Topic: Multiscale Modelling of Materials for Fission and Fusion Reactors

Speaker: Prof. Graeme Ackland
         Head of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Edinburgh, UK

Abstracts：
In this talk, I shall explain the main phenomena observed in radiation-damaged materials, and how they arise from the initial atomic level damage processes.  I shall outline the main techniques of modelling at the different lengthscales: techniques based on studying the behaviour and evolution of electrons, atoms and defects, up to continuum models. This will bridge ten orders of magnitude in length (Angstroms to metres) and twenty in time (picoseconds to years). Finally, I will describe how these challenges are being met, and the types of material which look promising for future generations of reactor.