Phenomena in many systems of interest in materials science, soft condensed matter physics and biology require analysis of processes that span a wide range of time and length scales, from atomic level details of bonding and corresponding dynamics to the emergence of morphologies of interest on mesoscopic scales, occurring on times scales of seconds, hours and beyond. Computational modeling of such phenomena has always been a challenge. Separate models for different scales, for example from models that focus on an atomic level description to those that treat the system at a gross macroscopic level, have been around for some time now. However, models that systematically coarse grain the description or models that incorporate the treatment of different scales into one description are just beginning to emerge. Development of a multi-scale modeling strategy and methods would expand the range of applications of firstprinciples methodology to phenomena which involve much longer time and length...
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