Workshop III: Materials Design in Chemical Compound Space

May 2 - 6, 2011

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Gerbrand Ceder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Chris Wolverton (Northwestern University)

 

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Stefano Curtarolo (Duke University)

 

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

The Inverse Problem: Finding structures with Target Electronic Properties

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Matthias Scheffler (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

Screening the Chemical Compound Space from First Principles: Accessing the Accuracy and Reliability of the Base of Multi-Scale Modeling
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5:00 - 7:00 Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Tamar Seideman (Northwestern University)

Toward Coherent Control in the Nanoscale

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
Suljo Linic (University of Michigan)

Using electronic structure descriptors to identify new catalysts

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Kristin Persson (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

 


Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Ralf Drautz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Phase stability in complex alloys

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Denis Andrienko (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)

 

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Vidvuds Ozolins (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

 

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
David Sholl (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Computationally-aided development of membranes for high performance gas separations


Friday, May 6, 2011

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Steven Lustig (DuPont Central Research and Development)

 

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:35
Graeme Henkelman (University of Texas at Austin)

 

12:45 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Sidney Yip (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Toward Materials Ageing
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