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[[Image:logo-big.png|right|200px]]
<center><font size="+1">Welcome to the</font></center>
<center><font size="+2">''Nanostructures and Computation'' Wiki</font></center>
<center><font size="+1">at MIT!</font></center>
This is a [[w:Wiki|wiki]] for the research groups of [http://math.mit.edu/~stevenj Steven G. Johnson], [http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/JohnD.Joannopoulos.html John D. Joannopoulos], and [http://www.mit.edu/~soljacic/ Marin Soljačić] at the [http://web.mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology].
The purposes of this wiki are threefold:
* Document the computational software that we have developed for nanophotonics research.
* Give our group members an easy way to post information about their work.
* Provide a place for us to easily list upcoming meetings and events of interest.
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==Free computational software==
* [[MIT Photonic Bands]] (MPB) — electromagnetic eigenmode solver
* [[Meep]] — finite-difference time-domain simulations
* [[Harminv]] — extraction of complex frequencies and amplitudes from time series
* [[libctl]] — Scheme/Guile-based scripting of scientific code (used as the interface for MPB and Meep).
* [[h5utils]] — visualization of [[w:HDF5|HDF5]] data files
* [[NLopt]] — nonlinear optimization library implementing many different optimization algorithms
* [[Cubature]] code for adaptive multidimensional integration of vector-valued integrands via the Genz-Malik algorithm.
* [[Faddeeva Package]]: computes the [[w:error function|error functions]] of complex arguments (via the [[w:Faddeeva function|Faddeeva function]]).
See also [http://www.fftw.org/ FFTW], our [[w:Fast Fourier transform|FFT]] software.
We also have a list of [[Free nanophotonics software]] in addition to the programs developed at MIT.
==Research at MIT==
Currently, most of our research descriptions are in non-Wiki format. See:
* [http://ab-initio.mit.edu/ The Ab-Initio Web Pages]
==How to edit==
'''Note:''' account creation has been disabled for the time being due to spam; [mailto:stevenj@alum.mit.edu contact Steven G. Johnson] to get an account. You do ''not'' need a wiki account to download the software, and to ask questions about the software it is better to post on [http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo the mailing lists].
First, you must take a few seconds to [[Special:Userlogin|register for a user name and log in]]; anonymous edits are not permitted on this Wiki. Then, click on the ''edit'' button at the top of the page. We use the [[w:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software, which is the same as the Wiki software that runs [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] — detailed instructions on how to edit and format pages can be found at:
:[[w:Help:Contents|The Wikipedia Help Pages]].
To practice, try editing in the [[Sandbox]].
You can link to a Wikipedia article by prefixing "w:" to a link, as in [[w:Photonic crystal]]. Users looking to write general articles not specific to the MIT software should go to (e.g.) Wikipedia instead of here.
MIT users should contact [[User:Stevenj|Steven G. Johnson]] to obtain administrative privileges, so that you can protect pages on your personal work from editing by the general public.