Invited Speakers 

Confirmed as of July 28, 1999

Ellen M. Arruda; Associate Professor,  Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, 2250 G. G. Brown Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125. Tel: 734 763-5328, Fax: 734 647-3170, email: arruda@umich.edu, web: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~arruda/ 

Eduard Arzt; Professor and Director, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung and Institut fuer Metallkunde, University of Stuttgart, Seestr. 71/92, D 70174 Stuttgart, Germany.  Tel: +49-711-2095-119, Fax: +49-711-2095-120, email: eduard.arzt@po.uni-stuttgart.de, web: http://wwwmf.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de/ or http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/UNIuser/imtk/  

Roberto Ballarini; Professor of Civil Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7201. Tel: 216-368-2963, Fax: 216-368-5229, email: rxb7@po.cwru.edu, ,web: http://www.cwru.edu/cse/eciv/faculty.html 

Gang Bao; Professor, GT/Emory Biomedical Engineering, 2306 IBB Bldg, Georgia Tech, 315 First Street, Atlanta, GA 30332-0535. Tel:404-385-0124 Fax: 404-894-4243, e-mail: gang.bao@bme.gatech.edu ,web http://www.bme.gatech.edu/faculty.html 

David B. Bogy; William S. Floyd, Jr., Distinguished Chair in Engineering; Director, Computer Mechanics Laboratory;  Department of Mechanical Engineering, 6139 Etcheverry Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1740. Tel: (510) 642-2570, Fax: (510) 642-6163, Email: dbogy@cml.me.Berkeley.EDU, web: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/bogy/index.html 

Allan F. Bower; Associate Professor, Brown University, Division of Engineering, Box D, 182 Hope Street, Providence,RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-1493, Fax: 401-863-9009, e-mail: Allan_Bower@brown.edu ,web: http://www.engin.brown.edu/Faculty/bower/ 

Mary Boyce; Professor, MIT, Mechanical Engineering, Rm 1-304, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,MA 02139. Tel: 617-253-2342, Fax: (617) 258-8742, e-mail: mcboyce@mit.edu, web: http://me.mit.edu/research/mcboyce.html  

John C. Bravman; Bing Centennial Professor, Chair, Materials Science & Engineering, 416 Escondido Mall, Bldg. 550, Room 551B, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2205. Tel:  650-723-3698, Fax: 650-725-0538, e-mail: bravman@stanford.edu, web: http://www-mse.stanford.edu/faculty/bravman/bravman.html, and Director, Center for Materials Research McCullough Building; 650-725-1456 (voice) 

Robert W. Carpick; PhD. Sandia National Laboratories, MS 1413, Albuquerque, NM, 87185-1413. (FedEx, UPS etc:  Bldg. 897, Rm. 2012, 1515 Eubank St. SE, Albuquerque, NM, 87123-1413). Tel: 505-844-9194 Fax: 505-844-5470, email: rwcarpi@sandia.gov, web: http://www.sandia.gov/surface_science/nsom/nsom.htm 

W. Craig Carter; Associate Professor, MIT, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 13-5034  77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA. Tel: 617-253-6048  Fax:617-258-7874, e-mail: ccarter@mit.edu.web: http://www-dmse.mit.edu/people/faculty/wccarter/, 1999 Ceramics Gordon Conference, 1-6 August 1999, http://pruffle.mit.edu/~ccarter/GRC99/  

Kyeongjae (KJ)) Cho; Assistant Professor, Mechanics and Computation Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4040. Tel: 650-723-4354, Fax: 650-723-1778, e-mail: kjcho@am-sun2.stanford.edu, web: http://cdr.stanford.edu/html/ME/faculty/cho.html 

Ken P. Chong; PhD, PE, Director, Mechanics & Materials Program, Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation, 4210 Wilson Blvd., Suite 545, Arlington, VA  22230. Tel: 703-306-1361, Fax: 703-306-0291, e-mail:  kchong@nsf.gov, web: http://www.eng.nsf.gov/kchong/kpc.htm 

David R. Clarke, Professor and Chair, Materials Department, University of California,  Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050. Tel: 805-893-8275, Fax: 805-893-8486, e-mail; clarke@engineering.ucsb.edu, web: http://www.materials.ucsb.edu/LINKS/PROFclarke/hpclarke.html 

Reinhold H. Dauskardt; Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 416 Escondido Mall, Bldg. 550, Rm. 550H, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 - 2205. Tel: 650-725-0679, Fax: 650-725-4034, email:  dauskardt@stanford.edu, web: http://www-mse.stanford.edu/faculty/dauskardt/dauskardt.html  

L. Ben Freund; Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor, Division of Engineering , Box D, Brown University, Providence,RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-1476, Fax: 401-863-1157, e-mail: freund@engin.brown.edu , web: http://www.engin.brown.edu/Faculty/freund/ 

