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2005 FSMS meeting

The 2005 meeting was held at the University Florida in the Materials Science and Engineering department. This is the first collective meeting of the group that later formed the FSMS. Below is a picture of some of the participants at the first meeting:

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From left to right: Marina Yao (UF), Richard Liang (FSU), Jin Guo (UF), Aniket Bhattacharya (UCF), Ivan Oleynik (USF), Susan Sinnott (UF), Simon Phillpot (UF), Patrick Schelling (UCF), Hai-Ping Cheng (UF), Anthony Ladd (UF), Dmitry Kopelevich (UF), Charlie Liu (FSU)

Faculty talks

A list of faculty talks is given below. Some of the talks include links to .pdf or .ppt files.

  1. Aniket Bhattacharya (Physics, UCF) "Morphology and dynamics of structured molecules"
  2. Susan Sinnott (Materials Science, UF) "Computational studies of carbon nanotubes"
  3. Charlie Liu (Industrial Engineering, FSU) "MD simulation and experimental investigation of surfactant effects on SWNT dispersion"
  4. Aravind Asthagiri (Chemical Engineering, UF) "Multiscale modeling of relaxor ferroelectrics"
  5. Patrick Schelling (AMPAC and Physics, UCF) "Simulations of phonon transport in semiconductor nanostructures"
  6. Jin Guo (Electrical and Computer Engineering, UF) "Device simulations of carbon nanotube electronics and sensors"
  7. Tony Ladd (Chemical Engineering, UF) "Simulations of polymer solutions via a lattice-Boltzmann model of the fluid"
  8. Hai-Peng Cheng (Physics, UF) "Interaction between monolayer C60 and surfaces"
  9. Richard Liang (Industrial Engineering, FSU) "MD simulation of SWNT pullout and analysis of loading transfer in SWNT/Epoxy nanocomposites"
  10. Hans Seifert (Materials Science, UF) "Application of CALPHAD methods in materials science"
  11. Ivan Oleynik (Physics, USF) "Nanoscale simulation of shock wave propagation in covalent solids"
  12. Dmitri Kopelevich (Chemical Engineering, UF) "Molecular modeling of self-assembly and transport in amphiphilic systems"
  13. Simon Phillpot (Materials Science, UF) "Atomic-level simulation of ferroelectricity in perovskites and LiNbO3"