[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [iic-colloquium] IIC Colloquium Wednesday, Nov. 5: Extreme Multimillion-Atom Simulations

Friends, We're pleased to announce next Wednesday's IIC Colloquium talk. Please join us! Rosalind Reid Executive Director, Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard ******** IIC Colloquium: Multimillion-Atom Simulations of Materials Under Extreme Conditions Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Time: 4:00 p.m. Speaker: Priya Vashishta (Director, Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations (CACS), University of Southern California; Professor, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, and Computer Science) Abstract: Advanced materials and devices with nanoscale grains and features are being developed to achieve higher strength and toughness in ceramic materials and greater speeds in electronic devices. How can the behavior of these systems be modeled? Below 100 nanometers, continuum descriptions of materials and devices must be supplemented by atomistic descriptions. Current state-of-the-art atomistic simulations involve 10 million to 1 billion atoms. This talk will discuss the molecular-dynamics simulations used to study critical issues in the area of structural and dynamical correlations, as well as reactive processes in nanostructured materials under extreme conditions. ******* Directions, parking information etc.: http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium