop multiscale
modeling procedures.