Workshops > NID 10


Non-equilibrium Interface and Surface Dynamics:
Theory, Experiment and Simulation from Atomistic to Continuum Scales

 October 25 - 28, 2010

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

Monday, October 25

9:00 - 9:25 COFFEE
MORNING
SESSION		 Chair: Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
9:25 - 9:30 Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
Welcoming Remarks
9:30 - 10:10 Herbert Spohn (Technische Universität München)
“Driven motion of interfaces”
[SLIDES]
10:15 - 10:55 Thomas Frisch (Universits Paul Czanne, CNRS, IM2NP)
“Dynamics of strained pyramids”
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10

Jonah Erlebacher (Johns Hopkins University)
“The importance of understanding nanoscale morphology and topology to make advanced catalysts for energy technologies”
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON
SESSION		 Chair: Janice Reutt-Robey (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40

Raymond Phaneuf (University of Maryland)
“Directed self assembly of nanostructures kinetically: Patterning, the Ehrlich Schwoebel barrier, and the effect of a critical island size”
2:45 - 3:25

Norman Bartelt (Sandia National Laboratories)
“The structure and growth of thin ice films on Pt”
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:40

John D Weeks (University of Maryland)
“Impurity-induced step dynamics in vapor and solution growth”

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Tuesday, October 26
9:00 - 9:30 COFFEE
MORNING
SESSION		 Chair: Theodore L. Einstein (University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10 Chaouqi Misbah (Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble I and CNRS)
“Coarsening and wavelength selection in nonlinear interface dynamics”
10:15 - 10:55 Makio Uwaha (Nagoya University)
“Pattern formation of a step induced by a guiding linear source”
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 David Kinderlehrer (Carnegie Mellon University)
“Predictive theory for the grain boundary character distribution”
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON
SESSION		 Chair: Dionisios Margetis (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40

Gregory S. Rohrer (Carnegie Mellon University)
“The relationship between grain boundary energies and grain boundary complexion transitions”
2:45 - 3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:15 - 3:40

Theodore L. Einstein (University of Maryland)
“Modeling Capture Zone Distributions: Issues in Confronting Experimental and Growth Data”
3:45 - 4:25

Christian Ratsch (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Strain dependence of microscopic parameters and its effect on ordering during epitaxial growth”
[SLIDES] [PDF]
EVENING
ACTIVITIES
6:30 DINNER at the Marriott Inn and Conference Centerr, University of Maryland University College

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Wednesday, October 27
9:00 - 9:30 COFFEE
MORNING
SESSION		 Chair:  James W. Evans (Iowa State University)
9:30 - 10:10 Robert V. Kohn (New York University)
“Surface relaxation below the roughening temperature: steps, PDEs, and self-similarity”
10:15 - 10:55 Zhenyu Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
“Electronic origin of kinetic and dynamic processes at atomic steps on metal substrates”
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 Kristen Fichthorn (Penn State University)
“Controlling kinetic self-assembly in Al(110) homoepitaxy”
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON
SESSION		 Chair: Manoussos Grillakis (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40

Peter Smereka (University of Michigan)
“Mechanisms of Stranski-Krastanov growth”
2:45 - 3:25

Feng Liu (University of Utah)
“Controlled composition profile of semiconductor alloy quantum dots and nanowires by selecting the growth mode”
[SLIDES]
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:40

Taisuke Ohta (Sandia National Laboratories)
“The role of carbon surface diffusion on the growth of epitaxial graphene on SiC”

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Thursday, October 28
9:00 - 9:30 COFFEE
MORNING
SESSION		 Chair: Robert V. Kohn (New York University)
9:30 - 10:10 Melissa A. Hines (Cornell University)
“The chemical control of nanoscale Si(100) morphology”
10:15 - 10:55 James W. Evans (Iowa State University)
“Realistic multi-site multi-component lattice-gas modeling for epitaxial growth of metal films on binary alloy surfaces”
[SLIDES]
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 Jerry Tersoff (IBM Research)
“Elementary Processes in Nanowire Growth”
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON
SESSION		 Chair: Raymond A. Adomaitis (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40 Olivier Pierre-Louis (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS)
“Wetting and dewetting on solid surfaces”
2:45 - 3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:15 - 4:00 James A. Warren (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
“Phase field modeling of reactive wetting”
[SLIDES]
4:10 Closing

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