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Description
The goal of this 3-day informal workshop is to explore and develop interdisciplinary synergies involving physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers working at the boundary between atomistic simulations, soft matter physics, physical chemistry and stochastic thermodynamics in watery environments.

Topics:
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations
  • Soft Matter Biophysics
  • Stochastic Thermodynamics
  • Heat Transport in Nanotechnology
  • Statistical Physics and Collective Behavior

Speakers:
R. EJTEHADI, Sharif University, Iran
J.P. ESGUERRA, University of Phillipines Diliman, Philippines
D.D. HARTMANN, Université Marien NGouabi, Republic of the Congo
A. HASSANALI, ICTP, Italy
A. JELIC, ICTP, Italy
A. NAJI, IPM, Iran
A. RAJABPOUR, IKIU and IPM, Iran
R.A. RICA ALARCÓN, Universidad de Granada, Spain
E. ROLDAN, ICTP, Italy
E. RUFEIL, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
 

Material

Joint QLS-CMSP Virtual Summer Retreat on Heat, Water, Noise, and Life | (smr 3550)
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  • Wednesday, 29 July 2020
    • 13:15 - 17:40 
      Chair: Uriel Morzan (ICTP, Italy)
      • 13:15 Introduction/Virtual Ice Breakers 45'
        Material: Video
      • 14:00 Heat Transfer at the Solid-liquid Interface 20'
        Speaker: Ali RAJABPOUR (IKIU and IPM, Iran)
        Material: Video
      • 14:20 Discrete- and Continuous-time Evanescent Random Walks 20'
        Speaker: Jose Perico ESGUERRA (University of Philippines Diliman, Philippines)
        Material: Video
      • 14:40 Collective Behavior in Biological Systems 20'
        Speaker: Asja JELIC (ICTP, Italy)
      • 15:00 Lecithin as a Putative Biodegradable Blocker of SARS-CoV-2 20'
        Speaker: Edgar ROLDAN (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 15:20 Break 10'
      • 15:30 Exotic Electrostatics and Strong Correlations in Charged Fluids with Multivalent Ions 20'
        Speaker: Ali NAJI (IPM, Iran)
      • 15:50 The Effect of Domain Size Polydispersity on the Structural Properties of Lipid Monolayers 20'
        Speaker: Elena RUFEIL (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
      • 16:10 To Be Soft, from Molecules to Birds 20'
        Speaker: Reza EJTEHADI (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
        Material: Video
      • 16:30 The Many Faces of Water on the Computer 20'
        Speaker: Ali Hassanali (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 16:50 Break 10'
      • 17:00 Brownian Particles in Electro-optical Traps 20'
        Speaker: Raul RICA (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
        Material: Video
      • 17:20 Computational X-ray Spectroscopy: XANES 20'
        Speaker: Douma Dick HARTMANN (Universite Marien NGouabi, Congo)
  • Thursday, 30 July 2020
    • 14:00 - 18:00 
      Chair: Ali Naji (IPM, Iran)
      • 14:00 Stochastic Behavior of Two Unequally Biased Brownian Particles with Internal Resetting 15'
        Speaker: Niel CAIDIC (National Institute of Physics, Philippines)
        Material: Video
      • 14:15 Heat Transfer Characteristics of Nano-Confined Gas Medium 15'
        Speaker: Reza RABANI (Sharif Energy Research Institute, Iran)
        Material: Video
      • 14:30 First-passage Characteristics of Resetting Biased Diffusion with Mixed Absorbing and Reflecting Boundaries 15'
        Speaker: Angelo RAMOSO (National Institute of Physics, Philippines)
        Material: Video
      • 14:45 Break 15'
      • 15:00 Thermal Transport in Silicon Nanostructures as Promising Anode Materials for Li-ion Batteries 15'
        Speaker: Yaser BAHARI (University of Guilan, Iran)
      • 15:15 Hitting and Cover Times of Resetting Random Walks on Finite Networks 15'
        Speaker: Juan Antonio MAGALANG (National Institute of Physics, Philippines)
        Material: Video
      • 15:30 Effect of Cell-like Topography on Drug Suspectibility of Breast Cancer Cells to Doxorubicin 15'
        Speaker: Fatemeh SHAHRIYARI (Imam Khomeini International University, Iran)
        Material: Video
      • 15:45 Break 15'
      • 16:00 Virus-like Particles: Electrostatic Stability and Nanoparticle Encapsidation 15'
        Speaker: Leili JAVIDPOUR (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran)
        Material: Video
      • 16:15 Resetting on a Ring 15'
        Speaker: Gennaro TUCCI (SISSA, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 16:30 Dipolar Nonactive and Active Spheroids in Shear Flow: Orientational Pinning, Cross-stream Migration and Particle Focusing 15'
        Speaker: Mohammad Reza SHABANNIYA (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran)
        Material: Video
      • 16:45 Break 15'
      • 17:00 Power Minimization of Critical Oscillators in Active Baths 15'
        Speaker: Ashwin GOPAL (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India)
        Material: Video
      • 17:15 Continuum Modeling of Electrophoresis and Zeta Potential of Air Bubbles in Pure Water 15'
        Speaker: Arghavan PARTOVIFARD (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran)
        Material: Video
      • 17:30 First-passage Fingerprints of Diffusive Dynamics 15'
        Speaker: Roman BELOUSOV (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 17:45 Ubiquitous ratios and their large deviations in reset processes 15'
        Speaker: Francesco COGHI (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
        Material: Video
  • Friday, 31 July 2020
    • 14:00 - 18:30 
      Chair: Raul A. RICA ALARCON (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
      • 14:00 Thermal Conductivity of the Cell Membrane 15'
        Speaker: Neda RAFIEIOLHOSSEINI (IPM & The University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 14:15 Effects of the Electric field on Artificial Photosynthesis Device 15'
        Speaker: Ricardo FRANKLIN (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 14:30 Introduction of a Switching Force Field (SFF) Model 15'
        Speaker: Najla (Atiyeh) HOSSEINI (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
        Material: Video
      • 14:45 Break 15'
      • 15:00 A Matter of Correlations 15'
        Speaker: Uriel MORZAN (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 15:15 Sweet Story of Immune Response 15'
        Speaker: Maryam AZIMZADEH IRANI (Sharif University of Technology & Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
        Material: Video
      • 15:30 The Effect of Photo-excitation on the Behaviour of Bovine Serum Albumin Protein 15'
        Speaker: Khatereh AZIZI (ICTP, Italy)
      • 15:45 Break 15'
      • 16:00 Molecular Dynamics simulation of DNA-Salts Interaction 15'
        Speaker: Julia Blandine BASSILA (Marien NGOUABI University, Congo)
      • 16:15 Memory Effects in Soft Matter Far from Equilibrium 15'
        Speaker: Antonio LASANTA (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
        Material: Video
      • 16:30 Magnetism in Nanoporous Graphene 15'
        Speaker: Falonne Bertholde Sharone NKOU (Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Congo)
      • 16:45 Break 15'
      • 17:00 Patterns of Polar Domains in a Spatiotemporal Model of Interacting Polarities 15'
        Speaker: Maryam ALIEE (University of Warwick, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 17:15 A Multi-scale Atomistic Simulations Approach to Studying the Complexity in Glutamine Aggregates: Structure, Dynamics and Electronic Properties 15'
        Speaker: Nawaz QAISRANI (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 17:30 Natural Products as Cell Entry Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Metadynamics. 15'
        Speaker: Daniel Madulu SHADRACK (St. John's University of Tanzania, Dodoma, Tanzania)
        Material: Video
      • 17:45 Q&A, Contributed Talks 45'