Meeting to be held at the Park Place Hotel, Traverse City, Michigan from August 4-8, 1996.

Scientific Advisory Committee
H. Bonzel, J.W. Cahn, D. Cahill, E. Kaxiras, J. Krumhansl, W.W. Mullins, L. Sander, D. Srolovitz, J. Taylor, A. Zangwill

Anisotropy plays an important role in the dynamics of crystal surfaces and interfaces, and hence in many materials processes, from surface stability and relaxation, to grain growth and sintering, and phase transformations. In the case of surfaces it is possible to watch the evolution of steps, for example using an STM, which mediate the evolution of surface structure and hence to build continuum models from the atoms up. There has also been, largely independently, much progress in mathematical modeling of interface dynamics mathematicians, physicists, materials scientists and engineers who are studying the dynamics of crystal surfaces and interfaces, with a particular view to the inclusion of materials' anisotropy. The key themes of the conference are:
- Anisotropy, single crystal and surface thermodynamics
- Atomistic calculations, especially key activation energies
- Equilibrium and non-equilibrium step dynamics
- Relaxation of gratings, grooves and bumps
- Growth and Annealing
- Interface motion/grain boundaries - modeling and experiment
- Strain effects
- Phase transformations

Speakers and tentative titles are listed below

Contributed Posters: A poster session is an important part of conference schedule. The poster boards are 4ft x 4ft.

The location: Traverse City is located on lake Michigan and is in the center of one of the most scenic areas in Michigan. In August, the weather is usually warm to hot and the nights typically cool.

Conference schedule The conference will begin with an informal reception on Sunday, Aug. 4th; there will be a conference Banquet on Wed., Aug. 7th; and the conference will end at around 3pm Aug. 8th. The sessions will start at around 8:30am each morning, and prior to that there will be a buffet breakfast. The speakers and their titles are listed below along with a tentative schedule

Accommodation: The conference will be held in the newly restored Park Place H otel. It is five minutes from the beach and five minutes from the central pedestrian mall in Traverse city. The address and phone numbers for the hotel are:

The Park Place Hotel, 300 East State Street
Traverse City, Michigan 49684
Phone: 1-800-748-0133 or 1-616-946-5000, Fax: 1-616-946-2772

The conference rates are $105/night single or double occupancy, and these rates are valid for two days before and after the conference. Rooms have either a king size bed or two double beds. Kids stay free. Additional persons $15/person. 60 rooms have been set aside for the conference, but since this is peak season in upstate Michigan, reservations need to be made before July 3rd to ensure a room. Reservations should be made directly with the hotel.

Travel: There are regular flights to Traverse City from Chicago (American Airlines and United Airlines) and from Detroit(Northwest Airlines). About 3 flights per day from Detroit are jet service, and the remainder are commuters. Alternatively, Traverse City is about 4 hours by car from Lansing and about 5 hours from Detroit.

Editors: P. M. Duxbury and T. Pence.

The Proceedings are published as a book in the Fundamental Materials Science series.
This series is published by Plenum and the general series editor is M. F. Thorpe.

P. M. Duxbury

T. Pence

Tentative Schedule

Sunday Evening - informal reception

Monday Morning - Anisotropic surfaces/interfaces and their motion
Blendell(30min),Chatain(20min),Taylor(30min),Kelley(20min),Rankin(30min),Gottstein (30min),Holm(30min), (30min discussion/question session on interface motion - moderated by Phil Duxbury).
Monday Afternoon - Competition between strain and surface energy
Jesson(30min),Voorhees(30min),Lee(20min),Clapp(30min),Truskinovsky(30min), (30 min discussion/question session on strain and surface energy
competition - Moderated by ---- )

Tuesday Morning - Step structures,Surface structures/phase transitions
Wynblatt(30min),van Beijeren(30min),Tsong(30min),Pelz(30min),Chou(30min),Zhang (20min),Roland(30min)
Tuesday Afternoon - Growth: Anisotropy and/or strain effects
Clarke(30min),Kaxiras(30min),Kandel(30min),Tersoff(30min),Zangwill(30min),Sander (30min)

Wednesday Morning I - Growth and annealing
Gilmer(30min),Cahill(30min),Amar(20min),Yalisove(20min), (30min discussion/ question session on growth - Moderated by Andy Zangwill)
Wednesday Morning II - Step dynamics
Frenken(30min),Ganz(30min),Giesen(20min)
Wednesday Afternoon I - Step dynamics, step doubling, island diffusion
Einstein(30min),Weeks(30min),Mochrie(30min), (30min discussion/question session on step dynamics - Moderated by --- ) + poster session and Conference dinner

