Benoît Richard
Doctor in theoretical physics, working mostly in simulation and data analysis with experimentalists blowing up tiny things in large facilities.
Worked on IntervalArithmetic.jl for my master thesis and stuck around.
Made the questionable life choice of writing a LaTeX engine in julia.
First julia version used: v0.4
Session
Coulomb Explosion Imaging is a booming method to image small molecules. Its principle is relatively straightforward: remove as many electrons as possible as fast as possible from a molecule to induce its explosion into atomic fragments.
Simulating this process is crucial to interpret the experimental data. In this talk I will briefly describe the concept of an x-ray induced Coulomb explosion, introduce a semi-classical model to simulate it and present how I implemented it.