Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 25 AUGUST 1997

08:00 A.01 Introductory Remarks

Executive Vice Chancellor R. Michael Tanner (University of California at Santa Cruz)

08:10 A.02 High-Performance Computing in the Automotive Industry

John P. McTague (Ford Motor Company)

08:50 A.03 Theoretical Studies of Nanotubes and Nanocrystals

Steven G. Louie (Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:30 A.04 Simulation Challenges for Future Generation Electronics

Francisco A. Leon (Intel Corp., Santa Clara CA)

10:10 A.05 Break

10:40 A.06 The DOE Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative: Enabling the tools for predictive materials modeling and simulation

Christian Mailhiot (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:20 A.07 Spanning The Size Scales In Simulating Materials Failure

Farid Abraham (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose CA 95120)