Thursday morning - Surface relaxation via step dynamics
Bonzel(30min),Bartelt(30min),Umbach(30min),Mullins(30min),Tang(30min)
Thursday Afternoon - Monte Carlo Simulations of surface annealing
Selke(30min),Erlebacher(20min),Ramanamurty(20min),(30min discussion/ question session on surface relaxation - Moderated by W.W. Mullins)

Speakers and tentative titles

Jaques Amar (Physics, Emory)
``Effects of Crystalline Microstructure on Mound Formation and Coarsening in Epitaxial Growth''
Norm Bartelt (Sandia, Livermore)
``Using observations of thermal step fluctuations to understand the equilibration of surface morphology: applications to Si(001)''
Kit Umbach (Mat. Sci. and Eng., Cornell)
``Atomic step structure and relaxation of 1- and 2-D gratings on Si''
John Blendell (Ceramics, NIST)
``Thermal Faceting of Alumina''
Hans Bonzel (IGV, Forschungszentrum Julich)
``Experiments and theory on grating relaxation''
David Cahill (Mat. Sci, Univ. Illinois)
"Relaxation of Rough Ge(001) Surfaces"
Dominique Chatain (CNRS, Campus de Luminy Marseille)
``Anisotropy of wetting of Pb crystals with their own melt and by liquid Pb-Ga alloys''
Mei-Yin Chou (Physics, Georgia Tech.)
``Surface Energy Anisotropy for metals from first principles calculations''
Philip Clapp (Mat. Sci., Univ. of Conn.)
``Structure and dynamics of interfaces in displacive transformations''
Roy Clarke (Physics, U. Mich.)
"Morphology Transitions in Growth and Annealing of Close-packed Epitaxial Metal Films"
Ted Einstein (Physics, Univ. Maryland)
``Step Fluctuations: From Equilibrium Analysis to Step Unbunching and Cluster Diffusion in a Unified Picture''
Jonah Erlebacher (Appl. physics, Harvard)
``Morphological equilibration of rippled and dimpled crystal surfaces''
Joost Frenken (FOM-Surface Cystallography, Amsterdam)
``Dynamics of steps and kinks ``seen" with the STM''
Eric Ganz (Physics, Univ. Minn)
``Step dynamics on Si(001)''
Margret Giesen (IGV, Forschungzentrum J\"ulich)
``Step fluctuations and step-step interactions on metal surfaces under UHV conditions and electrochemical environment''
George Gilmer (Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill)
``Atomistic simulations of thin film deposition: step coverage and the shadowing instability''
Gunter Gottstein (Inst. fur Metall. und Metallphysik, Aachen)
``Grain boundary motion - Experiment and Simulation''
Elizabeth Holm (Mat. Sci, Sandia Alburquerque)
``Effects of boundary energy and mobility on grain growth in polycrystals''
David Jesson (Solid State Division, Oak Ridge)
``The role of anisotropic surface energy in the morphological evolution of strained films''
Daniel Kandel (Physics, Weizmann Inst.)
``Theory of surfactant mediated semiconductor epitaxy''
Tim Kaxiras (Physics, Harvard)
``Theory of atom dynamics on semiconductors: from diffusion to growth''
Jenny Kelley (Math. Rutgers)
``A numerical investigation of the effects of edge energies on crystal shapes''
Jong K. Lee (Metall. and Mat. Eng., Mich. Tech)
``War between strain energy and surface energy in microstructural evolution''
Simon Mochrie (Phyiscs, MIT)
``Faceting of Silicon Surfaces: Unbinding Transitions, Dynamic Scaling, and Nano-scale Grooves''
William W. Mullins (Mat. Sci. and Eng., Carnegie-Mellon)
``Decay of grooves in a singular surface with unstable neighbouring orientations''
John Pelz (Physics, Ohio State)
``Spontaneous Step Formation on Si(001) Surfaces Enhanced by Tensile Strain and Surface Dopant Accumulation''
M.V. Ramana Murty (Physics, Cornell)
``Behavior of curved regions in the equilibrium crystal shape''
Janet Rankin (Engineering, Brown)
``In situ TEM sintering studies of faceted ceramic oxide particles''
Chris Roland (Physics, North Carolina)
``"Ab Initio Simulations of the Si(100) surface: Diffusion and Finite Temperature Simulations''
