CCP2016

10 Jul 2016, 08:00 → 14 Jul 2016, 18:00 Africa/Johannesburg

28th IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics in 2016

The Conference on Computational Physics (CCP) is held every year under the auspices of the C20 Commission for Computational Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

The purpose of the conference series is to bring together computational scientists, leading academics, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Computational Physics. The conference also provides the premier interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges and solutions adopted in the field of Computational Physics.
  
For more than 25 years since its establishment, this important conference had not come to Africa. In 2013 the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), through the leadership of Prof Nithaya Chetty successfully bid for this prestigious conference to be brought to Africa for the first time. Hence the 2016 International Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2016) will be held in South Africa.
 
All areas of Computational Physics will be covered, including Statistical Physics, Complex System and non-linear dynamics, Soft Matters, Polymers and Biological Physics, Computational Biology, Quantum Many Body and Strongly Correlated Systems, Material and Nano Sciences, Quantum Computing, Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, High Energy, Nuclear and Particle physics, Fluid Dynamics, Oceanography and Climate modelling, Geophysics and Geomechanics, Computational Physics Education, Software and Hardware Development. Now that South Africa is co-hosting the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) which, when completed in 2022, will be the world's largest scientific experiment, there will be a special session on computational astrophysics and big data astronomy at CCP2016.

Conference Format

The conference format will include plenary lectures (1 hours each), and parallel sessions comprising invited talks (30 min each) and contributed talks (20 min each) as well as poster presentations.
 

IMPORTANT NOTICE: ALL PAYMENTS FOR REGISTRATION FEES MAY STILL BE SETTLED BEFORE THE CONFERENCE STARTS!! (10 JULY 2016)

Important Dates:

• First Announcement and Call for Abstracts – 30 November 2015
• Abstract Submission Opening – 04 Jan 2016
• Registration Opening – 01 Feb 2016
• Abstract Submission Closes – 30 April 2016
• Abstract Acceptance Notification – 06 May 2016
• Registration Closes – 10 June 2016
• Payment Deadline, - 17 June 2016
• Deadline for submission of manuscripts for the proceedings – 30 August

Registration Fees:

• Delegate Registration Fees = R6000 (€445)
• Student Registration Fees = R3800  (€282)
• Day Registration Fees = R2800 (€208)

  MORE DETAILS TO COME SOON

  Enquiries Email: ccp2016@saip.org.za

 

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Sunday, 10 July

15:00 → 18:30 Registration: Registration Desk Open

Monday, 11 July

08:00 → 08:30 Registration

08:30 → 09:30 Official Opening

Convener: Prof. Nithaya Chetty (University of Pretoria)

09:30 → 10:30 Plenary

Plenary Session

Convener: Prof. Nithaya Chetty (University of Pretoria)

09:30 PLENARY: The Square Kilometre Array: Big Telescope, Big Science, Big Data.

Speaker: Prof. Russ Taylor (University of Cape Town (SKA))

10:30 → 11:00 MORNING TEA

11:00 → 13:00 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology

Convener: Prof. Boris Rybakin (MSU Lomonosov)

11:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Computational modeling of cosmic rays in the neighbourhood of the Sun

Speaker: Prof. Marius Potgieter (North-West University)

11:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Computational Heliospheric Physics; A South African Perspective

Speaker: Dr Du Toit Strauss (Centre for Space Research, North-West University)

12:00 Computational Morphometric Analysis in Astrophysics and Cosmology

Speaker: Dr Reinaldo Rosa (Lab for Computing and Applied Math - INPE-MCTI)

12:20 Running mean techniques of extracting observed frequencies in Kepler red giant stars

Speaker: Mr Patrick Oyirwoth Abedigamba (North-West University)

12:40 Ultrahigh-energy neutrino events in current and future neutrino telescopes from nearby Gamma-Ray Bursts

Speaker: Dr Reetanjali Moharana (Uni. of Johannesburg)

11:00 → 13:00 Parallel Track B: Computational Biological Physics, Soft Matter, Polymer

Conveners: Dr Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (CSIR) , Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR)

11:00 Dynamic Modelling on the Crystallization of Mono-sized Cubical Particles under Mechanical Vibrations

Speaker: Prof. Xizhong An (Northeastern University)

11:20 Dynamical Properties of Granular Materials

Speaker: Prof. Sanjay Puri (School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi -- 110067, INDIA.)

