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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Manura Liyanage’s paper appears in Smart Materials and Structures

The work of group member, Manura Liyanage, was recently accepted into the journal Smart Materials and Structures.  The paper, "First principles study of hydrogen in lead zirconate titanate," is part of our group's ongoing work on modeling hydrogen diffusion phenomena from first principles.... More

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Manura Liyanage’s paper appears in MSMSE

The work of group member, Manura Liyanage, was recently accepted into the journal Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering.  The paper, "Multi-scale approach for determining hydrogen diffusivity in zirconium," is part of our group's ongoing work on modeling the hydrogen embrittlement problem in Zr alloys.  The work can be... More

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Three articles in MSMSE’s top 25!

We are honored to see that the journal Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering recently chose three of our papers to be among the 25 chosen for inclusion in the “MSMSE 25th Anniversary” collection.  The anniversary collection includes only the top articles published in the journal since its launch in October 1992. ... More

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Two new group members

This month, the group welcomes two new members, Marianna Vieira and Khaled Sebakhy.  Both will be part of our project on lubricant oil degradation characterization and modeling.  Marianna joins as an MASc student and Dr. Sebakhy as a post-doctoral researcher.  Welcome, Marianna and... More

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

JF Joly’s paper accepted to Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

The work of former group member, Dr. JF Joly, was recently accepted into the journal Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research.  The paper, "Density Functional Theory Rate Calculation of Hydrogen AbstractionReactions of N‐Phenyl-α-naphthylamine Antioxidants" is part of our group's ongoing work on modeling and detecting lubricant oil... More

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Prof. Miller gives semi-plenary lecture at USNCCM in Montreal

Prof. Miller presented the work of past group members Josh Gibson and Carlos Campana, as well as our collaborators, in an invited, semi-plenary lecture at the 14th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, held July 17-20, 2017 in Montreal. Read more at http://14.usnccm.org/speakers_miller... More

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Josh Gibson’s work on Ti MS-MEAM potential to appear in MSMSE.

Josh Gibson's paper on the Ti MS-MEAM potential he worked on during his post-doc in our group has been accepted for publication in MSMSE.  A pre-print of the work is available on the "research contributions" page of this... More

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Modeling Materials Short Course

Prof. Miller will be co-teaching an intensive 5-day Modeling Materials Short Course with Ellad Tadmor at the National University of Singapore, during the week of July 18-22, 2016. Click here for Information and Registration... More

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Jean-Francois Joly receives Mitacs Internship

Jean-Francois Joly, post-doctoral fellow in our group, has received a 6 month Mitacs Internship with our industrial partner, Gastops LTD.  Congratulations... More

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Yifan Yang joins the group

Yifan Yang, who has recently submitted her PhD thesis in Chemical Engineering at the University of Ottawa, has joined our group as a research associate.  She will work on Chemical Kinetics Modeling of lubricating oil degradation.  Welcome... More

Friday, September 11, 2015

Fred Laforge successfully defends his thesis!

Congratulations Fred on a very successful thesis defense last week!  Fred completed his MSc with the thesis entitled "The development of a Diesel injector experiment to study the combined effects of oxidation and shear on lubricating oil viscosity."  The group wishes you good luck with your future endeavors, and we thank you for a... More

Friday, June 26, 2015

Niall McCallum joins our group

Niall McCallum has joined our group, for now as a summer research and in September to do his MASc on our lubricant degradation project.  Welcome... More

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