Overview

Instructor: Michael Demkowicz

Time: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 — 10:00AM-1:00PM CT and Thursday, June 4, 2020 — 10:00AM-1:00PM CT

Location: Zoom session only

Prerequisites: Current Ada account, basic familiarity with MATLAB, and a text editor

This short course provides an introduction to atomistic modeling with classical potentials using LAMMPS.

Course Materials

Presentation slides

The presentation slides are available as a downloadable PDF.

• Introduction to LAMMPS: PDF

Agenda

Topics covered include:

• Visualizing atomic structure
• Building and modifying atomic structures
• Computing energies of atomic structure
• Relaxing atomic structures using energy minimization
• Running molecular dynamics simulations