11:40 Electric field effects on the ionization cluster size distribution (ICSD) using the GEANT4 Monte Carlo toolkit.

Speaker: Mr Sonwabile Ngcezu (University of the Witwatersrand)

12:00 Finding motifs in DNA and protein sequences using set match

Speaker: Mr Robert Chirwa (University of Louisville)

12:20 Protein dynamics as a function of ionic strength, calcium ion concentration and temperature: Calmodulin as a first step

Speaker: Mr Sahil Aneja (University of Delhi)

12:40 Understanding the role of the subtstrate in off-lattice simulations of graphene growth on copper

Speaker: Mr Gwilym Enstone (University of Warwick)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:15 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology

Convener: Dr Reinaldo Rosa (Lab for Computing and Applied Math - INPE-MCTI)

14:00 Simulating the synchrotron emission from Active Galactic Nuclei jets with grid based relativistic hydrodynamic code

Speaker: Mr Izak van der Westhuizen (University of the Free State)

14:20 Computer simulation of the process of defragmentation and ablation of mass during the interaction of shock waves with molecular clouds

Speaker: Prof. Boris Rybakin (MSU M.V. Lomonosov, SRISA RAS)

14:40 Particle Remapping with Deformation Tracking for Collisionless Fluid Flow

Speaker: Myers Andrew (LBNL)

15:00 Simulating cosmic ray modulation over a solar cycle

Speaker: Mr Timothy Mohlolo (North West University)

14:00 → 14:20 Parallel Track B: Computational Biological Physics, Soft Matter, Polymer

Conveners: Dr Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (CSIR) , Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR)

14:00 Networks of Spiking Neurons for the Control of Movement

Speaker: Prof. Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University)

14:20 → 16:15 Parallel Track B: Computational Physics Education Session

Conveners: Prof. Barry Klein (UC Davis, Department of Physics) , Dr Spencer Wheaton (Department of Physics)

14:20 INVITED SPEAKER: Paradigms for Electronic Structure Codes

Speaker: Dr Trisha Salagaram (University of Pretoria)

14:50 Visualizing higher order Brillouin zones with applications

Speaker: Dr Richard Andrew (University of Pretoria)

15:10 Learning problem-solving skills in a distance education physics course

Speaker: Prof. Gaotsiwe Joel Rampho (University of South Africa)

15:30 GPUs in a Computational Physics course

Speaker: Dr Joan Adler (Technion -IIT)

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15:50 Coding considerations for standalone molecular dynamics simulations of atomistic structures

Speaker: Richard Ocaya (UFS, Department of Physics)

16:15 → 16:30 AFTERNOON TEA

16:30 → 17:30 Poster Session: Poster Session 1

Convener: Prof. Azwinndini Muronga (University of Johannesburg)

16:30 Ab <i>initio</i> studies of isolated boron substitutional defects in graphane

Speaker: Dr Edwin Mapasha (University of Pretoria)

16:30 Computational and theoretical study of Cd doped ZnO phase separation

Speaker: Mr LETA Jule (UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE)

16:30 Computational Study of Rocket Thrust Vectoring Propulsion Control System Characteristics for Surface Landing Trajectory Paths

Speaker: Mr Vishal Ramnath (University of South Africa)

16:30 Deposition of C, C₂, CH, CH₂ and CH₃ onto graphene: structures and structural changes of graphene

Speaker: Mr Vasiliy Stelmakh (Institute of Ion-Plasma and Laser Technologies)

16:30 Development of software package for the computer simulation of the dynamic properties of dense ICF plasmas

Speaker: Ms Sandugash Kodanova (IETP, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University)

16:30 Effect of viscosity on propagation of MHD waves in astrophysical plasma

Speaker: Mr Cherkos Alemayehu (AAU)

16:30 Entanglement entropy of the Q ≥ 4 quantum Potts chain

Speaker: Dr Peter Lajko (Department of Physics, Kuwait University)

16:30 Investigation of the radiation emission influence on properties of liquid water systems

