Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVII: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Workshop, Athens, Ga, USA, February 16-20, 2004 (Hardcover, 2006)

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- Shake, Rattle or Roll: Things to do with a Granular Mixture on a Computer. A New Method of Investigating Equilibrium Properties from Nonequilibrium Work.- Numerical Simulations of Critical Dynamics Far from Equilibrium.- Entropy Driven Phase-Separation.- Supercooled Liquids under Shear: Computational Approach.- Optimizing Glasses with Extremal Dynamics.- Stochastic Collision Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Ion Transfer Across Liquid-Liquid Interfaces.- Generalized-Ensemble Simulations of Small Proteins.- A Biological Coevolution Model with Correlated Individual-Based Dynamics.- An Image Recognition Algorithm for Automatic Counting of Brain Cells Of Fruit Fly.- Preferred Binding Sites of Gene-Regulatory Proteins Based on the Deterministic Dead-End Elimination Algorithm.- Geometric Cluster Algorithm for Interacting Fluids.- Polymer Simulations with a Flat Histogram Stochastic Grown Algorithm.- Convergence and Errors of the Wang-Landau Algorithm.- Wang-Landau Sampling with Cluster Updates.- Multibaric-Multithermal Simulations of Lennard-Jones Fluids.- Successive Umbrella Sampling Algorithm to Sample and Overcome Free Energy Barrier.- C++ and Generic Programming for Rapid Development of Monte Carlo Simulations.- Visualization of Vector Spin Configurations.- The BlueGene/L Project.- All-Electron Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations of Small Atoms and Molecules.- Projective Dynamics in Realistic Models of Nanomagnets.- Cumulates for an Ising Model for Folded 1-3 Small-World Materials.- Embryonic Forms of Nickel and Palladium. A Molecular Dynamics Computer.- Usage of Pattern Recognition Scheme in Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations: Application to Cluster Diffusion on Cu(111).- Including Long-Range Interactions in Atomistic Modeling of Diffusional Phase Changes.- Br Electrodeposition on Au(100): From DFT to Experiment, an Off-lattice Model.- Simulation of ZnSe, ZnS Coating on CdSe Substrate: TheElectronic Structure and Absorption Spectra.- Simulation of Islands and Vacancy Structures for Si/Ge-Covered Si(001) Using a Hybrid MC-MD Algorithm.- Spin-Polarons in the FM Kondo Model.