Event Details

94th STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE

Rutgers University, Hill Center, Room 114
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
December 18-20, 2005

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2005

8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast and Registration

9:00 - 9:20
P. Hohenberg, New York University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: an Update

9:20 - 9:40
R. Balian, CEA-Saclay, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Quantum Measurement, a Problem of Statistical Mechanics

9:40 - 10:00
N. Berker, Koc University and M.I.T., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
New Phases, Superfluid Weights, and Free Carrier
Densities: Renormalization-Group Theory of Electronic Models

10:00 - 10:20
N. Andrei, Rutgers University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nonequilibrium Transport in Quantum Impurity Systems (exact results)

10:20 - 10:50
Coffee

10:50 - 11:10
D. Nelson, Harvard University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Two Dimensional Hydrodynamics: Can Cell Membranes Sense Walls?

11:10 - 11:30
J. Banavar, Penn State University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Patterns in Ecology -- a Statistical Mechanics Perspective

11:30 - 11:50
R. Lipowsky, Max-Planck Institute, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Activity Patterns on Scale-Free Networks

11:50 - 12:10
J. Chayes, Microsoft, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Controlling the Spread of Viruses on Power-Law Networks

12:10 - 12:40
L. Barabasi, Notre Dame University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Nature of Time in Complex Networks

12:40 - 2:10
Lunch

2:10 - 2:30
F. Wu, Northeastern University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Two-point Impedance in an Impedance Network: A New Formulation

2:30 - 2:50
C. Borgs, Microsoft, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Random Energy Conjecture for Number Partitioning and Spin Glasses

2:50 - 3:10
I. Giardina, University of Rome, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Metastability and Supersymmetry in Glassy Systems

3:10 - 3:30
A. Theumann, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Quantum Spherical Spin Glass: Supersymmetry and Annealing

3:30 - 4:00
Coffee

4:00 - 4:30
P. Young, University of California Santa Cruz, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Do Spin Glasses Have a Phase Transition in a Magnetic Field?

4:30 - 5:00
J.-P. Bouchaud, CEA-Saclay, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,
Cooperative Lengthscales in Glass-Formers: Theoretical Motivations
and Empirical Evidence

5:00 - 5:30
J. Langer, University of California, Santa Barbara, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dynamics of the Glass Transition

5:30 - 6:00
E. Brezin, ENS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Historical Perspective on Quantum Field Theory

6:05 - 8:00
COCKTAILS, HARPSICHORD CONCERT BY KUMIKO IMAMURA IN
THE FIBER OPTICS BUILDING

COCKTAILS AND CONCERT ARE SPONSORED BY SPRINGER,
PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL OF STAT. PHYS. AND COMMUNICATIONS
IN MATH. PHYS. THEY ARE DEDICATED TO CIRANO DE DOMINICIS AND
PAUL MARTIN. ALL ARE INVITED

7:45
BANQUET DINNER (Reservations Required)

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2005

8:00 - 8:40
Breakfast and Registration

8:40 - 10:15
Short Talks - Session A

10:15-10:45
Coffee

10:45 - 11:05
J. Zinn-Justin, CEA-Saclay, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Critical Temperature of the Weakly Interacting Bose Gas

11:05 - 11:35
A. G. Yodh, University of Pennsylvania, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Melting in Temperature Sensitive Suspensions

11:35 - 11:55
P. Winkler, Dartmouth College, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Fluid/solid Transition in a Hard-core System

11:55 - 12:35
Human Rights and Social Responsibilities of Scientists

J. Hirsch, University of California, San Diego, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Why are Physicists Silent? The Dangers of New US Nuclear Weapons Policies
J. Lebowitz, Human Rights of Scientists and Academics

12:35 - 2:05
Lunch

2:05 - 2:25
H. W. Diehl, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Casimir Effect in the Presence of van-der Waals-Type Interactions

2:25 - 2:45
J. Hirsch, University of California, San Diego, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Electric Fields in Superconductors: an Explanation of the Tao Effect

2:45 - 3:05
B. Shraiman, University of California, Santa Barbara, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Physics and Biology of Growth

3:05 - 3:35
H. Orland, CEA-Saclay, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
RNA Folding and Large N Matrix Field Theory

3:35 - 4:05
Coffee

4:05 - 4:25
C. Jarzynski, Los Alamos National Laboratory, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Microscopic Reversibility, Macroscopic Irreversibility, and
Nonequilibrium Work Theorems

4:25 - 4:45
D. Richards, Penn State University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Higher-Order Generalizations of the Gaussian Correlation Conjecture

4:45 - 5:05
A. Erzan, Istanbul Technical University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dynamics on Random Content Based Boolean Networks

5:05 - 5:25
F. Haake, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Role of Chaotic Classical Orbits for Universality in Quantum Spectra
and Transport

5:25 - 6:05
A. Tremblay, Sherbrooke University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
High Temperature Superconductors: Theory without a Small Parameter

6:05
COCKTAILS AND DINNER

8:00 - 9:30
Special Session with Informal Talks:

Spin Dynamics and Spin Transport in Metals and Semiconductors
B. Halperin, Harvard University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Broken-Symmetry Dynamics: Nematic Liquid Crystals and More
Tom Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Post Enlightenment Blues
L. Kadanoff, University of Chicago, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Emergent Fields: "Do we need fermions?"
M.E. Fisher, University of Maryland

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2005

8:00 - 8:40
Breakfast and Registration

8:40 - 10:40
Short Talks - Session B

10:40 - 11:00
Coffee

11:00 - 11:20
W. Theumann, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sequence Processing in Feed-Forward Layered Neural Networks

11:20 - 11:40
L. S. Young, New York University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nonequilibrium Steady States for Some Hamiltonian and Stochastic Models

11:40 - 12:00
K. Mallick, CEA-Saclay, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Spectral Properties of the Asymmetric Exclusion Process

12:00 - 12:20
M. Evans, University of Edinburgh, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Factorised Steady States and Condensation Transitions

12:20 - 1:30
Lunch

1:30 - 1:50
O. Costin, Ohio State University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ionization in Time Periodic Fields of Arbitrary Strength: Rigorous Results

1:50 - 2:10
P. Contucci, Universita di Bologna, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Factorization and ultrametricity in short-range spin glasses: rigorous
and numerical results

2:10 - 2:30
S. Okounkov, Princeton University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Pearcey Process

2:30 - 2:50
L. Koralov, Princeton University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Inverse Problem for Gibbs Fields

2:50 - 3:10
V. Mastropietro, University of Rome, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Anomalies and Ward Identities in Lattice Spin Models

3:10 - 3:30
Coffee

3:30
Short Talks - Session C