For Immediate Release Landman, director of Georgia Tech's Center
for Computational Materials Science, will receive recognition
from the MRS, the world's largest materials professional
society. The medal award is given to recognize "a specific
outstanding recent discovery or advancement that is expected to
have a major impact on the progress of any materials-related
field." Charles M. Lieber of Harvard University will also be
honored with a medal at the ceremony. Landman's award is for the
development and implementation of research methodologies that
use molecular dynamics simulations to predict the often-
surprising behavior that occurs at the nanoscale when surfaces
of solid and liquid materials meet. Landman's research team has
examined the effects of friction and lubrication in these small-
scale systems, predicting how such systems would behave long
before they could be fabricated. Over time, most of their key
predictions in this new science of nanotribology have been
confirmed Performed on large parallel-p