Modeling the Nanoscale World

NNIN/CNF Fall Workshop

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

October 10-12th, 2005

Overview

The nanoscale regime provides an important arena where scientific disciplines converge to study systems that can have tremondous fundamental and commercial impact. Computational approaches provide a crucial window into the nanoscale world. These codes help explain nanoscale phenomena and guide future studies. However, in order to succesfully use these computational techniques with experimental tools, researchers must learn about the principles and areas of application assocated with each code. The Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) in conjunction with the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) is proud to host a workshop focused on the wide range of modeling tools that help us understand the nanoscale world. 

Workshop Flyer in PDF Format for download.

Format

The workshop will provide morning lectures on the theory behind approaches followed by hands-on afternoon sessions on each code. In some cases, the participants will be able to learn directly from the code's creator. Sessions will focus on tools for nano-materials (multilayers, nanowires, etc), chemistry on the nanoscale (clusters, molecules, etc), and nanophotonics (FDTD approaches, photonic crystals). Graduate students and young researchers with theory or experimental backgrounds are encouraged to attend.

List of Speakers

• Dr. Geoff Hutchinson (Cornell University) - Open Babel: File Translator for Computational Chemistry
• Dr. Christina Manolatou (Cornell University) - Finite Difference Time Domain approaches for nanophotonics
• Dr. David Roundy (Cornell University) - Plane wave approaches for nanoscale materials
• Dr. Derek Stewart (Cornell University) - Muffin tins, Green's functions, and nanoscale transport
• Dr. Michael Stopa (Harvard University) - Effective Mass Density Functional Theory for Quantum Dots and 2D electron gases
• Dr. Mark Tuckerman (New York University) - First principles moleculary dynamics (Carr-Parrinello approaches and more)
• Dr. Zhiyong Zhang (Stanford University) - NWChem - Modeling Chemistry on the Nanoscale

Registration

The registration deadline for the workshop is September 16, 2005. Seating is limited to 30-45 participants, so please register early.  Please go to the Workshop Registration page to complete the online registration.  Please contact the workshop coordinator: Dr. Derek Stewart: stewart@cnf.cornell.edu with registration questions.

Poster Session

All attendants are encouraged to present a poster at the workshop.  Abstracts for the poster session (400 words maximum excluding title and author's name and affiliations) should be submit in plain text to stewart@cnf.cornell.edu with the subject "CNF Fall Workshop".  Poster abstracts must be sent by September 9th, 2005. 

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