Meeting Schedule

March 18
8:00 AM	opening remarks	(David Srolovitz, Alain Karma, Thomas Schulthess, James Morris)
9:00 AM	Jim Roberto, Associate Laboratory Director, Physical Sciences, ORNL
9:30 AM	Modeling the Motion of Theta-Prime/Matrix Interfaces in Al-Cu	L-Q. Chen, Penn State
9:50 AM	Dendrite Growth Orientation Selection: Beyond Extremal Principles	Tomorr Haxhimali
10:10 AM	Break
10:30 AM	Effect of non-equilibrium vacancy concentration on grain boundary motion in Au	Moneesh Upmanyu and Branden Kappes, CSM.
10:50 AM	Effect of Fe Impurities on Grain Boundary Motion in Al	M.I. Mendelev, D.J. Srolovitz, S. Han, G.J. Ackland, J.R. Morris
11:10 AM	Effect of Normal-dependent Grain Boundary Energies on Population Statistics	Jason Gruber, Greg Rohrer and Tony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon
11:30 AM	Wei Wang, Alcoa
11:50 AM	Lunch
1:00 PM	"The Effect of Inclination on Grain Boundary Mobility"	Hao Zhang, Mikhail I. Mendelev and David J. Srolovitz
1:20 PM	The mechanisms of coarsening of the gamma prime phase in Ni-Al-Cr alloys via kinetic Monte Carlo simulations	Zugang Mao and D.N. Seidman Northwestern University
1:40 PM	Coupled Growth in Eutectic and Peritectic Alloys: New Insights from Phase-Field Modeling and Experiments	Alain Karma North Eastern University
2:00 PM	Studies of the effect of solute on grain boundary mobility and character in Al alloys	Mitra L. Taheri and Tony Rollett Carnegie Mellon
2:20 PM	Break
2:40 PM	Growth mechanisms and impurity effects in Al-Si	Ralph Napolitano Iowa State
3:00 PM	A comparison between Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation and three-dimensional atom-probe microscopy results on a Ni-Al-Cr alloy	D.N. Seidman, Northwestern University
3:20 PM 5:30 PM	Break, Discussions ( Separate Sessions for S-S and S-L interface groups)
March 19
8:30 AM	Thomas Zacharia, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Sciences, ORNL
9:00 AM	Equilibrium Solution Thermodynamics and Solid-Liquid Interfacial Adsorption in Lennard-Jones Alloys	C.A. Becker and M. Asta Northwestern University
9:20 AM	Phase field modeling of defect mediated growth	Jim Warren, NIST
9:40 AM	Break
10:00 AM	Effect of solute drag on the evolution of polycrystalline microstructures	N. Ma, S. A. Dregia and Y. Wang Ohio State
10:20 AM	Density Wave Theory of the fcc-liquid Interface Anisotropy	Kuo-An Wu
10:40 AM	Progress in 3D computational modeling of solute diffusion during microstructure evolution	Koenraad G. F. Janssens Sandia National Laboratories
11:00 AM	Phase-field modeling of solidification	M. Plapp Ecole Polytechnique
11:20 AM	Characterization of multiscale dislocation structure in the HAZ of a Ni-based superalloy	Rosa Barabash, ORNL
11:40 AM 1:00 PM	Lunch, Wrap up