Material Interfaces and Geometrically Based Motions - IPAM

Material Interfaces and Geometrically Based Motions

Part of the Long Program Geometrically Based Motions
April 23 - 27, 2001

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 23, 2001

Morning Session

08:30-09:20
Registration
09:20-09:30
Eitan Tadmor (UCLA / University of Maryland)
Introduction
09:30-10:30
Dimitri Vvedensky (Imperial College)
Interface Motion in Epitaxial Phenomena
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)
Computations of Polycrystals with Applications to Thin Films

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Robert Kohn (New York University)
A new approach to the continuum modeling of epitaxial growth
15:00-16:00
Weinan E (Princeton University)
Thermally Activated Switching of Magnetic Thin Films
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, April 24, 2001

Morning Session

09:30-10:30
Jerry Tersoff (IBM)
Mathematical models and physical mechanisms of epitaxial growth
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Christian Ratsch (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics)
The Level-Set Method for Modeling Epitaxial Growth

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Alain Karma (Northeastern University)
Phase-Field Modeling of Solidification Patterns
15:00-16:00
Mark Gyure (HRL Laboratories, LLC)
Recent Theoretical Advances in Semiconductor Epitaxy: Modeling the Evolution of Complex Surfaces
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Aaron (Nung Kwan) Yip (Purdue University)
Continuum Limits of Step Flow Models

Thursday, April 26, 2001

Morning Session

09:30-10:30
Herbert Levine (University of California, San Diego)
Phase Field Approach For Mode III Dynamic Fracture
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
JianJun Xu (McGill University)
Interfacial Wave Theory Of Dendritic Growth---Global Instability And Limiting-State Selection

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
14:00-15:00
Michael Ortiz (California Institute of Technology)
Title not available
15:00-16:00
Per Arne Rikvold (Florida State University)
Analytic approximation for the velocity of field-driven Ising and SOS interfaces
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Guanshui Xu (University of California at Riverside)
Modeling 3D Surfaces of Displacement Discontinuity in General Elastic Solids
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