Session X25: Focus Session: Modeling of Rare Events: Methods and Applications II
2:30 PM–5:30 PM, Thursday, March 1, 2012
Room: 257A
Sponsoring Unit:
DCOMP
Chair: Amit Samanta, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2012.MAR.X25.2
Abstract: X25.00002 : Generalizations of the string method
3:06 PM–3:42 PM
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Author:
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
(Courant Institute, NYU)
Generalizations of the string method will be presented that permit to identify the saddle points by which the process escapes the basin of attraction of a minimum of the potential due to thermal noise, or to map out the volume of this basin. These methods will be illustrated via examples such as thermal reorganization of Lennard-Jones clusters and packings of soft-spheres.
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