Recent Developments in Computer Simulational Studies

in Condensed Matter Physics

(Tentative) Program of the 2005 18^th Annual Workshop

Monday, March 7^th

8:30 – 10:00 AM Registration in Room 307B of the Physics Building

9:00 - 10:00 AM Coffee and donuts

Informal discussion in Conference Room 201

10:00 – 10:05 AM David P. Landau (The University of Georgia)

Introductory Remarks

10:05 – 11:05 AM Farid F. Abraham (The University of Georgia/Livermore National Laboratory)

“Simulating the Instability Dynamics of Fracture”

11:20 – 11:35 AM Lei Guo (University of Illinois)

“Langevin Dynamics Study of Polymer Translocation Through a Nanopore”

11:50 – 12:05 PM Nobuyasu Ito (University of Tokyo)

“Particle Dynamics Simulation of Transport Phenomena”

12:15 PM Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 PM Tapio Ala-Nissila (Helsinki University of Technology)

“Theory and Application of Phase Field Models to Dynamics of Interfaces

in Liquids

3:15 – 3:30 PM Scott Thompson (University of Georgia)

“A Theoretical Study of Copper Adsorption on the (100) Surface of Ti02”

Break

4:00 – 4:15 PM Rodrigo Freire (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)

“Monte Carlo Study of the XY Vector Blume-Emery-Griffiths Model

for ³He-⁴He Mixture in Three Dimensions”

4:30 – 4:45 PM Yusuke Tomita (University of Tokyo)

“Monte Carlo Simulation of Three-dimensional Dipole Lattices”

5:00 – 5:15 PM Xiaoliang Zhu (The University of Georgia)

“Critical Behavior of a Compressible Ising Antiferromagnet at Constant Pressure”

Recent Developments in Computer Simulational Studies

in Condensed Matter Physics

(Tentative) Program of the 2005 18^th Annual Workshop

Tuesday, March 8^th

9:00 – 10:00 AM Coffee and donuts

Informal discussion in Conference Room 201

10:00 – 11:00 AM Kenji Harada (Kyoto University, Japan)

“Quantum World-line Monte Carlo Method with Non-Binary Loops”

11:15 – 11:30 AM Ivan Georgiev (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)

“Growth and Dynamic Scaling in the Two-Lane Driven Diffusive Model”

11:45 – 12:00 PM Kwangsik Nho (The University of Georgia)

“Bose-Einstein Condensation of Trapped Atoms with Dipole Interactions”

Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 PM Thomas Schulthess (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

“The Future of Computational Materials Science”

3:15 – 3:30 PM Yevgeniy Puzyrev (Florida Atlantic University)

“Molecular Dynamics Study of Atomic Displacement and X-ray Diffuse

Scattering in Alloys”

Break

4:00 – 4:15 PM Xiuping Tao (The University of Georgia)

“Spin Dynamics Simulations of Paramagnetic BCC Iron”

4:30 - 4:45 PM Hiroshi Watanabe (Nagoya University, Japan)

“Size Dispersity Effects on the Two-Dimensional Melting”

5:00 – 5:15 PM Emily Pritchett (The University of Georgia)

“Memory Devices for Superconducting Quantum Computers”

Recent Developments in Computer Simulational Studies

in Condensed Matter Physics

(Tentative) Program of the 2005 18^th Annual Workshop

Wednesday, March 9^th

9:00 – 10:00 AM Coffee and donuts

Informal discussion in Conference Room 201

10:00 – 11:00 AM Shoudan Liang (M.D. Anderson, Department of Biostatistics)

“Modelling Protein Translation”

11:15 – 11:30 AM Stefan Boettcher (Emory University)

“Computing the Spin-Glass Phase boundary of Eu_xSr_1-xS

11:45 – 12:00 PM Daniel Hurt (University of California – Davis)

“Analysis of the BEG Model with the Wang-Landau Algorithm”

Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 PM Pantelis Kelires (University of Crete, Greece)

“Advances in Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanostructured Materials”

3:15 – 3:30 PM Qin Zhang (The University of Georgia)

“Theoretical Investigation of Titanium Carbide Nanocrystals”

Break

4:00 – 4:15 PM Gyorgy Korniss (Rensselaer)

“Invasive Allele Spread under Preemptive Competition”

4:30 – 4:45 PM Joan Adler (Technion - ITT, Israel)

“Applications of Aviz in Undergraduate Education”

5:00 – 5:15 PM Fumiko Ogushi (University of Tokyo, Japan)

“Simulation Study of Gas-Liquid Interface”

5:30 – 5:45 PM Yong Wu (University of Massachusetts)

“Overcoming the Critical Slowing Down of Flat-Histogram Monte Carlo

Simulations”

7:00 – 8:30 PM Reception in the Student Learning Center on campus (see campus map)

Recent Developments in Computer Simulational Studies

in Condensed Matter Physics

(Tentative) Program of the 2005 18^th Annual Workshop

Thursday, March 10th

9:00 – 10:00 AM Coffee and donuts

Informal discussion in Conference Room 201

10:00 – 11:00 AM Leeor Kronik (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

“Nano Materials, Spintronic Materials, and Nano-Spintronic Materials”

11:15 – 11:30 AM Chongshan Zhang (The University of Georgia)

“Scaling of Thermal Resistivity of 4He in Restricted Geometries”

11:45 – 12:00 AM Yunsic Shim (University of Toledo)

“Recent Advance in a Parallel Algorithm for Thin-Film Growth”Synchronous

Sublattice Algorithm”

Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 PM Paulos Vranas (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

“Quantum Chromo Dynamics and BlueGene/L”

3:15 – 3:30 PM Munehisa Matsumoto (Tohoku University, Japan)

“Impurity Effects in Low-Dimensional Magnets”

Break

4:00 – 4:15 PM Chenggang Zhou (Oak Ridge National Laboratory/The University of Georgia)

“Calculation of Joint Density of States with the Wang-Landau Algorithm”

4:30 – 4:45 PM Jose Ramasco (Emory University)

“Aging at Criticality in Models with Absorbing States”

5:00 – 5:15 PM K.F.L. Michielsen (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

“Deterministic Event-Based Simulation of Universal Quantum Computation”

Recent Developments in Computer Simulational Studies

in Condensed Matter Physics

(Tentative) Program of the 2005 18^th Annual Workshop

Friday, March 11^th

9:00 – 10:00 AM Coffee and donuts

Informal discussion in Conference Room 201

10:00 – 11:00 AM Tanja Schilling (University of Mainz, Germany)

“Measuring Interfacial Tensions in Liquid Crystals”

11:15 – 11:30 AM Gunnar Preussner (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University)

“Asynchronously Parallelised Percolation on Distributed Machines”

11:45 – 12:00 AM Hans de Raedt (University Groningen, The Netherlands)

“Event-by-Event Simulation of Quantum Phenomena”

12:15– 12:30 PM David Landau (The University of Georgia)

Closing Remarks