Dr. Channa De Silva is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Western Carolina University. Dr. De Silva teaches chemistry and carries out research in the areas of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and computational chemistry. He is open for collaborations with Sri Lankan students. You can contact him via email: [email protected] Slides for this talk can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z4iDGi-noqIozOCMo5RZyHcYzbErinZa/view?usp=sharing

00:00 Channa's story

03:30 Computational Sciences

05:47 History

09:11 Protein folding, drug design

10:15 Resources to learn

12:15 Super computers

15:33 How to approach a problem

21:06 Sample simulation

23:51 Classical Vs Quantum mechanics

25:44 Programming languages

28:42 Advantage of Linux

29:30 Importance of Physics and Math

31:56 Demand in job market

32:46 Open projects