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NAME: Blas Uberuaga
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Technical Staff Member
- Materials Science and Technology Division
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- blas AT lanl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- ceramic oxides
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simple metals
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Pu
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nuclear fuels
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nuclear waste forms
Phenomena
- radiation damage production and evolution
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defect kinetics
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aging
Methods
- molecular dynamics
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accelerated molecular dynamics
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kinetic monte carlo
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kinetic rate theory
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density functional theory
NAME: Sergio Ulloa
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics and Astronomy
- Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute
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- ulloa AT ohio DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- nitrides, arsenides, semiconductors
Phenomena
- impurities, phonons, strongly correlated electrons, electronic transport, optical response
Methods
- density functional, diagram expansions, slave bosons, numerical renormalization group
NAME: Alex Umantsev
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Chemistry/Physics
- Fayetteville State University
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- aumantsev AT uncfsu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals, alloys,
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bio-materials.
Phenomena
Methods
- Theory, computer
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simulations.
NAME: Cyrus Umrigar
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Adjunct Professor
- Theory Center
- Cornell University
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- cyrusumrigar AT cornell DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Molecules, solids, quantum dots
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Ariel A. Valladares
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Theory Leader
- Materials Simulations, Solid State
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales
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- , D.F. CP 04510
- valladar AT servidor DOT unam DOT mx
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Amorphous semiconducting materials
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Porous semiconductors
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Semiconducting clusters
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Restricted dimensionality materials
Phenomena
- Atomic, electronic, and optical properties
Methods
- We use computer codes, both commercial and public, to simulate the structure of new and known amorphous semiconducting, porous and low dimensional materials. The codes that we are presently using are CASTEP, ESOCS, FastStructure and DMOL3-Soid produced by Molecular Simulatoins, Inc., MSI, from San Diego, USA; we are also using recent versions of the Car-Parrinello code produced by the Stuttgart group.
NAME: Jeroen van den Brink
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- Lorentz Institute Leiden University
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- brink AT lorentz DOT leidenuniv DOT nl
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Michel A. Van Hove
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Chair, Professor, and Head
- Department of Physics & Materials Science
- City University of Hong Kong
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- vanhove AT cityu DOT edu DOT hk
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Surfaces and interfaces of all solid materials
Phenomena
- Structure: geometric, electronic, magnetic
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Relation of surface/interface structure to materials properties
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Principles of experimental methods (LEED, PED, XAFS, STM, etc.)
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Electron and photon propagation through materials and their interfaces
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Magnetic, relativistic and spin effects
Methods
- Multiple scattering methods: high and low energies
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Electronic structure calculations
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Optimization methods: local, global
NAME: Michel van Veenendaal
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- Northern Illinois University
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- DeKalb, IL 60115
- veenendaal AT niu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- transition metal oxides and compound
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rare earth systems
Phenomena
- magnetism
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strong electron correlations
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interaction of radiation and matter
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magnetic x-ray dichroims and scattering
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inelastic x-ray scattering
Methods
- exact diagonalinmall clusters using the full multiplet structure
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model Hamiltonians
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spherical tensor algebra for deriving sum rules
NAME: David Vanderbilt
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- Rutgers University
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- Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
- dhv AT physics DOT rutgers DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Ferroelectric perovskites
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Other oxides, especially TiO2, SiO2
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Semiconductors
Phenomena
- Surface and interface structure
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Bulk structural phase transitions
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Dielectric and piezoelectric properties
Methods
- Density-functional theory
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Plane-wave ultrasoft-pseudopotential approach
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Linear-scaling methods
NAME: Priya Vashishta
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics/Computer Science
- Louisiana State University
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- Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001
- priyav AT bit DOT csc DOT lsu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- High temperature materials
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Crystalline, amorphous, and nanophase ceramics
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Ceramic matrix composites and fiber reinforced ceramic
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Metal/ceramic interfaces
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Semiconductor/ceramic interfaces
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Electronic ceramic materials
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Thermal barrier coatings
Phenomena
- Structure, sintering, and mechanical properties of nanophase materials
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Morphology and dynamics of cracks propagation and fracture
