Nanoscale Material Interfaces:
Experiment, Theory and Simulation
(24 Nov 2004 - 23 Jan 2005)

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Schedule of Talks and Tutorials

 

Friday, 26 Nov 2004
Chair: Ping Lin, NUS
09:00am - 10:00am	Off lattice kinetic-Monte-Carlo Tim P. Schulze, University of Tennessee
10:00am - 10:15am	--- Tea Break ---
10:15am - 11:15am	Simulation of micro flows by lattice Boltzmann method Chang Shu, National University of Singapore   Presentation file: PPT
11:15am - 11:30am	--- Tea Break ---
11:30am - 12:30pm	Sharp-interface theory for nematic-isotropic phase transitions Eliot Fried, Washington University   Presentation file: PDF
12:30pm - 02:15pm	--- Lunch break ---
Chair: Xusen Wang, NUS
02:15pm - 03:15pm	Models for the thermal diode and the thermal transistor: pave the way for heat control Baowen Li, National University of Singapore   Presentation file: PPT
03:15pm - 03:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Coarsening dynamics and continuum modeling for epitaxial growth of thin films Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland
04:30pm - 05:30pm	Modelling the self-organized growth of quantum dots Yongwei Zhang, National University of Singapore and Institute of Materials Research Engineering, Singapore

 

Saturday, 27 Nov 2004
Chair: Yongwei Zhang, NUS
09:00am - 10:00am	Atomic-scale reconstructions on metal and semiconductor surfaces Andrew T S Wee, National University of Singapore   Presentation file: PPT
10:00am - 10:15am	--- Tea Break ---
10:15am - 11:15am	Macroscopic simulation of micro(nano)-structures in finite-strain elastoplasticity Carsten Carstensen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin   Presentation file: PDF
11:15am - 11:30am	--- Tea Break ---
11:30am - 12:30pm	Morphological evolution of thin films during epitaxy; large-scale numerical investigations of coarsening phenomena and scaling laws Alex Voigt, Caesar Research Center
12:30pm - 02:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
Chair: Tim P. Schulze, University of Tennessee
02:30pm - 03:30pm	Recent developments on phase field method for moving interface problems Xiaobing Feng, University of Tennessee
03:30pm - 03:45pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:45pm - 04:45pm	Droplet formation of two phase flow systems inside microfluidic devices Amy Shen, Washington University in St Louis

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Tutorial (6 - 7 Dec 2004)
Venue:	IMS Auditorium Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Monday, 6 Dec 2004
09:00am - 09:30am	Registration
Chair: Weizhu Bao, NUS
09:30am - 10:30am	Mathematical models and numerical simulations of superconductivity (Tutorial lecture 1) Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University     Presentation file: PDF
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Mathematical models and numerical simulations of superconductivity (Tutorial lecture 2) Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University     Presentation file: PDF
12:00nn - 02:00pm	--- Lunch break ---
Chair: Ping Lin, NUS
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Mathematical models and numerical simulations of superconductivity (Tutorial lecture 3) Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University     Presentation file: PDF

 

Tuesday, 7 Dec 2004
Chair: Ping Lin, NUS
09:30am - 10:30am	Mathematical models and numerical simulations of superconductivity (Tutorial lecture 4) Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University     Presentation file: PDF
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Mathematical models and numerical simulations of superconductivity (Tutorial lecture 5) Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University     Presentation file: PDF
12:00nn - 02:00pm	--- Lunch break ---
Chair: Weizhu Bao, NUS
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Mathematical models and numerical simulations of superconductivity (Tutorial lecture 6) Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University     Presentation file: PDF
03:00pm - 03:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Various aspect of the Hartee Fock approximation Claude Bardos, Université de Paris VII

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Tutorial (17, 20 - 21 Dec 2004)
Venue:	Seminar Room Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Friday, 17 Dec 2004
09:00am - 09:30am	Registration
Chair: Jian-Guo Liu, UMD
09:30am - 10:30am	Variational approaches in complex fluids (Tutorial lecture 1) Chun Liu, Pennsylvania State University
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Variational approaches in complex fluids (Tutorial lecture 2) Chun Liu, Pennsylvania State University

 

Monday, 20 Dec 2004
Chair: Weizhu Bao, NUS
09:30am - 10:30am	Variational approaches in complex fluids (Tutorial lecture 3) Chun Liu, Pennsylvania State University
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Variational approaches in complex fluids (Tutorial lecture 4) Chun Liu, Pennsylvania State University
12:00nn - 02:00pm	--- Lunch break ---
Chair: Tiegang Liu, IHPC
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Efficient and accurate numerical schemes for phase-field equations with applications to the mixture of two incompressible fluids Jie Shen, Purdue University, USA

