Activities

Conferences

Talks

• T. D. Nguyen, H. Umana-Kossio, M. Olvera de la Cruz, Heterogeneity in composition and dynamics in supercooled branched ionomers, American Physical Society March Meeting 2021 (virtual)

• T. D. Nguyen, M. Olvera de la Cruz, Nontrivial effects of dielectric mismatch on the conformational behavior of polyelectrolytes under spatial confinement, American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado, March 2020 (virtual session).

• T. D. Nguyen, M. Olvera de la Cruz, Polyelectrolytes under spatial and dielectric confinement, American Physical Society, Boston, MA, March 2019.

• T. D. Nguyen, T. Xu, M. Olvera de la Cruz, Adsorption of random copolymers onto heterogeneous surfaces, American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA, March 2018.

• G. Vernizzi, T. D. Nguyen, H. Orland, M. Olvera de la Cruz, A multicanonical ensemble chain growth method, American Physical Society, Los Angeles, CA, March 2018. (on behalf of G. Vernizzi)

• T. D. Nguyen, S. Plimpton, "Discrete element models of faceted particles for massively parallel dynamic simulations", Current trends in molecular dynamics software design workshop, Temple University, June 2017 (invited).

• T. D. Nguyen, B. Qiao, B. Panganiban, C. Delre, T. Xu, M. Olvera de la Cruz, Strong adsorption of random heteropolymers on protein surfaces, American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2017.

• T. D. Nguyen, B. A. Schultz, N. A. Kotov, S. C. Glotzer, Coarse-grained models for the formation of self-limited supraparticle assemblies, International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Physics, Da Lat, Vietnam, July 2015.

• T. D. Nguyen, S. J. Plimpton, Implementing Dissipative Particle Dynamics for hybrid supercomputers, International Conference on High-Performance Scientific Computing, Hanoi, Vietnam, March, 2015.

• T. D. Nguyen, J.-M. Y. Carrillo, W. M. Brown, Advancing coarse-grained models and computational methods for simulation studies of soft matter systems, International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, August, 2014.

• T. D. Nguyen, Parallel computing with GPUs: Applications to many-body simulations, Institute of Mechanics, Hanoi, Vietnam, June 12, 2014.

• T. D. Nguyen, M. Fuentes-Cabrera, J. D. Fowlkes, J. Diez, A. Gonzalez, L. Kondic, P. D. Rack, Large-scale molecular dynamics study of dewetting of thin films on solid substrates, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2013.

• T. D. Nguyen, S. C. Glotzer, Reconfigurable assemblies of shape shifting particles, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2013.

• T. D. Nguyen, J.-Y. Carrillo, A. Dobrynin, W. M. Brown, Advancing Molecular Dynamics models for future supercomputers: A case study of truncated electrostatics, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2013.

• T. D. Nguyen, W. M. Brown, S. J. Plimpton, Alternative fix rigid for small particles, LAMMPS User Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, August, November 2013.

• T. D. Nguyen, J.-M. Y. Carrillo, W. M. Brown, Applications of GPU package to soft matter simulations, LAMMPS User Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, August 2013.

• T. D. Nguyen, M. Fuentes-Cabrera, J. D. Fowlkes, J. Diez, A. G. Gonzalez, L. Kondic, W. M. Brown, P. D. Rack, Dewetting of nanometer-sized thin films on a solid substrate: A large-scale simulation study, American Physical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March, 2013.

• T. D. Nguyen, Y. Xia, M. Yang, B. Lee, P. Podsiadlo, A. Santos, Z. Tang, S. C. Glotzer, N. A. Kotov, Self-assembly of polydisperse nanoparticles into monodisperse supraparticles: A computer simulation study, American Physical Society Meeting, Boston, March 2012.

• T. D. Nguyen, C. L. Phillips, J. A. Anderson, S. C. Glotzer, Rigid body constraints in Molecular Dynamics simulations optimized for graphics processing units, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Minnesota, October 17, 2011.

• T. D. Nguyen, S. C. Glotzer, Self-assembly of nano- and micron-sized shape changing particles, Materials Research Society, San Francisco, California, April 28, 2011.

• S. C. Glotzer, Design micro- and nanoparticles for self-assembly and reconfigurability, Materials Research Society, San Francisco, California, April 2011 (on behalf of Prof. Glotzer).

• T. D. Nguyen, C. L. Phillips, J. A. Anderson, S. C. Glotzer, Rigid body constraints in HOOMD-blue, a general purpose molecular dynamics code on GPUs, American Physical Society Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 21, 2011.

• T. D. Nguyen, S. C. Glotzer, Reconfigurable assemblies of nanorods under changes in environmental conditions and nanorod shape, American Institute of Chemical Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2010.

• T. D. Nguyen, S. C. Glotzer, Self-assembly of reconfigurable nanorod structures, Materials Research Society, San Francisco, California, April, 2010.

• T. D. Nguyen, Z. Zhang, S. C. Glotzer, Computer simulation study of self-assembly of tethered V-shaped nanoparticles, AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2008.

• T. D. Nguyen, Z. Zhang, S. C. Glotzer, Self-assembly of single end-tethered V-shaped nanoparticles. Graduate Engineering Symposium, University of Michigan, November 2007.

Posters

• T. D. Nguyen, Computational Studies on Self- and Directed-Assembly of Soft Matter Nano Building Blocks, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2013.

• T. D. Nguyen, Y. Xia, Z. Tang, S. C. Glotzer, N. A. Kotov, Simulation study of self-assembly of polydisperse nanoparticles into highly uniform aggregates, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Minnesota, October 2011.

• T. D. Nguyen, S. C. Glotzer, Hierarchical self-assembly of tethered nanorods, FOMMS, Blaine, Washington, July 2009.

Professional societies

• • Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2008-present

  • Member of American Physical Society (APS) 2010-present

  • Member of Materials Research Society (MRS) 2010-2011

Summer schools, workshops and other meetings

• • Workshop on Accelerated High-Performance Computing in Computational Sciences, Trieste, Italy, 2015 (serving as a lecturer and tutor).

  • Titan Users and Developers Workshop (East Coast), Knoxville, TN, February, 2013.

  • Supercomputing 2012, Student Cluster Challenge (serving as a judge).

  • Cray user workshop, ORNL, October, 2012

  • Titan Summit, ORNL, August, 2011.

  • Virtual summer school on many-core processors and parallel programming, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 2008 (serving as a teaching assistant).

  • Vietnam Education Foundation Annual Meeting, 2005-2011.

  • MURI Internal meetings, Kent State University, Ohio, 2008-2009.

Teaching

• • Short course on "Introduction to Parallel Programming", Hanoi, Vietnam, 2014 (lecturer).

  • ChE 466 Process Control in Chemical Engineering with Prof. Ziff at University of Michigan, Fall 2009 (teaching assistant).

  • Virtual Summer Schools of Many-core and Peta-scale computing at UMich, August, 2009 (teaching assistant).