Monday October 20, 2003

9:30 - 10:00

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland)

10:00 - 10:15

Opening Remarks

Steve Halperin,
Dean College of Computer, Mathematical & Natural Sciences (CMNS)

10:15 - 10:55
 

John Weeks (University of Maryland)
"Current-induced Instabilities on Si Surfaces"

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
 

Russel Calflisch (UCLA)
"Dynamics of a Step Edge in Thin Film Growth"

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION    Chair:  James Warren (NIST)

2:00 - 2:40
 

Royce Zia (Virginia Tech)
"Interfaces in Driven Diffusive Systems"

2:45 - 3:25
 

Geoffrey McFadden (NIST)
"Interfacial Boundary Conditions and Phase-Field Models of Solidification"

3:30 - 4:00

COFFEE BREAK

4:00 - 4:40

Alain Karma (Northeastern University)
"Spinodal Decomposition in 'Curved Space' and Nanoporosity Formation"

Tuesday October 21, 2003

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  Janice Reutt-Robey (University of Maryland)

9:30 - 10:10

Jerry Tersoff (IBM)
"Kinetic Surface Segregation and the Evolution of Nanostructures"

10:15 - 10:55
 

Jacques Amar (University of Toledo)
"Effects of Steering and Shadowing in Epitaxial Growth"

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
 

Talat Rahman (Kansas State University)
"Towards a Realistic Approach in Atomistic Studies of Diffusion and Fluctuations on Metal Surfaces"

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION    Chair:  John Weeks (University of Maryland)

2:00 - 2:40
 

Ellen Williams (University of Maryland)
"Fluctuations and Nanoscale Structures"   [SLIDES - PDF 2MB]

2:45 - 3:25
 

J. William Gadzuk (NIST)
"Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Nanostructures: From Analytic Models To Computer Simulations"

3:30 - 4:00

COFFEE BREAK

4:00 - 4:40

George Gilmer (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
"Laser Ablation and Deposition of Metals: Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations"

SUGGESTED EVENING ACTIVITIES

5:30
 

Take Five: Dance Inspired by Al-Andalus
Dance Theater

7:00
 

Guarneri String Quartet
Dekelboum Concert Hall

Wednesday October 22, 2003

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  Ellen Williams (University of Maryland)

9:30 - 10:10

Alberto Pimpinelli (Université Blaise Pascal Clermont 2)
"Spontaneous Patterning and Pattern Evolution on Out-of-Equilibrium Surfaces"

10:15 - 10:55
 

Makio Uwaha (Nagoya University)
"Drift-Induced Pattern Formation on Si(001) Vicinal Surfaces"
[SLIDES - PDF 1.6MB]

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
 

Theodore Einstein (University of Maryland)
"Asymmetry and Subtleties of Step Stiffness: Novel Findings and Their Implications"

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH HOSTED BY CSCAMM

AFTERNOON SESSION    FREE

SUGGESTED EVENING ACTIVITIES

7:30
 

UM Jazz Ensemble
Dekelboum Concert Hall

Thursday October 23, 2003

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  Georg Dolzmann (University of Maryland)

9:30 - 10:10

Robert Kohn (New York University)
"Three Topics from Epitaxial Growth and Interface Motion"

10:15 - 10:55
 

Paolo Politi (IFAC-CNR)
"Coarsening Dynamics during the Growth of One-Dimensional Interfaces"   [SLIDES - PDF]

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
 

Robert Pego (University of Maryland)
"Smoluchowski Ripening and Burgers Turbulence"

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION    Chair:  Theodore Einstein (University of Maryland)

2:00 - 2:40
 

Chaouqi Misbah (University J. Fourier Grenoble 1)
"Surface Pattern Selection of a Biaxially Stressed Solid"

2:45 - 3:25
 

Vivek Shenoy (Brown University)
"A Variational Approach to the Dynamics of Stepped Nanostructure Surfaces"

3:30 - 4:00

COFFEE BREAK

4:00 - 4:40

David Srolovitz (Princeton University)
"Dislocation Dynamics"

SUGGESTED EVENING ACTIVITIES

8:00
 

UM Concert Band
Dekelboum Concert Hall

Friday October 24, 2003

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  Bo Li (University of Maryland)

9:30 - 10:10

James Evans (Iowa State University)
"Predictive Modeling Of Epitaxial Thin Film Growth: Atomistic and Continuum Approaches"   [SLIDES - PDF 4.7MB]

10:15 - 10:55
 

Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)
"Hybrid Methods for the Computation of Epitaxial Growth"

11:00 - 11:05

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