Schedule of Final Project Presentations

Computational Physics
Spring 2008


Thu April 24
 Jordan Chapparo,   Modeling Sub-Nanosecond Electrical Breakdown in Argon
Jian Dai,   Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Simple Hard Sphere Systems
George Laity,   Using NVIDIA GPUs for High Performance Computing
Tue April 29
 Eric Andersen,   Inverted Pendulum
Chiyoung Jeong,   Traffic Flow Models
Youn Roh,   Percolation

A projector and a Windows XP laptop will be provided. You are welcome to bring your own laptop or to use one of the Lab 29 computers if you want to show your code in action. The presentation file should be in either PPT or PDF format. Please bring a USB memory stick with your presentation to class, post it on the web somewhere, or email your presentation to me as an attachment.

Please limit your presentation to 20 min (+ 5 min for questions). In addition to project details, please discuss why your problem is interesting as well as what kind of code, setup, experiment, etc. you have developed yourself while working on it.