Department of Chemistry
Garrison Research Group
 

The Garrison group (under the direction of Barbara Garrison, bjg@chem.psu.edu, http://galilei.chem.psu.edu) conducts research in the modeling of chemical reactions and interactions at material surfaces, using computational techniques in classical dynamics. These simulations typically describe the behavior of systems in excess of 200,000 particles, requiring significant computational and visual resources to solve and analyze. Utilizing the campus backbone and the groupâs ATM infrastructure (OC-3, 155 megabits/s), research group members will demonstrate the distributed visualization of the interaction between an argon atom bombarding a substrate of silver atoms and benzene molecules. For one study, interactions resulting from between 1,000 and 3,000 different initial trajectories are computed, each simulation requiring up to four hours. The results from these simulations are then compared and contrasted to experimental data.
 

Location: 321 Whitmore Building

Scheduled Demonstration Times: Research and C&IS staff will be on hand from 12:30-5:00 PM to answer your questions.