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QDMS 2025

A five-day school spanning many-body simulations, model building, vibrational spectroscopy, DFT, implicit solvation, and GPU-accelerated methods.

Schedule

QDMS schedule

9:00 amTalk: Welcome to QDMS, Speaker: Francesco Paesani
10:00 amTechnology Setup
10:20 amCoffee Break
10:40 amTalk: Fundamentals, Speaker: Etienne
11:30 amTutorial I: Many-Body Simulations with LAMMPS & MBX
12:00 pmLunch
1:30 pmTutorial I (cont.): Many-Body Simulations with LAMMPS & MBX
3:00 pmChallenge I: From Scratch to Simulation
3:30 pmCoffee Break
3:50 pmChallenge I (cont.): From Scratch to Simulation
4:30 pmChallenge II: BYOMBM, Part 1: Training Set Construction
5:00 pmEND OF DAY
6:00 pmReception & Dinner
9:00 amTalk: Building MB-nrg models for Small-Molecules, Speaker: Ethan Bull-Vulpe
9:30 amTutorial II: Many-Body Model Build Along
10:20 amCoffee Break
10:40 amTutorial II (cont.): Many-Body Model Build Along
12:00 pmLunch
1:30 pmChallenge II: BYOMBM, Part 2: PIP Generation, Physical Parameterization, Energy Calculations
3:30 pmCoffee Break
3:50 pmTalk: MB-nrg PEFs for Biomolecular Simulations, Speaker Ruihan Zhou
4:30 pmTutorial III: Polypeptide Simulation with MBX+LAMMPS
5:00 pmEND OF DAY
9:00 amTalk: Vibrational Spectroscopy & PIMD approaches, Speaker: Richa
9:30 amTutorial IV: PIMD Simulations & Spectra Calculations
10:20 amCoffee Break
10:40 amTutorial IV (cont.): PIMD Simulations & Spectra Calculations
12:00 pmLunch
1:30 pmTutorial V: Hybrid Force-Field / Many-Body Simulations
3:30 pmCoffee Break
3:50 pmTutorial V (cont.): Hybrid Force-Field / Many-Body Simulations
4:30 pmChallenge II: BYOMBM, Part 3: PIP Parameterization
5:00 pmEND OF DAY
9:00 amTalk: Basics of DFT
9:30 amTutorial VI: QEpy hands-on
10:20 amCoffee Break
10:40 amTalk: Implicit solvation with ENVIRON, Speaker: Dr. Andreussi
12:00 pmLunch
1:30 pmTalk (cont.): Implicit solvation with ENVIRON, Speaker: Dr. Andreussi
2:30 pmTheory of sDFT and QM/MM
3:30 pmCoffee Break
3:50 pmTutorial VII: sDFT and QM/MM
4:30 pmChallenge II: BYOMBM, Part 4: C++ Implementation
5:00 pmEND OF DAY
9:00 amTalk: MD, DFT and QM/MM on GPUs, Speaker: Dr. Gotz
10:00 amTalk, Speaker: Vikrant
10:20 amCoffee Break
10:40 amTutorial VIII: Hands on QUICK
12:30 pmClosing Remarks
1:00 pmEND OF DAY