Photograph of the buildings in the coal mining town of Buxton, three quarters of the population of which was African American, and which featured a fully equipped YMCA; used to illustrate an article on the impact of the Julius Rosenwald gift to fund the construction of YMCA buildings for the African American community.
Created:
1911
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
I will describe two coarse-grained models and a multiscalemodel relevant in the context of molecular or langevin dynamicsof bulk liquids and macromolecules. We have recently achieved afundamental result in deriving an analytical solution forcomputing the screened electrostatic interaction betweenarbitrary numbers of proteins of arbitrarily compl...
Creator:
Head-Gordon, Teresa (University of California, Berkeley)
Created:
2008-11-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
In this talk I shall describe two kinds of soft matter system in whichthe interfacial behaviour is of interest. Firstly, the adsorption ofpolymers and peptides on solid surfaces is of growing interest becauseof the possible applications in biotechnology. We have recently improveda Monte Carlo simulation method for studying lattice polymers near ...
Creator:
Allen, Michael Philip (University of Warwick)
Created:
2009-05-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
I discuss two ongoing research programs concerning stochasticmicrophysical models in biology. First, in joint work with GrigoriosPavliotis (Imperial College) and Juan Latorre, we apply the methods ofhomogenization theory to compute transport properties for mathematicalmodels (Brownian motors) of molecular motors in cells. The objectiveis to asce...
Creator:
Kramer, Peter R. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Created:
2008-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Lipid membranes exhibit a large spectrum of fascinating physicalbehavior, spanning many orders of magnitude both in length- and timescales. To cover this wide range, models of different resolution havebeen developed, from atomistically resolved lipid representations totriangulated fluid-elastic surfaces. In the intermediate regime ofabout 100 na...
Creator:
Deserno, Markus (Carnegie Mellon University)
Created:
2008-11-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
I will discuss a coarse-grained model of molecular dynamics incrystalline solids. Such system usually has an underlying latticestructure, and the empirical potentials are of quite simple forms.Thus it provides a nice setting in which coarse-graining (CG) methodscan be considered. The goal of the CG method is to reduce theatomic degrees of freedo...
Creator:
Li, Xiantao (The Pennsylvania State University)
Created:
2009-05-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
I will discuss multiscale modeling of biologicalmembranes. The approach is based on the so-calledInverse Monte Carlo (IMC) method and the Henderson theorem.The specific examples [1] will include single and multicomponentbilayers using different levels of coarse-graining, and theimprovent of accuracy of the coarse-grained models byusing a thermod...
Creator:
Karttunen, Mikko (University of Western Ontario)
Created:
2008-11-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Advances in multi-channel/multi-detector recordings and data analysis over the last decades have led to an explosion in the exploration of complex neural dynamics in mammalian cortex. Powerful methods have been applied to investigate such dynamics, including connectivity measures (correlation, causality, resting state synchrony, etc.), spatiotem...
Creator:
Takagaki, Kentaroh (Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology )
Created:
2018-02-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Cellular networks are ubiquitous in nature. Most technologically useful materials arise as polycrystalline microstructures, composed of a myriad of small crystallites, the grains, separated by interfaces, the grain boundaries. The coarsening of these networks is of obvious concern for applications and has been since pre-history. Any order in the...
Creator:
Kinderlehrer, David (Carnegie Mellon University)
Created:
2014-05-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Motivated by the dewetting of viscous thin films on hydrophobicsubstrates, we study models for the coarsening dynamics of interactinglocalized structures in one dimension.For the thin films problem, lubrication theoryyields a Cahn-Hilliard-type governing PDE which describes spinodal dewettingand the subsequent formation of arrays of metastable f...
Creator:
Witelski, Thomas Peter (Duke University)
Created:
2009-03-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.