 

Tuesday, 21 Dec 2004
Chair: Ping Lin, NUS
09:30am - 10:30am	Variational approaches in complex fluids (Tutorial lecture 5) Chun Liu, Pennsylvania State University
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Variational approaches in complex fluids (Tutorial lecture 6) Chun Liu, Pennsylvania State University

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Seminar (28 Dec 2004)
Venue:	IMS Auditorium Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Tuesday, 28 Dec 2004
02:30pm - 3:30pm	Computational methods for distributed parameter estimation with application to inversion of 3D electromagnetic data Uri Ascher University of British Columbia

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Tutorial (3 - 7 Jan 2005)
Venue:	Seminar Room Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Monday, 3 Jan 2005
09:00am - 09:30am	Registration
Chair: Jian-Guo Liu, UMD
09:30am - 10:30am	Mathematical models of interface dynamics and coarsening (Tutorial lecture 1) Robert Pego, Carnegie Mellon University   Presentation file: PDF
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Mathematical models of interface dynamics and coarsening (Tutorial lecture 2) Robert Pego, Carnegie Mellon University   Presentation file: PDF

 

Tuesday, 4 Jan 2005
Chair: Ping Lin, NUS
09:30am - 10:30am	Constitutive modeling of microstructural fluids (Tutorial lecture 1) Qi Wang, Florida State University
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Constitutive modeling of microstructural fluids (Tutorial lecture 2) Qi Wang, Florida State University

 

Wednesday, 5 Jan 2005
Chair: Weizhu Bao, NUS
09:30am - 10:30am	Mathematical models of interface dynamics and coarsening (Tutorial lecture 3) Robert Pego, Carnegie Mellon University   Presentation file: PDF
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Mathematical models of interface dynamics and coarsening (Tutorial lecture 4) Robert Pego, Carnegie Mellon University   Presentation file: PDF (Part I), PDF (Part II)

 

Thursday, 6 Jan 2005
Chair: Chang Shu, NUS
09:30am - 10:30am	Constitutive modeling of microstructural fluids (Tutorial lecture 3) Qi Wang, Florida State University
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Constitutive modeling of microstructural fluids (Tutorial lecture 4) Qi Wang, Florida State University

 

Friday, 7 Jan 2005
Chair: Yongwei Zhang, NUS
09:30am - 10:30am	Constitutive modeling of microstructural fluids (Tutorial lecture 5) Qi Wang, Florida State University
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Constitutive modeling of microstructural fluids (Tutorial lecture 6) Qi Wang, Florida State University
12:00nn - 12:30pm	A hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallelization of multi-scale dynamics code for nanostructure modeling & computation Bud Fox & Chun Lu, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

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Workshop - 2 (10-14 Jan 2005)
Venue:	IMS Auditorium Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Monday, 10 Jan 2005
08:30am - 09:00am	Registration (Day 1)
09:00am - 09:15am	Welcome by local organizer and Director of IMS
Chair: Ping Lin, NUS
09:15am - 10:00am	Faceted island and film growth: a level set approach David Srolovitz, Princeton University
10:00am - 10:45am	First-principles study of high-k oxide – Si and metal silicide – strained Si interfaces Yuanping Feng, National University of Singapore
10:45am - 11:15am	--- Tea Break ---
11:15am - 12:00nn	Chaos on the scaling attractor in Smoluchowski ripening and Burgers turbulence Robert Pego, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00nn - 12:45pm	Coarsening versus non coarsening of growing interfaces Chaouqi Misbah, Université Joseph Fourier
12:45pm - 02:30pm	--- Lunch break ---
Chair: Weizhu Bao, NUS
2:30pm - 03:15pm	Critical thresholds in Eulerian dynamics Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland
03:15pm - 04:00pm	Quantum drift-diffusion models derived from an entropy minimization principle Pierre Degond, Université Paul Sabatier   Presentation file: PDF
04:00pm - 04:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
04:30pm - 05:15pm	Dynamics of the Becker-Doering equation Barbara Niethammer, Humboldt-University of Berlin
05:15pm - 06:00pm	The vortex dynamics of a Ginzburg-Landau system under pinning effect Huaiyu Jian, Tsinghua University

 

