02.06.18-21 Atomic Scale Materials Design - Abstract deadline

         Symposium A - ATOMIC SCALE MATERIALS DESIGN
            European Materials Research Society
                E-MRS Spring Meeting
                  June 18-21, 2002
           Supported by the Psi_k Network and the
                European Science Foundation
          Venue:
          Congress Center
          Palais de la Musique et des Congres
          Strasbourg France
 DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: January 14, 2002
 On-line abstract submissions:
 http://www-emrs.c-strasbourg.fr/EMRS%202002%20Meetings.htm
 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
 Large Scale Simulations using
 Quantum Chemical Forces
 Rodney BARTLETT, University of Florida
 Iron on GaAs
 Steven ERWIN, Naval Research Laboratory
 Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of
 Hydrogen Adsorption on Si(100)
 Claudia FILIPPI, Universiteit of Leiden
 Defect Modeling in Semiconductors
 Risto NIEMINEN, Helsinki University of Technology
 Mechanical Properties and the Chemical Bond
 Ruben PEREZ, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
 Ab-initio Simulations of Catalytic Reactions
 Inside Zeolites
 Xavier ROZANSKA, Eindhoven University
 Nanostructured Fe-magnets
 Daniel SPISAK, University of Vienna
 Why is a Noble Metal Catalytically Active?
 The Role of the O-Ag Interaction in the Function
 of Silver as an Oxidation Catalyst
 Catherine STAMPFL,  Fritz-Haber Institute
 First Principles Modeling of Molecular Electronic Devices
 Kurt STOKBRO, Technical University of Denmark
 Accelerating Molecular Dynamics
 Arthur VOTER, Los Alamos National Laboratory
 Symposium organizers:
 Mehdi Djafari-Rouhani, CNRS-LAAS
 Mike Finnis, Queen's University Belfast
 Jim Greer, NMRC
 Juergen Hafner, University of Vienna
 Anatoli Korkin, Motorola
 Scientific committee:
 G.Gilmer, Bell Labs, USA
 H.Goronkin, Motorola, USA
 M.Jaraiz, University of Valladolid, Spain
 J.Labanowski, Ohio Supercomputer Center, USA
 J.-L.Leray, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique CEA/DAM, France
 P.Lindan, University of Kent, UK
 D.Pettifor, Oxford University, UK
 M.Scheffler, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany
 T.Vrotsos, Texas Instruments, USA
 G.Wachutka, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
 We seek submissions on electronic structure calculations and computational
 material science applied to:
 7 Microelectronics and Optoelectronics,
 7 Nanotechnology and Biotechnology
 7 Chemical Industries
 including
 7 Surfaces and interfaces
 7 Molecules and clusters
 7 Catalysis
 7 Biological molecules, macromolecules, polymers
 7 Plasmas, chemical vapor deposition, atomic layer deposition,
   and materials processing
 7 Nanostructures
 We also seek submissions discussing advances in electronic structure
 theory, which enable new problems to be investigated.