Conference Program

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2004

8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast and Registration

9:00 - 9:20
M. Falk, University of Michigan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Localization of Plastic Deformation in Amorphous Solids

9:20 - 9:40
T. Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nonlinearity and Non-Affinity in Elastic Networks

9:40 - 10:00
N. Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Renormalization Group Approach to Multiscale Modelling in Materials Science

10:00 - 10:20
G. Casati, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Controlling The Heat Flow: a Thermal Transistor

10:20 - 10:50
Coffee

10:50 - 11:10
D. Mermin, Cornell University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stapp's Last Blast

11:10 - 11:30
J. Cahn, NIST, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Glass Formation by a Nucleation and Growth Process as in a First-order Transition

11:30 - 12:10
M. Chan, Penn State University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Observation of Superflow in Solid Helium

12:10 - 12:30
J. Cardy, University of Oxford/IAS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Entanglement Entropy in Extended Systems

12:30 - 1:50
Lunch

1:50 - 2:10
D. Huse, Princeton University/Harvard University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Hydrodynamic Long-Time Tails at High Temperatures in Hubbard-Like Models

2:10 - 2:30
B. Halperin, Harvard University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Patterns of Domains in the Microwave-Induced "Zero-Resistance State" of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems

2:30 - 2:50
I. Procaccia, Weizmann Institute, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Branching Instabilities in Rapid Fracture: Dynamics and Geometry

2:50 - 3:10
A. Karma, Northeastern University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
How Does a Crack Choose Its Path

3:10 - 3:30
J. Swift, University of Texas, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Fluctuations in a Driven Granular Medium

3:30 - 4:00
Coffee

4:00 - 4:30
J. Gollub, Haverford/Penn, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Structures and Chaotic Fluctuations of Granular Clusters in an Excited Fluid Layer

4:30 - 5:00
G. Ahlers, University of California, Santa Barbara, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Fluctuations Near Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Systems

5:00 - 5:30
H. Swinney, University of Texas at Austin, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Fractal Growth in Thin Sheets, Leaves, and Viscous Fingers

5:30 - 6:00
R. Goldstein, University of Arizona, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Platonic Ideal of Speleothem Growth

6:00 - 7:45
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7:50
BANQUET DINNER (Reservations Required)
Location: Busch Campus Center-Multi-purpose room

MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2004

8:00 - 8:30
Breakfast and Registration

8:40 - 9:50
Short Talks, Session A

9:50 - 10:20
Coffee

10:20 - 10:40
D. Stone, Yale University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Quantum Limited Detection, Dephasing and Information in Mesoscopic Systems

10:40 - 11:00
R. Shankar, Yale University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dots for Dummies

11:00 - 11:20
M. Kardar, MIT, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Casimir Forces, Surface Fluctuations, and Thinning of Superfluid Films

11:20 - 11:40
S. Chakravarty, UCLA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Competing Order, Vertex Models, and High T_c Superconductors

11:40 - 12:25
Human Rights and Social Responsibilities of Scientists
K. R. Sreenivasan, J. L. Lebowitz and others

12:25 - 1:45
Lunch

1:45 - 2:15
K. R. Sreenivasan, ICTP, Trieste, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Superfluid Turbulence

2:15 - 2:45
S. Nagel, University of Chicago, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Low Temperature Anomalies Near Jamming

2:45 - 3:05
A. Liu, University of Pennsylvania, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jamming and k-Core Percolation

3:05 - 3:35
L. Kadanoff, The University of Chicago, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Two Cheers for Computer Simulations

3:35 - 4:05
Coffee

4:05 - 4:35
M. E. Fisher, University of Maryland
Valency in Ionic Criticality: Field Theory, Simulation, and Understanding

4:35 - 4:55
A. Ruckenstein, Rutgers University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A Composite-Ratchet Model of Transcription Elongation and its Control

4:55 - 5:15
R. Albert, Penn State, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Connecting the Structure and Dynamics of Gene Regulatory- and Signal Transduction Networks

5:15 - 5:35
D. McLaughlin, New York University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kinetic Theory for Neuronal Networks: An Effective Representation for Scale-up

5:35 - 6:05
P. Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Design Principles in Biological Systems: Or, Will Theory Ever be Interesting in Biology?

6:05 - 8:00
Cocktails and Dinner

8:00 -
Round Table: Patterns in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Systems
Participants: G. Ahlers, E. Bodenschatz, J. Gollub, P. Hohenberg, L. Kadanoff, J. Langer and H. Swinney. J. L. Lebowitz, Chair

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2004

8:00 - 8:35
Breakfast and Registration

8:35 - 10:20
Short talks, Session B

10:20 - 10:45
Coffee

10:45 - 11:15
J. Yorke, University of Maryland, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Estimating the Infectiousness of HIV/AIDS

11:15 - 11:35
W. F. Wreszinski, University of Sao Paulo, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Order Parameters in Disordered Systems

11:35 - 11:55
M. den Nijs, University of Washington, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Queuing Transitions in Stochastic One Dimensional Flow, Faceting in Paper Combustion, and Polymer Localization

11:55 - 12:15
P. Moussa, CEA/Saclay, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Perturbative Calculations for Generalised Dimensions

12:15 - 12:35
B. Meerson, Hebrew University/The University of Michigan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Hydrodynamic Singularities in a Freely Cooling Inelastic Gas

12:35 - 1:45
Lunch

1:45 - 2:05
T. Prellberg, Queen Mary, University of London, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Polymer Simulations with a Flat Histogram Stochastic Growth Algorithm

2:05 - 2:25
J. Sethna, Cornell University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sophisticated Statistical Mechanics of Sloppy Models: Making Predictions about Protein Dynamics in Cells

2:25 - 2:45
Y. Kevrekedis, Princeton University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Equation-Free Dynamics Renormalization for Complex/Multiscale Problems

2:45 - 3:05
K. Burke, Rutgers University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Density Functional Theory of Dissipative Systems

3:05 - 3:25
Coffee

3:25 Short Talks, Session C