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The Friday night registration reception and the Saturday night reception and banquet will be held at the Hyatt Whitney Hotel, 150 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis. The conference sessions, including breaks and lunches, will be held at the Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation, 1200 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis.

Friday, March 17, 2000

7:00-9:00 p.m. Registration and reception at the Hyatt Whitney Hotel

Saturday, March 18, 2000

8:15 a.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus arrives at the Hyatt Whitney Hotel

8:25 a.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus departs the Hyatt Whitney Hotel for the Supercomputing Institute

8:30 a.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus arrives at the Supercomputing Institute - continental breakfast at the Supercomputing Institute

8:50 a.m. Welcome

9:00-9:45 a.m. Roberto Car, Princeton University
Global Optimization by Fictitious Quantum Dynamics

9:45-10:15 a.m. Marvin Cohen, University of California at Berkeley
The Standard Model of Solids

10:15-10:45 a.m. Giulia Galli, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
First Principle Simulations of Liquids under Pressure

10:45-11:00 a.m. Break

11:00-11:30 a.m. Leonard Kleinman, The University of Texas at Austin
Calculation of Several Liquid Na Properties

11:30 a.m-12:00 p.m. Michiel Sprik, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Computation of Chemical Reactivity Indices in Aqueous Solution

12:00-12:30 p.m. Paolo Carloni, International School for Advanced Studies, Italy
Ab initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations on HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase: Implications for Nucleoside-Analog Drug Resistance

12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00-2:30 p.m. Sokrates Pantelides, Vanderbilt University
Beyond Car-Parrinello: Light and Current

2:30-3:00 p.m. Jerzy Bernholc, North Carolina State University
Ab initio Simulations of Semiconductors and Fullerenes

3:00-3:30 p.m. Chris Van de Walle, Xerox
First-Principles Studies of Defects and Impurities in Nitride Semiconductors

3:30-3:45 p.m. Break

3:45-4:15 p.m. Ursula Röthlisberger, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland
Car-Parrinello Modeling of Enzymatic Reactions

4:15-4:45 p.m. J. Woods Halley, University of Minnesota
Direct Dynamics Studies of Electrochemical Interfaces

4:45 p.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus arrives at the Supercomputing Institute

5:00 p.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus departs from the Supercomputing Institute

5:05 p.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus arrives at the Hyatt Whitney Hotel

6:45-7:30 p.m. Reception at the Hyatt Whitney Hotel

7:30-9:30 p.m. Banquet


Sunday, March 19, 2000

8:30 a.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus arrives at the Hyatt Whitney Hotel

8:35 a.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus departs the Hyatt Whitney Hotel for the Supercomputing Institute

8:40 a.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus arrives at the Supercomputing Institute - continental breakfast at the Supercomputing Institute

9:00-9:45 a.m. Michele Parrinello, Max Plank Institut, Germany
Spectroscopic Properties of Disordered and Liquid Systems from ab initio Molecular Dynamics

9:45-10:15 a.m. D.R. Hamann, Lucent Technologies
Ab initio Molecular Dynamics with Adaptive Coordinates and Applications to Silica

10:15-10:45 a.m. Peter Blöchl, IBM Research Division, Switzerland
All electron Car-Parrinello Simulations of Reactive Processes in Silicates

10:45-11:00 a.m. Break

11:00-11:30 a.m. Alfredo Pasquarello, IRRMA, Switzerland
Car-Parrinello Applications to Network-Forming Materials

11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota
First Principles Elasticity of Minerals and Implications for the Earth's Mantle

12:00-12:30 p.m. Sandro Scandolo, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy
Compressed Matter Physics: Simulating Planetary Interiors

12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00-2:30 p.m. Richard Martin, University of Illinois
Order-N Linear-Scaling methods in Car-Parrinello Simulations

2:30-3:00 p.m. David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
Pre-Melting Dynamics of Al Surfaces

3:00-3:15 p.m. Break

3:15-3:45 p.m. Matthias Scheffler, Max Planck Institut, Germany
Surface Diffusion, Growth, and Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots at III-V Semiconductor Surfaces

3:45-4:15 p.m. Wanda Andreoni, IBM Research Division, Switzerland
Recent Advances in Materials Science with the Car-Parinello Method

4:15 p.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus arrives at the Supercomputing Institute

4:25 p.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus departs from the Supercomputing Institute

4:30 p.m. Lee Lines shuttle bus arrives at the Hyatt Whitney Hotel


Addresses:

Supercomputing Institute 1200 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55415
(612) 625-1818

Hyatt Whitney Hotel 150 Portland Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 339-9300


URL: http://www.msi.umn.edu/general/Symposia/car/1.html

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