Materials for Energy Applications: Experiment, Modeling and Simulations

March 30 - April 1, 2011 at the Terranea Resort in Ranchos Palos Verdes, CA

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Application for Graduate Student Support (win $1000 to attend the conference)

Send CV and letter of recommendation to Patricia Wong (phw@usc.edu)

Conference Registration ($600): Register here

All participants, please register. Registration covers lunches, coffee breaks, refreshments and banquet.

Hotel Accommodations

Before March 11, 2011 - $266.75 per day, includes room internet, resort fee, state and local taxes. Limited number of rooms are available at this rate. After March 11, the rate is $293.90. IMPORTANT: Please call Terranea reservation office at (866) 802-8000 with code: USC Conference CACS2011. More information on the hotel at Terranea.com.

Conference Program

Keynote Lectures:

Science for Energy
Harriet Kung, Director, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, DOE

Modeling and Simulation - Capabilities and Challenges
Walter Polansky, Acting Director, SciDAC Division, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, DOE

Invited Speakers:

Jim Belak (LLNL), Jerry Bernholc (NCSU), Markus Beuhler (MIT), Don Brenner (NCSU), Jim Chelikowsky (UTexas), George Crabtree (ANL), Vincent Crespi (PSU), Steve Cronin (USC), Peter Cummings (Vanderbilt), Dana Dlott (UIUC), Vinayak Dravid (NWU), Adri van Duin (Penn State), Thom Dunning (UIUC), Timothy Germann (LANL), Ananth Grama (Purdue), Mary Hall (Utah), Kai-Ming Ho (Ames), Tim Kaxiras (Harvard), Shiv Khanna (VCU), Gerhard Klimeck (Purdue), Michele Parrinello (ETHZ), Warren Pickett (UC Davis), Elena Shevchenko (ANL), Ellad Tadmore (Minnesota), Satyavani Vemparala (IMSC, India), Jeff Vetter (Georgia Tech), Krystyn van Vliet (MIT), Sid Yip (MIT).

Advisory Committee:

Kurt Binder (Germany), Roberto Car (Princeton), Jim Chelikowsky (Texas), George Crabtree (Argonne), Masao Doi (Japan), Thom Dunning (Illinois), Giulia Galli (UC Davis), Mike Klein (Temple), Andrew Mark (DOD-HPCMO), Michele Parrinello (ETHZ), CNR Rao (India), Ralph Roskies (Pittsburgh), Horst Simon (LBL), Rick Stevens (Argonne)

Conference supported by

University of Southern California
Viterbi School of Engineering and
Center for High Performance Computing and Communication

U.S. Department of Energy Offices of Basic Energy Sciences and
Advanced Scientific Computing Research and
the National Nuclear Security Administration