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Tomorrow, Ryan Melvin will be leaving for Barcelona. Why? To attend and present at the 2nd Workshop on high through-put Molecular Dynamics put on by Acellera. Dr. Salsbury went to the 1st one in 2013, and found it useful and enjoyable.  Ryan will report back in a week or so; hopefully his talk on the […]

Time flies! A couple weeks ago, one of our group members, Ryan Godwin, had the opportunity to be involved in the Triad Startup Weekend at Flywheel down in Innovation Quarter. An interesting experiential experiment for people interested in entrepreneurship. Ryan’s team came in third-place; pretty good showing. The winner was . Here’s Ryan’s report: In […]

We have a selection of problems involving interference, mostly beats and ideal gasses. How do we add  wave pluses together? What is the relationship between a beat and frequencies? How might we use a beat to calculate a speed? How to find the temperature of an ideal gas and then convert to other temperature scales. […]

The end of October/beginning of November is busy with major advising and often NIH panel work, but things are slowly getting back to normal. Which means, Monday will be the SCB journal club and Ryan Godwin will be presenting a review article on free energy calculations from Van Gunsteren’s group. Should be a very good […]

This week has flown by! Monday, Ryan Melvin presented on Markov State Models; an overview of a review article. Check out the slides.

While working on a manuscript, grad student Ryan Melvin, found this gem: “Physicists, however, will object to a static picture: they see proteins assoft materials that sample a large ensemble of conformations around…” (Henzler-Wildman 2007) from “Dynamic personalities of proteins.” We do object 🙂

We are getting ahead of the class even more, however, we now have problems on simple harmonic motion. My favorite topic in intro mechanics; though we don’t do it as throughly as we do in Physics 262, the more advanced mechanics class for majors. Let’s start off with a couple simple problems: First, how do […]

Every year, the faculty present an overview of their research to the department. Mostly aimed at undergraduate since graduate students usually come in knowing who they want to work with. Here is our’s on figshare.

Our second upload on figshare just went live. The first post was a poster two years ago, and I hadn’t figured out a compelling use for figshare. However, my graduate students went to a workshop by the figshare people last week, and pointed out a compelling use; in-house scripts. The scripts used to do analysis […]

Time for our weekly youtube problems. This week, a selection of four problems to admire. First, using the Work-Energy theorem to figure out how fast an object moves after being pushed when there is friction. Second, using conversation of energy with a spring to figure out the speed of a mass at different displacements. Nice […]