Speakers: Dr Dmitryi Gavrushenko (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv) , Dr Nataliia Atamas (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv)

16:30 Mechanical properties and energy absorption characterization of compressive deformation of Tin-Lead metallic foam with open cells

Speakers: Mr Abd-Elmouneïm BELHADJ (University) , Prof. Salam ABUDURA (University)

16:30 Multiscale simulations of structure and thermomechanical properties of phthalonitrile heat-resistance resins

Speaker: Dr Vladimir Rudyak (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics)

16:30 Numerical Study of Microfluidic Transitional Flow Regime Curvature Effects for Compressible Isothermal Gases using Generalized Slip Boundary Conditions

Speaker: Mr Vishal Ramnath (University of South Africa)

16:30 Plasmon excitation in OLED with the DTMaxwell code

Speaker: Anastasia Perepelkina (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics)

16:30 Plutonium Rock-Like Oxide fuel (ROXf) system , their once-through burning and usage.

Speaker: Prof. Ashraf Elsayed Mohamed Saleh (BRNO University of Technology)

16:30 Processes of decollimation of the beam of fullerenes during scattering on it beam of hydrogen.

Speaker: Mr Danila Alyabev (Institute of Ion-Plasma and Laser Technologies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

16:30 Sustainable numerical scheme for molecular dynamics simulation of the dusty plasmas in an external magnetic field

Speaker: Prof. Karlygash Dzhumagulova (IETP, al Farabi KazNU)

16:30 The capture cross sections at the electron collisions with hydrogen atom and proton in the dense semiclassical plasma

Speaker: Prof. Karlygash Dzhumagulova (IETP, al Farabi Kazakh National University)

16:30 The Introduction of Heterogeneous Computing Platforms into the ATLAS Trigger at CERN

Speaker: Mr Marc Sacks (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:30 The SAPBC method on local, non-cluster updates algorithms of Monte Carlo simulation: A study on more convergence of spin correlation at critical temperature

Speaker: Mr Amin Najafi (Department of Physics, Zanjan University, P.O. Box 45196-313, Zanjan, Iran)

Paper Amin_Najafi(CCP2016)My_Paper_Submission(Final_Edited_version_on_12_page).docx

17:30 → 18:30 Poster Session

Convener: Prof. Azwinndini Muronga (University of Johannesburg)

Tuesday, 12 July

08:00 → 08:30 Registration

08:30 → 09:30 Plenary

Plenary Session

Conveners: Prof. David Landau (Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia) , Prof. Marius Potgieter (North-West University)

08:30 PLENARY: Kinetic-energy driven superconductivity in cuprate superconductors

Speaker: Prof. Shiping Feng (Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China)

09:30 → 10:40 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Statistical Physics, Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dyanamics

Convener: Prof. David Landau (Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia)

09:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Quantum vs classical optimization: A status update on the arms race

Speaker: Prof. Helmut G. Katzgraber (Texas A&M University)

10:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Massively parallel Monte Carlo simulations with population annealing

Speaker: Dr Martin Weigel (Coventry University)

09:30 → 10:40 Parallel Track B: High Enegy, Nuclear and Particle Physics

Convener: Prof. Marius Potgieter (North-West University)

09:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Thomas Dietel (University of Cape Town) for the ALICE Experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Thomas Dietel (University of Cape Town)

10:00 Monte Carlo Computation of the Effective Sherman Function

Speaker: Mr Michal Dragowski (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics)

10:20 2-Secure and certify studies to work on production of Spiked plutonium.

Speaker: Prof. Ashraf Elsayed Mohamed Saleh (BRNO University of Technology)

10:40 → 11:00 MORNING TEA

11:00 → 13:00 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Statistical Physics, Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dyanamics

Convener: Prof. Srikanth Sastry (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)

11:00 Phase transition approach to bursting in neuronal cultures : Quorum Percolation models

Speaker: Dr Pascal MONCEAU (Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes UMR CNRS 7057 and Université Paris-Diderot)

Paper Bursting_Quorumperco.pdf

11:20 Development of a simulated computer modelling of laser treatment for coronary heart disease

Speaker: Mr Francois Kabeya (University of Johannesburg (UJ))

Paper ID9a.pdf

11:40 Synchronization on Complex Networks

Speaker: Prof. Hyunggyu Park (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

