[Simbiosnews] Announcing the SimTKCore 1.5 Workshop

[Joy Ku]

Dear Simbios Friends,

 

We'll be holding a workshop on SimTK 1.5 in September (See announcement
below).  For updates and registration information, visit
http://simbios.stanford.edu/EventsOfInterest/WorkshopSimTK1.5.htm.  

 

 

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Second SimTK Core Workshop, September 25 - 26, 2008

Simbios is holding a workshop to introduce programmers and modelers to the
essential features of the SimTK toolkit, as well as to new and more advanced
features available through the release of SimTK 1.5 in early August.

What is SimTK? SimTK provides a one step install of many components needed
for the simulation of biological structures including: linear algebra, root
finding, vector systems, rotations and the expression of directions,
optimization, numerical differentiation and integration, Molmodel: the SimTK
molecular modeling library, as well as Simbody: a system for rigid
multi-body dynamics. 

Who should attend? This hands-on workshop is appropriate for students and
researchers that attended the SimTK 1.0 workshop, as well as for those that
did not. 

Schedule 

On the first day, attendees will: 

*	Learn about Simbody, SimTK's multibody dynamics engine, and how to
use it to perform simulations 
*	Use SimTK to write a program simulating a pendulum and quickly be
able to simulate a double pendulum and more generally a system of
interacting rigid bodies 
*	Learn how to apply arbitrary forces to your system and how to use
mobilizers and constraints 
*	Write a simulation using constraints 
*	Learn about the basic and advanced integrators available through
SimTK 
*	Understand and learn to take advantage of the architecture of SimTK
and Simbody including systems, subsystems and events in your simulation 

The second day will be devoted to advanced topics and application areas. If
appropriate, we will run two separate sessions. One will be devoted to
Molmodel, for students interested in applying SimTK for molecular
applications, while the other session will cover advanced topics, such as
how to write new subsystems and mobilizers. 

Students that have attended the first workshop may choose to only come for
the second day, although could probably benefit from the first day as well. 

Preparing for the Workshop 

Before attending the workshop, attendees will be expected to have 

*	Installed release 1.5 on their laptops (Windows, Linux and Mac are
supported) and run the test programs to verify the installation 
*	Downloaded the examples provided, compiled and verified that they
can compile and run at least some of them. 

Detailed instructions for downloading and running test programs and examples
will be available several weeks before the workshop 

SimTK 1.5 Features 

Our 1.5 release has several new features, including: 

*	Tighter integration with OpenSim 
*	Significant improvement in performance, including utility classes
for multithreading calculations
*	The ability to fit splines to data
*	An API for creating new MobilizedBody types
*	The ability to calculate mobilizer reaction forces 
*	Ability to view molecular simulations live in VMD
*	Improved support for loading PDB files

Workshop Logistics

Registration is free but required and spaces are limited. To register click
<http://simbios.stanford.edu/EventsOfInterest/SimTKWorkshop2ndReg.htm> here.


 <http://simbios.stanford.edu/EventsOfInterest/logisticsSimTKWorkshop.htm>
Logistical Information 

Workshop Location: 
September 25, 2008 from 8:30am to 5:00pm, Clark Center S360 
September 26, 2008 from 8:30am to 4:00pm, Clark Center S360

 <http://simbios.stanford.edu/EventsOfInterest/logistics.htm> 

 

 

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Joy P. Ku

Director of Dissemination

Simbios

 

Clark Center, S221

318 Campus Drive

Stanford, CA  94305-5448

 

(W)  650-736-8434

(F)  650-723-7461

 

 

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