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Computational Materials Science 
Date: Jan 8 - 19, 2001 Location: Santiago, Chile at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Sponsors: U.S. National Science Foundation Departamento de Fisica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Iowa State University United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) The International Institute of Theoretical & Applied Physics (IITAP) U.S. Department of Energy, Materials Sciences Program (BES/OS)
The rapid advances and interdisciplinary research taking place in CMS made it an ideal subject for the Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) which featured 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 benefit by extending their experience beyond their specialization and becoming familiar with the exciting progress being made in overlapping disciplines. The PASI conference helped to establish networking contacts in related but crucial fields (including computer science and applied mathematics). The guest speakers at the PASI conference in Santiago Chile were: Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University, USA Malcolm Stocks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA José Onuchic, University of California - San Diego, USA Ana María Llois, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina Mark Gordon, Iowa State University, USA Franco Nori, University of Michigan, USA Ivan K. Schuller, University of California - San Diego, USA Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota, USA Rafael Barrios, UNAM, México Mariana Weissmann, Centro Nacional de Energia Atomica, Argentina Ricardo Ramirez, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile Jorge Sofo, Centro Atómico Bariloche-Instituto Balseiro, Argentina This is a particularly opportune time in the evolution of this interdisciplinary activity to bring together young researchers from the Americas in order to build the foundations for longer term networking and collaborations. This PASI conference provided the environment for mutual discovery of this new field and stimulated scientific discussions which built bridges of communication and mutual respect. It also helped expand the base of trained scientists working together to address this forefront activity and helped build the respective local communities from which the participants came. The US scientific community benefited directly by the expanding international network of young scientists interacting and sharing new ideas. We invited young scientists in the area of CMS to apply to the PASI organizing committee for funding to attend this conference. International Scientific Advisory Committee: Gerald Mahan, University of Tennessee, USA Sokrates Pantelides, Vanderbilt University, USA Cylon Goncalves da Silva, Brazilian Association for Synchrotron Light Technology, Brazil Miguel José Yacamán, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico Jorge López, University of Texas - El Paso, USA Luiz Oliveira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil Gil da Costa Marques, Physics Institute at Sao Paulo, Brazil Giovanni Ciccotti, University "La Sapienza", Italy Jose Luis Morán López, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico Ivan K. Schuller, University of California - San Diego, USA William Bialek, NEC Research Institute, USA Organizing Committee: 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 For any further information contact: Jill Cornelis (judge@iastate.edu) Phone: (515) 294-1484 Fax: (515) 294-9933 |