12:20 Random Field Ising Models: Fractal Morphologies and their Implications

Speaker: Prof. Varsha Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi 110016, India)

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12:40 Canonical and Non-Canonical Ising Spin Glass on Randomly Rewired Regular Lattices

Speaker: Dr Tasrief Surungan (Hasanuddin University, Makassar, INDONESIA)

11:00 → 13:00 Parallel Track B: High Enegy, Nuclear and Particle physics

Convener: Dr Thomas Dietel (University of Cape Town)

11:00 Study of Effective atomic numbers of Bioactive Glasses for Photon Interaction

Speaker: Dr Anil Shantappa Malipatil (Department of Physics, Veerappa Nisty Engineering College, Shorapur-585220, KARNATAKA, INDIA)

11:20 A fast - Monte Carlo toolkit on GPU for treatment plan dose recalculation in proton therapy

Speaker: Martina Senzacqua (Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza")

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11:40 On formation of bubble structure near the island of inversion

Speaker: Prof. Rupayan Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta)

12:00 Bound states and decays in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.

Speaker: Riccardo Giachetti (Physics Department, University of Florence, Italy)

12:20 Finite element model of a calibration chamber

Speaker: Dr Gérard ORJUBIN (F'SATI, CPUT)

12:40 A study on Quark-Gluon plasma equation of state using with finite quark mass

Speaker: Dr Yogesh Kumar (University of Delhi)

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 → 15:40 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Statistical Physics, Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dyanamics

Convener: Dr Martin Weigel (Coventry University)

14:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Replica Exchange Wang-Landau Simulation of Lattice Protein Folding Funnels

Speaker: Prof. David Landau (The University of Georgia)

14:30 INVITED SPEAKER: The yielding transition in amorphous solids

Speaker: Prof. Srikanth Sastry (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)

15:00 The Schrödinger equation on a Lagrange mesh

Speaker: Prof. Gaotsiwe Joel Rampho (University of South Africa)

15:20 Discontinuous transition in a suppressed random cluster growth model

Speaker: Prof. Sitangshu Bikas Santra (IIT Guwahati, Assam India)

14:00 → 16:20 Parallel Track B: Material and Nano Science, Quantum Many Body and Strongly Correlated Systems

Convener: Dr Happy Sithole (Chpc)

14:00 Temperature specification in atomistic molecular dynamics and its impact on simulation efficacy

Speaker: Richard Ocaya (UFS, Department of Physics)

14:20 Computational modelling of sulfides minerals

Speaker: Dr Thabo Letsoalo (University of Limpopo)

14:40 ab initio studies of thermoelectric materials for energy conversion applications

Speaker: Dr Henry Wafula (Physics Department Masinde Muliro university of Science and Technology)

15:00 Computational Studies of Ru and Sr-doped anatase TiO₂ on three low index surfaces for application on DSSCs

Speaker: Mr Hulisani Nemudzivhadi (University of venda)

15:20 Stability and magnetic interaction of embedded Fe clusters in diamond

Speaker: Dr Evans Benecha (University of South Africa)

15:40 Solar cell performance of AgInS₂ materials from DFT and GW/BSE calculations

Speaker: Dr G.M. Dongho Nguimdo (University of the Witwatersrand)

16:00 Molecular dynamics studies of Schottky and Frenkel defects in cubic boron nitride

Speaker: Dr Thuto Mosuang (University of Limpopo)

15:40 → 16:20 Parallel Track B: Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

Convener: Dr Martin Weigel (Coventry University)

15:40 Computational study of nonlinear spectroscopy including saturated absorption and four wave mixing in two and multi-level atoms

Speakers: Dr Kessie Govender (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) , Ms Meena Patel (Cape Peninsula University of Technology)

16:00 Improved Maximum Entropy Method applied to Real-time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Speaker: Mr Mitsuki Toogoshi (Hosei University)

16:20 → 16:30 TEA

16:30 → 17:30 Poster Session: Poster Session 2

Convener: Dr Joan Adler (Technion)

16:30 Analysis of temperature dependent thermopower of iron chalcogenide superconductors

Speaker: Dr Netram Kaurav (Department of Physics, Govt. Holkar Science College, A.B. Road, Indore (MP)-452017, India)

