| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote lecture |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | J. C. Zhao (Ohio State University)
"Effective materials development by combining high-throughput experimentation with computer simulation" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Physical metallurgy via computational materials science and engineering |
| Discussion Leader: Dallas R. Trinkle (University of Illinois) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Stefanos Papanikolaou (Cornell University)
"Avalanches in systems with co-existing relaxation: Plasticity, earthquakes and beyond" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Michael Greenwood (University of British Columbia)
"A Binary Phase Field Crystal Model for Structural Transformations" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Joseph A. Yasi (University of Illinois)
"Alloying effects on basal to prismatic cross-slip in Mg from first principles" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Erik Bitzek (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
"Atomistic Simulation of Plastic Deformation at the Nanoscale: from single crystalline whiskers to polycrystals" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Experimental characterization for optimum alloy design |
| Discussion Leader: J. C. Zhao (Ohio State University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Emine B. Gulsoy (Northwestern University)
"Ostwald Ripening Kinetics: A Comparison of Experiment and Theory" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Juan P. Escobedo (Los Alamos National Lab)
"Effects of grain size and grain boundary structure on the spall response of copper" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Hongbin Bei (Oak Ridge National Lab)
"Understanding of length scale effects on the mechanical properties by using directionally solidified Mo micro/nano pillars" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Aaron Stebner (Northwestern University)
"Neutron diffraction studies and multivariant simulations of shape memory alloys" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Career Panel: "Life and work beyond Graduate School" |
| Peter Voorhees (Northwestern University), Wendy Cieslak (Los Alamos National Lab) and Andrew Perry (GE Aviation) |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
