96th STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
HILL CENTER, ROOM 114
SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY
DECEMBER 17-19, 2006
Conference Program
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2006
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:20
D. Langreth, Rutgers University,
Approximate Density Functional Description of the van der Waals Bond
9:20 - 9:40
M. Randeria, Ohio State University
RVB and High Tc Superconductivity
9:40 - 10:00
J. Schmalian, Iowa State University,
Superconductivity and Spin Liquid Formation in Frustrated Spin Systems
10:00 - 10:20
H. Kojima, Rutgers University,
Magnetic Fountain Pressure and Minority Condensate in Spin-Polarized Superfluid He-3
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee
10:50 - 11:10
R. D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania,
Spherical Phases of Diblocks
11:10 - 11:30
M. Aizenman, Princeton University,
On Anderson-Yuval-Hamann and Some Other Topics Which Are Too Good to be Left to Physicists
11:30 - 11:50
A. Its, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,
Generalized Fisher-Hartwig and Szeg"o-Widom Asymptotics. Some new rigorous results and applications
11:50 - 12:30
I. Affleck, University of British Columbia,
Is There a Large Kondo Screening Cloud?
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:25
W. Brinkman, Princeton University,
Is Solid HE4 a supersolid?
2:25 - 2:50
A. Punnoose,
Flow Diagram and Quantum Critical Behavior of the Metal-Insulator Transition in 2D
2:50 - 3:15
G. Kotliar, Rutgers University,
Dynamical RVB and d-Wave Superconductivity
3:15 - 3:45
S.-W. Cheong,
New Magnetic Twists for Ferroelectricity
3:45 - 4:15
Coffee
4:15 - 4:45
M. Franz, University of British Columbia,
Vortex-Boson Duality in 3+1 Dimensions: Cuprates Meet String Theory
4:45 - 5:15
D. Thouless, University of Washington,
Mechanical and Statistical Properties of Quantized Vortices
5:15 - 5:45
D. Fisher, Harvard University,
Can Evolution Be Understood Quantitatively?
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6:00 COCKTAILS AND CONCERT
DEDICATED TO ELIHU ABRAHAMS AND PHILIP W. ANDERSON.
COCKTAILS AND CONCERT ARE SPONSORED BY SPRINGER, PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS.
ALL ARE INVITED
8:00 BANQUET DINNER (Reservations Required)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2006
8:00 - 8:40
Breakfast and Registration
8:40 - 10:45
Short Talks - Session A
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee
11:15 - 11:45
P.W. Anderson, Princeton University,
New Insights into Vortex Liquids
11:45 - 12:30
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCIENTISTS
J. Harrington, Rutgers University
"A Scientist at the US Department of State on How Science and Policy Interact"
J. Lebowitz, Rutgers University
"The Sad Saga of a Refugee Scientist in the US"
J. Katriel and Y. Avron, Technion, Israel
"Scientists, Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:20
L. Schulman, Clarkson University,
Phase Transitions, Clusters, and Geometry from Spectral Analysis
2:20 - 2:40
S. Nagel, University of Chicago,
2:40 - 3:40
ROUND TABLE: "IS THERE A STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF STATIC SAND PILES?"
2:40 - 3:00
Introduction C. Radin, University of Texas,
A Phase Transition in Sand
Panelists:
J. Brujic, Columbia University,
A. Liu, University of Pennsylvania,
S. Nagel, University of Chicago,
S. Torquato, Princeton University,
M.E. Fisher, University of Maryland, Chair
3:40 - 4:10
Coffee
4:10 - 4:30
B. Shklovskii, University of Minnesota,
Ion Transport in Ion Channels and Nanopores
4:30 - 4:50
A. B. Kolomeisky, Rice University,
Channel-Facilitated Molecular Transport Across Membranes: Attraction, Repulsion and Asymmetry
4:50 - 5:10
V. Dobrosavljevic, Florida State University,
2D-MIT as Self-Doping of a Wigner-Mott Insulator
5:10 - 5:30
D. Huse, Princeton University,
Heat Baths, Ergodicity, Many-Body Localization
5:30 - 5:50
V. Oganesyan, Yale University,
Spectral Signatures of Localization in a Quantum Many-Body System
5:50 - 7:40
COCKTAILS AND DINNER
7:40 - 9:00
Round Table on: "The Metal Insulator Transition."
Participants will include:
P.W. Anderson, V. Dobrosavljevic, M. Gershenson, A. Punnoose, M. Sarachik, CCNY, P. Coleman, Rutgers University - Chair
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2006
8:00 - 8:30
Breakfast and Registration
8:30 - 9:50
Short Talks - Session B
9:50 - 10:10
G. Gallavotti, University of Rome/Rutgers,
Phase Space Contraction and Entropy in Fluid Flows
10:10 - 10:40
Coffee
10:40 - 11:00
B. Rozovsky, Brown University,
On Passive Scalar Equation for Kraichnan Type Velocity Fields
11:00 - 11:20
V. Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute,
White Blood Cells and G-CSF Dynamics in the Blood
11:20 - 11:40
M. B. Hastings, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Entropy and Entanglement in Quantum Ground States
11:40 - 12:10
Y. Avron, Technion,
Entangled Photons From a Quantum Dot
12:10 - 1:20
Lunch
1:20 - 1:50
S. Sheffield, NYU/IAS,
Random Geometry, SLE, and the Gaussian Free Field.
1:50 - 2:10
C. Toninelli, LPMA, Univ.Paris VI-VII,
Jamming Percolation and Glass Transition in Lattice Models
2:10 - 2:30
L. Rey-Bellet, University of Massachusetts,
Large Deviations in Dynamical Systems with Some Hyperbolicity
2:30 - 2:50
D. Brydges, University of British Columbia,
Self-Avoiding Loop Correlations and Loop Erasure
2:50 - 3:10
N. Clisby, University of Melbourne,
Self-Avoiding Walk Enumeration via the Lace Expansion
3:10 - 4:00
Short Talks, Session C
4:00 -
Coffee