16:30 Asymmetric Shock Wave Generation in Microwave Rocket Using Magnetic Field

Speaker: Dr Masayuki Takahashi (The University of Tokyo)

16:30 Chaos-dynamical computational method of forecasting evolutionary dynamics of environmental systems: Atmospheric pollutants dynamics

Speaker: Mr Vasily Buyadzhi (Odessa State University-OSENU)

16:30 Computational Code in Atomic and Nuclear quantum optics: computing multiphoton and autoionization resonances in a strong external electromagnetic field

Speakers: Prof. Alexander Glushkov (Odessa State University-OSENU) , Ms Marina Gurskaya (Odessa State University-OSENU)

16:30 Computational modelling of electroweak interaction effects in atomic and molecular systems within Nuclear-QED perturbation theory

Speakers: Prof. Alexander Glushkov (Odessa State University-OSENU) , Ms Marina Gurskaya (Odessa State University-OSENU)

16:30 Computing radiation parameters for atoms and multicharged ions within relativistic energy approach: Advanced code

Speaker: Mr Vasily Buyadzhi (Odessa State University-OSENU)

16:30 Density function theory study of TiO₂ Brookite (100), (101) and (210) surfaces doped with ruthenium (Ru) and Calcium (Ca) for application in dye sensitized solar cell

Speaker: Mr Ratshilumela Steve Dima (University of venda)

16:30 Development of Plasma Fluid Model in Microwave Rocket Supported by Magnetic Field

Speaker: Dr Masayuki Takahashi (The University of Tokyo)

16:30 Domain Wall Structure and Electric Polarization in BiFeO₃

Speaker: Prof. Nobuo Furukawa (Dept. of Physics, Aoyama Gakuin Univ.)

16:30 First-principles study of Fe impurities in MgO

Speaker: Dr Mahlaga Molepo (University of South Africa)

16:30 Fractal - Scaling approaches in Radar and Radio Physics

Speaker: Prof. Alexander Potapov (V.A.Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

16:30 New computational dynamical approach to Earth system modelling: energy and angle momentum balance, teleconnection, atmospheric radiowaveguides

Speakers: Prof. Alexander Glushkov (Odessa State University-OSENU) , Ms Marina Gurskaya (Odessa State University-OSENU)

16:30 Non-linear dynamics of quantum and laser systems with elements of a chaos: Advanced computational code

Speaker: Mr Vasily Buyadzhi (Odessa State University-OSENU)

16:30 Pressure-induced structural phase transition of zinc oxide

Speaker: Dr Netram Kaurav (Department of Physics, Govt. Holkar Science College, A.B. Road, Indore (MP)-452017)

16:30 Radiative Molecular Dynamics: First concept

Speakers: Mr Christian Herzing (LMU) , Prof. Hartmut Ruhl (LMU)

16:30 Structure-dynamic approach of nanoionics. Theory and computer exploration.

Speakers: Dr Alexandr Despotuli (Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials RAS) , Prof. Alexandra Andreeva (Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials RAS)

16:30 Systematic study of the anomolous feature of actinide region

Speaker: Mrs Poonam Jain (Amity University, noida)

17:30 → 18:30 Poster Session

Convener: Dr Joan Adler (Technion)

Wednesday, 13 July

07:45 → 08:00 Registration

08:00 → 10:00 Plenary

Plenary Session

Conveners: Dr Happy Sithole (Chpc) , Dr Tanmoy Das (Indian Institute of Science)

08:00 PLENARY: Understanding and designing novel nanomaterials from first principles

Speaker: Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR)

09:00 PLENARY: Simulated synthesis, characterisation and performance of nano-architectured energy storage materials.

