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NAME: Mohamed Ebrahim
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant Researcher
- Solid State Physics
- National Research Center
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- mohebra001 AT gmail DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Nanocrystalline thin
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films
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Adolfo Eguiluz
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Department of Physics
- University of Tennessee
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- eguiluz AT utk DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- strongly correlated materials, clusters, quantum dots.
Phenomena
- charge excitations, spin excitations, electron correlation, collective phenomena, magnetism.
Methods
- time-dependent density-functional theory, self-consistent GW approximation and beyond, density-functional theory
NAME: Ted Einstein
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- University of Maryland
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- einstein AT umd DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Anter El-Azab
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Associate Professor
- School of Computational Science & Mechanical Engineering Department
- Florida State University
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- anter AT eng DOT fsu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
- deformation, growth, microstructure evolution, radiation effects
Methods
- Theory, Modeling and Simulation & Multiscale Modeling
NAME: Maria Emelianenko
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant Professor
- Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
- George Mason University
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- maria DOT emelianenko AT gmail DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- polycrystalline materials, alloys, multicomponent systems
Phenomena
- grain growth, triple junction motion, grain boundary character distribution, predictive modeling, microstructure evolution
Methods
- meso-scale modeling and simulation, Boltzmann, fractional dynamics, Fokker-Planck evolution equations, Monte-Carlo, Allen-Cahn equations
NAME: Keivan Esfarjani
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Visiting professor
- Dept. of Physics
- UC Santa Cruz
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- k1_esfarjani AT yahoo DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Fullerenes and carbon nanotubes
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semiconductors
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2D electron gas
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permalloys
Phenomena
- electrical and thermal transport
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magnetism
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lattice dynamics
Methods
- density functional theory
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tight binding
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Molecular dynamics
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Monte Carlo
NAME: James Evans
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Mathematics
- Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Volker Eyert
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Theory Project Leader
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- Institüt für Physikt, Universität Augsburg
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- Augsburg, 86135
- eyert AT physik DOT uni-augsburg DOT de
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Transition metal chalcogenides (e.g., vanadium oxides)
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Lanthanides
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Magnetic semiconductors
Phenomena
- Magnetic ordering
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Electron-phonon coupling
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Metal-insulator transition
Methods
- Density function theory
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Exact exchange
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Augmented spherical wave method
NAME: Eliot Fang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Manager
- Materials & Process Modeling & Computation Department
- Sandia National Laboratories
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- Albuquerque, NM 87185-1411
- hefang AT sandia DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals and metallic alloys
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Structural materials
Phenomena
- Mechanical properties
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Elastic bifurcations in crystals under various modes of loading Viscoplasticity
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Coupled microstructural evolution and mechanical deformation
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Damage initiation and evolution
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Cracking and failure
Methods
- Semiempirical potential and pseudopotential calculations
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Discrete and continuum mechanics methods
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Damage mechanics methods
NAME: Gayanath Fernando
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PRESENT POSITION:
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- Physics
- Univerrsity of Connecticut
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- Storrs, CT 06269
- fernando AT phys DOT uconn DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals, Alloys, Multilayers, Nanostructures etc.
Phenomena
- Electronic and magnetic properties of materials.
