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NAME: Lester Ingber
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PRESENT POSITION:
- President
- Lester Ingber Research
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- ingber AT ingber DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- multivariate nonlinear stochastic systems
Phenomena
- multivariate nonlinear stochastic systems
Methods
- Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA) global optimization and importance sampling.
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Path integral numerical algorithms for development of distributions.
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Copula algorithms for assessing risk and uncertainty in multivariate systems with different individual distributions.
NAME: Zeke Insepov
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Computational Physicist
- Mathematics & Computer science
- Argonne National Laboratory
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- insepov AT anl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- nuclear fuels, reactor structural materials, nano-materials, gas cluster theory and applications, silicon, metals, superconductor (Nb), niobium oxides (NbOx)
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Phenomena
- fundamental properties, transport coefficients, radiation defects, fracture, aging, shock waves
Methods
- Ab-initio electronic structure, classical Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, Transition state theory, thermodynamics, kinetics, elastisity and thermal conductivity theory
NAME: Tirtom Ismail
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PRESENT POSITION:
- PhD student
- Fracture and Reliability Research Institute
- Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
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- itirtom AT rift DOT mech DOT tohoku DOT ac DOT jp
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Stainless Steel, SS304, SS316L
Phenomena
- Stress Corrosion Cracking
Methods
- Crack Growth Rate estimation by FEM and MD.
NAME: Koblar Jackson
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- Central Michigan University
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- Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
- jackson AT phy DOT cmich DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Atomic clusters
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Chalcogenide glasses
Phenomena
- structural and electronic properties
Methods
- DFT, Tight-binding, global optimization algorithms
NAME: Koen Janssens
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Scientist
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- Laboratory for Materials Behavior
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- koen DOT janssens AT psi DOT ch
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Any polycrystal material
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Current focus on metals
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Interest in all materials and processes where the phenomena mentioned below play an important role
Phenomena
- Deformation and mechanical properties
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Recovery
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Recrystallization
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Grain growth
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Precipitaion
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Phase transformation
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Cyclic plasticity and fatigue
Methods
- Cellular Automata (3D Random Grid based)
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Statistical Modeling
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Finite Element Modeling
NAME: Mark Jarrell
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics and Astronomy
- Louisiana State University
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- mjarrell AT lsu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: David Jiles
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Director, Wolfson Centre for Magnetics
Director, Institute of Advanced Materials & Energy Systems
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- Cardiff University
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- jilesd AT Cardiff DOT ac DOT uk
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Magnetic materials
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Magnetostricitive (e.g., TbDyFe)
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Amorphous (e.g., FeSiB)
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High frequency & communications materials ( e.g., Ferrites)
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High permeability materials (e.g., magnetic recording head materials)
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Magnetoresistive (e.g., Spin dependent tunnnel junctions)
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Magnetocaloric materials (e.g., Gd(SiGe))
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Permanent magnets (e.g., NdFeB)
Phenomena
- Magnetic hysteresis
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Stochastic magnetization processes
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Non linear effects
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Magnetostriction
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Magnetomechanical effects
Methods
- Inductive measurement methods
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Phenomenological modeling of magnetic properties
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Magnetoelastic LLG modeling
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Barkhausen effect theory and modeling
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FEM techniques
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Nondestructive evaluation
NAME: Michelle Johannes
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Research Physicist
- Center for Computational Materials Science
- Naval Research Laboratory
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- johannes AT dave DOT nrl DOT navy DOT mil
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
- Superconductivity
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Magnetism
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Battery Performance
Methods
- Density Functional Theory (and extensions)
NAME: Duane D. Johnson
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Materials Science and Engineering
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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- Urbana, IL 61801
- duanej AT uiuc DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Ordered and disordered alloys, especially multi-component alloys.
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Transition metal magnets, either bulk bulk and mutlilayer.
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Bulk amorphous alloys.
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Metal/metal-oxides.
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Nanoclusters on urfaces.
