NID07 - Nonequilibrium Interface and Surface Dynamics

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April 23 - April 27, 2007

CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions

Monday, April 23
9:00 - 9:25	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
9:25 - 9:30	Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM) Welcoming Remarks
9:30 - 10:10	Robert Kohn (New York University) "Continuum Modeling of Surface Relaxation Below the Roughening Temperature"
10:15 - 10:55	Dionisios Margetis (University of Maryland) "Modeling Stepped Surfaces across the Scales: Facet Evolution and Anisotropic Step Stiffness"
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Kochi Sudoh (Osaka University) "Relaxation of Nanoscale Structures on SrTiO3(001) Surfaces"
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Ellen Williams (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	Norman Bartelt (Sandia National Laboratories) "Nanoscale Pattern Formation on Metal Surfaces"
2:45 - 3:25	Raymond Phaneuf (University of Maryland) "Length Scales in Step-Bunch Self-Organization during Annealing of Patterned Vicinal Si(111) Surfaces"
3:30 - 4:00	*COFFEE BREAK*
4:00 - 4:40	John Weeks (University of Maryland) “Impurity-induced Step Patterns in Vapor and Solution Growth: From Step Bunches to Supersteps”
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Tuesday, April 24

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION Chair: Robert Kohn (New York University)

9:30 - 10:10
Jonah Erlebacher (Johns Hopkins University)
“Using Impurities to Tailor Mesoporous Metals: A KMC Study of Dealloying”

10:15 - 10:55
Vivek Shenoy (Brown University)
“2D Self-Assembling Systems Far from Equilibrium”

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
Stephen Watson (University of Glasgow )
“Morphometric Multi-scale Surface Science”

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH BREAK

AFTERNOON
SESSION Chair: John Weeks (University of Maryland)

2:00 - 2:40
Alain Karma (Northeastern University)
“Multiscale Modeling of Microstructural Pattern Formation”

2:45 - 3:25
Russel Caflisch (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Growth and Pattern Formation for Epitaxial Surfaces”

3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK

4:00 - 4:40 James Hannon (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
“Step Motion Near Dislocations on Si Surfaces”

EVENING
ACTIVITIES

6:30
DINNER at the Inn and Conference Center at
the University of Maryland University College

Wednesday, April 25

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING SESSION Chair: Stuart Antman (University of Maryland)

9:30 - 10:10
Peter Flynn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Chemical Potential for Nucleation of Surface Islands Using Beams of Self-ions”

10:15 - 10:55
Brian Spencer (University at Buffalo)
“Asymmetric Transition States in Quantum Dots”

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)
“Efficient Computation of Strained Heteroepitaxy Using Kinetic Monte Carlo”

12:15 - 2:00

LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM

2:00 - 4:00 Poster Session

4:00 - 4:30 COFFEE

LATE AFTERNOON
SESSION Chair: Dionisios Margetis (University of Maryland)

4:30 - 5:10 Teng Li (University of Maryland)
"Ductility of Thin Metal Films on Polymer Substrates Modulated by Interfacial Adhesion"

5:15 - 5:55 Ellen Williams (University of Maryland)
"Fluctuations in Nanoscale Structures"

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Thursday, April 26
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)
9:30 - 10:10	Bo Li (University of California, San Diego) "Surface Relaxation vs the Ehrlich-Schwoebel Effect in Thin-film Growth"
10:15 - 10:55	Theodore L. Einstein (University of Maryland) “Application of the Wigner Distribution to Non-equilibrium Problems at Surfaces: Relaxation, Growth, and Scaling of Capture Zones”
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Olivier Pierre-Louis (Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble I) "Dewetting of a Solid Monolayer"
12:15 - 1:30	*LUNCH BREAK*
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Teng Li (University of Maryland)
1:30 - 2:10	Robert Kukta (State University of New York at Stony Brook) “Self-assembly of Nanostructures on Topographically Pattern Substrates”
2:15 - 2:55	Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf (Universitt Duisburg-Essen) “A Mesoscopic View of Surface Diffusion”
3:00 - 3:20	*COFFEE BREAK*
3:20 - 4:00	Christian Ratsch (University of California, Los Angeles) “A Level-Set Method for Self-Organized Pattern Formation During Heteroepitaxial Growth”
AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES	Visit to the Washington, D.C. Spy Museum http://www.spymuseum.org/index.asp
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Friday, April 27

9:00 - 9:30

COFFEE

MORNING
SESSION Chair: Bo Li (University of California, San Diego)

9:30 - 10:10
Axel Voigt (Technische Universität Dresden)
“Multiscale Modeling of Epitaxial Growth - From Atomistic to Continuum Models”

10:15 - 10:55
Jingfang Huang (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
“An Integral Equation Method for Epitaxial Step-flow Growth Simulations”

11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:10
Zhenyu Zhang (Oak Ridge National Lab)
“Inverse Design of Metallic and Magnetic Nanostructures via Multiscale Modeling”

12:15 CLOSING

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