Methods
- First Principles Methods, Quantum Monte Carlo, Molecular
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Dynamics
NAME: Michael Fluss
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Senior Scientist (experimentalist)
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- LLNL
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- Livermore, CA
- fluss1 AT llnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Experimentalist
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Highly correlated systems
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Plutonium
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4f and 5f systems
Phenomena
- Heavy Fermions and HCES
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Quantum criticality
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Phase diagrams
Methods
- Transport and Thermodynamics
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Electron and phonon spectroscopy
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uSR PAC, resistometry, heat capacity and magnetic
NAME: Stephen Foiles
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Principal Member of Technical Staff
- Computational Materials Science and Engineering Department
- Sandia National Laboratories
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- Albuquerque, NM 87185-1411
- foiles AT sandia DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals and alloys
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Surfaces and thin films
Phenomena
- Segregation to surfaces and interfaces
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Structure and dynamics of interfaces
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Dislocation/interface interactions
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Dislocation properties (core structures, mobility)
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Thermodynamics of defects
Methods
- Atomic scale simulations - molecular statics, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo
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Development of empirical interatomic potentials
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Kinetic Monte Carlo and transition state theory
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Pseudo-potential electronic structure methods
NAME: Megan Frary
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant Professor
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Boise State University
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- meganfrary AT boisestate DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
- - Microstructural evolution
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- Intergranular phenomena
Methods
- - Monte Carlo
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- percolation-based models
NAME: Hamish Fraser
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Ohio State University
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- Columbus, OH 43210
- fraser DOT 3 AT osu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Jim Freericks
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- Georgetown University
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- freericks AT physics DOT georgetown DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Brent Fultz
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Mater. Sci. and Appl. Phys.
- California Institute of Technology
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- btf AT caltech DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- metals and alloys.
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oxides.
Phenomena
- thermodynamics,
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lattice dynamics,
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structure
Methods
- scattering of
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x-rays, neutrons,
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electrons.
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plane wave
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pseudopotential
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calculations.
NAME: F. Javier Garaizar
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PRESENT POSITION:
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- Center for Applied Scientific Computing
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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- Livermore, CA 94551
- garaizar AT llnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Granular materials, powders
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Metals
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Plasma lasers
Phenomena
- Elasto-plastic deformations
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Shear bands, fracture
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Onlinear waves
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Interaction of lasers and plasmas
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Interfaces
Methods
- Adaptive mesh refinement
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Finite differences
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Front tracking
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Multigrid algorithms
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Multi-scale algorithms
NAME: Eric Garfunkel
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PRESENT POSITION:
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- Department of Chemistry
- Rutgers University
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- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087
- garf AT rutchem DOT rutgers DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Thin films on semiconductors
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Interfaces and surfaces
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Silicon oxide and oxynitrides
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High dielectric constant metal oxides
Phenomena
- Oxidation and oxynitridation of 0-100A films
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Structure, composition, and electrical properties of films
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Atomic and molecular transport in films
Methods
- Experimental--ion scattering, scanning probe, photoemission, electrical
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Theoretical--quantum chemical
NAME: Vladimir Gavrilenko
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Associate Research Professor
- Center for Materials Research, Physics
- Norfolk State University
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- vgavrilenko AT nsu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- nanocomposite
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organic- inorganic
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materials
Phenomena
- linear and
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nonlinear
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optics;
Methods
NAME: Sharon Glotzer
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Chemical Engineering
- University of Michigan
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- Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136
- sglotzer AT umich DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Polymers
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Liquid crystals
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Colloids
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Glasses and glass-forming materials
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Complex fluids
Phenomena
- Glass transition.
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Phase separation, spinodal decomposition, order-disorder.
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Nucleation and crystallization.
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Pattern formation/microstructure development and control.
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Dynamical heterogeneity of frustrated materials.
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Cooperativity.
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Viscoelasticity and transport phenomena.
Methods
- Classical molecular dynamics.
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Phase-field/Cahn-Hilliard methods.
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Lattice Monte Carlo.
NAME: Niri Govind
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Senior Scientist
- Research & Development
- Accelrys, Inc
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- nxg AT accelrys DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Niri Govind
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Senior Scientist
- EMSL
- PNNL
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- niri DOT govind AT pnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Michael Greenfield
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Chemical Engineering
- University of Rhode Island
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- Kingston, RI 02881
- greenfield AT egr DOT uri DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Lubricants and lubricant additives
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Glassy and melt polymers
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Liquids (refrigerants, fuels)
Phenomena
- Friction and tribology
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Small molecule diffusion in polymers
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Solubility and adsorption
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Thermodynamic properties (P,V,TT,H,S)
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Adhesion
Methods
- Molecular dynamics
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Transition state theory
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Monte Carlo methods (Classical, reverse, kinetic)
NAME: Gary Grest
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
- Materials & Process Computation & Modeling
- Sandia National Laboratory
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- Albuquerque, NM 87185-1411
- gsgrest AT sandia DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Polymers and cross linked networks
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Complex fluids
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Granular materials
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Emulsions
Phenomena
- Diffusion and viscosity of entangled polymers
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Polymers near surfaces and interfaces
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Friction and wear
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Diffusion through microporous materials
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Spreading and wetting
Methods
- Molecular dynamics
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Monte Carlo
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Steepest decent and optimization
NAME: D. C. Gupta
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Sr. Lecturer
- School of Studies in Physics
- Jiwaji University
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- sosfizix AT yahoo DOT co DOT in; sosfizix AT gmail DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- F-electron systems,
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rare- and alkaline-
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earth compounds,
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transition metal
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compounds, half
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metalic compounds,
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etc.
