Ames Laboratory Deputy Director Bruce Harmon recognizes the key role computational modeling has to play in the design, processing and production of better materials with more desirable properties. To advance that effort, Harmon, also the director of the Lab's Condensed Matter Physics Program, helped create and now serves as one of the coordinators for the new Computational Materials Sciences Network.
CMSN is funded through DOE's Basic Energy Sciences Office and came about as a result of interactions between Harmon and Iran Thomas, director of the BES Division of Materials Sciences, as well as the other CMSN coordinators: Chuck Henager of Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Malcolm Stocks of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ellen Stechel of Ford Motor Co.
The coordinators planned a series of CMSN workshops that brought together scientists from DOE labs, academia, industry and other government labs to formulate challenging materials science projects that could best be pursued through broad cooperative efforts. Seven broad subject categories were identified:
"CMSN focuses on relevant, interesting and important science," says Harmon.
"Larger, more complex problems require interdisciplinary teams, and CMSN provides a
means for the DOE materials science community to work together where there's mutual
interest in solving significant problems."
Access CMSN at: http://cmpweb109.ameslab.gov/cmp/ccms.
Last revision: 12/17/99 sd
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