Monday, 31 October 2005
37g

Molecular Simulation Using a Graphical User Interface

Andrew J. Schultz, Chemical and Biological Engineering, The State University of New York-Buffalo, 514 Furnas Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-4200 and David A. Kofke, State University of New York-Buffalo, 303 Furnas Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-4200.

One of the difficulties in teaching molecular simulation is the investment of time required for students to develop fully-functional codes from scratch. As a remedy, we have developed Etomica, a Java-based object-oriented library of components including graphical devices and displays. Students can assemble these components into a fully-functional simulation. The students can also include extra components to extend the simulation to accomplish a variety of complex tasks. Although the library often lacks some element needed for a particular simulation, the library can be extended to handle such additional functionality. We have used this package in the past to teach students from the high-school to the graduate level. In this presentation we demonstrate previously constructed simulations and how to assemble new simulations from scratch.


Web Page: www.ccr.buffalo.edu/etomica/

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