September 6, 2007
In part to honor the 65th birthday of Todd Dupont next fall, a four-day scientific meeting will be held at the University of Chicago, 6-9 September, 2007.
This meeting will be organized around four major themes: Interface computation, Reduced dimension models, Inverse Problems, and Optimization Reliable computation. The scientific committee consists of Dupont, Bruce Ayati (SMU), Anette (Peko) Hosoi (MIT), Qing Nie (UC-Irvine) and Qiang Du (Penn State).
UChicago Materials Research Center
The UChicago MRSEC pioneers frameworks for materials discovery, focusing on trainable soft materials, activated architectured materials with dynamic transport properties, and quantum transduction for integrated circuits.