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Mardi Gras Conference 2010 Schedule
NOTE: Each talk will be followed by a 30-minute discussion period.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010
| 9:00 am |
Registration open |
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| 9:50 - 10:00 am |
Welcome |
Dana Browne,LSU Center for Computation & Technology and Department of Physics |
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Session Chair |
Mark Jarell, Louisiana State University |
| 10:00 - 10:30 am |
Thomas Sterling (LSU) |
What comes after Beowulf? |
| 11:00 - 11:30 am |
Ed D`Azevedo (ORNL) |
Numerical Linear Algebra Techniques for Computational Materials Science |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm |
Lunch Served |
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Session Chair |
Ward Plummer, Louisiana State University |
| 1:00 - 1:30 pm |
David Singh (ORNL) |
Superconductivity of Iron-Based Compounds |
| 2:00 - 2:30 pm |
Thomas Pruschke (University of Goettingen) |
Numerical renormalization approach to the Kondo lattice model with phonons: Mass renormalization, charge ordering and superconductivity |
| 3:00 - 3:20 pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 3:20 - 3:50 pm |
Fakher Assaad (Wurzburg) |
Novel Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Correlated Electron Lattice Systems |
| 4:20 - 4:50 pm |
Duane Johnson (Univ. Illinois) |
The KKR-DCA: an electronic density-functional theory for atomic correlations in solids |
| 5:20 - 7:00 pm |
Poster Setup and Dinner on your own |
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| 7:00 - 9:00 pm |
Poster Session Open |
Chair, Dimitrios Galanakis (LSU) |
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010
| 7:00 - 8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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Session Chair |
Tom Bishop, Tulane University |
| 8:00 - 8:30 am |
Willy Wriggers ( D.E. Shaw) |
Coarse-Grained Models for Molecular Structure Refinement and Dynamics |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am |
Thomas Knotts (Brigham Young University) |
The DNA Slide and the Protein Swing: Learning the Steps of Biomolecular Dances through Simulation |
| 10:00 - 10:20 am |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:20 - 10:50 am |
Emad Tajkhorshid (UIUC) |
Visualizing the Art of Active Transport Across The Cellular Membrane at Sub-Angstrom Resolution |
| 11:20 - 11:50 am |
Tom Bartol (Salk Institute) |
"Modeling of Neuronal Cell Signaling with MCell |
| 12:20 - 1:30 pm |
Lunch Served |
Contributed poster talks |
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Session Chair |
Steve Soper, Louisiana State University |
| 1:30 - 2:00 pm |
Peter Cummings (Vanderbilt and ORNL) |
Molecular Simulation and Modeling of Water and Aqueous Solutions in Bulk and at Interfaces |
| 2:30 - 3:00 pm |
Peter Monson (UMass) |
Modeling the Dynamics of Capillary Condensation and Evaporation in Mesoporous Materials |
| 3:30 - 3:50 pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 3:50 - 4:20 pm |
Clare McCabe (Vanderbilt) |
A Molecular-Based Approach to Modeling Complex Fluids |
| 4:50 - 5:20 pm |
Eric Santiso (MIT) |
Modeling the nucleation of molecular crystals |
| 5:50 - 7:00 pm |
Dinner on your own |
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| 7:00 - 8:30 pm |
David Landau (UGA) |
Monte Carlo Studies of Systems with Complex Energy Landscapes: At the Intersection between Physics and Biology |
| 8:30 - 10:00 pm |
Emad Tajkhorshid (UIUC) |
Tutorial on Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Biomolecular Systems and Processes |
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2010
| 7:00 - 8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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Session Chair |
Tabbetha Dobbins, Grambling University & Louisiana Tech University |
| 8:00 - 8:30 am |
Dentcho Genov (LaTech) |
Molding the flow of light with Artificial Optical Materials |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am |
Aravind Asthagiri (Florida) |
Modeling the oxidation and reactivity of transition metal surfaces |
| 10:00 - 10:20 am |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:20 - 10:50 am |
Roger Rousseau (PNNL) |
Theoretical studies of catalytic transformations on oxide surfaces: alcohol dehydration on supported WO3 and Alumina surfaces |
| 11:20 - 11:50 am |
Yan Zhao (Hewlett-Packard) |
Development and Application of Density Functionals for Chemistry and Solid-State Physics |
| 12:20 - 1:00 pm |
Box Lunches Served |
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| 1:00 pm |
Depart for New Orleans |
Lunches can be brought on bus to eat |
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