WORKSHOP

ON

THERMODYNAMIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

 
Sunday September 9 - Friday September 14, 2001

Palais des Papes Avignon France.

Conference Scope:

  The purpose of this workshop is to bring together theorists and
experimentalists who work on modeling and characterization of materials
properties at various length and time scales. The objective is to bring
together an international group of academic and industrial experts to
assess the current state of the art in the following topics:


   1) ab-initio and semi-empirical methods for modeling the energetics of
        phase transitions at the atomistic scale:


        Chemical order/disorder;
        Phonon driven structural ordering, e.g. ferroelectrics
        Systems in which chemical- and phonon-driven ordering are coupled
        Extended defects (dislocations, grain boundaries, interfaces...);
        Surfaces;
        Applications: phase stability, phase diagrams...


  2) methods for coupling atomistic and mesoscopic space scales;


  3) phase transformation and structural evolution in alloys:
        Phase separation, ordering, grain growth...;
        Pattern formation;
        Computational methods: Phase Field, Monte Carlo with elastic relaxation
        Role of defects (dislocations, grain boundaries, interfaces...)
        Link with macroscopic properties;
 
  Program and Abstracts
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Location:

 Palais des Papes
 Avignon France

A wonderful very old palace in the middle of the city
Palais des Papes was the papal palace during the 14th-century, when
Avignon replaced Rome as capital of the Catholic Church.

Two popes are buried in the Notre-Dame des Doms Cathedral.
Pont St-Bénézet, which extends from the ramparts of Palais des Popes
to an abrupt end in the middle of the Rhone River,
is the one mentioned in the song "Sur le pont d'Avignon"

Avignon is a UNESCO World Heritage
Site, with charming churches, cafés, and museums, and
beautiful views from the park of Rocher des Doms.

                   City Guide - Avignon - City Statistics
 
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                   City Statistics
                   Location: Department of the Vaucluse, Provence
                   region, southern France.
                   Population: 85,935 (city); 187,577 (metropolitan
                   area).
                   Religion: Catholic majority; important Protestant and
                   Jewish communities.
                   Time zone: GMT + 1 (GMT + 2 from last Sunday in
                   March to Saturday before last Sunday in October).
                   Electricity: 220 volts AC, 50Hz; two-pin plugs are
                   standard.
                   Average January temp: 6°C (43°F).
                   Average July temp: 25°C (77°F).
                   Annual rainfall: 700mm (27.6 inches).

Conference Fee: 2500 FF (~$350)
Includes Welcoming Reception and Conference Dinner
 How to Pay
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Confirmed Invited Speakers:
B. Appolaire A. Ardell, M. Asta, L. Boyer, V. Bugaev, B. Burton,
G. Ceder, L.Q. Chen, E. Cockayne, C. Colinet, E. Clouet, D. de Fontaine,
R. Drautz, H. Dreysse, F. Ducastelle,  A. Filippetti, A. Finel, S.G. Fries,
P. Ghosez, X. Gonze, J.F. Gouyet, M. Haataja, J. Iniguez,
J.J. Hoyt,  D. Johnson,  H. Krakauer, Y. Le Bouar, F. Leonard, I. Levin,
A. Loiseau, K. Masuda-Jindo, M. Mehl, V. Milman, T. Mohri,
M. Nastar, B. Nestler, B. Noheda,
V. Ozolins, A. Pasturel, M. Plapp, A. Quong,  A. Rappe, H. Reichert,
R. Resta,  D. Rodney,  D. Singh, M. Sluiter,
D. Teter, R. Tetot, P. Turchi, U. Wagmare,
F. Willaime, C. Wolverton, A. Zunger
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ORGANIZERS:
 Alphonse Finel
Alphonse.Finel@onera.fr
tel: 33 - 1 46 73 44 52
fax: 33 - 1 46 73 41 55
 Benjamin Burton
benjamin.burton@nist.gov
phone: (301)-975-6043
fax:  (301)-975-5334
 Duane D. Johnson
duanej@uiuc.edu
(217)-265-0319


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HOTEL INFORMATION
Avignon is VERY popular with tourists
SO
Please Book ASAP!
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       Frantour Primotel
       Place de l'Horloge
       tel: 33-4-90-16-42-00
       fax: 33-4-90-82-17-32
       web-site: avignonfrantour@hotels-primotel.com
       Price: 400-650 FF (3*)
       (A 15% reduction which will be given if you tell them that
       you are attending the conference organized by Alphonse Finel of ONERA)

 MERCURE  Citi des Papes
 1, rue Jean Vilar

 e-mail: H1952@accor-hotels.com  tel: 33 - 4 90 86 22 45
 fax: 33 - 4 9 027 39 21
 fare: 550 F - 600 F (3*)

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 MERCURE  Palais des Papes
 Rue Ferruce - Quartier de
 la Balance

 e-mail: H0549@accor-hotels.com  tel: 33 - 4 90 85 91 23
 fax: 33 - 4 90 85 32 40
 fare: 550 F - 600 F (3*)
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 CLOITRE ST LOUIS  20, rue du Portail Boquier

