Theoretical Foundations of Multiscale Modelling

Michele Cascella got his PhD in Statistical and Biological Physics in 2004 at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste. After a postdoctoral experience at EFPL, in 2008 he began his independent career as Assistant Professor at the University of Bern after being awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation professorship grant. Since 2016 he is full professor in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on development and application of multi-scale and multiresolution methods for chemical systems in the condensed phase. Raffaello Potestio received his PhD in Statistical Physics from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS) in Trieste, Italy, in 2010, with a PhD Thesis on coarse-grained models of protein structure and interactions. In November 2010 he joined K. Kremer's group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Mainz, Germany, as a postdoc. Between August 2013 and December 2017 he has been Group Leader of the Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules group. In 2017 he was awarded an ERC starting grant and moved to the University of Trento, Italy, where he is tenure track assistant professor In Physics. His main research interests are the development and application of coarse-grained models and coarse-graining strategies for soft matter, in particular biologically relevant systems, and the study of topologically self-entangled biopolymers.

1. Introduction to soft matter PART I - Statistical mechanics and simulation 2. Foundations of Classical mechanics 3. Foundations of Statistical Mechanics 4. Modelling atomic systems 5. Simulation and sampling 6. Stochastic dynamics 7. Free energy calculations PART II - Coarse-graining 8. From critical phenomena to coarse-graining 9. Coarse-graining molecular systems 10. Structure and thermodynamics from spatial distribution functions 11. The relative entropy method 12. Boltzmann Inversion, Iterative Boltzmann Inversion and Inverse Monte Carlo 13. Multi-scale coarse-graining and force matching PART III - Case studies 14. State of the art approaches to multi-scaling 15. Applications: Simple liquids 16. Applications: Macromolecules PART IV - conclusions and perspectives 17. Conclusions and perspectives