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Title:
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Numerical Modeling and Simulation on Nanoscale Materials and Devices

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Organizers:
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Professor Ted Belytschko
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
tedbelytschko@northwestern.edu

Professor Shaoping Xiao
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
shaoping-xiao@uiowa.edu

Professor Harold Park
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
harold.park@vanderbilt.edu

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Minisymposium description:
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Nanotechnology has become an exciting field in basic sciences and has many potential 
applications in today's world.  This field will have a significant impact on medicine, 
electronics, and materials. Current research in this area requires efficient and effective 
numerical technologies, including large-scale molecular simulation and multiscale methods. 

The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to 
discuss various aspects of computational methods and problems, especially in simulating and 
designing novel nanomaterails and nanodevices. 


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 * Multi-scale modeling and simulation of nanoscale materials
 * Nanomaterial fabrication, synthesis, and processing simulations
 * Nanoelectronic and other nanosystem simulations
 * Large-scale molecular methods and simulations in nano-science and technology
 * Modeling and simulation for Nano electromechanical systems
 * Parallel algorithms and computational methods in nano-materials processing, 
   characteristics, and statistical analysis
 * Large computing systems for nano-science (computational and network systems)