Phenomena
- Thermodynamic Properties
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Ordering and Phase Stability in Multicomponent Alloys
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Electronic Origins for Ordering in Alloys
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Coupled Magnetic, Chemical and Displacement Fluctuations in Alloys
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Energetics and Stability of Defect (interfaces, GB, APB) Structures
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Magnetic Behavior of Metallic Alloys
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Electron spectroscopies
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Stability and Structure of Nanoclusters on Surfaces
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Alloy Solutes in Defected Structures
Methods
- DFT-based electronic-structure methods.
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Multiple-scattering techniques, e.g., KKR, KKR-CPA
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Linear-response theories, esp. for thermodynamic stability
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Combined MD and electronic-structure methods, like VASP
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Scalable-parallel algorithms for materials computation.
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Ab-initio, order-N methods for large-scale s calculations
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Wavelet basis sets for large-scale computation
NAME: Andrey Kalinichev
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Research Associate Professor
- Chemistry, Geological Sciences
- Michigan State University
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- kalinich AT chemistry DOT msu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Inorganic and organic layered and nanoporous materials: clays, LDHs, cement phases, polymer desalination membranes,
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organo-inorganic nanocomposites
Phenomena
- Structure, dynamics, and reactivity of mineral-water interfaces
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Hydration, adsorption, and mobility of aqueous species at materials' surfaces
Methods
- Classical and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations
NAME: Pritish Kar
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Research Asst
- Materials Science & Engr
- UC Berkeley
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- pkar2005 AT gmail DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Alain Karma
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Department of Physics
- Northeastern University
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- Boston, MA 02115
- a DOT karma AT neu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metallic alloys (various types -dilute, eutectic, and peritectic binary alloys + ternary alloys)
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Semiconductors
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High temperature superconductors
Phenomena
- Solidification
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Fluid flow
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Fragmentation
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Surface growth
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Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Methods
- Phase-field
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Boundary Integral
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Lattice Boltzmann
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Diffusion Monte Carlo
NAME: Deepa Kasinathan
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Post Doctoral Researcher
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
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- kasinath AT cpfs DOT mpg DOT de
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Strongly correlated materials
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Transition-Metal Oxides
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Low-Dimensional Magnetic Systems
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Phenomena
- Mott Transition
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Superconductivity
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Magnetism
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Methods
- Density Functional Theory (DFT)
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LDA+U
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Constrained DFT
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NAME: Efthimios Kaxiras
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- Harvard University
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- kaxiras AT cmt DOT harvard DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Young-June Kim
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant Professor
- Physics
- University of Toronto
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- yjkim AT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Dale Koelling
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PRESENT POSITION:
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- Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- Department of Energy, U.S. Gov't.
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- dale DOT koelling AT science DOT doe DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Klaus Koepernik
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Staff memeber
- Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics
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- k DOT koepernik AT ifw-dresden DOT de
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Lou Kondic
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Mathematics
- NJIT
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- kondic AT njit DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- thin fluid films on
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nanoscale
Phenomena
- instabilities,
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pattern formation,
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phase change,
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assembly
Methods
- modeling, continuum
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and discrete (MD)
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simulations
NAME: Peter Kroll
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Chemistry & Biochemistry
- UT Arlington
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- pkroll AT uta DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- amorphous ceramics &
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glasses
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nanoclusters
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dense nitrides
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superhard materials
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Phenomena
- percolation
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hardness
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structure formation in
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multicomponent systems
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optical properties
Methods
- density functional theory
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network construction
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molecular dynamics
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NAME: Leeor Kronik
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PRESENT POSITION:
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- Department of Materials and Interfaces
- Weizmann Institute of Science
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- leeor DOT kronik AT weizmann DOT ac DOT il
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Nano materials, spintronic materials, organic electronic materials
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Phenomena
- Interface phenomena; quantum size effects; Optical excitation processes
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Methods
- Density functional theory; real-space calculations
NAME: Wei Ku
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Associate Scientist
- Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science
- Brookhaven National Lab
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- weiku AT bnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- strongly correlated materials
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low-dimensional materials
Phenomena
- phases with broken symmetry: charge, orbital, lattic, and magnetic order
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Mott transition
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quasi-particle and particle-hole excitations
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Methods
- energy-resolved, symmetry-respecting Wannier function
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numerical canonical transformation
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finite-temperature many-body perturbation theory
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time-dependent density functional theory
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NAME: Mukul Kumar
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Materials Scientist
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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- Livermore, CA 94550
- mukul AT llnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Structural materials
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Diamond and diamond-like materials
Phenomena
- Grain boundary engineering
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Dislocation core structures and yielding behavior
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Order-disorder transformations
Methods
NAME: Joe Kwiatkowski
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Postdoctoral scholar
- Materials Science / Chemical Engineering
- Stanford University
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- joejk AT stanford DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Microstructured
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materials, with
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particular focus on
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organic solids.
Phenomena
- Bulk charge
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transport
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properties.
Methods
- Kinetic Monte Carlo.
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Molecular dynamics.
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Quantum chemistry.
NAME: Alexander Landa
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Research Scientist
- Materials
- LLNL
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- Livermore, CA 94550
- landa1 AT llnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals and alloys
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Metal surfaces and interfaces
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Liquid and amorphous metallic alloys
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Magnetic Materials
Phenomena
- Segregation to surfaces and interfaces
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Structure and thermodynamic properties of surfaces and interfaces
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Phase diagram calculation
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Liquid state properties, chemicl short-range order in metallic melts
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Glass transition
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Amorphous magnetism
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Permanent magnets
Methods
- Monte Carlo
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Pseudopotentials and their development
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Ab initio DFT pseudopotential electronic structure methods: VASP
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Ab initio DFT, LDA, GGA, electronic structure methods: KKR-CPA, TB-LMTO-CPA, FP-LMTO
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Green's function technique for surfaces and interfaces
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Thermodynamic perturbation theory method
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Cluster Expansion Methods
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CVM, CW
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Static concentration method
NAME: David P. Landau
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor & Director of Center for Simulational Physics
- Physics
- University of Georgia
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- Athens, GA 30602
- dlandau AT hal DOT physast DOT uga DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Magnetic systems (bulk, surfaces, and films)
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Semiconductor alloys
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Equilibrium polymers
Phenomena
- Phase transitions; magnetic, order-disorder, effects of elastic interactions
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Magnetic excitations, static and dynamic properties
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Growth of films
Methods
- Monte Carlo
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Spin dynamics
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Molecular dynamics
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Kinetic Monte Carlo
NAME: Peter Langhoff
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- UC-San Diego
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- langhoff AT drifter DOT sdsc DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Ben Larson
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Researcher
- Condensed Matter Sciences Division
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- larsonbc AT ornl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Hadley Lawler
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Post doc
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- University of Washington
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- hmlawler AT u DOT washington DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Emanuel Lazar
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Graduate student
- Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
- Princeton University
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- lazar AT princeton DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Michael Lee
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Program Manager
- Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
- Department of Energy
Materials Sciences and Engineering Division
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
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- Michael DOT Lee AT science DOT doe DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Richard A. LeSar
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor and Chair
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Iowa State University
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- lesar AT iastate DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals
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Ceramics
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Thin-films
Phenomena
- Evolution of dislocation microstructures
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Microstructure evolution
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Materials processing
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Film growth - deposition
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Oxidation
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Morphology evolution
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Defect kinetics - grain boundary mobility, diffusivities
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Interplay between mechanics and microstructure - fracture
Methods
- Dislocation simulations: dynamics, Monte Carlo
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Atomistic simulation - molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, statistical mechanics
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Monte Carlo
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Front tracking
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Discrete and continuum mechanics methods
NAME: Zachary Levine
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Scientist
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- NIST
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- Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8410
- zachary AT nist DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Dongsheng Li
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Research Associate
- Materials Science & Engineering
- Georgia Tech
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- Atlanta, GA 30332-0245
- dongsheng DOT li AT mse DOT gatech DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals (titanium, alumnium and alloys)
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Polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene)
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Nano composites (carbon nanotube epoxy composite)
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media record materials and magnetic materials (FePd and
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NdFeB)
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Tissue engineering scaffold materials (PGA and PLLA)
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Smart materials (Terfnol-D)
Phenomena
- Microstrcutre (texture and morphology) evolution
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Magnetic anisotropy
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Mechanical response
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Elastic properties of materials
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During thermomechanical deformation and magnetic annealing.
