TITLE:

USING THE LEVEL-SET METHOD TO CAPTURE EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTE-SOLVENT INTERFACES.

DATE:

Friday, Mar 9th, 2012

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Li-Tien Cheng.
Deparment of Mathematics.
University of California at San Diego.

ABSTRACT:

A biomolecule placed in a solvent generates an interface separating the
solvent from vacuum and the biomolecule. This solute-solvent interface is important, for example, in capturing the hydrophobicity that plays such a major role in protein docking. On the other hand, interface dynamics has been a topic of study in applied and computational mathematics, with challenges in the capture of complex deformations of geometric shapes in a three dimensional space. We describe here the level-set method for interface dynamics applied to a physics-driven model for the capture of solute-solvent interfaces.

HOST:

Dr. Peter Blomgren.

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