By
H. Dreyssé, IPCMS-GEMME, Université Louis Pasteur, 23 rue du Loess, BP 20 CR, F-67037 Strasbourg Cedex, France,
Y. Kawazoe, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-77, Japan
L.T. Wille, Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA
C. Demangeat, IPCMS-GEMME, Université Louis Pasteur, 23 rue du Loess, BP 20 CR, F-67037 Strasbourg Cedex, France
Description
The Symposium D, entitled
Computational Modeling of Issues in Materials Science was presented at the combined 1997 International
Conference on Applied Materials/European Materials Research Society Spring meeting (ICAM'97/E-MRS'97) held in Strasbourg (France) from
16-20 June 1997.
Those who attended came from all five continents with participants coming from as far away as South Africa, Australia
and Eastern Europe. There were 14 invited talks, 54 contributed papers, and 62 posters presented at the symposium.
Computational materials
science has truly emerged as a field in itself. The range of phenomena studied and the variety of techniques used indicate that the subject
has sufficiently matured that technologically relevant information can now be routinely extracted from computational modeling. These
models increasingly use atomistic information from which macroscopic parameters may be determined.
Several papers showed that parallel
computers will play a major role in the further development of the field. The Car-Parrinello method emerged as a workhorse for the most
advanced simulations which the advent of faster hardware and diffusion of computer codes has brought within easy reach of many research
groups. How to consistently go from the micro- to the macro-scale remains one of the great unsolved puzzles in computational materials
science and was the subject of much discussion at the symposium. The interdisciplinary side of computational studies of matter was demonstrated
in several talks, where authors borrowed methods from nuclear physics, fluid dynamics, and other subjects.
This was a very productive
symposium with new collaborations started, many novel ideas generated and a large amount of information disseminated. The meeting gave
an excellent idea of the status of computational materials service
anno 1997.
Included in series
European Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings
