Steve Louie (UC Berkeley), Y.K. Kwon (Minnesota) and Gaddi Haase (Texas Instruments)
Jim Chelikowsky (Minnesota), Steve Louie (UC Berkeley) and Jose Martins (INESC Lisbon)
The Institute for the Theory of Advanced Materials in Information Technology hosted a meeting at the Digital Technology Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota on August 6 and 7, 2004. The meeting focused on an assessment of the important materials problems in information technology. International scientists from Portugal, Italy, Germany and Israel and industrial scientists from Intel, Texas Instruments and 3M made presentations. Many of these presentations can be found at the website:
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. The Institute will organize this meeting at the behest of the NSF.
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. 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.
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.
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Leeor Kronik |
Adi Makmal |
In February, the Institute hosted visits by Dr. Leeor Kronik and Ms. Adi Makmal. Leeor is a member of the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute in Israel; Adi is his student. They are working on algorithms for predicting the optical and structural properties of nanoscale matter. Dr. Kronik presented a seminar at the Institute on interatomic forces in excited state systems.