Sidney Yip's 70th Birthday Symposium and Party

In celebration of Sidney Yip's 70th birthday, we are organizing a one-day symposium at MIT (Von Hippel Room, Bldg 13, Rm 2137) on Wednesday Nov. 30 (MRS week), as well as a catered evening party (Bush Room, Bldg 10, Rm 105) at 6-9 PM. For MRS conference attendees, it's about 25-minute walk (on a good day) from the Hynes Convention Center, or a $15 taxi ride one way.

If you would like to attend the symposium and/or evening party, please let us know. There will be opportunities to speak at the evening party, as well as time slots (limited) to make formal presentations at the day symposium. If you would like to speak, please send us a brief note of your association with Sid, how long you would like to talk, and your unavailable time on Wednesday.

Sincerely,
--
Organizing Committee:
Wei Cai, Clemens Foerst, Ju Li, Xi Lin, Krystyn Van Vliet, Ting Zhu

Time	speaker	e-mail	title
9:00 - 9:30	Farid Abraham	abraham4@llnl.gov	Breaking the Wiggle Code
9:30 - 10:00	Efthimios Kaxiras	kaxiras@cmt.harvard.edu	Finding multiscale behavior everywhere
10:00 - 10:30	David Srolovitz	srol@princeton.edu	Level set simulations of dislocations and grain boundaries
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20	Tomas de la Rubia	delarubia@llnl.gov	ASCI materials modeling
11:20 - 11:50	Fabrizio Cleri	cleri@casaccia.enea.it	Griffith is not that old, after all
11:50 - 12:20	Sow-Hsin Chen	sowhsin@mit.edu	Observation of Pressure Dependence of Fragile-to-Strong Dynamic Cross-over in Deeply Supercooled Confined Water and a Possible Second Critical Point of Water
12:20 - 2:00	lunch break
2:00 - 2:30	Ali Argon	argon@mit.edu	Plasticity of Amorphous Silicon
2:30 - 3:00	Dieter Wolf	wolf@anl.gov	The strongest size
3:00 - 3:30	Linn Hobbs	hobbs@MIT.EDU	Topology and Molecular Dynamics in the Amorphization of Ceramics
3:30 - 3:50	coffe break
3:50 - 4:20	Vaclav Vitek	vitek@lrsm.upenn.edu	Bond-order potentials in dislocation studies
4:20 - 4:50	Vasily Bulatov	bulatov1@llnl.gov	Geometric aspect of the ideal shear resistance in simple crystal lattices
4:50 - 5:20	Andrew Rappe	rappe@MIT.EDU	Multiscale modeling of ferroelectric oxides

Party (Bush Room, Bldg 10, Rm 105)

Time	speaker	e-mail	note
6:00 - 6:20	preparation
6:20 - 6:50	official speech		Hutchinson (confirmed for 6:30)
6:50 - 7:00	presents/speech from research group/organizers (10 minutes)
7:00 - end	standing buffet
7:30 - 7:40	birthday cake/blowing candles
7:40 - ?	individual contributions (5-10 minutes each)		Dimitris Maroudas + whoever volunteers.