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• M<strong>on</strong> 8:00-8:30 am• Overview/keynote: Opening remarks by Director (Wing Liu), <strong>and</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>NSF</str<strong>on</strong>g>Program Director (Ken Ch<strong>on</strong>g), <strong>and</strong> overview of the course (Judith Harris<strong>on</strong>)• M<strong>on</strong> 8:30-12:00• L1: Principals of Classical Lagrangian/Hamilt<strong>on</strong>ian mechanics <strong>and</strong> itsrelati<strong>on</strong>s to MD (Liu)• L2: Interatomic potentials <strong>and</strong> Force Fields (Harris<strong>on</strong>)• L3: Introducti<strong>on</strong> to MD simulati<strong>on</strong>s, Can<strong>on</strong>ical & Gr<strong>and</strong> Can<strong>on</strong>ical ensembles(Ellis)• M<strong>on</strong> 1:00-4:30 pm• L4: MC simulati<strong>on</strong>s; extracti<strong>on</strong> of T-average properties from MD & MC(Harris<strong>on</strong>)• P1: Dem<strong>on</strong>strati<strong>on</strong> of simple MD <strong>and</strong> FEM Matlab <strong>and</strong> Mathematica codes: ateaching tool (Liu)• P2: Practical experience with codes; run examples of MD (Harris<strong>on</strong>)• Tue 8:30-12:00• L5: Lattice <strong>Mechanics</strong> <strong>and</strong> Multiscale boundary c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s in solids (Liu)• L6: Multi-length <strong>and</strong> Multi-time scale problems - nanostructures; diffusi<strong>on</strong>(Ellis)• L7: <strong>Nano</strong>indentati<strong>on</strong> & <strong>Nano</strong>tribology I (Harris<strong>on</strong>)• Tue 1:00-4:30 pm• L8: Bridging Scale Methods I: Coupling of MD to C<strong>on</strong>tinuum (Liu)• L9: Examples of structural optimizati<strong>on</strong>/relaxati<strong>on</strong> (Ellis)• P3: Lab Tours #1 (Ellis, Brins<strong>on</strong>)http://tam.northwestern.edu/summerinstitute/Home.htmhttp://tam.northwestern.edu/wkl/liu.html• Wed 8:30-12:00• L10: <strong>Nano</strong>indentati<strong>on</strong> & <strong>Nano</strong>tribology II (Harris<strong>on</strong>)• L11: Quantum <strong>Mechanics</strong> & Density Functi<strong>on</strong>al <strong>The</strong>ory for Materials Design(Ellis)• P4: Lab sessi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> MC <strong>and</strong> thermodynamic codes; (Harris<strong>on</strong>)• Wed 1:00-4:30 pm• L12: Bridging Scale Methods II: Coupling of MD to C<strong>on</strong>tinuum <strong>and</strong>Introducti<strong>on</strong> to FEM (if time allows) (Liu)• L13: Introducti<strong>on</strong> to Surfaces <strong>and</strong> Interfaces; <strong>Nano</strong>depositi<strong>on</strong> (Harris<strong>on</strong>)• P5 : Lab Tours #2 (Ellis, Brins<strong>on</strong>)• Thu 8:30-12:00• L14: Links between <strong>The</strong>ory <strong>and</strong> Experiment I. Essential Collaborati<strong>on</strong>s(Harris<strong>on</strong>)• L15: Links between <strong>The</strong>ory <strong>and</strong> Experiment II. Clean Lab vs. Real World(Ellis)• L16: <strong>Nano</strong>composites- <strong>The</strong>ory <strong>and</strong> Experiment I (Brins<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Schadler)• Thu 1:00-4:30pm• L17: <strong>Nano</strong>composites- <strong>The</strong>ory <strong>and</strong> Experiment II (Brins<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> Schadler)• P6: Lab sessi<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> MD/FEM/C<strong>on</strong>tinuum bridging using Matlab (Liu)• P7: Lab Tours #3 (Ellis, Brins<strong>on</strong>)• Fri 8:30-12:00• L18:Materials Design-Overview <strong>and</strong> Meso- to Macro-scale (Liu)• L19: QM ClassicalExperimental feedback loops (Ellis)• L20: Summing up- Status of the field <strong>and</strong> the Future (round table)http://tam.northwestern.edu/summerinstitute/Home.htmhttp://tam.northwestern.edu/wkl/liu.html

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