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COLLOQUIA of the Computational Materials Science Center

SPRING 2012

Coordinator: Estela Blaisten-Barojas


This series of colloquia is related to the research activities of the Computational Materials Science Center. Recent topics of interest in computational approaches in condensed matter, physical chemistry, informatics, and nanoscience are presented weekly by speakers both internal and external to GMU. This activity is part of the Computational Materials and Physical Chemistry Sciences and Computational Physics components of the doctoral program in Computational Sciences and Informatics. Students interested in obtaining one credit for their attendance can register in CSI 898.

Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:30 PM in Room 301 of Research I, except as noted. Coffee and refreshments are served when funds are available. New visitors may find directions to reach our Fairfax campus.


February 6

Simplifying and Sampling the Protein Conformational Space

Amarda Shehu

Department of Computer Science, George Mason University
(Abstract)

February 13

First-principles mechanistic studies of hydrogen storage in carbon-based materials

Xianwei Sha

Computational Materials Science Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
(Abstract)

February 20

Full Field 3D Displacement and Strain Measurements for Constitutive Material Characterization

Athanasios Iliopoulos

Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC and Computational Materials Science Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
(Abstract)

February 27

Challenges of Parallelism and Concurrency at Scale for Scientific and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering

Almadena Chtchelkanova

National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
(Abstract)

March 5 and 12

No seminar


March 19

Embracing Heterogeneity in High-Performance Computing

Tarek El-Ghazawi

Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technology and Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, George Washington University, Washingto DC
(Abstract)

March 26

The Quest for Anomalies: Algorithms and Applications

Daniel Barbara

Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
(Abstract)

April 9

Computer simulation studies of deformation mechanisms and ductility in nanocrystalline FCC materials

Diana Farkas

Department of Materials Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
(Abstract)

April 16

Predicting Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions

Michael Mehl

Center for Computational Materials Science, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
(Abstract)

April 23

Solvophobically-driven self-assembly: kinetics and structures from novel amphiphiles

Margarita Herrera-Alonso

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
(Abstract)

April 30

The Human Impacts of Space Weather -What might the current cycle bring?

Sten Odenwald

NASA-Greenbelt, MD and Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, Catholic University of America, Washington DC

(Abstract)

Past schedules are also available.

Speakers:
Amarda Shehu
Xianwei Sha
A. Iliopoulos
A. Chtchelkanova
Tarek El-Ghazawi
Daniel Barbara
Diana Farkas
Michael Mehl
M. Herrera-Alonso
Sten Odenwald