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CCS Seminar
Friday - May 9, 2008
Physics Research Building - Room 595

12:00 noon
Simone Melchionna
Visiting Scholar in Applied Physics
Harvard University - Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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"From Biopolymer Translocation to Hemodynamics: New Challenges in 
Multiscale Computing"


Multiscale modelling is the capability of representing different levels 
of physical phenomena, occurring at diverse spatial and temporal scales, 
within a unified conceptual framework. A typical example is the behavior 
of long molecules or nanosuspensions under the action of complex 
hydrodynamic flows. Our computational work tackles different phenomena 
such as biopolymer translocation through nanopores and hemodynamics in 
arteries with a novel computational scheme. The solution of such large 
scale problems calls for the exploitation of powerful parallel 
architectures, such as the Blue Gene supercomputer, to gain insight into 
the realm of multi-scale phenomena.


Cheryl Endicott
Administrative Assistant
Center for Computational Science
3 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215
tel: 617-358-1470
fax: 617-358-2487
http://ccs.bu.edu
CCS

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