March 2011

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:: CONTENTS ::

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1) Workshop announcement

2) Africa MRS conference

3) New publication from ASESMA participant

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:: WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT ::

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"Computational Modeling with Open Source Physics and Easy Java

Simulations"

Apply by 30 April for this three-day workshop at the University of

Pretoria in South Africa. Workshop dates are 4-6 July, 2011. Read

the announcement for more details:

https://sites.google.com/site/asesma2010/announcements/computationalphysicsworkshopuofpretoria/SA-Workshop.pdf

From the announcement:

"This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to Open Source Physics

(OSP) and Easy Java Simulations (EJS) to model physical systems. It

combines short expositions with practical sessions where participants

will work in teams on computers provided by the organizers. There will

be morning and afternoon sessions with a break for lunch. Participants

will study and explore, step by step, important computational

examples, such as the gravitational N-body and the Ising models, to

learn how they have been implemented, and then modify these examples

to add new capabilities. Assistance will be provided during the

sessions."

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:: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICA MRS ::

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The 6th International Conference of the African Materials Research

Society (6thIC-Africa MRS) is coming up at the end of this year. It

will be held 11-16 December in Victoria Falls, Tanzania. For

complete information, visit http://www.africamrs.org. The list of

invited speakers include many top-notch scientists and it promises to

be an excellent conference.

http://image.mrs.org/geninfo/enews/pix/2011/AfricaMRS2011.pdf

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:: CONGRATULATIONS ::

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Congratulations to Sundare on her recent publication in Solid State

Communications. The title is, "Elastic and thermodynamical

properties of A15 Nb3X (X = Al, Ga, In, Sn and Sb) compounds â€” First

principles DFT study". (Solid State Comm. 150, 2057 (2010).

Please send notice of your recent publications to

asesma.news@gmail.com so they can be included in future newsletters.

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