Lectures

International Year of Glass (2022)

Two lectures delivered on "Ab initio simulations in glasses and liquids" in a series of lectures on Glass Science organized by the Glass and Optical materials Division of the American Cermaic Society, in celebration of the Internation Year of Glass (2022).

Part 1 - Basics

 

Part 2 - Applications

Cargèse Scool on Glasses (2017)

Two lectures on numerical simulations and rigidity in disordered networks delivered at the Cargese School "Structural Role of Elements in Glasses from Classical Concept to a Reflexion over broad Composition Range. See relevant web page at USTV.

1. Part 1 - pdf file
2. Part 2 - pdf file

International Materials Institute (2013)

This series of lectures has been given fall 2013 at the International Materials Institute (IMI) for New Functionality in Glass, Lehigh and Penn State University. For more information+videos, see the relevant Web page. Lectures are as follows:

• From liquids to glasses, pdf file

• Structure and experimental characterization: a survey, pdf file

• Simple bond models, pdf file

• Molecular Dynamics: basics, pdf file

• Space correlation functions, pdf file

• Correlation functions and linear response, pdf file

• Force fields and limitations, pdf file

• Practical MD and applications, pdf file

• Topological engineering, pdf file

• Rigidity transitions and intermediate phases, pdf file

• Glassy dynamics, pdf file

• Applications of ab initio simulations, pdf file

M. Micoulaut, Laboratoire de physique théorique de la matière condensée, Sorbonne université.