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Amorphization and fracture in nanowires
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Brittle/ductile behavior of materials
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Oxidation dynamics of metallic nanoparticles
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Hypervelocity impact damage
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High temperature thermal transport
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Nanoindentation, friction, and machining
Methods
- Grand challenge materials simulations for 10-100 million atom
NAME: Pieter Visscher
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- University of Alabama
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- visscher AT ua DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Magnetic Materials: Thin films, magnetic elements, anisotropy-gradient media
Phenomena
- Magnetization dynamics
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Spin torque switching rates; conventional
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switching rates
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Spin torque oscillators
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Domain-wall switching in anisotropy-gradient
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(exchange-coupled) media
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hysteresis in magnetic fluids and thin films
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Methods
- Micromagnetic calculations, especially
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hierarchical/fast multipole methods
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Fokker-Planck statistical methods for
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switching rates and finite-temperature
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hysteresis loops
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Multi-scale simulation; renormalization-group
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methods
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Brownian dynamics simulation (colloidal
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suspensions)
NAME: Vaclav Vitek
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Materials Science and Engineering
- University of Pennsylvania
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- Philadelphia, PA 19104
- vitek AT lrsm DOT upenn DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals
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Intermetallic compounds
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Metal-silicides
Phenomena
- Plastic deformation
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Dislocation core phenomena
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Fracture: brittle-ductile transition
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Interfacial segregation and other interfacial phenomena
Methods
- Atomistic modeling: Molecular statics and dynamics, Monte Carlo
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Empirical descriptions of atomic interactions
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Ab initio LDA based calculations
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Statistical physics
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Continuum mechanics
NAME: Danq Wack
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PRESENT POSITION:
- VP
- Advanced Development
- KLA-Tencor
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- daniel DOT wack AT kla-tencor DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Optical response of semiconductor structures
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Chengju Wang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- student
- Physics
- Nanjing University
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- Nanjing, 210093
- cjwangnju AT yahoo DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Glasses and Glass-forming Liquids;
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Relaxor;
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Ferro-electric/magnetic materials;
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Polymeric materials.
Phenomena
- Non-Arrhenius behaviors;
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Non-exponential relaxation;
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Non-Curie behaviors;
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Spin glass relaxation dynamics;
Methods
NAME: Shengyu Wang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Graduate Student
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Carnegie Mellon University
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- shengyuw AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Guofeng Wang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Research Assistant Professor
- Department of Chemistry and Physics
- University of South Carolina Aiken
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- guofeng DOT wang AT gmail DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- metals, semiconductors, and polymers
Phenomena
- catalystic performance, electronic and thermal transportation, plastic deformation
Methods
- Density Functional Theory, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo simulation, Finite Element Method
NAME: Moran Wang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Researcher
- Bio&Agricultural Engineering
- UC Davis
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- mmwang AT ucdavis DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Porous media, Fibrous materials, Composites
Phenomena
Methods
- Theory, Computation:
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statistic, stochastic
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Monte Carlo, Lattice Boltzmann, MD
NAME: Yung Jui Wang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Graduate student
- Physics
- Northeastern University
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- hwykarinex AT gmail DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
- Electric momentum
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density; Charge and
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magnetic
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fluctuation.
Methods
- LDA; Tight binding
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model ; RPA.
NAME: Cai-Zhuang Wang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Scientist
- Physics
- Ames Laboratory
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- wangcz AT ameslab DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: James A. Warren
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Director
- Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
- NIST
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- jwarren AT nist DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metallic Alloys
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Multi-component Alloys
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Organic Alloy Analogues
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Solder
Phenomena
- Solidification Patterns
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Grain Boundary Formation
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Dislocation Structures
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Dissolution (Reactive Wetting)
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Fluid Flow
Methods
- Order Parameter Methods (Phase-Field)
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Green's Functions
NAME: Glenn A. Waychunas
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Staff Scientist
- Earth Science Div.
