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Monday: March 29
8:30am Opening Remarks
Steven Conradson, Structure Property Relations, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Session 1: Functional Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems
Described
Chair: Alan Bishop, Co-Chair: Amit Misra
8:45am Introduction
Alan Bishop, Director, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:15am Stuart Parkin, IBM Almaden Research Center, California
Tunneling Spin Polarization – Structure Relationship
9:45am Jienpeng Ma, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Baylor College of Medicine
New Methods for Simulating Supermolecular Complexes at Multiple Resolutions
Scales and Multiple Length Scales
10:15am Break
10:45am R. Viswanath, Institute for Nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Tuning the Properties of Nanoporous Metals by Charge
11:15am Jay Groves, Dept of Chemistry, University of
California, Berkeley
Molecular Pattern Formation and Signal Transduction at Intercellular
Synapses
11:45am Wolfgang Parak, Center for Nanoscience, University
of Munich, Germany
Biological Applications of Quantum Dots
12:15pm Lunch on own
1:30pm Michel Peyrard, Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole
Normale Superieure, Lyon
Nonlinearity-Controlled Energy Landscape to Manage the Heat Flow
2:00pm Antonio Bianconi, Dept of Physics, University
“La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Mesoscopic Heterogeneity, Lattice Dynamics and Macroscopic Quantum
Coherence at High Temperature
2:30pm Thomas Proffen, Lujan Neutron Scattering Center,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Local Structure: the key to understanding complex materials
3:00pm Discussion
Amit Misra, Structure Property Relations, Los Alamos National Laboratory
3:30pm Break
Session 2: The Current State-of-the-Art of Elastic and Other Local
Forces and Entropy
Chair: Dragan Mihailovic, Co-Chair: Avadh Saxena
4:00pm Introduction
Dragan Mihailovic, Dept of Complex Matter, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
4:30pm Michael Thorpe, Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
Arizona State University
Flexibility and Function in Proteins
5:00pm Angel Garcia/Rafael Howell, University of the
Basque Country, Spain/Structure Property Relations, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
A Many Body Approach to Inhomogeneities in Crystals
Tuesday: March 30
8:30am Albert Migliori, National High Magnetic Field
Lab Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Elastic collapse in plutonium “invar”
9:00am Dorothee Kern, Dept of Biochemistry, Brandeis
University
On the Move in the NMR Tube and in the Crystal: Protein Dynamics during
Catalysis
9:30am Rene Corrales, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sensitivity of Ion Pair Free Energy Profiles in Amorphous Silicates
10:00am Break
10:30am Hiroshi Kamimura, Dept of Theoretical Physics,
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
The Role of Proton Hopping in the Insulator-Superionic Conductor Transition
in the Hydrogen-Bonded System
11:00am Turab Lookman, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos
National Laboratory
Multiscale Textures in Elastic Materials
11:30am Discussion
Avadh Saxena, Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
12:00pm Lunch on own
Session 3: Intrinsic Phase Separation, Heterogeneity, and Interfaces
in Hard Solids and Soft Molecules
Chair: Matt Tirrell, Co-Chair: Angel Garcia-Adeva
1:30pm Introduction
Matt Tirrell, Dept of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:00pm Adriana Moreo, Florida State University
Complexity in Transition Metal Oxides
2:30pm Gerhard Hummer, Laboratory of Chemical Physics,
National Institutes of Health
Water and Protons in Narrow Molecular Pores: From Nanotubes to Proteins
3:00pm Break
3:30pm Anna Balazs, Chemical Engineering Dept, University
of Pittsburgh
Using Multi-Scale Modeling to Design Self-Healing Nanocomposite Films
4:00pm Hsing-Lin Wang, Bioscience Division Michelson
Resource, Los Alamos National Laboratory
4:30pm Kazuhiro Otsuka, National Institute for Materials
Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Aging and Time-dependent Phenomena Associated with Martensitic
Transformation in Au-Cd Alloys
5:00pm Special Talk
Hans Frauenfelder, Theoretical Biology & Biophysics, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
7:00pm-9:30pm Poster Session and Reception
Wednesday: March 31
8:30am William Klein, Boston University
Landscapes and Phase Separation in Near Mean-Field Systems
9:00am Atul Parikh, Dept of Applied Science, University
of California, Davis
Functional Consequences of Phase Separation and Material
Heterogeneity in Biological Membranes
9:30am Antonio Redondo, Theoretical Chemistry & Molecular
