Statistical Mechanics Conference
93rd Statistical Mechanics Conference
Sunday, May 15, 2005 at -
Program
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, May 15-17, 2005
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2005
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:20
F. Alexander, Los Alamos National Loboratory,
Hybrid Numerical Methods for Multiscale Modeling
9:20 - 9:40
A. Middleton, Syracuse University,
Optimization for Physics and the Physics of Optimization
9:40 - 10:00
E. vanden Eijnden, New York University,
Minimum Free Energy Paths, Blue Moon Sampling, and String Method
10:00 - 10:20
T. Kennedy, University of Arizona,
Monte Carlo Comparisons of the 2d Self-Avoiding Walk and SLE
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee
10:50 - 11:20
M. Kalos, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Fermion Monte Carlo
11:20 - 11:40
P. Reynolds, Army Research Office,
Circumventing the Fermion Sign Problem by Learning About Wave Function Nodes
11:40 - 12:00
D. Ceperley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Can Metallic Hydrogen be a Ground State Liquid?
12:00 - 12:30
E. Lieb, Princeton University,
Rigorous Results on the Ground State Energy of Bose Gases, Including Bose Einstein Condensation
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
D. Frenkel, AMOLF, the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, The Netherlands,
From One to Zero: Minimal Models in Molecular Dynamics
2:30 - 3:00
W. Krauth, ENS, France,
Pivot Cluster Algorithm for Hard Spheres and Related Systems: Application to Mixtures, Glasses, Dimers...
3:00 - 3:30
H.J. Herrmann, University of Stuttgart,
Searching for the Perfect Packing
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 4:20
M. Alber, University of Notre Dame,
On Three-Dimensional Modeling of Myxobacteria Aggregation and Morphogenesis
4:20 - 4:40
N. S. Wingreen, Princeton University,
Modeling the Chemosensing System of E. coli
4:40 - 5:20
A. Chakraborty, Berkeley,
Intercellular Communication in the Immune System
5:20 - 6:00
L. Abbott, Brandeis University,
Spontaneous and Evoked Activity in Neural Networks
6:00 - 7:45
COCKTAILS, CONCERT
COCKTAILS AND CONCERT ARE SPONSORED BY
SPRINGER, PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL OF STAT. PHYS. AND
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATH. PHYS. THEY ARE
DEDICATED TO BERNI ALDER
ALL ARE INVITED
7:50 BANQUET DINNER (Reservations Required)
MONDAY, MAY 16, 2005
8:00 - 8:35 Breakfast and Registration
8:35 - 9:50 Short Talks, Session A
9:50 - 10:20 Coffee
10:20 - 10:35
R. Car, Princeton University,
Quantum Kinetic Approach to Transport in Molecular Devices
11:20 - 11:50
M. Scully, Princeton/Texas A&M University,
From Bose and Einstein to Bogoliubov and Beyond: a Rich Tradition of Optical and Statistical Physics
11:50 - 12:30 Human Rights and Social Responsibilities of Scientists. J. L. Lebowitz and others
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:20
B. Widom, Cornell University,
What Gibbs Never Told You
2:20 - 2:40
G. Stell, SUNY at Stony Brook,
What's New in Liquid-State TPT
2:40 - 3:00
K. E. Gubbins, North Carolina State University,
Effect of Confinement on Chemical Reactivity
3:00 - 3:20
M.G. Velarde, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain,
The Transition from Linear to Nonlinear Solitonic Electric Conduction in a Dissipative Toda Lattice
3:20 - 3:40
M. Mareschal, Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
Simulation of Lamellar Phases
3:40 - 4:10 Coffee
4:10 - 4:30
J. R. Dorfman, University of Maryland,
Long Time Tails in Classical and Quantum Lorentz Gases
4:30 - 4:50
R. K. P. Zia, Virginia Tech,
Exact Solution for a class of Mass Transport Models, Condensation Transitions, and the Nature of the Condensate
4:50 - 5:10
A.J.C. Ladd, University of Florida,
Axial Segregation of a Settling Suspension in a Rotating Cylinder
5:10 - 5:30
K. Kadau, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Nanohydrodynamics Simulations: An Atomistic View of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
5:30 - 6:10
Y. Sinai, Princeton University,
Power Series for Solutions of the 3D-Navier-Stokes System
6:10 - 8:00 COCKTAILS AND DINNER
8:00 - 9:30
Round Table: Current Status of the Derivation and Solution of the Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations
Participants include: B. Alder, S. Chen, Y. Sinai, V. Yakhot and N. J. Zabusky. Joel L. Lebowitz, chair.
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2005
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:00 Short talks, Session B
10:00 - 10:20
A. B. Harris, University of Pennsylvania,
Two Topics: a) 1/d Expansion for k-core Percolation, b) Ferroelectric Incommensurate Magnets
10:20 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 11:15
P. Coleman, Rutgers University,
Quantum Criticality: Signs of a New Universality
11:15 - 11:35
M. Aizenman, Princeton University,
On Delocalized Eigenstates in the Presence of Disorder
11:35 - 11:55
L. Chayes, University of California,
Ordering Due to SpinWaves (AKA Order by Disorder)
11:55 - 12:15
R. de la Lllave, University of Texas,
Recent Progress in Geometric Mechanisms for Arnold Diffusion
12:15 - 12:45
Ph. Choquard, EPFL, Switzerland,
On a Class of Exactly Integrable Radial Solutions of the Continuity and Euler's Equations for nD Systems with Long Range Interactions
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:20
B. Jancovici, Universite de Paris XI,
The Casimir Effect in Some Classical (i.e. Non-Quantum) Situations
2:20 - 2:40
S. Goldstein, Rutgers University,
Einstein, Hidden Variables, and Nonlocality
2:40 - 3:00
R. Seiringer, Princeton University,
A Stronger Subadditivity of Entropy
3:00 - 3:20
P. Kleban, University of Maine,
The Farey Fraction Spin Chain
3:20 - 3:40
B. Boghosian, Tufts University,
Recent Developments in Lattice Boltzmann Models of Fluid Dynamics
3:40 - 4:00
J. Yepez, Air Force Research Laboratory,
Quantum Computation of Nonlinear Classical Dynamics
4:00 Short Talks, Session C
Coffee and discussions
