Dr. Tahir Çagin Director, Materials Science and Technology Materials and Process Simulation Center California Institute of Technology Mail Stop 139-74, Pasadena, CA 91125 Phone : (626) 395-2728 FAX : (626) 585-0918 e-mail: tahir@wag.caltech.edu Postdoctoral Position Openings

Research interests

• Computer simulations of physical and chemical properties of
  
  • Metals and Alloys | Glasses, ceramics, zeolites | Polymers and Dendrimers
• Computational Nanotechnology
  • Simulation and analysis of MEMS/NEMS devices
  • Simulation of Carbon Nanotubes | Fullerenes | Carbon Toroids | Fullerene Formation
  • Simulation of Merkle-Drexler nanogears and neon pump
  • Molecular modeling and simulation of Dendrimers for nanoscale applications
  

• Tribology, surface and interfacial properties of materials
  
  • Surface wetting phenomena | Two dimensional systems | Polymer-polymer interfaces
• Development and applications of computer simulation methods:
  • Extendend System approach to study phase equilibria
    Grand Canonical MD | Gibbs Ensemble MD
  • For studying transport and flow properties of materials
    Nonequilibrium MD | Shear Flow | Orientational Ordering | Colloids, Suspensions.
  • For large scale atomistic simulations on Massively Parallel Computers.
    Constrained Force Algorithm | MPSim Program | MPIMD Program | Multithreading
• Development and application of mesoscopic approaches to study
  
  • The role of defects in failure mechanisms in materials.
    
  • Interface and processing problems in heteregenous materials.

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Last modified: February 2001.