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Workshop on Challenge and Modeling of Multiscale Problems in Mechanics and Materials
( 14 - 18 Nov 2011 )
Venue: IMS Auditorium
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08:40am - 09:00am |
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09:00am - 09:10am |
Opening Remarks Louis Chen, Institute for Mathematical Sciences David Srolovitz, Institute for High Performance Computing and National University of Singapore |
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Chair: David Srolovitz, Institute for High Performance Computing and National University of Singapore |
09:10am - 10:10am |
Some recent advances on phase-field models for multiphase complex fluids Jie Shen, Purdue University, USA |
10:10am - 10:40am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
10:40am - 11:40am |
Modeling and simulations of moving contact line: from binary mixtures to one-component liquid-gas systems |
11:40am - 01:30pm |
--- Lunch --- |
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Chair: Weizhu Bao, National University of Singapore |
01:30pm - 02:30pm |
Multiscale modeling of the mechanical properties of graphene Yong Wei Zhang, Institute for High Performance Computing and National University of Singapore |
02:30pm - 03:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Simulation and prediction of materials for spintronics aplications Yuan Ping Feng, National University of Singapore |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
Domain patterns in ferroelectric materials Ahluwalia Rajeev, Institute for High Performance Computing and National University of Singapore |
06:30pm - 07:30pm |
Public Lecture: Order and Rigidity Sensing by Biological Cells Samuel Safran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Venue: LT33, Block S17, Level 2, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore |
Tuesday,
15 Nov 2011 |
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08:40am - 09:00am |
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Chair: Tiejun Li, Peking University, China |
09:00am - 10:00am |
Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for multiscale problems Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University, USA |
10:00am - 10:30am |
--- Group Photo & Coffee Break --- |
10:30am - 11:30am |
Large scale simulations of gravity induced sedimentation of slender fibers |
11:30am - 01:30pm |
--- Lunch --- |
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Chair: Danny Perez, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA |
01:30pm - 02:30pm |
Elastic response of soft materials to biological cells Samuel Safran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
02:30pm - 03:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
03:00pm - 04:00pm |
A boundary element method for the reduction of molecular statics models Xiantao Li, Penn State Univeristy, USA |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
Front-tracking simulations of grain growth and identification of the steady state Jeremy Mason, Institute for Advanced Study, USA |
06:30pm - 09:00pm |
Dinner at East Coast Seafood Center (Volunteer and self-paid) |
Wednesday,
16 Nov 2011 |
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08:40am - 09:00am |
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Chair: Shouhong Wang, Indiana University, USA |
09:00am - 10:00am |
Mechanical aspects of nano-rod, ribbon and plate morphology David Srolovitz, Institute for High Performance Computing and National University of Singapore |
10:00am - 10:30am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
10:30am - 11:30am |
An adaptive tau-leap discretization of pure jump processes arising in kinetic Monte Carlo models |
11:30am - 01:30pm |
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Chair: Jian-Sheng Wang, National University of Singapore |
01:30pm - 02:30pm |
Quantum simulations of materials at micron scale and beyond Gang Lu, California State University Northridge, USA |
02:30pm - 03:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
03:00pm - 04:00pm |
String method for the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard dynamics |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
Dimension-reduced models for single- and multilayered dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates |
Thursday,
17 Nov 2011 |
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08:40am - 09:00am |
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Chair: Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University, USA |
09:00am - 10:00am |
Dynamic transition theory and its application to gas-liquid phase transitions Shouhong Wang, Indiana University, USA |
10:00am - 10:30am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
10:30am - 11:30am |
Some basic questions concerning multiscale analysis Rohan Abeyaratne, National University of Singapore |
11:30am - 01:30pm |
--- Lunch --- |
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Chair: Jeremy Mason, Institute for Advanced Study, USA |
01:30pm - 02:30pm |
Simulating the slow structural evolution of materials using accelerated molecular dynamics Danny Perez, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA |
02:30pm - 03:00pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
03:00pm - 04:00pm |
A tight-binding method for materials modeling: theory, implementation, and applications Chee Kwan Gan, Institute for High Performance Computing |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
Grain boundary engineering via nucleation and growth David T. Wu, Institute for High Performance Computing |
Friday,
18 Nov 2011 |
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08:40am - 09:00am |
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Chair: Jie Shen, Purdue University, USA |
09:00am - 10:00am |
Analysis and efficient computation for nonlinear eigenvalue problems in quantum physics and chemistry Weizhu Bao, National University of Singapore |
10:00am - 10:30am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
10:30am - 11:30am |
Error estimates of finite difference methods for the nonlinear Schrödinger equations |
11:30am - 11:40am |
Closing Remarks |
11:40am - 01:30pm |
--- Lunch Reception at IMS --- |
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