Speaker: Prof. Phuti Ngoepe (University of Limpopo)

10:00 → 10:15 TEA

10:15 → 12:15 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology

Conveners: Dr Amare Abebe (North-West University) , Prof. Romeel Dave (UWC,SAAO,AIMS)

10:15 INVITED SPEAKER: Modelling the progenitors and environments of stellar explosions

Speaker: Dr Shazrene Mohamed (SAAO)

10:45 INVITED SPEAKER: The role of kinetic scales: particle acceleration from shocks and reconnection

Speaker: Dr Patrick Kilian (North-West University)

11:15 Dust heating by Alfvén waves using non-Maxwellian distribution function

Speaker: Dr Zubia Kiran (GC University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan)

11:35 An asymptotic preserving scheme for the Vlasov-Maxwell system in the classical limit

Speaker: Dr Lukas Einkemmer (University of Innsbruck)

11:55 Large Scale Fully Kinetic 3D PIC Simulation for the Awake Collaboration

Speaker: Mr Nils Moschuering (LMU Munich)

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10:15 → 13:00 Parallel Track B: Material and Nano Science, Quantum Many Body and Strongly Correlated Systems

Convener: Prof. Thomas Vojta (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

10:15 INVITED SPEAKER: From 2D to 3D and 1D: Manipulating charge and spin at oxide heterointerfaces

Speaker: Dr Valentino Cooper (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:45 INVITED SPEAKER: Why and how to calculate momentum dependent self-energy for strongly correlated materials

Speaker: Dr Tanmoy Das (Indian Institute of Science, Banaglore)

11:15 Device Simulation using Symmetric Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Speaker: Prof. Yasunari Zempo (Hosei University)

11:35 Progress toward the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor: theoretical studies of the observed superconductivity above 200K in the sulfur hydride system at high pressure

Speaker: Prof. Barry Klein (Department of Physics, University of California, Davis)

11:55 Structural determination and electronic properties of one-dimensional Te crystals encapsulated inside carbon nanotubes

Speaker: Dr Paulo V C Medeiros (Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, U.K.)

12:15 Computational study of dye adsorption in nano TIO₂ film for the applications in dye sensitized solar cells using different computational techniques

Speaker: Dr Nnditshedzeni Eric Maluta (University of Venda)

12:35 Effect of Mo alloying elements on Ni silicides formation

Speaker: Dr Achour DERAFA (Laboratoire LP3M, Département de Physique, Faculté des séances, Université de Sétif-1, Sétif 19000, Algérie)

12:15 → 13:00 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology

Conveners: Prof. Romeel Dave (UWC,SAAO,AIMS) , Dr Zubia Kiran (1979)

12:15 PIC simulation of scattering and absorption of an ultraintense short-pulse laser in a finite-size plasma

Speaker: Dr Ameneh Kargarian (Kharazmi University)

12:35 UCLA Particle-in-Cell and Kinetic Simulation Software Center for Plasma Simulation

Speaker: Dr Viktor Decyk (University of California, Los Angeles)

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 → 16:00 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Parallel Track A

Convener: Prof. Predrag Cvitanovic (Georgia Tech)

14:00 Chaplygin-gas Solutions of f(R) Gravity

Speaker: Ms Maye Elmardi (UCT)

14:20 Computation of ion potential for simulation of nonequilibrium warm dense matter

Speaker: Prof. Tlekkabul Ramazanov (IETP, Al Farabi Kazakh National University)

14:40 Screened interaction potentials between compound particles for simulation of complex plasmas

Speaker: Mr Zhandos Moldabekov (IETP, Al Farabi Kazakh National University)

15:00 The effect of a warm electron beam on fast electron-acoustic nonlinear potential structures in multi-electron species plasmas

Speaker: Mr Lifa Nicholas Mbuli (University of the Western Cape/SANSA)

15:20 Shear-free Anisotropic Cosmological Models in f(R) Gravity

Speaker: Dr Amare Abebe (North-West University)

14:00 → 16:00 Parallel Track B: Material and Nano Science, Quantum Many Body and Strongly Correlated Systems

Convener: Dr Valentino Cooper (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

14:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Impacts of interlayer and substrate interactions on low dimensional crystals

Speaker: Prof. Young-Woo Son (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

14:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Quantum critical behavior of a superfluid-insulator transition

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Vojta (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

15:00 Investigation of Two-dimensional lattice thermal transport in graphene using phonon scattering mechanism

Speaker: Prof. Kamal Kumar Choudhary (Indian Military Academy, Dehradun - 248007 (UK), India)

15:20 Confining Boundary Conditions For Simulation of Electron-Ion Plasma by Antisymmetrized Wave Packet Molecular Dynamics

Speaker: Dr Ilya Valuev (Kintech Lab Ltd.)

