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Workshop on Mathematical Theory and Computational Methods in Materials Sciences
(10 - 14 Aug 2009)

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Venue: IMS Auditorium

Monday, 10 Aug 2009 (Public Holiday)
08:30am - 09:00am	Registration
09:00am - 09:10am	Opening remarks Local organizing committee
	Chair: Weizhu Bao, National University of Singapore
09:10am - 09:50am	Grain growth, shape, and topology in all dimensions: beyond von Neumann-Mullins David Srolovitz, Princeton University, USA and Yeshiva University, USA
09:50am - 10:30am	Modelling the heteroepitaxial growth of novel surface nanostructures Yongwei Zhang, National University of Singapore and Institute of High Performance Computing
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Group Photo & Coffee Break ---
11:00am - 11:40am	Some issues in the long-time simulation of complex systems Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute, USA
11:40am - 12:20pm	The mathematical understanding of tau-leaping algorithm Tiejun Li, Peking University, China
12:20pm - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
	Chair:Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute, USA
02:00pm - 02:40pm	Stable solutions to the Lawrence-Doniach equations in tilted magnetic fields Patricia Bauman, Purdue University, USA
02:40pm - 03:20pm	Meissner states of 3-dimensional superconductors Xingbin Pan, East China Normal University, China
03:20pm - 03:50pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:50pm - 04:30pm	The second-order multi-scale simulation for the physics and mechanics behaviors of composites and their structures Junzhi Cui, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
04:30pm - 05:10pm	Multi-paradigm simulations at the nanoscale: methodology and applications to functional nano materials Haibin Su, Nanyang Technological University

Tuesday, 11 Aug 2009
08:45am - 09:00am	Registration
	Chair: Qiang Du, Penn State University, USA
09:00am - 09:40am	Topological vorticity and conserved geometric motion Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute, USA
09:40am - 10:20am	Analysis and computation for the semiclassical limits of the nonlinear Schrodinger equations Weizhu Bao, National University of Singapore
10:20am - 10:50am	--- Coffee Break ---
10:50am - 11:30am	Homogenization of non-coercive Hamilton-Jacobi equations Jack Xue Xin, University of California, Irvine, USA
11:30am - 12:10pm	Dynamical self-trapping of Bose-Einstein condensates in shallow optical lattices Fong Yin Lim, Institute of High Performance Computing
12:10pm - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
	Chair: David Srolovitz, Princeton University, USA and Yeshiva University, USA
02:00pm - 02:40pm	Dynamics of material interfaces Rohan Abeyaratne, National University of Singapore
02:40pm - 03:20pm	A new version fast multipole method for evaluating the stress field of dislocation ensembles Yang Xiang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
03:20pm - 03:50pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:50pm - 04:10pm	A generalization of the MacPherson - Srolovitz formula Duc Thinh Le, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
04:10pm - 04:30pm	Comparisons between the sine-Gordon equation and perturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equations for modeling light bullets Xuanchun Dong, National University of Singapore
04:30pm - 05:30pm	Panel Discussion (Opportunity and challenge in MSR) Leaders: Rohan Abeyaratne, National University of Singapore Claude Le Bris, École Nationale Des Ponts Et Chaussées, France Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute, USA David Srolovitz, Princeton University, USA and Yeshiva University, USA
06:30pm - 07:30pm	Public Lecture: Roles of Differential Equations in Mathematics and Sciences Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute, New York University, USA Venue: LT31, Block S16, Level 3, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore Singapore 117543

Wednesday, 12 Aug 2009
08:45am - 09:00am	Registration
	Chair: Yuan Ping Feng, National University of Singapore
09:00am - 09:40am	On the different phases and dynamical models of liquid crystal Pingwen Zhang, Peking University, China
09:40am - 10:20am	Smectic energies and existence results for lquid crystals Daniel Phillips, Purdue University, USA
10:20am - 10:50am	--- Coffee Break ---
10:50am - 11:30am	Blow-up criteria for the Navier-Stokes equations of multidimensional compressible fluids Song Jiang, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, China
11:30am - 12:10pm	Existence of globally weak solutions to the flow of compressible liquid crystals system Xian-Gao Liu, Fudan University, China
12:10pm - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---

Thursday, 13 Aug 2009
08:45am - 09:00am	Registration
	Chair: Xingbin Pan, East China Normal University, China
09:00am - 09:40am	Some recent theoretical and numerical contributions to stochastic homogenization and related problem Claude Le Bris, École Nationale Des Ponts Et Chaussées, France
09:40am - 10:20am	Sub-linear scaling algorithms for the study of the electronic structure of material Carlos Garcia-Cervera, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
10:20am - 10:50am	--- Coffee Break ---
10:50am - 11:30am	Raman imaging of graphene: from fundamental study to applications Zexiang Shen, Nanyang Technological University
11:30am - 12:10pm	Interface engineering in high-k gate stacks for nanoelectronic devices Shi Jie Wang, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, AStar*
12:10pm - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
	Chair: Yongwei Zhang, National University of Singapore and Institute of High Performance Computing
02:00pm - 02:40pm	Asymptotically correct finite difference schemes for highly oscillatory ODEs Anton Arnold, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
02:40pm - 03:20pm	A deterministic solver for a hybrid quantum-classical transport model in NanoMOSFETs Jose A. Carrillo, University Autonoma Barcerona, Spain
03:20pm - 03:50pm	--- Coffee Break ---
03:50pm - 04:30pm	Ab initio methods for quantum transport in macro-molecules Stefano Sanvito, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
04:30pm - 05:10pm	Abinitio calculation of entropy and free energy in defected solids Salvy Russo, RMIT Univeristy, Australia
06:30pm - 09:00pm	Dinner at East Coast Seafood Center (Volunteer and self-paid)

Friday, 14 Aug 2009
08:45am - 09:00am	Registration
	Chair: Claude Le Bris, École Nationale Des Ponts Et Chaussées, France
09:00am - 09:40am	Some numerical analysis issues in material and fluids simulations Jian-Guo Liu, Duke University, USA
09:40am - 10:20am	Boundary treatment, exact Hodge decomposition and the LBB condition for MAC-like schemes on curvilinear domains Wei-Cheng Wang, National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan
10:20am - 10:50am	--- Coffee Break ---
10:50am - 11:30am	Quantum drift-diffusion models in semiconductor simulation Li Chen, Tsinghua University, China
11:30am - 12:00nn	Traction and outflow boundary conditions for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations Jie Liu, National University of Singapore
12:00nn - 12:05pm	Closing Remarks

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