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Workshop II: Multiscale Modeling in Condensed Matter and Materials Sciences, including Mini-Workshop: Time Acceleration Methods in Atomistic Simulations

October 17 - 22, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, October 17, 2005

Morning Session

Fracture and Friction

8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50

Sidney Yip (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Atomic-Level Measures of Strength, Deformation and Reactivity"

9:50 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:10

Priya Vashishta (University of Southern California)

"MULTIMILLION ATOM SIMULATIONS OF NANOSYSTEMS - STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN NANOCRYSTALS, DYNAMICS OF OXIDATION, AND HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT DAMAGE "

11:10 - 12:00

Ashwin Ramasubramaniam (California Institute of Technology)

"Discrete Dislocation Dynamics in Crystals"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50

Efthimios (Tim) Kaxiras (Harvard University)

"Multiscale modeling of materials"

2:50 - 3:20 Break/Poster Session Set Up
3:20 - 4:10

Bo Persson (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

"Contact Mechanics and Adhesion between Elastic Bodies with Randomly Rough surfaces"

4:10 - 5:00

Uzi Landman (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Nanohydrodynamics, Friction Forces and Amontons’ Law:from the molecular to the macroscopic sca"

5:00 - 7:00 Poster Session / Wine & Cheese Reception

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Morning Session

Thin Film Growth

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50

Anupam Madhukar (University of Southern California)

"Tetrahedrally Bonded Semiconductor Epitaxy: Maturing Technology, Immature Science?"

9:50 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:10

Peter Kratzer (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"Growth-related Structural and Electronic Properties of InAs Quantum Dots on GaAs"

11:10 - 12:00

Christian Ratsch (UCLA)

"A Level-Set Method for Epitaxial Growth and Self-Organization of Quantum Dots"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50

Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)

"Computational Methods for the Simulation of Epitaxial Growth"

2:50 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 4:10

Chaouqi Misbah (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))

"Surface instabilities driven by stress "
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:10 - 5:00

Dimitri Vvedensky (Imperial College)

"Multiscale Theory of Nanostructure Self-Organization on Surfaces"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)


Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Morning Session

Elasticity, Transport, Catalysis

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50

Peter Voorhees (Northwestern University)

"Multiscale Modeling of Quantum Dot Formation on Surfaces"

9:50 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:10

Jerry Tersoff (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

"Epitaxial nanostructures -- atomic-scale effects in continuum modeling "

11:10 - 12:00

Gerhard Klimeck (Purdue University)

"Atomistic simulations of long-range strain and close-range electronic structure in self-assembled quantum dot systems"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50

Jean-Pierre Leburton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 

2:50 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 4:10

Karsten Reuter (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

"First-principles statistical mechanics for heterogeneous catalysis"

4:10 - 5:00

Jim Evans (Iowa State University)

"From Atomic Scale Ordering to Mesoscale Spatial Patterns in Surface Reactions: A Heterogeneous Coupled Lattice-Gas (HCLG) Simulation Approach"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)


Thursday, October 20, 2005

Morning Session

Nanostructures and Conclusion

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50

Jerry Bernholc (North Carolina State University)

"Atomic Scale Design of Nanostructures"

9:50 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:10

David Tomanek (Michigan State University)

"Designing Carbon-Based Nanotechnology on a Supercomputer "
Presentation (PDF File)

11:10 - 12:00

Michael Biehl (Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen)

"Off-lattice KMC simulations of hetero-epitaxial growth: the formation of nano-structured surface alloys"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50

Robert Rudd (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Connecting Atomistic and Continuum Level Modeling of Void Growth and Coalescence in Ductile Metals"

2:50 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 5:00 Panel Discussion

Friday, October 21, 2005

Morning Session

Mini-Workshop: Time Acceleration Methods in Atomistic Simulations

Discussion Leader: David Wales

8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50

Graeme Henkelman (University of Texas at Austin)

"Sintering dynamics of small Pd clusters on the MgO(100) surface"

9:50 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:10

Peter Bolhuis (University of Amsterdam)

 

11:10 - 12:00

Normand Mousseau (Université de Montréal)

"POP-ART: The Properly-Obeying Probability Activation-Relaxation Technique"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Discussion Leader: Art Voter

2:00 - 2:50

Steve Stuart (Clemson University)

"Hyperdynamics Approaches to Energetically and Entropically Rare Events"

2:50 - 3:20 Break/Poster Session Set Up
3:20 - 4:10

Blas Uberuaga (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Parallel-Replica Dynamics: Method and Applications"

4:10 - 5:00

Kristen Fichthorn (Pennsylvania State University)

"Time Acceleration Methods in Atomistic Simulations"

5:00 - 7:00 Poster Session / Wine & Cheese Reception

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Morning Session

Mini-Workshop: Time Acceleration Methods in Atomistic Simulations

Discussion Leader: Graeme Henkelman

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50

David Wales (University of Cambridge)

"Energy Landscapes and Discrete Path Sampling"

9:50 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 11:10

Dionisios Vlachos (University of Delaware)

"Multiscale Methods for Stochastic Simulation"

11:10 - 12:00

Jacques Amar (University of Toledo)

"Simulating Extended Time and Length Scales using Parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo and Parallel Accelerated Dynamics"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Discussion Leader: Kristen Fichthorn

1:30 - 2:20

Francesco Montalenti (Università di Milano - Bicocca)

"Tackling the time-scale problem in molecular dynamics simulations of rare events: the temperature-accelerated dynamics method"

2:20 - 2:50

Yannis Kevrekides (Princeton University)

"An equation-free approach to accelerating complex/multiscale simulations"

2:50 - 3:40 Break

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