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                SEMINAR OF THE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS GROUP
        Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
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                      PREDICTING NEW MATERIALS

                           L. L. Boyer
         Complex Systems Branch, Naval Research Laboratory


     The ultimate goal of computational condensed matter physics is 
is thought by many to be the prediction of new and useful materials.  
This requires, first of all, a reliable method for computing the 
stability of an arbitrary collection of atomic nuclei and electrons 
from first principles, that is, without resorting to experimental 
input other than universal constants.  The method should also be 
able to predict the properties of a hypothetical material in order 
to know if an experimental effort to make samples is worthwhile.  
Some important advances toward achieving this goal will be 
discussed and illustrated with results which focus primarily on 
ferroelectric materials.

                      Monday , 31 October 1994
                           5:30 pm
                    Room 206, Science & Tech. I
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