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15:40 First principles study of layered xLi₂MnO₃•(1-x)LiMO₂ (M = Mn, Ni, Co, etc.) cathode materials

Speakers: Dr Mesfin Abayneh Kebede (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa) , Mr Seid Mohammed Geleto (Jimma University, Jimma Institute of Technology, Ethiopia)

16:20 → 16:35 BUSES DEPART TO FREEDOM SQUARE & BANQUET

18:30 → 22:00 BANQUET

Thursday, 14 July

07:45 → 08:00 COLLECT ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATES

08:00 → 09:00 Plenary

Plenary Session

Convener: Dr Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (CSIR)

08:00 PLENARY: Recurrent flows: The clockwork behind turbulence

Speaker: Prof. Predrag Cvitanovic (Georgia Tech)

09:00 → 10:10 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Fluid Dynamics, Oceanography and Climate modelling, Geophysics and Geomechanics

Convener: Dr Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (CSIR)

09:00 INVITED SPEAKER: From carbon speciation to transport properties of carbon rich liquids of the upper mantle from molecular dynamics simulations

Speaker: Prof. Rodolphe Vuilleumier (Ecole Normale Supérieure - UPMC)

09:30 Efficient parallelization of scientific computer codes: Two case studies using the PGAS programming model

Speaker: Ms Martina Prugger (University of Innsbruck)

09:50 Entropic Multi-Relaxation Time Lattice Boltzmann Model for Complex Flows

Speaker: Mr Benedikt Dorschner (ETH Zürich)

09:00 → 10:10 Parallel Track B: Software and Hardware Development

Convener: Prof. Mitsuhisa Sato (AICS, RIKEN)

09:00 MORTICIA, A software package for determining optical surveillance system effectiveness.

Speaker: Mr Ari Ramkilowan (CSIR)

09:20 High Performance Memory Efficient Finite Difference Time Domain Algorithms for Large Meshes

Speaker: Dr Ilya Valuev (Kintech Lab Ltd.)

09:40 Particle simulations on the GPU using the Blaze-DEM code

Speaker: Dr Nicolin Govender (CSIR/UJ)

10:10 → 10:30 TEA

10:30 → 10:50 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Fluid Dynamics, Oceanography and Climate modelling, Geophysics and Geomechanics

Conveners: Dr Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (CSIR) , Prof. Predrag Cvitanovic (Georgia Tech)

10:30 Textured superhydrophobic surfaces: Reducing contact time of an impinging drop

Speaker: Dr Shyam Chikatamarla (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

10:30 → 11:30 Parallel Track B: Software and Hardware Development

Convener: Dr Ilya Valuev (Kintech Lab Ltd.)

10:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Challenges for Parallel Programming Models and Languages of post-petascale and exascale computing

Speaker: Prof. Mitsuhisa Sato (AICS, RIKEN)

11:00 INVITED SPEAKER: High Performance Computing Developments in South Africa and the Continent in support of increasing demands of Research

Speaker: Dr Happy Sithole (Chpc)

10:50 → 11:10 Parallel Track A: Astrophysics and Space Physics, Plasma, Gravitation and Cosmology: Astronomy 3rd session

Convener: Prof. Romeel Dave (UWC,SAAO,AIMS)

10:50 INVITED SPEAKER: Simulating the formation of the first galaxies and black holes in the Universe

Speaker: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)

11:30 → 12:15 CCP2015 Winner Plenary

Convener: Prof. Hai-Qing Lin (Beijing Computational Science Research Center)

11:30 PLENARY: Development of particle-in-cell code KLAPS and its applications in laser plasma physics

Speaker: Dr Wei-Min Wang (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)

12:15 → 13:00 CCP2016 Winner Plenary: Efficient and accurate first-principles predictions of structures and energies for Materials Science, Chemistry and Biology

Convener: Prof. Hai-Qing Lin (Beijing Computational Science Research Center)

12:15 PLENARY: Efficient and accurate first-principles predictions of structures and energies for Materials Science, Chemistry and Biology

Speaker: Prof. Jianwei Sun (University of Texas at El Paso)

13:00 → 13:50 LUNCH