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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- Berkeley, CA 94720
- gawaychunas AT lbl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Mineral/water interfaces (especialyy Fe and Mn oxyhydroxide minerals)
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Soil particle/water interfaces
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Aqueous solution structure near mineral surfaces
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Mineral surface/biota interfaces
Phenomena
- Surface complexation and precipitation
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Solvation of inorganic and organic solutes
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Redox reactions at mineral/solution interfaces
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Mineral surface hydration and dehydration reactions
Methods
- EXAFS and GIXAFS spectroscopy and simulations (Feef codes)
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Crystal truncation rod surface x-ray scattering and simulation
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X-ray reflectivity
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Molecular dynamics of solution structure
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Crystal structure and surface structure modeling (various techniques)
NAME: Edmund B. III Webb
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Senior Technical Staff Member
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- Sandia National Laboratory
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- Albuquerque, NM 87185-1441
- ebwebb AT sandia DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
- Interfacial tansport, reactoins, and growth
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Surface structure formation
Methods
- classical molecular modeling (Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo)
NAME: William Weber
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Laboratory Fellow
- Fundamental Science Directorate
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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- bill DOT weber AT pnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metal Oxides, Silicon Carbide, Gallium Nitride, Uranium Dioxide, Perovskites, Pyrochlores, Zircon, Apatite
Phenomena
- Defects, Defect Interactions, Radiation Effects
Methods
- Electron Microscopy, Ion-Beam Analysis, Computer Simulations
NAME: Su-Huai Wei
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Principal Scientist and group leader
- Computational Materials Science Group
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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- swei AT nrel DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Semiconductors and metals
Phenomena
- 1. Electronic structures and stabilities of ordered and disordered semiconductor and metallic alloys, superlattices, and interfaces
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2. Magnetic properties of semiconductors
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3. Optoelectronic properties of photovoltaic and light emitting materials.
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4. Electronic properties of organic and hybrid semiconductors.
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5. Defect physics in semiconductors and quantum dots.
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6. Hydrogen storage materials.
Methods
- All electron method such FLAPW. Pseudopotential mehod. EPM. Multiscale large supercel calculations.
NAME: Michael Weinert
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
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- Milwaukee, WI 53201
- weinert AT uwm DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metallic Alloys
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Transition-metal magnetic systems and magnetic multilayers
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Surfaces, adlayers, and interfaces
Phenomena
- Alloy ordering, alloy phase stability
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Defects and impurities, microstructure
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Magnetism
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Electron spectroscopies
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Structure and ordering at surfaces and interfaces
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External fields
Methods
- First-principles electronic structure, DFT
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All-electron full-potential methods (FLAPW, ASTO)
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Pseudopotentials
NAME: Jack C. Wells
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Research Staff Scientist
- Computer Science and Mathematics Division
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6355
- wellsjc AT ornl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metal clusters
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Self-assembled organic monolayers
Phenomena
- Electronic structure and transport
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Time-dependent phenomena
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Interaction of matter with lasers
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Collisions
Methods
- Density functional theory
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Wavepacket dynamics
NAME: Hongmei Wen
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Senior Research Engineer
- Physical Science
- United Technology Research Center
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- South Windsor, CT 06074
- wen_hm AT yahoo DOT com
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Tribology
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Giant Magnetoresistance Material
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Nonascale structure
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Interfacial properties
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Thin Film
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Coating
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Catalyst
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MEMS
Phenomena
Methods
- Density Functional Theory
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Molecular Dynamics
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Kinetic Monte Carlo
NAME: Steven White
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- UC Irvine
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- srwhite AT uci DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- cuprates, low-dimensional magnetic systems
Phenomena
- superconductivity, antiferromagnetism
Methods
- numerical simulations, density-matrix renormalization group,
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quantum Monte Carlo
NAME: John W. Wilkins
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- Ohio State University
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- wilkins AT mps DOT ohio-state DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- metallic and semiconductor alloys, heterostructures
Phenomena
- bandstructure, opical and tranport properties.