Methods
- Microstrure Sensitive Design
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Processing Path Model
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Spherical Harmonics Method
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Modified Taylor models
NAME: Zuojian Liang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Ph.D. Candidate
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Tsinghua University
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- Beijing, 100084
- lzj00 AT tsinghua DOT org DOT cn
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- metallic alloys
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steels
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Aluminum alloys
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Nickel base superalloys
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Titanium alloys
Phenomena
- Solidification
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Microstructure evolution
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transport phenomena
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Fluid flow
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Nucleation and crystallization
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Grain growth
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Macrosegregation
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Phase transformation
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Materials processing
Methods
- Phase field method
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Cellular automata
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Monte Carlo
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Finite differences
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Front tracking
NAME: Haiyi Liang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- PostDoc
- School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Harvard
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- hyliang AT deas DOT harvard DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Carbon nanotube
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Glass system
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flexible- and semiflexible- Polymer network
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Nanostructed Materials
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Phenomena
- Mechanical Properties
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Dislocation movement in metal
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Collective behaviors in glass and disordered network
Methods
- Molecular Dynamics
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Monte Carlo
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Coarse-Grain Method
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NAME: Denis Lieberman
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- denis DOT lieberman AT verizon DOT net
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Presently superconductors:Bi-2212; PCCO; NCCO
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HighTemperature SuperConductors-cuprates
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Hsin Lin
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Postdoc
- Physics
- Northeastern University
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- h DOT lin AT neu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Cuprates(NCCO, LSCO,
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YBCO, Bi-, Tl-, and
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Hg-based),
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Manganites
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LaSr2Mn2O7,
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Topological
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insulator(Bi2Se3,
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Bi2Te3),
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pnictides,
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La2NiO4
Phenomena
- strong correlation
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effect, AFM,
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pseudogap, surface
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states,
Methods
NAME: Feng Liu
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Materials Science and Engineering
- The University of Utah
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- fliu AT eng DOT utah DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Steven G. Louie
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor, Scientist
- Physics
- University of California, Berkeley, and LBNL
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- Berkeley, CA 94720-7300
- sglouie AT berkeley DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Nanotubes, fullerenes, and other sp2 materials
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Semiconductor surfaces and interfaces
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Transition metal oxides and hydrides
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Hard materials
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Clusters, nanocrystals, polymers, and other low dimensional systems
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Materials under high pressure
Phenomena
- Electron spectrocopy (e.g. photoemission, STS, etc)
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Structure and electronic properties of surfaces
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Optical spectra of bulk and lower dimensional systems
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NMR spectra of solids and liquids
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Pressure induced phases and phase transitions
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Mechanisms for hardness in materials
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Quantum confinement phenomena in nanostructure materials
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Electron correlations in solids
Methods
- Ab initio pseudopotential density functional theory
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First-priniciples GW method for quasiparticle excitations
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Ab initio NMR theory
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Linear response for dielectric matrix, phonons, electron-phonon interaction, etc.
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Ab initio two-particle Green's method for excitonic effects and optical spectra
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Variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods
NAME: Gang Lu
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant Professor
- Physics
- Cal State Northridge
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- Northridge, CA 91330-8268
- ganglu AT csun DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- simple metals, intermetallic alloys, carbon nanotubes, bio-molecules
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Phenomena
- Mechanical properties of materials, multiscale modeling of defects in materials, electron wind forces on defects, hydrogen embrittlement, electronic properties of DNA and nanotube complex, interplay between electronic, magnetic and optical properties and mechanical response of materials
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Methods
- DFT methods, multiscale QCDFT method (a concurrent model with DFT+EAM+quasicontinuum), Semidiscrete Peierls-Nabarro model with DFT energetics, dislocation dynamics
NAME: Mark Lusk
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Engineering
- Colorado School of Mines
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- Golden, CO 80401
- mlusk AT mines DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
- Microstructural Evolution in Condensed Matter
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Grain Boundary Kinetics
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Phase Transitions
Methods
- Statistical Mechanics
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Phaes-field Modeling
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Monte-Carlo Modeling
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Molecular Dynamics
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Internal State Variable Methods
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Shake Table Experiments
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