2006 FSMS meeting

The 2006 meeting was held at the University of Central Florida in the physics department. Below is a photo of the inaugural meeting of the FSMS.

From left to right: Dmitry Kopelevich (UF), Hai-Ping Cheng (UF), Patrick Schelling (President, UCF), Susan Sinnot (UF), Simon Phillpot (Secretary, UF), Ivan Oleynik (Vice President, USF), Aravind Asthigiri (UF), Anter El-Azab (FSU), Artem Masunov (UCF), and Aniket Bhattacharya (UCF)

"Hands-On" Simulation Workshop

In total, about 22 students (6 undergraduate and 16 graduate) participated in the workshop. Prof. Schelling gave introductory lectures and some instruction, and then most of the workshop activities were led and supervised by graduate students Kumar and Skye from Prof. Schelling's group. In addition to several interesting MD simulation exercises, students learned to make VMD simulation movies and also the basics of MPI programming for MD codes.

All of the materials used in the workshop can be found by following this link.

Faculty talks

A list of faculty talks is given below. Some of the talks include links to .pdf or .ppt files.

1. Artem Masunov (Nanoscience Center and Chemistry, UCF) "Density-Functional theory studies of the ground and excited states of advanced materials"
2. Yongho Sohn and Rashmi Mohanty (AMPAC and Materials Science, UCF) "Phase-field simulation of microstructural evolution"
3. Aniket Bhattacharya (Physics, UCF) "Driven DNA dynamics in protein and silicon nanopores"
4. Hai Ping Cheng (Physics, UF) "Physical phenomena in 0-3D systems: Structure, dynamics, and electron transport"
5. Patrick Schelling (AMPAC and Physics, UCF) "Electronic-structure methods applied to problems in catalysis and electrochemistry"
6. Simon Phillpot (Materials Science, UF) "Molecular-dynamics simulations of tribology in polytetrafluoroethylene"
7. Anter El-Azab (Mechanical Engineering, FSU) "Interfacial and defect structure in nanoscale ceria/zirconia superlattices"
8. Ivan Oleynik (Physics, USF) "Bond order potentials for atomistic modeling of materials"
9. Dmitri Kopelevich (Chemical Engineering, UF) "Transport across multilayers and bilayers of amphiphilic molecule"
10. Susan Sinnott (Materials Science, UF) "Computational studies of carbon nanotube systems"

Student poster session

There were a total of 9 student posters presented at the 2006 meeting. The authors and titles are given here in a .pdf file.