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: mhdesilva@wcu.edu 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
