Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 27 AUGUST 1997

15:30 Q1.01 Atomistic Simulation of Photo-Induced Instabilities in Smectic A Liquid Crystals

Yves Lansac, Matthew A. Glaser, Noel A. Clark (Dept.\ of Physics, U.\ of Colorado, Boulder)

Q1.02

15:54 Q1.03 MPSim: A Massively Parallel General Simulation Program for Materials

Mihail Iotov, Guanghua Gao, Nagarajan Vaidehi, Tahir Cagin, William A. Goddard III (Materials and Process Simulation Center, Caltech)

16:06 Q1.04 Simulations of Crack Initiation in Network Polymers

Mark Stevens (Sandia National Laboratory)

16:18 Q1.05 Genetic Algorithms and Parallel Computing for Global Optimization, Applied to Complex Surface Structure Determination by Low-Energy Electron Diffraction

M.A. Van Hove, R. Döll, S. Sachs, G. Stone (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:30 Q1.06 Calculations of Plastic Deformation and Recovery during Surface Indentation

C.L. Kelchner, J.C. Hamilton (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:42 Q1.07 Detonation modeling based on in-line thermochemistry

Laurence Fried, P. Clark Souers, W. Michael Howard (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:54 Q1.08 PREDICTION OF A POLYCRYSTAL YIELD SURFACE

John Y. Shu, Wayne E. King (Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, LLNL, Livermore, CA 94550)

15:30 Q2.01 An Adaptive Wavelet Method for Analysis of Stress Wave Propagation in Electroelastic Solids

William Brown (Applied Research Associates)

15:42 Q2.02 Efficient 3D-Computation of Resonant Modes in Dielectric Optical Cavities

A. Trellakis, M. Qian, T. Kerkhoven, U. Ravaioli (Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:54 Q2.03 Laser Path Through a Non-isothermal Gas

Jeffrey Scroggs, Randy Donaldson, Grace Kepler (Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University)

16:06 Q2.04 Anisotropy Design in Magnetic Media, A Micromagnetics Study

James H. Kaufman (APS Member), Thomas R. Koehler (IBM Emeritus), Andreas Moser, Dieter Weller, Barbara A. Jones (IBM Research)

16:18 Q2.05 Modeling of Electronic Properties of the HSQ Resin and its derived Silica films.

Ravi Pandey, Kai-hua Xiang (Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI), Udo Pernisz (Dow Corning Corp., Midland, MI), Clive Freeman (Molecular Simulations Inc., San Diego, CA)

16:30 Q2.06 A Reliable and Efficient Approach to Solving Integral Equations Applicable to Radiative Transfer and to Scattering Theory

Eric Steinfelds (Oklahoma State University)

16:42 Q2.07 PIXE simulation using a Genetic Algorithm to establish unknown detector parameters

Ernesto Belmont-Moreno (IF-UNAM), Juan Aspiazu (ININ)

16:54 Q2.08 Computational/HPC Physics Education

Rubin H Landau (Oregon State University amp; Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering (NACSE))

15:30 Q3.01 Study of Physics of Two-Dimensional Immiscible Two-Phase Turbulence Using Lattice Boltzmann Approach

Raoyang Zhang (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Shiyi Chen, Ye Zhou (IBM T.J.Watson Research Center), Yuehong Qian (Columbia University)

15:42 Q3.02 Second Order Godunov Schemes for 2D and 3D Supersonic MHD Flows

Wenlong Dai, Paul Woodward, Dennis Dinge, David Porter, Kevin Edger (University of Minnesota)

15:54 Q3.03 Angular Momentum Redistribution in Turbulent Compressible Convection

Neal Hurlburt (Lockheed Martin ATC), Nicholas Brummell, Juri Toomre (University of Colorado)

16:06 Q3.04 High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Simulations of Compressible Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and Turbulent Mixing

A. M. Dimits, R. H. Cohen, W. P. Dannevik, D. E. Eliason, A. A. Mirin, O. Schilling (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), D. H. Porter, P. R. Woodward (University of Minnesota), S. A. Orszag, I. A. Staroselsky (Cambridge Hydrodynamics Incorporated)

Q3.05

16:30 Q3.06 Fully threaded tree for adaptive mesh fluid dynamics simulations

Alexei Khokhlov (Naval Research Laboratory)

16:42 Q3.07 Overlay of Arbitrarily Shaped Material Regions onto Hexahedral Meshes

Jeffrey Grandy (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:54 Q3.08 Accurate, Finite-Volume Methods for 3D MHD and Applications

D. C. Barnes, J. E. Morel, Tom Oliphant, Mikhail Shaskov, Chris Rousculp (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Q3.09 Second Order Godunov Schemes for Multidimensional Radiation Hydrodynamics

Wenlong Dai, Paul Woodward, Dennis Dinge, David Porter, Kevin Edger (University of Minnesota)

15:30 Q4.01 Correlated sampling for Gutzwiller parameters in variational and fixed-node diffusion Monte-Carlo

Erik Koch (Department of Physics, %and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Olle Gunnarsson (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart), Richard M. Martin (Department of Physics, %and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:42 Q4.02 New Monte Carlo Method for the t-J and Related Models

Richard Fye (Sandia National Laboratories)

15:54 Q4.03 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Two-Band, 3d Hubbard Model

Carey Huscroft (U.C.~Davis), Andrew K. McMahan, Roy Pollock (LLNL), Richard T. Scalettar (U.C.~Davis)

16:06 Q4.04 Quantum zero-point critical fluctuations in arrays of ultrasmall Josephson junctions

Jorge .V. José (Northeastern University, Boston)

16:18 Q4.05 Monte Carlo study on ferromagnetic transition of Ising spin glass model

Nobuyasu Ito (Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo), Hidetsugu Kitatani (Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology)

16:30 Q4.06 Application of Exchange Monte Carlo Method to Ordering Dynamics

Yutaka Okabe (Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-03, Japan)

16:42 Q4.07 Conformational Crossover of Polymer Chains from Bulk-to-Surface in an Electrophoretic Deposition Model.

Grace M. Foo (National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260), R. B. Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5046)

16:54 Q4.08 Atomic Scale Predictive Simulation for Silicon Bulk Processing

Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, Maria Caturla (MRS), Mark Johnson (APS), Jing Zhu (MRS)