Glen Hocky
Email: gmh2123-at-columbia-dot-eduGlen is currently a postdoctoral scholar at The University of Chicago. His website can be found here.
Research Interests
My research in the Reichman group is focused on detecting growing length scales in models of glassy systems and supercooled liquids. This is accomplished using recently introduced computational methods where models are simulated with some particles kept fixed in place while the rest are allowed to relax. We are studying how these structural length scales relate to dynamical properties of of the liquid and connections with dynamic heterogeneity. I am also interested in solving problems related to simulating these systems on grid and large scale computational resources.
Previously I did undergraduate research with Karl Freed and Tobin Sosnick at the University of Chicago. I studied polymers, proteins and electrostatics, as well as applications of petascale computing to protein folding. See my freedgroup profile for more details.
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Physics, Columbia University, 2014
- M.A. Chemical Physics, Columbia University, 2010
- B.S. Chemistry w/ Honors, B.S. Mathematics, University of Chicago, 2009
Honors
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2009
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Sigma Xi
Publications
- Correlation of local order with particle mobility in supercooled liquids is highly system dependent. . arXiv:1402.6709 (2014).
- Crossovers in the dynamics of supercooled liquids probed by an amorphous wall. . Physical Review E 89, 052311 (2014).
- A small subset of normal modes mimics the properties of dynamical heterogeneity in a model supercooled liquid. . Journal of Chemical Physics 138, 12A537 (2013).
- Growing Point-to-Set Length Scale Correlates with Growing Relaxation Times in Model Supercooled Liquids. . Physical Review Letters 108, 225506 (2012).
- Protein Structure Prediction Enhanced with Evolutionary Diversity: SPEED. . Protein Science 19, 3 (2010).
- Towards petascale Ab Initio protein folding through parallel scripting. Argonne Report (2009) .
- Influence of nonlinear electrostatics on transfer energies between liquid phases: Charge burial is far less expensive than Born model. PNAS 105, 11146-11151 (2008).