Group photo taken during Prof. Yip's 70th birthday reception.

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A tomstic Simulation of Materials (ASM), a Research Group in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, is dedicated to the study of materials modeling, defined here to mean theory and simulation in conjunction with selected use of experiments (mainly for validation).

M aterials systems generally exhibit a range of behavior characteristic of different length and time scales. The goal of Multiscale Materials Modeling is to effectively link the simulation/computational techniques across adjacent scales so that microscopic-level physics and mechanisms are incorporated into the description of properties and behavior at the mesoscopic (microstructural) level.

I f   the length scales of interest are denoted as electronic-structure, atomistic, microstructure, and continuum, then the micro-meso connection of particular interest to the group is the linking of atomistic scale with that of microstructure.