Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 25 JUNE 2001

13:30 C1.001 Metals at High Pressures and Temperatures

Ronald Cohen (Carnegie Institute of Washington and California Institute of Technology)

14:06 C1.002 Thermoelasticity of lower mantle minerals and implications for the temperature and composition of this region

Renata Wentzcovitch, Bijaya Karki (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, U. of Minnesota), Stefano de Gironcoli, Stefano Baroni (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy)

14:18 C1.003 Layered amorphization in a-Quartz under uniaxial compression

Sundararaman Subramanian, Dongyi Liao, Sidney Yip (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139)

14:30 C1.004 Atomic Level Stresses and Strains in Nanoscale Si/Ge Systems

Maxim Makeev, Anupam Madhukar (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089)

14:42 C1.005 Atomistic Simulation of Carbon Nanotube Ropes and Hydrogen Absorption

Ju Li, Sidney Yip (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Joshua Fujiwara (Honda Ramp;D Co., Ltd., Wako Research Center, JAPAN), Atomstic Simulation of Materials Group Team, Honda Ramp;D Team

14:54 C1.006 Molecular dynamics of nanocrack propagation in quartz crystal

Dongyi Liao, Sidney Yip (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. Nuclear Engineering)

13:30 C2.001 Optimal path for systems driven by noise

Weinan E (Department of Mathematics and PACM, Princeton University)

14:06 C2.002 Computing Optimal Trajectories of Noise-Driven Systems

Robert S. Maier, Daniel L. Stein (University of Arizona)

14:18 C2.003 Numerical simulation of stochastic differential equations, with examples

Wesley Petersen (SAM, Mathematik, HG G-52.1, ETH Zurich)

14:30 C2.004 Simulation of Diffusion-Limited Phase Coaresning

Martin E. Glicksman, Ke-Gang Wang, Paula Crawford (Materials Science and Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590)

14:42 C2.005 Self-similar tumor growth with angiogenesis

Vittorio Cristini (Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455), John Lowengrub (School of Math, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455), Qing Nie (Department of Mathematics, U.C. Irvine, Irvine CA 92697)

14:54 C2.006 Level Set Algorithms for Tracking Discontinuities

Tariq Aslam (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:06 C2.007 Fourth Order Gradient Symplectic Integrator Methods for Solving the Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation

Siu A. Chin, C. R. Chen (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843)

15:18 C2.008 A New Numerical Method for Initial Value Problems with Nonlinear Hamiltonians

Kostrun Marijan, Javanainen Juha (University of Connecticut)

13:30 C3.001 Cosmic Ray Sputtering of Dust Grains

Eduardo M. Bringa, Robert E. Johnson (Astronomy Department, University of Virginia)

13:42 C3.002 Treating Numerical Instabilities in Irrotational Binary Neutron Star Coalescence Calculations

Joshua Faber, Frederic Rasio (M.I.T.)

13:54 C3.003 Three-dimensional Modeling of Type Ia Supernova Explosions

Alexei Khokhlov (Naval Research Laboratory)

14:06 C3.004 Mass Segregation and Evaporation in Globular Star Clusters

John Fregeau, Kriten Joshi, Simon Portegies Zwart, Frederic Rasio (MIT)

14:18 C3.005 Galaxy Collisions: Detailed Comparisons between Simulations and Observations

Nathan Hearn, Susan Lamb (Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois)

14:30 C3.006 An Information Link between the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe and Weak Gravitational Lensing Maps

Antonio C.C Guimarães (Brown University), Uro\vs Seljak (Princeton University), Robert H. Brandenberger (Brown University)

13:30 C4.001 Simulation of quantum phase transitions

Matthias Troyer (Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich)

14:06 C4.002 Path Integrals for the Projection of the Electronic Ground State

K.P. Esler, N.A. Romero (UIUC Dept. of Physics), D.M. Ceperley (UIUC Dept. of Physics / NCSA)

14:18 C4.003 Comparison of Quantum Monte Carlo and Density Functional Models of the Correlation Hole in Second Row Atoms

Antonio C. Cancio (Georgia Institute of Technology), C. Y. Fong (University of California, Davis)

14:30 C4.004 MeronCluster Algorithms for Strongly Correlated Fermion Systems

Shailesh Chandrasekharan (Duke University)

14:42 C4.005 Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the Ferromagnetic Properties of the Periodic Anderson Model.

C. Batista, J. E. Gubernatis (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. Bonca (University of Ljubljana and Institut Jozef Stefan)

14:54 C4.006 QMC studies of the Antiferromagnetic phase Transition in the 3D Hubbard Model

Isabel Campos, James W. Davenport, Wonho Oh (Center for Data Intensive Computing, Brookhaven National Lab), CDIC Collaboration