Invited talks

HPCNano05 Workshop Program

Morning Program

"Introduction to HPC for nanotechnology"
Jun Ni and Jack Dongarra, the University of Iowa and The University of Tennessee
(8:30AM-8:40AM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"Computational Nanotechnology - An Introduction"
John E. Savage, Brown University, USA
(8:40AM-9:20AM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"Large-scale Simulation for Finding Novel Properties and Functions on Nanostructured Carbon Material, using the Earth Simulator"
Hisashi Nakamura, Research Organization for Information Science & Technology (RIST), Japan
(9:20AM-10:00AM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"Overview of the NSF TeraGrid Initiative"
Charlie Catlett, TeraGrid Director, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
(10:00AM-10:30AM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

Coffee Break (10 minutes)

"nanoHUB.org – A Service-Oriented Gateway for the nano Science Community "
Gerhard Klimeck, Sebastien Goasguen, Michael McLennan, Faisal Saied, Krishna Madhavan, and Mark Lundstrom
Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), NSF nanoHUB Project, Purdue University, USA
(10:40AM-11:10AM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanosystems on High Performance Computers"
Andrew Canning, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Dept. of Applied Science, UC-Davis
(11:10AM-11:40AM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"Efficient eigensolvers for large scale electronic nanostructure calculations"
Stanimire Tomov, Andrew Canning, Jack Dongarra, Osni Marques, Christof Voemel, Lin-Wang Wang
(11:40AM-12:10PM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"Nano by Numbers: Modeling and Computation for Nanostructures at NNIN/C"
Michael Stopa, Center for Nanoscale Systems, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA
(1:00PM-1:40PM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"Multiscale Computational Materials Simulations for Carbon Nanotubes and Composites"
Deepak Srivastava, Center for Nanotechnology (CNT), NASA Ames Research Center, USA
(1:40PM-2:20PM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"Large Scale Simulation of Nanotransistors and Nanotube Devices"
M. P. Anantram, A. Svizhenko, and T. R. Govindan, Center for Nanotechnology (CNT), NASA Ames Research Center, USA
(2:20PM-3:00PM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"Large Scale Simulations of Branched Si-nanowires"
Madhu Menon, Ernst Richter, Ingyu Lee, and Padma Raghavan
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, USA; DaimlerChrysler, Germany; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
(3:00PM-3:30PM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

Coffee Break (10minutes)

"Large-scale Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of Failure at Nanoscale Interfaces"
Martina E. Bachlechner, Physics Department, West Virginia University, USA
(3:40PM-4:20PM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 206)

"The Need of High-performance Computing in Compuational Nano- Mechanics and Materials Science"
Shaoping Xiao, Jun Ni, and Shaowen Wang, Nano-STRES Lab, the University of Iowa, USA
(4:20PM-5:00PM on Nov. 16, Wed; Room 2006