De La Salle University - Manila

1st Asian Computational Materials Design (CMD®-Asia) Workshop

September 1 to 3, 2008

Workshop Info
Date : September 1-3, 2008
Time : 0900-2000
Venue : Opening Ceremony at North Wing Conservatory; Program Proper at M306 (Smart Room)

About the conference

The world is experiencing a computing revolution so widespread that is has affected the way we communicate, educate, do research, and disseminate information. It is now almost impossible to do anything relevant without computers and computational techniques. The so-called interdisciplinary boundaries of the sciences and engineering have been blurred. The search for new knowledge has risen to a new level that necessitates the crossing of boundaries between previously almost unrelated disciplines. The computing revolution is blazing new frontiers for science and engineering.

To meet the ever-increasing demand for novel materials, and at the same time satisfy the growing public concern for the energy/power consumption and environmental impacts, novel routines other than those relying on the age-old tradition of trial-and-error/hit-and-miss would be necessary. Given these circumstances, we need to develop computational techniques that would efficiently enable us to design new materials for synthesis, that would suit our purposes. The theoretical routines and techniques necessary should incorporate quantum mechanics per se, and should not be dependent on experimental results and/or empirical parameters. Ab-Initio/First Principles Calculations satisfy all these requirements. With recent developments in computational techniques, coupled with the rapid progress in computer efficiency, ab-initio/first principles-based COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS DESIGN (CMD®) is now a reality. Its impact/influence on industrial R&D should increase with the next few years. The purpose of these series of workshops is to provide the participants with a first-hand experience of how COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS DESIGN (CMD®) is carried out, provide them with the basic knowledge and techniques, to equip and prepare them for the new paradigm in materials science research.

De La Salle University-Manila, in cooperation with Osaka University, is organizing the 1st ASIAN Computational Materials Design (CMD) Workshop on September 01-03, 2008 at its Taft campus.

The workshop aims to equip participants with the computational tools for designing novel materials suitable for such applications as efficient and environment-friendly energy sources, biomedical engineering, and instrumentation. Target participants are materials scientists and engineers in the academe, industry, and government.

Computational scientists from Osaka University will teach the rudiments of Density Functional Theory and its applications. All lectures and handouts will be communicated in English. Your participation will go a long way towards boosting and uplifting the research and technical capabilities of materials scientists and engineers in the country.

Contact Information

[CMD®ASIA SECRETARIAT]

CENSER, College of Science, De La Salle University-Manila
E-mail: cmd-asia@dyn.ap.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
E-mail: pobrer@dlsu.edu.ph
TELEFAX : +63-2-526-5611