Program Outline

Week 1
Monday July 13^th, 2026:

Parallel Computing
High Performance Research Computing Center
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, US

Tuesday July 14^th, 2026:

High-Performance Computing Architectures
High Performance Research Computing Center
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, US

Wednesday July 15^th, 2026:

First-Principles Statistical Mechanics
Anton Van Der Ven¹ & Brian Puchala^2
1Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, US
²Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US

Thursday July 16^th, 2026:

Discrete Dislocation Dynamics (DDD)
Nicolas Bertin
Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, US

Friday July 17^th, 2026:

DDD – Immersive Visualization | Code Performance
Nicolas Bertin
Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, US

Phase Field Modeling
Larry Aagesen & Sudipta Biswas
Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, US

Tuesday July 21^st, 2026:

Fast Fourier Transform – based Modeling
Ricardo Lebensohn
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, US

Wednesday July 22^nd, 2026:

Crystal Plasticity Modeling
Shailendra P. Joshi
University of Houston, Houston, TX, US

Thursday July 23^rd, 2026:

Machine Learning – Best Practices and Fundamentals
Taylor Sparks
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, US

Friday July 24^th, 2026:

Bayesian – based Methods for Materials Design
Raymundo Arroyave
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, US

Friday July 24^th: Closing Dinner and Certificate Ceremony for In-Person Participants @ 6:00 PM in a local restaurant (TBD)

*Certificates will be mailed to online participants.

08:30 AM – 09:00 AM → Breakfast
09:00 AM – 10:30 AM → Session
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM → Break
10:50 AM – 12:20 PM → Session
12:20 PM – 01:40 PM → Lunch
01:40 PM – 03:10 PM → Session
03:10 PM – 03:30 PM → Break
03:30 PM – 05:00 PM → Session