Wednesday, October 26, 2011

What's coming next

Brief update to my 0 readers. I've been gone at a conference and spent the weeks leading up to it preparing. Now that I've got some free time, there are three topics I'm interested in covering. The first is biased sampling techniques, which allow one to ask very specific questions about high dimensional probability spaces that are normally intractable due to the unknown partition coefficient. The second math technique I'm interested in studying is polymer confinement in spheres with surface potentials. This problem was treated quite well in the 70s and 80s, but today most people ignore those analytical results in favor of flashy simulations. Finally, I'd like to do a little bit of work of self-consistent field theory on polymers. Exciting stuff!