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Co-chairs
Members
This two-month program will bring together leading international physicists, material scientists, computational scientists and applied mathematicians, and experts from NUS Departments of Physics, Materials Science, Mathematics and Computational Science, and from A*STAR institutes IMRE and IHPC. The program participants will:
review the recent development in the research on materials surfaces and interfaces, from experiment to theory to simulation;
identify critical scientific issues in the understanding of the fundamental principles and basic mechanisms of interfacial dynamics in different kinds of materials systems, particularly those that are characterized by fluctuation, multiscale, and non-equilibrium;
accelerate the interaction of applied mathematics and computational science with physics and materials science, and promote the highly interdisciplinary research on new material interface problems with emerging applications.
The program activities will consist of:
1. Collaborative research: 24 Nov 2004 - 23 Jan 2005
During the period of the program, Institute for Mathematical Sciences will provide an excellent research environment for local and international visitors from physics, materials science, applied mathematics and computational science to discuss and to conduct collaborative research.
2. Workshop 1: 25 - 27 Nov 2004
This workshop will focus on basic properties of material interfaces in nanoscale systems. Here, material interfaces are understood in a broad sense, and include but are not limited to epitaxial thin films, domain walls in micromagnetic material, martensitic interfaces, grain boundaries, vortices in superconductors, and polymeric chain networks. The basic properties include thermal fluctuation, nucleation, aggregation, kinetics, coarsening, impurities, stresses, charge transport, surface magnetism, effects of applied fields, etc. Participants from areas of statistical mechanics, surface physics, materials science, and applied mathematics, will discuss new issues in nanoscale material interfaces and the possible approaches to solve new problems.
3. Tutorials: 6 - 7 Dec 2004, 17, 20 - 21 Dec 2004, 3 - 7 Jan 2005
Distinguished researchers will give tutorial lectures on topics closely related to the main themes of the program in material physics, computational materials science and applied mathematics. Lecture notes will be distributed.
4. First Singapore Workshop on PDE and Scientific Computing: 23 - 24 Dec 2004
5. Workshop 2: 10 - 14 Jan 2005
This workshop will continue and extend the discussions in Workshop 1, and will focus more on the mathematical and computational aspects of the underlying researches. Participants will explore various kinds of hierarchical models and multiscale algorithms for material interfaces and their relations to bulk material. Possible unified approaches will be identified. Efforts will be made to bridge the length and time scales in different models. Topics will range from mechanical properties of thin films to grain boundary motion and to singularities in Ginzburg-Landau dynamics; from discrete to continuum and to stochastic models; and from ab initio and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to fast algorithms for partial differential equations.
6. Seminars outside the tutorial and workshop periods: 28 Dec 2004
7. Public lecture: 12 Jan 2005
The
mathematics of scientific computation
... Organized in conjunction
with Department of
Mathematics, NUS and Singapore Mathematical Society
Speaker:
Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland
Date & Time: Wednesday, 12 Jan 2005, 6:30pm -
7:30pm
Venue: LT 31 (Science Auditorium), S-16, Level 3,
NUS
8. School lectures: 12 Jan 2005, 13 Jan 2005
Macromolecular "fluids" and liquid crystals
...Jointly organized by
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science,
NUS and Raffles Girls’ School
Speaker:
Qi Wang, Florida State University
Date & Time: Wednesday, 12 Jan 2005, 2:00pm -
3:00pm
Venue: Raffles Girls’ School
Can a wire
have a memory?
...Jointly organized by
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science,
NUS and National Junior College
Speaker:
Georg Dolzmann, University of Maryland
Date & Time: Thursday, 13 Jan 2005, 2:50pm -
3:40pm
Venue: National Junior College
IMS Membership is not required for participation in above activities. For attendance at these activities, please complete the registration form (MSWord|PDF|PS) and fax it to us at (65) 6873 8292 or email it to us at ims@nus.edu.sg.
If you are an IMS member or are applying for IMS membership, you do not need to register for these activities.
The Institute for Mathematical Sciences invites applications for membership for participation in the above program. Limited funds to cover travel and living expenses are available to young scientists. Applications should be received at least three (3) months before the commencement of membership. Application form is available in (MSWord|PDF|PS) format for download.
For enquiries on scientific aspects of the program, please email any one of the co-chairs.
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