2008 FSMS meeting

The 2008 FSMS meeting was held at Florida State University. The workshop activities were developed by Anter El-Azab.

Faculty Talks

1. Ivan I. Oleynik (Physics, USF) "Atomistic simulations of materials at extreme conditions"
2. Aravind Asthagiri, (Chemical Engineering, UF) "Oxidation and reduction of transition metal surfaces"
3. Artem E. Masunov (Nanoscience Center and Chemistry, UCF) "Development and applications of density functional theory methods for organic photonic materials"
4. Patrick Schelling (AMPAC and Physics) "Theory and simulation of phonon transport in bulk and interfacial systems"
5. Simon Phillpot (Materials Science, UF) "Point defects and domain walls in LiNbO3"
6. Talat Rahman (Physics, UCF) "Electronic and geometric structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics of 34-atom Ag-Cu nanoalloy"
7. Sergey Stolbov (Physics, UCF) "Searching for the mechanism of unusually high catalytic activity of gold nanostructures"
8. Ke-Gang Wang (Physics, FIT) "Microstructural evolution and property predictions"
9. Susan Sinnott (Materials Science, UF) "Friction at the molecular scale: predictions from molecular dynamics Simulations"
10. Billy Oates (Mechanical Engineering, FSU) "Unusual polarization backswitching in ferroelectric thin films"
11. Xiaoqiang Wang (Scientific Computing, FSU) "Phase field method and its applications to biological microstructures"
12. Ongi Englander (FSU) "Toward Nanoscale Systems and Devices: Assembly, Integration and Characterization"
13. Yanzhi Zhang (FSU) "Quadrature-rule type approximations to the quasicontinuum method"
14. Gopinath Subramanian (FSU) "Configurations of ring polymers"
15. Jie Deng (FSU) " Statistics of internal stresses in dislocated crystals"