Huajian Gao; Associate Professor, Division of Mechanics and Computation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4040. Tel: 650-725-2560, Fax: 650-723-1778, email:   gao@am-sun2.stanford.edu, web: http://www-am.stanford.edu/GaoGroup  

Guy Genin; Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Campus Box 1185, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899. Tel.: (314) 935-6047, Fax: (314) 935-4014 , web: http://www.me.wustl.edu/ 

William W. Gerberich; Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 
151 Amundson Hall, 421 Washington Avenue SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Tel: (612) 625-8548, Fax: 612-626-7246, e-mail:
wgerb@tc.umn.edu, web: http://www.cems.umn.edu/people/faculty/gerberich.html 

Judith A. Harrison; Associate Professor of Chemistry, United States Naval Academy, 572 Holloway Road, Annapolis, MD 21402-5026. Tel: 410-293- 6624,  Fax: 410-293-2218, e-mail: jah@nadn.navy.mil, web: http://chem.mathsci.usna.edu/jah/jah.html 

Yonggang Huang; Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 140 Mechanical Engineering Building, MC-244, 1206 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 16801.   Tel: 217-265-5072, Fax: 217-244-6534, e-mail: huang9@uiuc.edu, web: http://www.mie.uiuc.edu/cgi/index.cgi?RID=4.1.59 

Harley Johnson; Assistant Professor, Aero & Mech Engineering, Boston University, 110 Cummington Street, Boston, MA. Tel: 617-353-7706, e-mail: hjohnson@bu.edu , web: http://people.bu.edu/hjohnson/  

Kyung-Suk Kim; Professor, Division of Engineering, Box D, Brown University, 182 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-1456, Fax: 401-863-9009, e-mail: kim@engin.brown.edu, web: http://en732c.engin.brown.edu/People/kim.html 

Wolfgang G. Knauss; Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, Firestone 105-50, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125. e-mail: wgk@atlantis.caltech.edu, web: 
http://www.solids.caltech.edu/~wgk/ 

Robert V. Kohn; Professor, Mathematics Department, Courant Institute, NYU, 251 Mercer St. New York, NY 10012, U.S.A. Tel: 212-998-3217,  Fax: 212-995-4121, e-mail: kohn@cims.nyu.edu, web: http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/kohn/ 

Demitris Kouris; Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-6106. Tel: (840) 965-4977, e-mail: demitris.kouris@asu.edu  , web: http://enuxsa.eas.asu.edu/~kouris/ 

Christopher S. Lynch, Assistant Professor, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332. Tel: (404) 894-6871, Fax: (404) 894-0186, e-mail: christopher.lynch@me.gatech.edu, web: http://www.me.gatech.edu/me/people/academic.faculty/Christopher.Lynch.html 

Robert M. McMeeking; Professor, Mechanical & Environmental Engnr, University of California, Santa Barbara,California 93106-5050. Tel: 805-893-4583, Fax: 805-893-8486, e-mail: rmcm@engineering.ucsb.edu  , web: http://eci2.ucsb.edu/mee/mcmeeking.html 

Graeme Walter Milton, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112. Tel: (801)581-6495, Phone messages: (801)581-6851,  E-mail: milton@math.utah.edu, Web: http://www.math.utah.edu/~milton/ 

William D. Nix; Lee Otterson Professor, Peterson Bldg, Room 551B, Dept. of Material Science & Engnr, Stanford University, Stanford,CA 94305-2205. Tel: 650-725-2605,  Fax: 650-725-4034, e-mail: nix@soe.stanford.edu or bill.nix@forsythe.stanford.edu, web: http://mse.stanford.edu/faculty/nix/nix.html 

George M. Pharr; Professor of Materials Science, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Collaborating Scientist, The University of Tennessee, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 434 Dougherty Engineering Buliding, Knoxville, TN  37996-2200. UT phone: (423) 974-8202, UT fax: (423) 974-4115, UT email: pharr@utk.edu
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Metals and Ceramics Division, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6116. ORNL phone: (423) 576-7245, ORNL fax: (423) 574-7659, ORNL email:
pharrgm@ornl.gov, web: http://www.ornl.gov/bes/BES/microscopy/staff3/pharr.htm 

Robert Phillips; Associate Professor, Division of Engineering, Box D, Brown University, 182 Hope Street, Providence,RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-2674, Fax: 401-863-9009, e-mail: phillips@alpha1.engin.brown.edu  , web: http://www.engin.brown.edu/Faculty/phillips/rob.html 

