A final program may be downloaded.
Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology, 3rd Floor
| Wednesday, August 21 | |||
| 8:15-8:45am | Registration and light breakfast | ||
| 8:45-9:00am | Welcome and opening remarks | ||
| Session 1: First Principle Calculations and Quantum Properties | |||
| 9:00-9:30am | Vikram Gavini. Large-scale real-space elecronic structure calculations | ||
| 9:30-10:00am | Amartya Banerjee. Symmetry, deformations and the search for unprecedented materials from first principles. | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Mauricio Ponga. How defects affect quantum mechanical properties in crystalline materials. | ||
| 10:30-11:00am |
Refreshment Break |
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| Session 2: Plasticity | |||
| 11:00-11:30am | David Rodney. Physical foundation of non-Schmid yeild criterion in BCC metals. | ||
| 11:30-12:00pm | Eugen Rabkin. The microstructural origins of size effect in strength of metal nanoparticles. | ||
| 12:00-12:30pm | John Bassani. Non-associative plastic flow: insights from multiscale simulations | ||
| 12:30-1:45pm | Lunch | ||
| Session 3: Defects I | |||
| 1:45-2:15pm | David McDowell. Some challenges in length and time scaling for modeling dislocations. | ||
| 2:15-2:45pm | Michael Ortiz. Atomistic simulation of hydrogen storage in Pd nanoparticles. | ||
| 2:45-3:15pm | Emmanuel Clouet. Secondary slip of screw dislocations in hcp zirconium. | ||
| 3:15-3:45pm | Refreshment Break |
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| Session 4: Defects II | |||
| 3:45-4:15pm | Jaime Marian. Simulating dynamic strain aging in body-centered cubic metals on diffusive timescale | ||
| 4:15-4:45pm | Anter El-Azab. A continuum theory for defects and microstructure evolution in irradiated crystalline solids | ||
| 5:00-6:30pm | Poster Session (partial list of presenters may be found here). | ||
| Thursday, August 22 | |||
| 8:00-8:30am | Light Breakfast | ||
| Session 5: Grain Boundaries and Interfaces | |||
| 8:30-9:00am | Yash Kulkarni. Mechanistic insights into crystalline interfaces via thermal fluctuations | ||
| 9:00-9:30am | Nikhil Admal. Polycrystal plasticity with anisotropic grain boundary evolution | ||
| 9:30-10:00am | Brandon Runnels. Unifying mechanisms of grain boundary migration through a continuum thermodynamic framework. | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Refreshment Break | ||
| Session 6: Mechanics of Materials I | |||
| 10:30-11:00am | Garritt Tucker. Implementing higher-order descriptors to unravel competing deformation effects at an atomic scale | ||
| 11:00-11:30am | Tim Rupert. Probing nanoscale complexion transformations with computational techniques that complement experiments. | ||
| 11:30-12:00pm | Jun Lou. Quantitative in-situ nanomechanical study of low dimensional materials. | ||
| 12:00-12:30pm | Mitra Taheri. Toward the Tailoring Materials Properties Far from Equilibrium: Convergence of Microscopy, Data Science, and Theory | ||
| 12:30-1:45pm | Lunch | ||
| Session 7: Mechanics of Materials II | |||
| 1:45-2:15pm | Ryan Elliott. A framework for the interpretation of modulated martensites in shape memory alloys | ||
| 2:15-2:45pm | Prashant Purohit. Interactions and assembly of inclusions on lipid membranes. | ||
| 2:45-3:15pm | Andrej Kosmrlj. Statistical mechanics of microscopically thin thermalized structures. | ||
| 3:15-3:45pm | Refreshment Break | ||
| Session 8: Mechanics of Materials III | |||
| 3:45-4:15pm | Pradeep Sharma. Flexoelectricity and Electrets | ||
| 4:15-4:45pm | Kaushik Dayal. Electromechanics and statistical mechanics of dielectric elastomers | ||
| 4:45-5:15 pm | Pedro Ponte-Castaneda. Macroscopic instabilities and domain formation in elastometric composites | ||
| 7:30pm | Dinner: White Dog Cafe | ||
| Friday, August 23 | |||
| 8:00-8:30am | Light Breakfast | ||
| Session 9: Phase Field Model | |||
| 8:30-9:00am | Peter Voorhees. The morphology and topology of nanoporous metals | ||
| 9:00-9:30am | Katsuyo Thornton. Nanoscale simulations using phase-field crystal models | ||
| 9:30-10:00am | Martin Diehl. Coupling Crystal Plasticity and Phase Field Methods - The Future of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering? | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Refreshment Break | ||
| Session 10: Scale Bridging I | |||
| 10:30-11:00am | Jarek Knap. Accelerating Scale Bridging via Surrogate Modeling | ||
| 11:00-11:30am | Yuri Mishin. Physcally-informed artificial neural networks for atomistic modeling of materials | ||
| 11:30-12:00pm | Xin Yan. Time-Scaling in atomistic and the rate-dependent mechanical behavior of nanostructures | ||
| 12:00-1:15pm | Lunch | ||
| Session 11: Scale Bridging II | |||
| 1:15-1:45pm | Dan Mordehai. Calculating the activation parameters of thermally activated dislocation mechanisms | ||
| 1:45-2:15pm | Andrea Liu. How Glasses Relax and Go with the Flow | ||