EUROPEAN MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY 2002 E-MRS Fall Meeting Cracow University of Technology September 15-19, 2002 Cracow, Poland SYMPOSIUM: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR PROCESS AND MATERIALS DESIGN ===================================================== http://www.asdn.net/emrs http://www.AtomicScaleDesign.Net/e-mrs Computational materials science has matured to the point that technological problems related to materials design, processing, and chemical synthesis are being investigated on computers often before conducting expensive and time-consuming experiments. The simple truth is that the cooperation of computational material scientists and experimentalists results in much faster development cycles and a better understanding of the problem at hand. Explosive growth in software development for computational materials research resulted in a vast number of approaches, methods, and software packages. Computer-aided modeling and simulation is now an established procedure in: microelectronics, optoelectronics, nanotechnology, fine chemicals, polymers, drug design, biotechnology, and many other fields. We invite contribution which describe method and software development important in the materials and process design, namely: * Quantum Monte Carlo, * Traditional ab initio and semiempirical quantum methods, * Density-functional approaches, * Tight binding techniques, * Force field based molecular mechanics, dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations, * Mesoscale and multiscale modeling, * Molecular modeling and graphics approaches, * Combinatorial chemistry and high throughput screening techniques, * QSPR and QSAR techniques, * Informatics, efficient user interfaces, and statistical and data mining techniques, * other computational methods important for materials and process design. We will also consider solicit good examples which represent practical applications of these approaches to important materials and process design problems. This symposium is also an occasion to foster and strengthen the scientific and commercial partnership between Western and Eastern Europe and promote the collaboration with the world leading materials science software design centers and materials scientists in commercial, academic, and governmental sectors. Please consult the web site at http://www.asdn.net/emrs for details about the abstract submission process and the publication of proceedings. You can also contact us by mail at: chairs@asdn.net chairs@AtomicScaleDesign.Net Symposium Organizers: Jan K. Labanowski Ohio Supercomputer Center 1224 Kinnear Rd Columbus, OH 43212-1163 USA Tel. +1 614-292-9279 FAX +1 614-292-7168 E-mail: jkl@osc.edu WWW: http://www.osc.edu Jim Greer National Microelectronics Research Centre, University College Lee Maltings Prospect Row Cork Ireland Tel. +353 21 904345 FAX: +353 21 270271 E-mail: chairs@asdn.net WWW: http://www.nmrc.ie/research/computational-modelling-group Anatoli A. Korkin Advanced Modeling & Simulation Semiconductor Products Sector Motorola Inc., MD M36 2200 W. Broadway Road Mesa, AZ 85202 USA Tel. +1 480 655-3171 FAX +1 480 655-5013 E-mail: chairs@asdn.net WWW: http://www.digitaldna.com Stanislaw A. Kucharski Institute of Chemistry University of Silesia 9, Szkolna Street 40-006 Katowice POLAND Tel.: +48 32 359-1560 Fax : +48 32 359-9978 E-mail: chairs@asdn.net WWW: http://www.us.edu.pl/uniwersytet/english/index.shtml