conference registration current program conference site home page hotel registration confirmed speakers Minneapolis Supercomputing Institute University of Minnesota		This workshop will be held March 18-19, 2000 at the Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation at the University of Minnesota. The Institute is located at: 1200 Washington Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota The workshop program will consist of invited presentations by Roberto Car (Princeton) on Global Optimization by Fictitious Quantum Dynamics and Michele Parrinello (Max Planck) on Spectroscopic Properties of Disordered and Liquid Systems from ab initio Molecular Dynamics and by major practitioners of the method. Other confirmed speakers include: Wanda Andreoni (IBM Zurich)      Recent Advances in Materials Science with the Car-Parrinello Method Jerzy Bernholc (North Carolina State)      Ab initio Simulations of Semiconductors and Fullerenes Peter Blöchl (IBM Zurich)      All-Electron Car-Parrinello Simulations of Reactive Processes in Silicates Paolo Carloni (SISSA/ISAS)      Ab initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations on HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase:     Implications for Nucleoside-Analog Drug Resistance Marvin Cohen (UC Berkeley)      The Standard Model of Solids Giulia Galli (Livermore)      First Principle Simulations of Liquids under Pressure J. Woods Halley (University of Minnesota)      Direct Dynamics Studies of Electrochemical Interfaces D.R. Hamann (Lucent)      Ab initio Molecular Dynamics with Adaptive Coordinates and Applications to Silica Leonard Kleinman (University of Texas)      Calculation of Several Liquid Na Properties Richard Martin (University of Illinois)      Order-N linear-scaling methods in Car-Parrinello simulations Sokrates Pantelides (Vanderbilt)      TBA Alfredo Pasquarello (IRRMA)      Car-Parrinello Applications to Network-Forming Materials Ursula Röthlisberger (ETH Zentrum)      Car-Parrinello Modeling of Enzymatic Reactions Sandro Scandolo (SISSA, Trieste)      Compressed Matter Physics: Simulating Planetary Interiors Matthias Scheffler (Max Planck)      Surface Diffusion, Growth, and Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots at III-V Semiconductor Surfaces Michiel Sprik (Cambridge University)      Computation of Chemical Reactivity Indices in Aqueous Solution Chris Van de Walle (Xerox)      First-Principles Studies of Defects and Impurities in Nitride Semiconductors David Vanderbilt (Rutgers)      Pre-Melting Dynamics of Al Surfaces Renata Wentzcovitch (University of Minnesota)      TBA