This symposium will honor Dr. Steve Plimpton, Sandia National Lab, who is the primary developer of the LAMMPS molecular dynamics (MD) simulator (http://lammps.sandia.gov/). LAMMPS is an open-source, massively parallel MD code that is extremely computationally efficient, contains numerous potentials that enable it to model many different materials, and is freely distributed to the technical community. Consequently, it is widely used and is regarded as the standard by which other MD codes are compared. Dr. Plimpton has done a great service to the technical science and engineering community by developing, freely disseminating, and maintaining the LAMMPS software.
The proposed special symposium would highlight the large amount of work performed using LAMMPS and honor Dr. Plimpton's contributions to the community. Contributions will be stressed that utilize the benefits of large scale atomic level simulations for understanding basic materials phenomena, stressing the fact that using parallel techniques, atomistic simulations can now reach experimental length scales. The symposium will take place in San Diego, as part of the TMS Spring Meeting, Feb 27 to March 3, 2011. The symposium has already been endorsed by the TMS/ASM Computer Simulation Committee. The abstracts will be submitted through the normal TMS procedures. We expect to have six sessions for this symposium, including both invited and contributed speakers.
? Was organized at the 2011 Annual Meeting of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. It took place in San Diego, CA February 28 to 2, 2011. The symposium was sponsored by TMS Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division, TMS Structural Materials Division, TMS/ASM: Computational Materials Science and Engineering Committee, TMS: High Temperature Alloys Committee. The symposium honored Dr. Steve Plimpton, the primary developer of the LAMMPS molecular dynamics (MD) simulator (http://lammps.sandia.gov/). LAMMPS is an open- source, massively parallel MD code that is extremely computationally efficient, contains numerous potentials that enable it to model many different materials, and is freely distributed to the technical community. Consequently, it is widely used and is regarded as the standard by which other MD codes are compared. Dr. Plimpton has done a great service to the technical science and engineering community by developing, freely disseminating, and maintaining the LAMMPS software. The symposium highlighted work performed using LAMMPS and honored Dr. Plimpton?s contributions to the community. Dr. Plimpton gave the keynote lecture of the symposium. The complete program included 24 invited and contributed talks and is included in this report. Attendance to the symposium was excellent, up to 80 researchers.
