Subject: call for paper

From: Patnaik Soumya S Contr AFRL/MLPJ <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 15:43:28 -0400

Dear Colleague,

I would like to bring to your attention a MRS symposium on Multiscale
Modeling of Organic Materials.

CALL FOR PAPERS

MULTISCALE MODELING OF ORGANIC MATERIALS
Materials Research Society Spring 2000 Meeting
April 24-28, 2000
San Francisco, California

This symposium will address accomplishments, limitations, and future
directions for modeling organic materials behavior across disparate length
and time scales.  Some of the topics to be emphasized are:
*	Approaches that link atomistic & continuum modeling
*	Mesoscale models
*	Methods for producing & validating accurate potentials
*	Combined quantum-mechanical & atomistic approaches 
*	Dynamical properties

Symposium Organizers:

Barry L. Farmer, Air Force Research Laboratory
Ruth Pachter, Air Force Research Laboratory
Soumya S. Patnaik, Air Force Research Laboratory
David Rigby, Molecular Simulations Inc.
Kohji Tashiro, Osaka University

Invited Speakers Include:

Y. Aoki, Hiroshima University, Japan
M. Doi, Nagoya University, Japan
D. Dudis, Air Force Research Laboratory
B. Eichinger, Molecular Simulations Inc.
J. Fraaije, University of Groningen, Netherlands
S. Glotzer, National Institute of Standards & Technology 
W. Goddard, California Institute of Technology 
G. Goldbeck-Wood, Cambridge University, UK
M. Gordon, Iowa State University
K. Kremer, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
S. Krimm, University of Michigan
S. Kumar, Pennsylvania State University
J. de Pablo, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Y. Sasanuma, Chiba University, Japan
J. Yeomans, University of Oxford, UK
M. Watanabe, Moldyn, Inc.

Joint sessions are anticipated with the following symposia: 
O: Materials Computation-Progress Towards Technological Impact
S: Electrically Active Polymers
CC: Hybrid Organic / Inorganic Materials
DD: Interfacial Aspects of Soft Biomaterials
EE: Nanostructures in Polymers

Selected papers from the symposium will be published in a special issue of
Computational & Theoretical Polymer Science

Abstract Deadlines:
October 18 - Abstracts sent via e-mail, fax or mail
November 1 - Abstracts sent via the MRS Web-site

For more information & instruction see the conference home page at
http://www.mrs.org/meetings/spring00/cfp/symposia/p.html

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Soumya S. Patnaik 
Air Force Research Laboratory 
[email-masked]
AFRL/MLPJ, Bldg. 651, 3005 P St., WPAFB, OH 45433 
(937) 255-6671 ext. 3116    Fax:  (937) 255-1128 
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