Physics,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Coarse-Grained Models for Nano and Mesoscale Soft Matter Systems
10:00am Discussion
Angel Garcia-Adeva, University of the Basque Country, Spain
10:30am Break
Session 4: Coupling Between the Elastic, Bonding, Charge, Spin,
Composition,
and Other Degrees of Freedom
Chair: Davor Pavuna, Co-Chair: F. Javier Espinosa-Faller
11:00am Introduction
Davor Pavuna, Institute of Physics of Complex Matter, Switzerland
11:30am Simon Ringer, The University of Sydney, Australia
Solute Clustering and Its Effects on Nucleation, Evolution of Nanostructure
and Materials Properties
12:00pm Annette Bussman-Holder, Max Planck Institute
for Solid State Research, Germany
Heterogeneity in Complex Charge Transfer Materials
12:30pm Lunch on own
2:00pm John Sarrao, Condensed Matter & Thermal Physics,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tuning Unconventional Superconductors
2:30pm Sunhil Sinha, Dept of Physics, University of California,
San Diego
3:00pm Hiroyuki Oyanagi, National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Photo-induced Spin Transition in Molecular Network Probed by X-ray
Absorption Spectroscopy
3:30pm Break
4:00pm Special Talk
James A. Krumhansl, Dartmouth College
Thursday: April 01
8:30am Steve Valone, Materials Science and Technology,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Multiscale Charge Transfer Potentials for Biophysical and Materials
Systems
9:00am Haimei Zheng, University of Maryland
Multiferroic BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 Nanostructures
9:30am Lawrence Pratt, Theoretical Chemistry & Molecular
Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Participation of Water in Biomolecular Structure and Function
10:00am Break
10:30am Takeshi Egami, University of Tennessee
Spin-Charge-Lattice Coupling in High-TC Cuprates
11:00am Discussion
F. Javier Espinosa-Faller, Marista University, Merida, Mexico
11:30am Lunch on own
Session 5: The Dynamic Energy Landscape; Where, Why, and How
Chair: Ben McMahon, Co-Chair:
1:00pm Introduction
Ben McMahon, Theoretical Biology & Biophysics, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
1:30pm Takayoshi Nakamura, Research Institute for Electronic
Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Supramolecular Systems of Molecular Conductors and Magnets Toward
Nanodevices
2:00pm Ken Ahn, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Self-Organized Nano and Micrometer Scale Heterogeneities in Perovskite
Manganites
2:30pm Daniel Barsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Differences in the Dynamics and Stability of Human Protein Variants
3:00pm Break
3:30pm Theo Maesen, Chevron Texaco, California
Molecular Shape Selectivity and the Gibbs Free Energy Landscape
4:00pm Daniel Lacks, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Case
Western Reserve University
Distorting Energy Landscapes with Stress
4:30pm David Clark, Director, Seaborg Institute, Los
Alamos National Laboratory
Metal-Oxygen Bonding Across the Actinide Series: Tuning Local Chemistry
in AnO2+x and Related Compounds
5:00pm Discussion
7:00pm-10:00pm Banquet
Friday: April 02
8:30am Phillip Anfinrud, Laboratory of Chemical Physics,
National Institutes of Health
Watching Proteins Function with 150-picosecond Time-Resolved X-ray
Crystallography
Session 6: Mesoscale Engines: Technology and Applications
Chair: Jose Mustre de Leon
9:00am Jose Mustre de Leon, CINVESTAV, Mexico
9:30am Masaru Ichikawa, Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido
University, Japan
Nanoscale Fabrication of Metal/alloy Particles and Wires Using Mesoporous
Materials: Size/Shape Dependent Electronic and Catalytic Performances
10:00am TBA
10:30am Andrea Slade, University of Toronto, Canada
11:00am Lunch Break: Santa Fe Buffet
11:30am Ahmet Yildiz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Direct Observation of Hand-over-Hand Motility of Processive Motors
by Nanometer Localization of Single Fluorophores
12:00pm Maria Mitkova, Electrical Engineering, Arizona
State University
Formation of Nanophase-Separated Structures in Ag Doped Fourfold Coordinated
Chalcogenide Glasses – Structural Aspects and Applications in Device
Technologies
12:30pm Andrew Dattlebaum, Bioscience Division Michelson
Resource, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Patterning and Functionalization of Ordered Nanocomposite Silica Thin
Films
1:00pm Final Discussion and Closing
Andrew Shreve, Bioscience Division Michelson Resource, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Symposium: Inhomogeneities and Heterogeneities in
Cuprates and Related Materials
Friday, April 2
2:00pm Takeshi Egami (Chair), University of Tennessee,
Introduction: Electronic Inhomogeneity and Pseudo-Gap in High-TC Cuprates
2:30pm Alan Bishop, Director, Theoretical Division, Los
Alamos National Laboratory
