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Willem Gispen

PhD Student in Physics

Utrecht University

Interests

  • Soft Condensed Matter
  • Computational Physics
  • Machine Learning in Physics

Education

  • MPhil in Physics, 2020

    University of Cambridge

  • MSc in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, 2019

    University of Oxford

  • BSc in Mathematics, 2018

    Radboud University Nijmegen

  • BSc in Physics and Astronomy, 2018

    Radboud University Nijmegen

Publications

Variational umbrella seeding for calculating nucleation barriers

In this work, we introduce variational umbrella seeding, a novel technique for computing nucleation barriers. This new method, a …
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Finding the differences: Classical nucleation perspective on homogeneous melting and freezing of hard spheres

By employing brute-force molecular dynamics, umbrella sampling, and seeding simulations, we investigate homogeneous nucleation during …
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Brute-force nucleation rates of hard spheres compared with rare-event methods and classical nucleation theory

We determine nucleation rates of hard spheres using brute-force molecular dynamics simulations. We overcome nucleation barriers of up …
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Crystal Polymorph Selection Mechanism of Hard Spheres Hidden in the Fluid

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Ground states of quantum many body lattice models via reinforcement learning

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