Tuesday, 11 Jan 2005
08:45am - 09:00am	Registration (Day 2)
Chair: Xusen Wang, NUS
09:00am - 09:45am	One-dimensional interfaces in two-dimensional materials structures Ellen Williams, University of Maryland
09:45am - 10:30am	Atomistic and continuum modeling of homoepitaxial thin film growth Jim Evans, Iowa State University
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 11:45am	Distributions of terrace widths on misoriented surfaces: multipronged theory approaches to studying fluctuations in conjunction with quantitative experiments Theodore Einstein, University of Maryland
11:45am - 12:30pm	TBA Alberto Pimpinelli, Université Blaise Pascal
12:30pm - 02:15pm	--- Lunch break ---
Chair: Song Jiang, IAPCM
02:15pm - 03:00pm	Two recent advances in soft condensed matter physics Ping Sheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
03:00pm - 03:45pm	Dynamic of disclinations and microstructures in liquid crystal polymer flow Ping-Wen Zhang, Peking University
03:45pm - 04:15pm	--- Tea Break ---
04:15pm - 05:00pm	A quasi-continuum approximation for material problems and its analysis Ping Lin, National University of Singapore
05:00pm - 05:45pm	Projection-free Jacobi-Davidson method for Maxwell's equation Wei-Cheng Wang, National Tsing Hua University

 

Wednesday, 12 Jan 2005
08:45am - 09:00am	Registration (Day 3)
Chair: Jian-Guo Liu, UMD
09:00am - 09:45am	Islands in the stream: complex shape evolution driven by surface electromigration Joachim Krug, Universität zu Köln     Presentation file: PDF
09:45am - 10:30am	A level-set method for Epitaxial growth and self-organization of quantum dots Christian Ratsch, University of California, Los Angeles   Presentation file: PPT
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 11:45am	Numerical simulation for rotating Bose-Einstein condensate Weizhu Bao, National University of Singapore
11:45am - 12:30pm	Numerical methods in quantum kinetic theory Lorenzo Pareschi, University of Ferrara
12:30pm - 02:15pm	--- Lunch break ---
Chair: Bo Li, UCSD
02:15pm - 03:00pm	Step pattern formation on Si Vicinal surfaces with two coexisting structures Makio Uwaha, Nagoya Univeristy     Presentation file: PDF
03:00pm - 03:45pm	Explore 2D Wigner crystal stable near room temperature Xuesen Wang, National University of Singapore
03:45pm - 04:15pm	--- Tea Break ---
04:15pm - 05:00pm	A unified treatment of current-induced instabilities on Si surfaces John Weeks, University of Maryland

 

Thursday, 13 Jan 2005
08:45am - 09:00am	Registration (Day 4)
Chair: Ping-Wen Zhang, Peking University
09:00am - 09:45am	From architecture of nanostructure to engineering of functional materials Xiang-Yang Liu, National University of Singapore
09:45am - 10:30am	Topics in the mathematical analysis of nematic elastomers Georg Dolzmann, University of Maryland
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 11:45am	On continuum models of thin film epitaxy with biased diffusion: variational properties and bounds for the dynamic scaling Bo Li, University of California at San Diego
11:45am - 12:30pm	Recent progress on micromagnetic simulations Xiao-Ping Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
12:30pm - 02:00pm	--- Lunch break ---
02:00pm - 06:30pm	Tour to Bird Park & Botanic Garden
06:30pm - 08:30pm	Dinner at East Coast Sea Food Center (Restaurant JUMBO)

 

Friday, 14 Jan 2005
08:45am - 09:00am	Registration (Day 5)
Chair: Yuanping Feng, NUS
09:00am - 09:45am	Hydrodynamics of suspensions and nematic polymers Qi Wang, Florida State University
09:45am - 10:30am	Driven cavity flow: the slip boundary condition Tiezheng Qiang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 11:45am	A second-order γ-model BGK scheme for multimaterial compressible flows Song Jiang, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, China
11:45am - 12:30pm	Perfect and Wriggled Lamellar patterns in the Diblock copolymer problem Jun-Cheng Wei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12:30pm - 02:15pm	--- Lunch break ---
Chair: Tiegang Liu, IHPC
02:15pm - 03:00pm	Hydraulic fracture: multiscale processes and moving interfaces Anthony Peirce, University of British Columbia
03:00pm - 03:45pm	Numerical analysis of coarse-grained stochastic lattice dynamics Petr Plechac, University of Warwick
	End of workshop

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