Phenomena
- Phase
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transformation,
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electronic
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structure, elastic
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constants, phonon
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properties,
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magnetic
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properties, etc.
Methods
- full-potential and
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pseudo-potential
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methods
NAME: Nilesh Gurao
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PRESENT POSITION:
- PhD sudent
- Materials Engineering
- Indian Institute of Science
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- nileshg AT platinum DOT materials DOT iisc DOT ernet DOT in
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
- plasticity and texture evolution
Methods
- Split Hopkinson, Quasistatic testing, Torsion, Channel die compression
NAME: Torgny Gustafsson
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor of Physics
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Rutgers University
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- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
- gustaf AT physics DOT rutgers DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metal surfaces
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Semiconductors surfaces and interfaces
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Oxides
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High dielectric constant materials
Phenomena
- Surface reconstruction
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thin film formation
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Oxidation mechanisms
Methods
- Medium energy ion scattering
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STM
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Synchrotron radiation
NAME: Aourag Hafid
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor and Director of the Computational Materials science Laboratory
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- Univeristy of Sidi-Bel-Abbes
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- , 22000
- hafid DOT aourag AT utbm DOT fr
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Intermetallic Materials
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Fullerenes
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Clathrates
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Transitoin-metals
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Nitride-semiconductors
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I-VII semiconductors
Phenomena
- Structural
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Diffusion
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Defects
Methods
- EAM
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MEAM
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LAPW
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Pseudopotential
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Tight-bonding
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MD
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MC
NAME: Jason Hancock
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant
- Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée
- Université de Genève
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- jason DOT hancock AT unige DOT ch
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Oxides, rare-earth
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intermetallics,
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superconductors, materials
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near the metallic-magnetic
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boundary
Phenomena
- Electronic excitations in
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materials
Methods
- Resonant Inelastic X-ray
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Scattering with soft and hard
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X-rays
NAME: Bruce Harmon
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Distinguished Professor of Physics/Senior Scientist and Program Director
- Department of Physics and Astronomy/Condensed Matter Physics
- Iowa State University/Ames Laboratory, USDOE
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- Ames, Iowa 50011
- harmon AT ameslab DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Rare earth and transition metal magnets
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Magnetic semiconductors, and magnetic molecules
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Superconductors
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Ordered transition metal alloys
Phenomena
- Martensitic phase transformations, phase stability, phase diagrams
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Magnetism, non-collinear magnetism, magneto-crystalline anisotropy, finite temperature and nonequilibrium properties of magnets, technical properties of magnets
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Spin dynamics
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Electron-phonon interactions: superconductivity, transport, phase stability
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Optical properties from IR to X-ray (and even gamma-ray for Compton scattering)
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Magneto-optics in the same energy ranges
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Tunneling, transport
Methods
- Ab initio electronic structure methods using Density Functional Theory
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Analysis of neutron and x-ray scattering data, particularly magnetic
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Model Hamiltonians
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Spin dynamics
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Micromagnetics (developing)
NAME: Zahid Hasan
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant Professor
- Physics
- Princeton University
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- mzhasan AT princeton DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Kristl Hathaway
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Head
- Multifunctional Materials Branch
- Naval Research Laboratory
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- Washington, DC 20375
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Magnetic materials, bulk and thin films
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Rare-earth transition metal compounds
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Amorphous magnetic metals
Phenomena
- Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy
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Magnetostriction
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Micromagnetics
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Strain and epitaxy
Methods
- Ab initio electronic structure, DFT-LSDA
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Semi-empirical Effective Hamiltonian techniques
NAME: Youliang He
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PRESENT POSITION:
- student
- Mining, Metals, and Materials Engineering
- McGill University
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- Montreal, QC H3A 2B2
- youliang DOT he AT mail DOT mcgill DOT ca
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- TRIP steel, Fe-Ni alloys, Iron meteorites, Ni-base
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superalloys.
