CSIR-NML Jamshedpur organises lecture on ‘Basics of Computational Material Science’

Jamshedpur, Sep 29: CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur organised lecture on “Basics of Computational Material Science” on September 29 on a virtual platform. This program was organized for school students and teachers under CSIR-Jigyasa Virtual Laboratory project. The main objective of the program was to establish connections with school teachers and senior students and to make learning science interesting.

The host of the evening programme was Suman Ghosh.

Dr SK Pal, Chief Scientist and Head, RPBD Division, CSIR-NML talked about popular lecture series and informed that the objective of organizing this lecture series was to encourage school students and teachers in the science field. He also talked about the importance of Basics of computational Material Science and some objectives of computational materials science.

The guest speaker of the evening program was Dr Sunil Kumar, Sr Scientist at CSIR-NML.

Dr Sunil Kumar started his presentation about tools, techniques and other aspects of computational material sciences. He made a presentation on ‘Basics of Computational Materials Science’. He discussed about the hardware and software requirements, various operating systems and programming languages and basic concepts of atomistic simulation that included writing code, compilation and execution of code. He concluded his lecture by briefly discussing common simulation methods and their applications and also the software and books available on this subject.

There was a question-and-answer session following the presentation of Dr Sunil Kumar. The virtual program was attended by more than 40 people.