SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Modeling and Simulation of Grain Growth |
| Discussion Leader: Catherine Bishop (Oxford Univ, Oxford UK) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | James Warren (NIST, Gaithersburg MD)
"Phase Field Modeling of Polycrystals" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Veena Tikare (Sandia National Lab., Albuquerque NM)
"Statical-Mechanical Modeling of Microstructure Evolution" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Computational Design of Microstructure |
| Discussion Leader: W. Craig Carter (MIT, Cambridge MA) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | David Wu (Yale Univ. New Haven CT)
"Statistical Grain Growth Laws for Modeling the Coarsening of Microstructures" |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | R. Edwin García (Purdue U. West Lafayette IN)
"Microstructure Design of Electrically Active Materials" |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Continuation of Rowland Cannon's Research |
| Discussion Leader: Randy Hay (Air Force Research Lab., Dayton OH) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | W. Craig Carter (MIT, Cambridge MA) "Everything about Interfaces and in Between" |
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm | Jian Luo (Clemson Univ. Clemson SC) "Quasi-liquid Interfacial Films and Activated Sintering" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Yet-Ming Chiang (MIT, Cambridge MA)
"Surficial Films" |
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Brief Poster Presentations |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Cook (NIST, Gaithersburg MD) |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Grain Growth Control in Bulk Materials |
| Discussion Leader: Helen Chan (Lehigh U., Lehigh PA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Susan Trolier-McKinstry (Penn. State U., State College PA)
"Patterning Ceramics by Microcontact Printing and Patterned Grain Growth" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Suk-Joong Kang (KAIST, Deajong South Korea)
"Microstructural Design in Ceramics via Control of Interface Structure and Defects" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Martin Harmer (Lehigh Univ., Lehigh PA)
"Mechanisms of 'Solid State' Single Crystal Conversion" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Interfaces and Grain Boundaries |
| Discussion Leader: Susan Sinnott (U. Florida, Gainesville FL) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Z.L. Wang (Georgia Tech., Atlanta GA)
"Novel Nanostructures of Functional Oxides - from Synthesis, Growth Mechanisms, Properties to Nanodevices" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | I-Wei Chen (U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA)
"Controlled Grain Growth in Nanomaterials" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Thin Films |
| Discussion Leader: Susanne Stemmer (UCSB, Santa Barbara CA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Glen Fox (Ramtron Corp., Colorado Springs CO)
"Thin Films Texture and Scaling Effects in Ferroelectric Random Access Memory" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Marcel Rost (U. Leiden, Leiden The Netherlands)
"Seeing Thin Films Evolve with Real-Time, In-Situ STM: Film Growth and Grain Growth" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Paul Salvador (Carnegie Melon U., Pittsburgh PA)
"Thin Film Deposition and Growth" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Characteristics of Microstructure |
| Discussion Leader: Greg Rohrer (Carnegie Melon U., Pittsburgh PA ) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Pat Patterson (U. Alabama, Birmingham AL)
"Topological Affinities in Grain Growth" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Brent Adams (Brigham Young U, Salt Lake UT)
"Pair Correlation Functions and Second-Order Homogenization Relations for Polycrystals" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Fuel Cells |
| Discussion Leader: John Halloran (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor MI) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Jϋrgen Fleig (TU Wien, Vienna Austria)
“Micropatterned Thin Film Electrodes in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Research: Experiments and Modeling" |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Katsuyo Thornton (U. Michigan, Ann Arbor MI)
"Experiments and Simulations of Three-Dimensional Microstructures of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes" |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Thursday Evening Speaker |
| Discussion Leader: John Blendell (Purdue U., West Lafayette IN) |
| Tom Turpin (Purdue Univ. West Lafayette, IN)
"Insects and the World Food Supply" |
| Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |