StattLabWiki

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/