Materials Defects: Tutorials - IPAM

Materials Defects: Tutorials

Part of the Long Program Materials Defects: Mathematics, Computation, and Engineering
September 11 - 14, 2012

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Tim Schulze (University of Tennessee)
Materials Defects: Tutorial and Long Program Overview
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-11:15
Peter Voorhees (Northwestern University)
DEFECTS IN CRYSTALS: DISLOCATIONS, INTERFACES AND GRAIN BOUNDARIES (Part 1)
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:00
Orientation: IPAM Staff

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:15
Danny Perez (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Introduction to Molecular Dynamics
15:15-15:45
Break
15:45-17:00
Peter Voorhees (Northwestern University)
DEFECTS IN CRYSTALS: DISLOCATIONS, INTERFACES AND GRAIN BOUNDARIES (Part 2)

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:15
Kristen Fichthorn (Pennsylvania State University)
An Introduction to Theoretical Methods for Describing Rare Events
10:15-10:45
Break
10:45-12:00
Peter Voorhees (Northwestern University)
The Thermodynamics of Crystalline Interfaces: Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:15
Danny Perez (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Introduction to Accelerated Molecular Dynamics
15:15-15:45
Break
15:45-17:00
Tony Lelièvre (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech)
Monte Carlo methods in molecular dynamics Part 1: Sampling the canonical distribution and computing free energy differences

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:15
Kristen Fichthorn (Pennsylvania State University)
An Introduction to Rare Event Simulation
10:15-10:45
Break
10:45-12:00
Ken Elder (Oakland University)
Non-equilibrium pattern formation in materials physics

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:15
Maria Emelianenko (George Mason University)
Mathematical modeling of interfacial dynamics in polycrystals
15:15-15:45
Break
15:45-17:00
Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)
Theory and Application of Simplified Kinetic Monte Carlo Models (KMC Short Course - Part 1)

Friday, September 14, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:15
Gabor Csányi (University of Cambridge)
State of the art: a broad-brush survey of interatomic potentials (Part 1)
10:15-10:45
Break
10:45-12:00
Tony Lelièvre (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech)
Monte Carlo methods in molecular dynamics (Part 2)Monte Carlo methods in molecular dynamics Part 2: Sampling metastable trajectories

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:15
Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)
Theory and Application of Simplified Kinetic Monte Carlo Models (KMC Short Course - Part 2)
15:15-15:45
Break
15:45-17:00
Gabor Csányi (University of Cambridge)
State of the art: a broad-brush survey of interatomic potentials (Part 2)
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