Phenomena
- Deformation, heat transfer, transformation textures,
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orientation relationships, dislocation reaction and dissociation, variant
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selection.
Methods
- EBSD, SEM, FEM, crystal plasticity, Rodrigues-Frank
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space, Quaternions.
NAME: Grant Heffelfinger
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Manager
- Materials Simulation Science Department
- Sandia National Laboratories
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- Albuquerque, NM 87185-1111
- gsheffe AT sandia DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Polymers
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Ferroelectrics
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Lubricants & soft materials
Phenomena
- Diffusion and adsorption
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Structure of amorphous materials
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Solvation effects
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Chemical reaction
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Tribology
Methods
- Atomistic methods (MD, MC, and related methods)
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Stochasic methods, QSPR
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Electronic structure, DFT
NAME: Charles Henager
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Staff Scientist
- Structural Materials Development Group
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- Richland, WA 99352
- chuck DOT henager AT pnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals and alloys
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Ceramic composites
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Materials processing
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Coatings, thin-films
Phenomena
- Mechanical properties - deformation, plasticity, superplasticity
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Fracture - subcritical crack growth, time-dependent fracture
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Defect kinetics - grain boundary sliding, point defects, radiation effects
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Microstructure evolution - recrystallization, dislocation patterning
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Interfacial reactions - displacement reactions, joining, adhesion
Methods
- Discrete and continuum mechanics methods, effective medium approaches
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Discrete micromechanics
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Atomistic simulation, MD relaxation
NAME: Richard Hennig
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Materials Science and Eng.
- Cornell University
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- rhennig AT ccmr DOT cornell DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- transition metal alloys, organic and conventional semiconductors, ceramics
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Phenomena
- defect evolution, phase transformations, electronic structure, impurity effects on phase transformation and electronic structure, defect levels in semiconductors
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Methods
- quantum Monte Carlo, density functional method, hybrid functionals, tight-binding methods, classical potentials, molecular dynamics
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NAME: John Hill
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- Physics
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
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- hill AT bnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Kai-Ming Ho
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- Iowa State University
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- Ames, Iowa 50011
- kmh AT ameslab DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Semiconductor clusters and surfaces
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Carbon
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Transition metals and transition-metal-alloys
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Proteins
Phenomena
- Structure
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Electronic properties
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Mechanical properties
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Surfaces and Interfaces
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Photonic crystals
Methods
- Density functional calculations- electronic structure, total energy, molecular dynamics
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Tight-binding and classical molecular dynamics
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Order-N methods for large scale electronic structure calculations:
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Genetic algorithms
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Solution of Maxwell's equation : plane-wave method, transfer-matrix method, finite
NAME: James Horwitz
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Team Lead
- Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
- Department of Energy
Materials Science and Engineering
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
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- James DOT Horwitz AT science DOT doe DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Han Hsu
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Postdoctoral Associate
- Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
- University of Minnesota
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- hsuhan AT cems DOT umn DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
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Methods
NAME: Hanchen Huang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- School of Engineering Professor of Sustainable Energy
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- University of Connecticut
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- hanchen AT engr DOT uconn DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals and covalent systems.
Phenomena
- Growth, mechanical deformation, aging, and radiation damage.
Methods
- Atomistic simulations and experiments
NAME: Zahid Hussain
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Senior Staff Scientist
- Advanced Light Source
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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- ZHussain AT lbl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
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