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In preparation for a joint call for proposals for collaborative efforts between
US researchers and their European counterparts, the Division of Materials Research
at NSF is organizing a joint workshop with the European Commission on methods in
computational materials science. The goal of the workshop is to explore and assess
current opportunities in computational materials science. New computational methods
for understanding and predicting materials properties and phenomena will be examined.
Of particular interest are those properties and phenomena that span multiple time and
length scales and require multiscale modeling to compute the essential science.
Representative areas of materials science to be covered include crystal growth, surface
adsorption, structural defects such as lattice mismatch and grain boundaries,
microstructural evolution, crack formation and propagation, melting and diffusion,
spintronics, molecular and nano-electronics, and quantum dots.
The workshop will be held on April 15 and 16, 2004 in San Francisco during the week
of the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, also held in San Francisco that week.
Several scientists from the US and from the European Union are being invited. The format
of the meeting will include presentations by scientists from the US and the EU, followed
by discussions held in small groups in areas of common interest. A report would be issued
following the meeting.