W O M T

Workshop on Opportunities in Materials Theory

Program

Conference Room 375 at National Science Foundation

Wednesday: October 7

Time	Speaker	Title
19:30-21:00	Registration
19:30-21:00	Bruce Taggart (NSF/MPS/DMR/MT) Daryl Hess (NSF/MPS/DMR/MT)	Informal discussion: The materials theory program and proposal writing

Thursday: October 8

Time	Speaker	Title
7:30-8:30	Registration
8:30-9:00	Bob Eisenstein (NSF/MPS) Tom Weber (NSF/MPS/DMR) Bruce Taggart (NSF/MPS/DMR/MT) Bob Schrieffer (NHMFL)	Welcome
Strongly Correlated Electron Materials Chair: M. Jarrell
9:00-9:40	A. Millis Johns Hopkins U	High Temperature Superconductors and Beyond: Open Issues in the Physics of Metals [abstract]
9:40-10:20	S. White UC Irvine	Stripes and Ladders [abstract]
10:20-11:00	M.P.A. Fisher ITP, UCSB	Fractional Charge in the Quantum Hall Effect [abstract]
11:00-11:10	Break
Micro-Macro Connection Chair: K. Jackson
11:10-11:50	E. Kaxiras Harvard University	From the Electronic Structure of Solids to the Macroscopic Behavior of Materials [abstract]
11:50-12:30	C. S. Jayanthi U of Louisville	Large Scale Quantum-Mechanical Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Local Analysis of Systems with Low Symmetry: Initial Stage of Growth on Silicon [abstract]
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:40	D. Chrzan UC Berkeley	Modeling Mechanical Properties at the Mesoscale: Case Study of Ni₃Al [abstract]
Interface with Biology Chair: P. Pincus
14:40-15:20	R. Goldstein U of Arizona	Pearling and Pinching; Twisting and Writhing [abstract]
15:20-16:00	J. Marko U of Illinois-Chicago	Biophysics of Chromosome Disentanglement [abstract]
16:00-17:00	Open Discussion Moderator: M. Robbins
17:00-19:00	Reception

Friday: October 9

Time	Speaker	Title
Systems Far From Equilibrium Chair: R. K. P. Zia
8:30-9:10	J. Carlson UCSB	Friction from Atomic to Tectonic Scales [abstract]
9:10-9:50	M. Marder U of Texas-Austin	Atomic Effects in Brittle Fracture [abstract]
9:50-10:30	M. Robbins Johns Hopkins U	Where Does Friction Come From? [abstract]
10:30-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	L.-Q. Chen Penn State	Modeling Microstructural Evolution in Materials [abstract]
Complex Materials Chair: S. Glotzer
11:20-12:00	A. Liu UCLA	Why Do Like-Charged Rods Attract ? [abstract]
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-13:40	G. Ceder MIT	First-Principles Materials Design: From Metal- Insulator Physics to Building a Better Battery [abstract]
13:40-14:20	P. Goldbart U of Illinois Urbana	Vulcanized Matter: Seeking Simplicity in Complex Media [abstract]
Quantum Coherence in Solids Chair: D. W. Hess
14:20-15:00	I. Chuang IBM Almaden	Quantum Computation: Theory, Practice, and Future Prospects [abstract]
Workshop Summary and Closing Discussion
15:00-15:40	J.R. Schrieffer NHMFL	Summary
15:40-16:30	Open Discussion

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