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Host: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Homepage: http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/iitap/pasi.html
Organizers: David Ernst (Vanderbilt University, USA), Bruce Harmon (Iowa State University, USA), Miguel Kiwi (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile), Victor Latorre (Multiciencias, Peru), James Vary (Iowa State University, USA)
Description:
Computational Materials Science (CMS) is one of the broadest, most rapidly evolving and
technologically significant areas of science today. From its foundations in basic science CMS
branches to new materials, to processing, and to the life sciences. Due to rapid advances in
computational capacity, including new algorithms, software macro-packages and low-cost PC's,
CMS problems previously thought intractable are actively being pursued. The enhanced capabilities
of CMS are increasingly impacting the search for new materials, the improvement and design of
processing techniques, and the research in bio-areas such as protein folding.
The rapid advances and interdisciplinary research taking place in CMS makes it an ideal subject for the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) which will feature a spectrum of forefront topics in this field. Progress in this field will be most rapid when scientists from a range of disciplines and subdisciplines are brought together on projects that require broad expertise not usually found in one group or organization. Students and postdocs in particular would benefit by extending their experience beyond their specialization and becoming familiar with the exciting progress being made in overlapping disciplines. The PASI conference will help establish networking contacts in related but crucial fields (including computer science and applied mathematics).
Date received: November 08, 2000
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