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evolution, dynamics, identification and properties of defects
Methods
- QMC, DFT (VASP, Gaussian, Crystal), GW
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Molecular dynamics with real-time multiresolution analysis
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whatever is needed
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NAME: Dieter Wolf
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Physicist and Group Leader, Interfacial Materials
- Materials Science Division
- Argonne National Laboratory
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- Argonne, IL 60439
- dieter DOT wolf AT inl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Polycrystalline microstructures (metals, semiconductors and ceramics)
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Grain boundaries, free surfaces and point defects
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Nanocrystalline materials
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Diamond and Silicon thin films
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Ferroelectrics, electroceramics
Phenomena
- Microstructure and evolution (grain growth, plastic deformation, fracture).
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Grain-boundary phenomena (diffusion, migration, sliding, thermal resistivity).
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Space-charge effects and screening at electroceramic interfaces.
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Effect of grain size and confinement on properties of nanocrystalline materials (mechanical, electrical, point defects).
Methods
- Atomic-level simulation (molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, lattice dynamics).
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Mesoscale simulations (finite-element and Monte-Carlo methods).
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Order-N methods for large-scale simulations of ionic solids and liquids.
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Tight-binding molecular dynamics.
NAME: Chris Wolverton
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Department of Materials Science & Engineering
- Northwestern University
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- c-wolverton AT northwestern DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Hydrogen Storage Materials (metal and complex
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hydrides)
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Ordered and disordered metallic alloys
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Metal oxides
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Metal alloy and oxides surfaces
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Phenomena
- Thermodynamics and phase transformations in
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alloys
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Short-range order in alloy solid solutions
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Solid-state electrochemistry
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Catalysis
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Methods
- Ab-initio electronic structure (FLAPW and
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pseudopotential)
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Monte Carlo methods (lattice and continuous-space)
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Cluster expansion methods
NAME: Alan F. Wright
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Technical Staff
- Semiconductor Material and Device Science
- Sandia National Lab
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- Albuquerque, NM 87185-1415
- afwrigh AT sandia DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- AlN, GaN, InN and their alloys
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GaAsN, GaPN and related alloys
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Silicon
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Copper sulfide and copper oxide
Phenomena
- Electronic properties of dislocations in group-III nitrides
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Electronic properties of point defects in group-III nitrides
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Structures and properties of semiconductor alloys
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Dopant and defect diffusion in silicon
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Copper corrosion
Methods
- Ab initio electronic structure, DFT-LDA.
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Plane-wave pseudopotential techniques
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Distorted-grid techniques
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Parallel computing
NAME: Ruqian Wu
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- UC-Irvine
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- Irvine, CA 92697-4575
- wur AT uci DOT edu
- Phone:
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Magnetic thin films
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Alloys and compounds
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Grain boundaries
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Chemisoptions
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Catalysts
Phenomena
- Magnetism (MOKE, MCD, magnetic asisotrpy, magnetostriction magnetic ordering, etc.)
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Surface Science (chemical reactions, potential energy surfaces, kinetics)
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Mechanical properties (granular embrittlement)
Methods
- Full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) based on LDA and GGA
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Model hamiltonians
NAME: Yongqiang Xue
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant Professor
- CNSE
- SUNY-Albany
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- yxue AT uamail DOT albany DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Organic and Inorganic Nanostructures
Phenomena
- Electronic Transport, Atomic Structure and Dynamics, Microscopic Nano-optics, Nanoscale Fluidics, Quantum Optics and quantum information science.
Methods
- Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Green's Function, Density Functional Theory, Molecular Simulation (MD/MC), Computational Electromagnetics, Quantum Open System Theory.
