Welcome to the Statt Lab Manual!

Getting started - read the shared expectations and general guidelines first.

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Plan

• which classes to take
• when to have weekly meetings
• which fellowships or grants to apply to and when
• your short-,mid-, and long-term goals towards completing your degree
• major milestones for your scientific research progress

Ask

• which Books on simulation methods and papers to read
• which desk space and computer setup to use and other related administrative items
• (Ask a lot…)

Learn to

• take notes
• use the Bash command line tool
• code in Python
• perform simulations
  • install programs
  • run simulations
• visualize simulation data
• analyze data
• write documents with LaTeX
• track code repositories using git
• plan your time efficiently
• (…)

Learn about

• simulations
• soft matter, polymers, colloids
• cluster usage
• (…)

Group repositories:

• Useful, generic python analyzing scripts: https://github.com/astatt/analyze_scripts/
• MC code for colloidal mixtures: https://github.com/astatt/mc_sim/
• Azplugins for HOOMD-blue: https://github.com/mphowardlab/azplugins/