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NANO2002 Workshop IV: Modeling and Simulation for Materials

November 19 - 22, 2002

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

Efthimios (Tim) Kaxiras (Harvard University)

"Simulations of complex systems across multiple length scales"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Emily Carter (UCLA)

"Revisiting Old Ideas: Cohesive Laws of Fracture and Solving Directly for Electron Densities of Materials"

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

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Weitao Yang (Duke University)

"Simulation of chemical reactions in enzymes with a DFT QM/MM free energy method"

3:00 - 4:00

Dieter Wolf (Argonne National Lab)

"Multiscale Simulation of Grain Growth in Nanocrystalline Thin Films*"

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

William Goddard (California Institute of Technology)

"Multi Scale Materials Design"

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

Russel Caflisch (UCLA)

"Simulation for Epitaxial Growth with Strain"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Arthur Voter (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Methods"

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

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Weinan E (Princeton University)

"Heterogeneous multiscale modeling"

2:30 - 3:30

Rob Phillips (California Institute of Technology)

"Physics of DNA Packing: From Viruses to Chromosomes"

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Tamar Schlick (New York University)

"Mesoscale modeling of chromosomal DNA"

5:00 - 6:00

Christopher Wolverton (Ford Motor Company)

"The Role of Quantum Mechanics in "Virtual Aluminum Castings""

6:00 - 7:15 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, November 21, 2002

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

George Gilmer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Atomistic modeling of silicon device processing, front and back ends."

10:30 - 11:30

David Srolovitz (Princeton University)

"Facetted Film Growth"

11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:45

Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)

"Hybrid Methods for Computing Expitaxial Growth"

12:45 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Mark Gyure (HRL Laboratories)

"Ab-initio based modeling of III-V semiconductor surface equilibrium and growth"

3:00 - 4:00

Achi Brandt (Weizmann Institute of Science)

"Systematic Upscaling of Molecular Computation"


Friday, November 22, 2002

Morning Session

9:00 - 9:30 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 10:30

Boris Yakobson (Rice University)

"Learning nanomechanics of the ~1D-materials: wires, tubes and their siblings"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Gerhard Hummer (National Institute of Health)

"Water and proton transport through hydrophobic channels: from carbon nanotubes to proteins"

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

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Michael Griebel (University of Bonn, Germany)

"Multiscale methods in nano- and biotechnology "

3:00 - 4:00

Antonio Redondo (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Current Issues in modeling and simulation of nanomaterials"

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

"Metastability, Phase Transformation, and Microstructure in Structural Phase Transformations"

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