Monday October 27, 2003

9:30 - 10:00

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  Raymond Mountain (NIST)

10:00 - 10:15

Opening Remarks

10:15 - 10:55
 

Dimitrios Papaconstantopoulos (Naval Research Laboratory)
"Tight-binding Methodologies for Efficient Electronic Structure and Total Energy Calculations"

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
 

Stephen Langer (NIST)
"Object Oriented Modeling of Microstructural Physics"

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION    Chair: Jian-Guo Liu (University of Maryland)

2:00 - 2:40
 

Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton University)
"Equation-Free Complex Systems Modeling:
Enabling Microscopic Simulators to Perform System-level Tasks"

2:45 - 3:25
 

Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins University)
"Flow at Interfaces: Boundary Conditions and Multiscale Approaches"

3:30 - 4:00

COFFEE BREAK

4:00 - 4:40

Dieter Wolf (Argonne National Lab)
"Thermo-mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline Materials by Multiscale Computer Simulation"

SUGGESTED EVENING ACTIVITIES

7:00
 

Off Center Productions: Zoo Story
Laboratory Theater

7:30
 

Renowned marimba soloist, Rebecca Kite
Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Recital Hall

Tuesday October 28, 2003

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  James Warren (NIST)

9:30 - 10:10

Jonathan Guyer (NIST)
"Phase Field Modeling of the Electrochemical Interface"

10:15 - 10:55
 

Laszlo Granasy (Budapest, Hungary)
"Phase Field Theory of Nucleation and Polycrystalline Solidification"

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
 

Ken Elder (Oakland University)
"Phase Field Crystal Modeling of Solidification, Phase Segregation and Elasticity"  [SLIDES - PDF 2MB]

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION    Chair:  Georg Dolzmann (University of Maryland)

2:00 - 2:40
 

Richard James (University of Minnesota)
"A way to Search for New Materials with Unprecedented Combinations of Physical Properties"

2:45 - 3:25
 

David Kinderlehrer (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Mesoscale Issues in Microstructural Simulation I"

3:30 - 4:00

COFFEE BREAK

4:00 - 4:40

Alexander Roytburd (University of Maryland)
"Phase-Field Theory and Phase-Field Simulations of Structural Phase Transformations"

Wednesday October 29, 2003

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  John Osborn (University of Maryland)

9:30 - 10:10

John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine)
"Theory and Simulation of 3D Crystal Growth: Shape Control"

10:15 - 10:55
 

Shlomo Ta'asan (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Mesoscale Issues in Microstructural Simulation II"

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
 

David Landau (University of Georgia)
"Dynamical Scaling of Surface Growth in Simple Lattice Models"

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH HOSTED BY CSCAMM

AFTERNOON SESSION    FREE

Note: 2:00 PM CSCAMM Seminar on:
Adaptive Finite Elements for Relaxed Methods (FERM) in Computational Microstructures

Thursday October 30, 2003

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  Bo Li (University of Maryland)

9:30 - 10:10

Weinan E (Princeton University)
"Why do we need HMM?"

10:15 - 10:55
 

Victor Roytburd (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"Dynamics of Exothermic Interfaces"

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
 

Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University)
"Interface Dynamics in Thermally Activated Events"

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON SESSION    Chair:  Theodore Einstein (University of Maryland)

2:00 - 2:40
 

Zhenyu Zhang (Oak Ridge National Lab)
"Quantum Engineering of Metallic Nanostructures: From Magic Layers to Quantum Dots"

2:45 - 3:25
 

Peter Voorhees (Northwestern University)
"The Evolution and Self Assembly of Quantum Dots on Surfaces"

Friday October 31, 2003

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION    Chair:  Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland)

9:30 - 10:10

Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota)
"Metastability and Microstructure in Structural Phase Transformations"

10:15 - 10:55
 

Ricardo Nochetto (University of Maryland)
"Finite Element Methods for Surface Diffusion"

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
 

Bjorn Engquist (Princeton University)
"Interface Tracking Methods"

12:15 - 12:30