Preface

Abstract

This volume contains select papers presented at the 4 th International Conference on Material Modeling (ICMM4), which took place May 27-29 at the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. By all meaningful measures, ICMM4 was a great success, attracting over 211 participants (ranging from senior colleagues to graduate students) from 5 continents and featuring a technical program that well reflected the cutting-edge of materials modeling research. The first of the series to be held across the Atlantic, ICMM4 signaled the broadening of the conference's international reach and its increasing appeal among mechanicians and materials scientists.