William N. Sharpe, Jr.,  Alonzo G. Decker Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical 
Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 200 Latrobe Hall, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. 
Tel: 410-516-7132, FAX: 410-516-4316, e-mail:
sharpe@jhu.edu, web: http://www.me.jhu.edu/people/faculty/sharpe.html 

David Srolovitz; Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engnr.,  Princeton University, Princeton,NJ 08544. Tel: 609-258-5138, Fax: 609-258-6123, e-mail: srol@mail.princeton.edu, or srol@Princeton.EDU  , web: http://www.princeton.edu/~mae/MAE.html 

Zhigang Suo; Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engnr.,  Princeton University, Princeton,NJ 08544. Tel: 609-258-0250, Fax: 609-258-6123, e-mail: Suo@princeton.edu  , web: http://www.princeton.edu/~etta/vitae/Vsuo.html 

Wei Yang; Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084,China. 
Tel: (086-10)-62785526, Fax: (086-10)-62785569. e-mail:
yw-dem@tsinghua.edu.cn  , web: http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/docse/yxsz/dept_mech.html 

Cheng Zhu; Professor, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332. Tel: (404) 894-3269, Fax: (404) 894-2291, e-mail: cheng.zhu@me.gatech.edu  , web: http://www.me.gatech.edu/cmbl/dr_zhu.html 
 

Young Investigators  

Recommended as of July 28,1999

Shefford Baker, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853-1501, Tel: (607) 255-6679, Fax: (607) 255-2365, e-mail: spb14@cornell.edu, web: http://www.engr.cornell.edu/mse/Baker.html 

Ashraf Bastawros, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2025 H. M. Black Engineering Building, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-2161, web: http://www.eng.iastate.edu/coe/me/homepage.html 

Matthew Begley,  Assistant Professor, 200B Engineering II Building, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 191 Auditorium Road, U-139, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3139, Tel: (860) 486-4093, Fax: (860) 486-5088, e-mail: begley@engr.uconn.edu cticut) ,web: http://www.eng2.uconn.edu/me/faculty/begley.html 

Valeria Cannillo, Visiting Scientist, MIT, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 13-5130, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA. Tel: (617)  253 6922, Fax: (617) 258-7874, e-mail: valeria@sloppy.mit.edu 

Harko Cleveringa, Research Associate, Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, Tel: (401) 863-5274, Fax: (401) 863-9009 

Wendy Crone, Assistant Professor, Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, Tel: (608) 262-8384, email: crone@engr.wisc.edu, web: http://silver.neep.wisc.edu/~crone/ 

Catalin Picu, Assistant Professor, 2048 Jonsson Engineering Center, Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering & Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110, Eighth Street, Troy, NY 12181,  Tel: (518) 276-2195; Fax: (518) 276-6025; e-mail: picuc@rpi.edu, web: http://www.meche.rpi.edu:80/faculty/member/picu.html 

Richard P. Vinci, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, 
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, Tel: (610) 758-4581, Fax: (610) 758-4244, email:
vinci@lehigh.edu ,web: http://www.lehigh.edu/~rpv2/rpv2.html 
 

Foreign Observers 

Recommended as of July 28,1999

Kouichi Maruyama, Professor,  Material Science Group, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Tel: +81-22-217-7337 Fax: +81-22-217-7337, e-mail: maruyama@material.tohoku.ac.jp , web: http://www.material.tohoku.ac.jp/home_page/zaibutu/Oikawa_Lab/English/KM_Eprof.html  

Jun-ichi Koike, Associate Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Tel: +81-22-217-7325, Fax: +81-22-217-7374, e-mail: koikej@material.tohoku.ac.jp, web:  http://www.material.tohoku.ac.jp/home_page/zaibutu/Oikawa_Lab/English/JK_Eprof.html 

C. Fong Shih, Professor and Deputy Vice Chancellor, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore, Tel: (65) 7756666 ext4310,  Fax: (65) 8745245,Web: http://www.nus.edu.sg/NUSinfo/dvc.html 
 
Michael R. Philpott  Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, and Principal Research Fellow, Programme Director, Modeling and Simulation, Deputy Director, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, National University of Singapore. Mailing address: Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Blk S7, Level 3, National University of Singapore, 10 Kentridge Crescent, Singapore 119260. e-mail: chmmp@nus.edu.sg, Tel: (065)-874-4328. Fax:  (065)-774-1042, web: http://www.imre.org.sg

Y. Y. Earmme, Professor, Department of  Mechanical Engineering  KAIST, 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea, Tel : + 82-42-869-3002, Fax : + 82-42-869-1694, email: yyearmme@kaist.ac.kr, web: http://eprc.kaist.ac.kr/earmme/prof.htm 

 John Pethica, Professor, Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, UK, Tel: +44-1865-273772, Fax: +44-1865-273789,  email: john.pethica@materials.ox.ac.uk, web: http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/

 

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