Modeling of Materials and Chemistry at Extreme Conditions

Abstract

Fundamental physics and chemistry of materials behavior in extreme conditions are important for understanding material transformation and processes during shock materials synthesis, high-pressure phase transformations, femtosecond laser ablation, detonation, geophysical processes in the core of the Earth and other planets, and hypervelocity impacts of comets. Usually these conditions are created by a gigantic release of energy in the matter or by compression caused by the shock waves sent through the material. Processes of shock compression and detonation often take place at sub-picosecond and sub-nanometer time and length scales. Therefore, they are ideal for studying by molecular dynamics which can grasp at the atomic level the essentials of many non-equilibrium processes of material transformation and chemical reactions in condensed phase under extreme conditions.

Date: Friday, October 6, 2006

Time: 2:30pm

Location: SLH 102

Refreshments will be provided

First year MASC students are required to attend.