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Title:
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Modeling and Simulation of Nano Materials and Mechanics 

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Organizers:
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Peter W. Chung (Primary)
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
pchung@arl.army.mil

Eliot Fang
Sandia National Laboratories
hefang@sandia.gov

Nasr Ghoniem
University of California, Los Angeles
ghoniem@seas.ucla.edu

Hanchen Huang
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
huangh@rpi.edu 

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Minisymposium description:
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The purpose of this symposium is to foster dialogue and exchange of
ideas in emerging areas of nanomaterials and nanomechanics in a forum
comprised of computational, materials, physical and engineering
scientists.   Developments from nanotechnological, semiconductor, and
materials industries have given rise to fertile new research areas that
extend deeply into both classical and neoclassical problems in the
computational mechanics community.  These problems are broad in
disciplines, yet interdependent, ranging from methods development to
mechanisms/phenomenology to theory investigation.

Spurred on by the need to improve modeling capability to transcend the
inherent limitations of traditional computational sciences and the
desire to identify and define the changing landscape of physics-based
modeling and simulation, we invite papers that address one or more of
the following computational areas:

*    Deformation, strain effects and stress evolution at small scales
*    Surface organization and evolution
*    Dynamics of defects, grain boundary mechanisms and atomistic plasticity
*    Interfacial thermomechanical properties and multiscale nonequilibrium 
     statistical mechanics
*    Kinetics and thermodynamics for phase transformation
*    Electromagnetic and optoelectronic materials modeling
*    Synthesis modeling
*    Modeling of surface probe and tip technologies