 (CONFERENCE HOTEL)

 e-mail: hotel@cloitre-saint-louis.com  web: www.cloitre-saint-louis.com
 tel: 33 - 4 90 27 55 55
 fax: 33 - 4 90 82 24 01
 fare: 550F - 990F (4*)

(Recommended by Alphonse Finel)
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 HOTEL D'EUROPE  12, place Crillon

 e-mail: reservations@hotel-d-europe.fr  web: www.hotel-d-europe.fr
 tel: 33 - 4 90 14 76 76
 fax: 33 - 4 90 14 76 71
 fare: 690F - 3300F (4*)

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 LA MIRANDE  4, place de l'Amirande

 e-mail: mirande@la-mirande.fr  web: www.la-mirande.fr
 tel: 33 - 4 90 85 93 93
 fax: 33 - 4 90 86 26 85
 fare: 1700F - 3700F (4*)

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 BRISTOL  Best Western
 44, cours Jean Jaurhs

 e-mail: Bristol.avignon.Best.Western@wanadoo.fr  tel: 33 - 4 90 16 48 48
 fax: 33 - 4 90 86 22 72
 fare: 380 F - 1000 F (3*)

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FRANTOUR PRIMOTEL   (3*)
Horloge
1-3 ,rue Félicien David

e-mail: avignonfrantour@primhotel.com

tel: 04 90 16 42 00
fax: 04 90 82 17 32
 

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DANIELI  (2*)
17, rue de la République

tel: 04 90 86 46 82
fax: 04 90 27 09 24
 


  Hotel Book

(Note: Prices indicated on the  "Office du Tourisme" website
may not be precise)

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Links:

  Effective Hamiltonian Working Group

 Avignon Festival

 Avignon Popes

 Avignon City Guide

Confirmed Email List:
 
Alan Ardell: aardell@ucla.edu,
Mark Asta: m-asta@northwestern.edu,
Volker Blum: v.blum@fkp.physik.uni-erlangen.de,
Larry Boyer: boyer@dave.nrl.navy.mil,
Vladimir Bugaev: vbugaev@mail.ru,
Benjamin Burton: benjamin.burton@nist.gov,
Gerd Ceder: gerd@lanai.mit.edu,
Long-Qing Chen: chen@ems.psu.edu,
Eric Cockayne: cockayne@nist.gov,
Emmanuel Clouet emmanuel.clouet@cea.fr,
Didier de Fontaine: ddf@isis.Berkeley.EDU,
R. Drautz: drautz@mf.mpg.de
Huges Dressey: hugues@lugh.u-strasbg.fr,
Francois Ducastelle: Francois.Ducastelle@onera.fr,
Alessio Filippetti: alessio@mrl.ucsb.edu,
Alphonse Finel: finel@onera.fr,
Suzanna Fries: sufries@aldix.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de,
Philippe Ghosez: Philippe.Ghosez@ulg.ac.be,
Xavier Gonze: gonze@pcpm.ucl.ac.be,
Jean-Francois Gouyet: Jean-Francois.Gouyet@polytechnique.fr,
Mikko Haataja: haataja@physics.mcgill.ca,
J.J. Hoyt: jjhoyt@sandia.gov,
J. Iniguez: jiniguez@vanderbilt1.rutgers.edu,
Duane Johnson: duanej@uiuc.edu,
Henry Krakauer: krakauer@spiffy.physics.wm.edu,
Yann Le Bouar: Yann.Lebouar@onera.fr,
Francois Leonard: fleonar@california.sandia.gov,
Igor Levin: igor.levin@nist.gov,
Annik Loiseau: Annick.Loiseau@onera.fr,
K. Masuda-Jindo: wmfjindo@din.or.jp,
Mike Mehl: mehl@dave.nrl.navy.mil,
Victor Milman: vmilman@msi-eu.com,
Tetsuo Mohri: tmohri@eng.hokudai.ac.jp,
Maylise Nastar: maylise@srmp101.saclay.cea.fr ,
Britta Nestler: b.nestler@gi.rwth-aachen.de,
Beatriz Noheda: noheda@mail.bnl.gov,
Vidvuds Ozolins: vidvuds@earthlink.net,
Alain Pasturel: pasturel@belledonne.polycnrs-gre.fr,
Mathis Plapp: Mathis.Plapp@polytechnique.fr,
Andrew Putnis: putnis@nwz.uni-muenster.de,
Andrew Quong:  andrew.quong@science.doe.gov,
Andrew Rappe: rappe@sas.upenn.edu,
Harald Reichert: reichert@dxray.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de,
Raffaele Resta: resta@trieste.infn.it,
Juan Sanchez: jsanchez@mail.utexas.edu,
David Singh: singh@dave.nrl.navy.mil,
Marcel Sluiter: marcel@imr.edu,
David Teter: dmteter@sandia.gov,
Robert Tetot: robert.tetot@lemhe.u-psud.fr,
Patrice Turchi: turchi1@llnl.gov,
Umesh Wagmare: waghmare@jncasr.ac.in,
Francois Willaime: fwillaime@cea.fr,
Chris Wolverton: cwolvert@ford.com,
Alex Zunger: azunger@nrel.gov,