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Culminating Workshop at Lake Arrowhead

December 11 - 16, 2005

UCLA Conference Center At Lake Arrowhead


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Sunday, December 11, 2005

Joint Schedule: Material Science and Nanoscale

Morning Session

1:30 Bus Departs UCLA/Faculty Center
4:00 - 4:30 Check-In
6:30 - 8:00 Dinner

Evening Session

8:00 - 9:00 Social Hour

Monday, December 12, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

Applied Math 1

9:00 - 9:45

Felix Otto (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

 

9:45 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00

Dov Bai (Cornell University)

"Multiscale computations of simplified polyeptide models"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:00 - 11:45

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

"Ergodic and Non-ergodic Systems for the Nose-Hoover Thermostat"

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

Biophysics

3:30 - 4:15

Arieh Warshel (University of Southern California)

"Some instructive time scale challenges in biophysical simulations; Enzyme dynamics, Charge-induced unfolding and more"

4:15 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:30

Mark Tuckerman (New York University)

"QM/MM simulations of biochemical processes: Multi-scale methods and new ideas for molecular pseudopotentials"

5:30 - 6:15

Cecilia Clementi (Rice University)

 

6:30 - 8:00 Dinner

Evening Session

8:00 - 9:00 Social Hour

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

Materials Science/Physics

9:00 - 9:45

Robin Hayes (New York University)

 
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

9:45 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00

Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)

 
Presentation (PDF File)

11:00 - 11:45

Alex Gottlieb (Wolfgang Pauli Institute)

"Electron Correlation and Quantum Entropy"

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 5:15 Free time

Joint Session with Proteomics Group

5:15 - 5:45

Roland Krause (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)

"What is proteomics?"

5:45 - 6:15

Russel Caflisch (UCLA)

"What is multiscale modeling?"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

6:30 - 8:00 Dinner

Evening Session

Applied Math 2

8:00 - 8:30

Frederic Legoll (Ecole Nationale Des Ponts et Chaussees (LAMI))

"Long time averaging for molecular dynamics simulations in the NVT ensemble"
Presentation (PDF File)

8:30 - 9:00

Andres Jaramillo-Botero (La Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)

"Computational Nanotechnology as an Enabling Tool for Proof of Concept Design of Molecular Positioners"

9:00 - 9:30

Axel Voigt (Center Of Advanced European Studies And Research)

"Coexisting fluid domains in biomembranes"

9:30 - 10:00 Social Hour

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

Accelerated Molecular Dynamics, Finding Transition States, and Potentials

9:00 - 10:15

Blas Uberuaga (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Overview of Saddle Point/Path Finding Methods and Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Methods"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30

David Pettifor (University of Oxford)

"Review of IPAM mini-workshop on interatomic potentials"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 11:55

Ralf Drautz (University of Oxford)

"Recent developments in interatomic potentials for transition metals"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:00 - 4:30 Free time

Future Trends in Materials Sciences and Biophysics 1

4:30 - 5:00

Dimitri D. Vvedensky (Imperial College)

"Strategies for Multiscale Modelling"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:15 - 6:00

Bjorn Engquist (Princeton University)

 

6:00 - 6:30 Open Discussion
6:30 - 8:00 Dinner

Evening Session

Hot Topics 1

8:00 - 8:25

Silvina Matysiak (Rice University)

"Minimalist protein model as a diagnostic tool for misfolding and aggregation"

8:25 - 8:50

Otto Anatole von Lilienfeld-Toal (New York University)

"Coarse-grained interaction potentials for polyaromatic hydrocarbons"
Presentation (PDF File)

8:50 - 9:15

Dionisios Margetis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Coarse graining of step edge kinetic models"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

9:15 - 10:00 Social Hour

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

Future Trends in Materials Sciences and Biophysics 2

9:00 - 9:45

Yannis Kevrekides (Princeton University)

 

9:45 - 10:15 Break

Hot Topics 2

10:15 - 10:40

Payel Das (Rice University)

 

10:40 - 11:05

Alexandre Tkatchenko (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana)

"Analytic theory of hexagonal adlayer on hexagonal substrate"

11:05 - 11:30

Gabriel Stoltz (École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées (ENPC))

"(Non)equilibrium computation of free energy differences"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 11:55

Petr Plechac (University of Warwick)

 

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:00 - 6:30 Free time
6:30 - 8:00 Dinner

Evening Session

8:00 - 9:00 Concluding Panel Discussion with Caflisch, Clementi, Ratsch and Social Hour

Friday, December 16, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast

Future Role of Applied Mathematics in Materials Sciences and Biophysics

9:00 - 9:45

Tom Chou (UCLA)

"A one-dimensional exclusion theory for histone-DNA adsorption and wrapping"
Presentation (PDF File)

9:45 - 10:30

Claude Le Bris (École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées)

 

10:45 - 11:30 Closing Ceremony
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:00 Bus Departs for UCLA
4:30 - 5:30 Bus Arrives at UCLA

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