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First Annual Review Meeting
Center for the Science & Engineering of Materials (NSF MRSEC) Julie Kornfield, Director

Thursday, December 13, 2001

California Institute of Technology
Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall, Guggenheim Aeronautics Building

Agenda
   
8:30 - 9:30 am Opening Remarks and Overview
   Julie Kornfield, Director of CSEM
   

9:30 - 10:30 am

Keynote Address

Physics-Based Simulations of the Dynamic Response of Materials Under Extreme Conditions
   Christian Mailhiot, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

   
10:30 - 11:00 am Break
   
11:00 - 12:00 pm

Bulk Metallic Glasses and Composites (movie1) (movie2) (movie3)
(Interdisciplinary Research Group)
    Bill Johnson

   
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch
   
1:00 - 2:00 pm Biological Synthesis and Assembly of Macromolecular Material
(Interdisciplinary Research Group)
    David Tirrell
   
2:00 - 2:30 pm Mesophotonic Materials
(Seed Project)
    Harry Atwater
   
2:30 - 3:00 pm Multiscale Modeling of Ferroelectric Thin Films
(Seed Project)
    Kaushik Bhattacharya
   
3:00 - 3:30 pm Break
   
3:30 - 4:30 pm Outreach
       Julie Kornfield and Michael Ortiz
   
4:30 - 6:00 pm Poster Session, Gates Library Patio