Nonequilibrium Interface and Surface Dynamics:
Theory, Experiment and Simulation from Atomistic to Continuum Scales

April 23 - April 27, 2007


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

SCHEDULE

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

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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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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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