Len Sander (Physics, Univ. of Michigan)
``Coarsening of MBE structures in 2+1 dimensions''
Walter Selke (Theor. Physik, Technische Hochschule Aachen)
``Equilibration of crystal surfaces''
Lehan Tang (Condensed matter theory, Imperial College)
``Flattening of grooves: from step dynamics to continuum theory''
Jean Taylor (Math, Rutgers)
``Interface motion modelling with anisotropy''
Jerry Tersoff (IBM, Yorktown Heights)
``Nanofabrication by Self-organizing Step Flow''
Lev Truskinovsky (Engineering, Univ. of Minn.)
``Staircases and quantization in non-linear elasticity''
Ignatius Tsong (Physics, Arizona State)
``Striped phase and step morphology transformation on Si (001)-(2x1)''
Henk van Beijeren (Theor. phys., Utrecht)
``Surface structure, instabilities and metastability near missing-row reconstructed facets''
Peter Voorhees (Mat. Sci., Northwestern Univ.)
``The effects of strain on the evolution of interfaces''
John Weeks (IPST, Univ. of Maryland)
``Dynamics of step bunching and faceting''
Paul Wynblatt (Mat. Sci. and Eng., Carnegie Mellon)
``Coupled chemical and faceting surface phase transitions''
Steve Yalisove (Mat. Sci. and Eng., U. of Mich.)
``Origin of In-Plane Texturing During Growth of Polycrystalline Thin Films''
Andrew Zangwill (Physics, Georgia Tech.)
```Kinetic Pathways to Coherent Islands''
Shengbai Zhang (Nat. Ren. Energy Lab., Golden Colorado)
``Atomic structures of the GaAs(001)-2x4 surface steps and grooves''

Posters and tentative titles

The authors listed will present the posters

Mikko Alava et al. (Physics, Mich. State)
``The effect of disorder on step energies''
Albert-L. Barabasi (Physics, Univ. Notre Dame)
``Roughening of ion-sputtered surfaces''
Bane Blagojevic et al. (Physics, Mich. State)
``Step dynamics on vicinal surfaces''
Lothar Brendel et al. (HLRZ, Juelich)
``Oscillations during layer by layer growth in MBE''
Pekka Heino (Elec. Engineering, Univ. Tampere)
``Mesoscopic models of crack branching''
S. Kiriukhin et al. (Physics, Georgia Tech.)
``Entropic step doubling on W(430)''
M. Krishnamurthy et al. (Met. and Mat. Eng., Mich. Tech.)
``Initial Stages of Island Formation in Ge/Si(110)''
Jiutao Li et al. (Physics, Lausanne)
``Tip assisted diffusion on Ag(110) in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy''
Maxim Makeev (Physics, Notre Dame)
``Sputtering of rough surfaces: the effect of roughness on the yield''
F. Morgan et al. (Math., Williams College)
``The wet X soap film is unstable''
Frieder Mugele et al. (Physics, Univ. Konstanz)
``STM and Step Dynamics: Probing or manipulating the surface?''
C-H. Nien and K. Pelhos et al. (Physics, Rutgers)
``Faceting induced by ultrathin metal films on tungsten surfaces: Structure and Reactivity''
Michael Schroeder et al. (Gerhard-Mercator-U-GH-Duisburg)
``Growth and diffusion on strained surfaces''
R. Shneck et. al. (Mat. Eng., Univ. Virginnia)
``The elastic contribution to ledge growth and ledge ordering on coherent interface of the gamma/gamma' in Ni alloys.''
E. Somfai et al. (Physics, Univ. Mich.)
``Generalised variational principles for epitaxial growth''
Jim de Yoreo (Lawrence Livermore Labs.)
"In situ AFM investigation of step dynamics and surface morphological evolution during crystal growth from solutions."

Participants not presenting

Aniket Bhattacharya (Physics, Michigan State)
Phil Duxbury (Physics, Michigan State)
Diana Dismus-Campbell (Math, Rutgers)
Charles Ebner (Physics, Ohio State)
Harold Ibach (IGV, Forschungszentrum Juelich)
Bhanu Mahanti (Physics, Michigan State)
Brad Orr (Physics, Univ. Mich)
Thomas Pence (MSM, Michigan State)
Bruce Taggart (DMR, NSF)
Walter Winterbottom (Ford Research)
Ralph Worthington (MSM, Michgan State)
Zili Zhang (Physics, Univ. Mich.)