Focus Session: Metropolis Thesis Prize and Multiscale Modeling

Presentations

• Flexibility and Direction Reversal in Flapping Locomotion

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2009, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Saverio Spagnolie

    • UC San Diego

  • Michael Shelley

    • Courant Institute, New York University
    • Courant Institute, NYU
    • New York University

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• Modeling the combined effect of surface roughness and shear rate on slip flow of simple fluids

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 8:12 AM – March 16, 2009, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Anoosheh Niavarani

    • Michigan State Univesity

  • Nikolai Priezjev

    • Michigan State University
    • Michigan State Univesity

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• KMC simulations in 3+1 dimensions and the effects of attachment probabilities and potential gradients on island morphologies

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 8:24 AM – March 16, 2009, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Christopher Fleck

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Judith Yang

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Alan McGaughey

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Jun Ren

    • University of Pittsburgh

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• Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics Talk: Understanding Nano-scale Electronic Systems via Large-scale Computation

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 16, 2009, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2009, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Chao Cao

    • Department of Physics and Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida
    • University of Florida

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• Role of Adatom Relaxations in Computing Lattice-gas Energies: Multisite Interactions

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2009, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Rajesh Sathiyanarayanan

    • Univ. Maryland, College Park

  • T. L. Einstein

    • UM
    • Univ. of Maryland, College Park (UM)
    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland
    • Univ. Maryland, College Park

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• Rapid and Accurate Estimates of Alloy Phase Diagrams for Design and Assessment

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2009, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Teck Tan

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Duane Johnson

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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• Chemistry effects on dislocation mobility in refractory bcc metals

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2009, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Nicholas Kioussis

    • California State University, Northridge
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330
    • California State University Northridge, Deparment of Physics \& Astronomy, 18111 Northridge, CA 91330-8268
    • Department of Physics, California State University, Northridge

  • Zhengzheng Chen

    • Department of Physics, California State University, Northridge

  • Gang Lu

    • Department Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,University of California, Los Angeles

  • Nasr Ghoniem

    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles

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• Computational studies of thermal evolutions of extended interstitial defects in silicon.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Hyoungki Park

    • The Ohio State University

  • John W. Wilkins

    • The Ohio State University

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• Multiscale Modeling of Catalysis and its Application to Hydrogen Production through the Water Gas Shift Reaction on Nanoparticles

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Altaf Karim

    • Brookhaven National Lab

  • James T. Muckerman

    • Brookhaven National Lab

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• Preparation of nanoporous systems for the study of the mechanical properties of silica aerogels by Molecular Dynamics simulations

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • John S. Rivas Murillo

    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University

  • Martina E. Bachlechner

    • Computer Science, Math and Physics Department, Fairmont State University

  • Ever J. Barbero

    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University

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• A hierarchical DPD thermostat to avoid over and/or underdamping at long wavelengths in MD simulations

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Kevin Green

    • University of Western Ontario

  • Colin Denniston

    • University of Western Ontario

  • Martin Muser

    • University of Western Ontario
    • U. of Western Ontario

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• Determination of the ground state structures of binary alloys via global space group optimziation (GSGO) with no restrictions on composition:Al-Sc.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2009, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Giancarlo Trimarchi

    • National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO 80401
    • Northwestern U.

  • Arthur J. Freeman

    • Northwestern University
    • Northwestern U.

  • Alex Zunger

    • National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO 80401
    • NREL, Golden, CO 80401

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• Non-crystalline state of silicon studied by multicanonical simulation combined with first-principles calculation

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 10:48 AM – March 16, 2009, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Yoshihide Yoshimoto

    • Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan

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