3:00pm J.C. Seamus Davis, Dept of Physics, Cornell University,
Discovery of a ‘Checkerboard’ Electronic Crystal Phase
in the Lightly Doped Mott Insulator Ca2-XNaxCuO2Cl2
3:30pm Alexander Balatsky, Condensed Matter & Statistical
Physics, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Inelastic STM Spectroscopy and Neutron and Phonon
Collective Mode Identification in High-TC Superconductors
4:00pm Coffee Break
4:20pm Dragan Mihailovic, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia,
Evidence for a Universal Length Scale in Cuprates
4:50pm Hiroshi Kamimura, Dept of Theoretical Physics,
Tokyo University of Science, Japan, The d-wave pairing mechanism
due to the interplay of electron-phonon interaction
and the antiferromagnetic ordering
5:20pm Jose Mustre de Leon, CINVESTAV, Mexico
5:50pm John Dow, Arizona State University, The Locus
of Superconductivity in the Cuprates and the Ruthenates
6:20pm Reception: Hot and Cold Hors d’Oeuvres
7:30pm Juergen Haase, Liebniz Institute Dresden, Germany,
NMR and Inhomogeneities in Cuprates
8:00pm Nicholas Curro, Condensed Matter & Thermal
Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Inhomogeneous Charge and
Spin Fluctuations in the Lanthanum Cuprate System
8:30pm Discussion
Symposium: Inhomogeneities and Heterogeneities
in Cuprates and Related Materials (continued)
Saturday, April 3
8:00am Breakfast
8:30am Z.-X. Shen, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials,
Stanford University, California, Extracting the Bosonic Function in
Cuprates using ARPES
9:00am Davor Pavuna, Institute of Physics of Complex
Matter, Switzerland, Electronic Properties and Tc Enhancement in Thin
Superconducting Cuprates: The Role of Doping, Strain and Dynamic Energy
Landscapes
9:30am Alessandra Lanzara, Dept of Physics, University
of California, Berkeley, Isotope Induced Changes in the Electron Dynamics
of High Temperature Superconductors
10:00am Atsushi Fujimori, Graduate School of Frontier
Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan, Structural Effects on the Electronic
Structure of High-TC Cuprates
10:30am Coffee Break
11:00am Anna Llobet, Lujan Neutron Scattering Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Coexistence of Superconductivity and
Magnetism in Heavy Fermion Family of Compounds
11:30am Matthias Graf, Condensed Matter & Statistical
Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Glass and Stripe Phases in
the Coexistence Region of Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism
12:00pm Ivar Martin, Condensed Matter and Statistical
Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stripes in Superconducting
Cuprates – Possible Phases and their Diagnostics
12:30pm Discussion
1:00pm Closing
ICAM Workshop on Lifelike Matter
Friday, April 2
11:00am Lunch: Santa Fe Buffet
2:00pm Introduction
Alan Hurd, Interim Associate Director, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies,
Los Alamos
2:05pm Angel Garcia, Theoretical Biology & Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Energy Landscapes in Protein Folding
2:50pm Galen Stucky, University of California, Santa
Barbara
3:35pm Discussant: Alan Hurd, Interim Associate Director,
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos
4:20pm Break
4:50pm Daniel Cox, University of California, Davis
5:35pm Sarah Tolbert, Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles, Using Nanoscale Architecture
to control Functionality in Mesostructured Materials Produced Through
Inorganic/Organic Co-organization
6:20pm Discussant: Snezna Rogelj, Dept of Biology, New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico
7:00pm Reception: Hot and Cold Hors d’Oeuvres
7:45pm Atul Parikh, University of California, Davis,
Functional Consequences of Phase Separation and Material Heterogeniety
in Biological Membranes
8:30pm Ken Shea, University of California, Irvine, The
Synthesis of Complex Functional Materials
9:15pm Discussant: Frank van Swol, Computational Materials,
Sandia National Laboratories, Superhydrophobic Effect in Materials
ICAM Workshop on Lifelike Matter (continued)
Saturday, April 3
8:30am Breakfast
9:00am Frank van Swol, Computational Materials, Sandia National Laboratories, Superhydrophobic Effect in Materials
9:45am Roger Qiu, BioSecurity & Nanosciences Laboratory,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Stereochemical Recognition
During Biomineralization: A Paradigm Revisited
10:30am Break
11:00am Andy Shreve, Bioscience Division Michelson Resource,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:45am Paul Calvert, Dept of Textile Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth,
Inkjet Printing as a Mimic for Biological
Growth
12:30pm Discussant: Hans Frauenfelder, Theoretical Biology
& Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
1:15pm Closing Remarks
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