NAME: Weiguo Yin
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Research Associate
- Physics
- Brookhaven
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- Upton, NY 11973
- wyin AT bnl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Strongly correlated electron systems
Phenomena
- High Tc superconductivity; colossal magnetoresistance;
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ferroelectricity; charge, spin, orbital ordering
Methods
- Density functional theory, effective Hamiltonian
NAME: Yaroslava Yingling
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Assistant Professor
- North Carolina State University
- National Cancer Institute
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- yara_yingling AT ncsu DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- organic, Hydrogels, polymers, biopolymers, tissue, biocompatible materials
Phenomena
- interaction of light with materials, including fabrication, processing, degradation and irradiation
Methods
- molecular dynamic simulations, coarse grained chemical reaction model, kinetic Monte Carlo
NAME: Sidney Yip
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Departments of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
- MIT
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- syip AT mit DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metals and Ceramics
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Cement and Glasses
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Nuclear Fuel and Structural Materials
Phenomena
- strength and deformation at high strain rates
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shear instability and localization
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chemo-mechanics and reactive transport
Methods
- electronic structure calculation (density functional theory)
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classical molecular dynamics
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kinetic Monte Carlo
NAME: Thomas Zacharia
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Director
- Computer Science and Mathematics Division
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6359
- zac AT ornl DOT gov
- Phone:
- Fax:
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Ordered and Disordered Crystalline Metallic Alloys
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Liquid Metallic Alloys
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Thin-Film Metallic Alloys
Phenomena
- High Performance Computing
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Parallel algorithms for Stefan problems
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Parallel algorithms for large deformation, contact/impact problems
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Artificial intelligence (Neural Network) for process optimization and control
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Stochastic modeling of solidification processes
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Modeling of polymer composites
Methods
- Ab-initio electronic structure
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Lattice Monte Carlo
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Semiempirical-potential-based Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics
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Ab-initio molecular dynamics
NAME: Peter Zapol
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Physicist
- Materials Science Division
- Argonne National Laboratory
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- zapol AT anl DOT gov
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- carbon nanomaterials
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titanium dioxide
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DNA
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oxide surfaces and interfaces
Phenomena
- catalysis
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phase transformations
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Methods
- Density functional theory
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Classical molecular dynamics
NAME: Peihong Zhang
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PRESENT POSITION:
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- Department of Physics
- University at Buffalo, SUNY
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- pzhang3 AT buffalo DOT edu
- Phone:
- Fax:
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Semiconductors, dilute magnetic semiconductors
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nanostructured materials, materials for hydrogen storage, superconductors
Phenomena
- electron-phonon coupling, phonon renormalization,
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superconductivity, magnetism,
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quasiparticle excitation
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Methods
- pseudopotential plane-wave methods, GW approximation,
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LDA+U, electron-phonon renormalization,
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real-space electronic structure methods
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NAME: Shengbai Zhang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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- zhangs9 AT rpi DOT edu
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Zhenyu Zhang
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Professor
- Physics
- University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- zhangz AT ornl DOT gov
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- Fax:
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
Methods
NAME: Zhiyong Zhog
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PRESENT POSITION:
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- College of Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- Chengdu, Sichuan 610054
- zzy AT uestc DOT edu DOT cn
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MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
Phenomena
- Magneto-resistance Effect
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Magneto-impedance Effect
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Spin Electronics in magnetic semiconductors
Methods
- Sputtering
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Beam Expitaxy
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Pulse Laser Deposition
NAME: Jian-Xin Zhu
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Technical Staff Member
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- LANL
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- jxzhu AT lanl DOT gov
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- Fax:
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Strongly correlated electron materials;
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Biological materials
Phenomena
- Superconductivity;
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Localization/delocalization;
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Quantum transport
Methods
- Many-body approaches;
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Effective field theories;
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Density functional theory
NAME: Rajendra Zope
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PRESENT POSITION:
- Adjunct Professor
- Physics
- University of Texas at El Paso
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- rzope AT utep DOT edu
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- Fax:
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Materials
- Metalic clusters
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Transition metal alloys
Phenomena
- Electronic structuer
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Structures of clusters
Methods
- Density Functional Theory
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Plane Wave pseudopotential
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Real space grids
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Local orbitals (Gaussians)
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Ab initio molecular dynamics
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