Given how many times I’ve walked into the lab and seen this kind of thing going on, ‘Intangible Realities Laboratory’ definitely seems appropriate.  And now that we have a shiny brass plaque, the IRL is official.

We’ve recently published a paper describing some nice extensions to the “boxed molecular dynamics” (BXD) rare event method (open-access draft available here). BXD is a method that I’ve been working on for the last few years for accelerating rare events in chemical simulations (there’s a 1-d implementation available in the CHARMM package).
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