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MSE 4270/6270 Mini-Symposium Preliminary Program
Day One: Friday, December 9, 2011, MSE Building, Room 125

9:30 - 10:00:Christopher Duska
Non-equilibrium Mn-rich clustering in dilute a-GeMn
10:00 - 10:30:Rebecca Conti
Molecular dynamics modeling the resonant frequency vibrations of elastic close packed membranes actuated by an external force
10:30 - 11:00:Nam Le
Phonon scattering into multiple k-states at a Si/SiGe interface by wave-packet simulation
11:00 - 11:30:Brandon McClimon
Atomistic simulation of the behavior of, and intercalation of silicon into, ordered C-60 films
11:30 - 12:00:Gopalakrishnan Ramalingam
Simulation of 1D Mn wire growth on reconstructed Si (100)

12.00 - 13.00:Pizza Break

13:00 - 13:30:Christoph Klein
Investigation of the efficacy of different molecular dynamics potentials for water-octanol simulations
13:30 - 14:00:Micah Schaible
Ion bombardment of simulated silicon/oxygen substrate
14:00 - 14:30:Max Lupton
Molecular dynamics study of amorphization of pure metals and binary alloys by fast quenching from the melt
14:30 - 15:00:Jayendran Srinivasan
Atomistic modeling of grain boundary structure and diffusion
15:00 - 15:30:Herbert Ryan
Computational study of the mechanical properties of "brick and mortar" nanocomposite materials
15:30 - 16:00:Bernard Wittmaack
Mesoscopic modeling of carbon nanotube materials with a bead-and-spring model

Day Two: Saturday, December 10, 2011, MSE Building, Room 125

9:30 - 10:00:Cheng-Yu Shih
Two-dimensional simulation of nanosecond ablation of a molecular target
10:00 - 10:30:Jishnu Bhattacharyya
Strain relief mechanisms in lattice mismatched heterostructures
10:30 - 11:00:Kevin Duvall
Molecular dynamics study of diffusion with varying system conditions
11:00 - 11:30:Christopher Baker
Interfacial film effects on thermal boundary conductance in Au-Si system explored in molecular dynamics combined with two-temperature model for the electronic heat transfer
11:30 - 12:00:Jayaprakash Srinivasan
Atomistic simulation of the doping process in Si (110) and Ge (110) crystals

12.00 - 13.00:Pizza Break

13:00 - 13:30:Karen Long
Structure and structure effects of small Pd clusters
13:30 - 14:00:Xuhui Feng
Kinetic Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics study of the stability and evolution of nanoscale features on surfaces
14:00 - 14:30:Thomas Lawlor
Molecular dynamics study of diffusional shape transformations in nanoparticles
14:30 - 15:00:Bradley Richards
Simulation of the solidification process in Si
15:00 - 15:30:Tyler Owens
Molecular dynamics study of coexisting liquid and solid phases

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