Throughout history, the development of technology-enabling materials has been carried out using mostly experimental approaches. Thanks to recent advances at the theory, software and hardware level, computational materials science has emerged as an extremely valuable tool in the development of new materials.
International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC)
2012 WINTER SCHOOL IN COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE ACROSS SCALES
College Station, Texas, USA
January 8-17, 2012
Rationale
Throughout history, the development of technology-enabling materials has been carried out using
mostly experimental approaches. Thanks to recent advances at the theory, software and hardware level,
computational materials science has emerged as an extremely valuable tool in the development of new
materials.
Goals
The goal of this week-and-a-half Winter School is to introduce some of the most important methods
within the Computational Materials Science toolkit to undergraduate and graduate students interested in
this emerging field. Since materials science studies multi-scale phenomena, this Winter School will offer
modules focused on different methods used to investigate physical phenomena at multiple scales.
Organization and Topics
Topics will be organized in a top-down approach and connections will be made between different
time and length scales.
Themes will be organized as follows:
1. Mechanical response of materials: from the continuum to the mesoscale
2. Computational thermodynamics of materials
3. Evolution of microstructure at the mesoscale
4. Atomistic simulations: classical potentials
5. Calculating materials properties at the electronic structure levels
The School will consist of theoretical modules offered by experts in the field, followed by practical
laboratories where the participants will have the opportunity of using the methods reviewed to simulate
specific material phenomena. The newly established IIMEC Computer Cluster acquired with financial
support from the National Science Foundation will be used during the hands-on sessions.
Interactions among participants is fundamental to achieve the full potential of the Winter School and
social activities will be planned to provide ample opportunity to exchange experiences and ideas as well
as to initiate collaborations that can be fostered within the IIMEC program.
This Winter School will be immediately followed by the IIMEC 3rd Annual Meeting, held in College
Station, Texas on January 18-19, 2012.
Application Information:
Go to http://www.iimecwinterschool.org to fill out the application. Final application’s
deadline: November 15th, 2011.
Applicants may be graduate students, post docs or IIMEC junior faculty.
It is recommended that international participants complete application as soon as possible.
Financial Support:
A limited number of full fellowships (covering registration, travel and lodging) will be made
available to qualified applicants as well as a number of partial fellowships (covering registration and
lodging for non-local students, and registration for local students).
Registration Fee: $500.00 (Registration fee will cover teaching materials, breakfast and lunch on
class days, refreshments, two banquets, two excursions, etc.).
Organizers:
Raymundo Arroyave, Dimitris Lagoudas, Etienne Patoor, Amine Benzerga, Tahir Cagin
Contact Information:
Raymundo Arroyave (rarroyave@tamu.edu)
Vanessa Barbato (vbarbato@aero.tamu.edu)
Sponsor:
The National Science Foundation