Event Details

• 88th SMC Program
• 88th SMM conference photos

Conference Program

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2002

8:00 - 9:00
Coffee, rolls, juice and Registration

9:00 - 9:20
D. Mattis, University of Utah, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Some Exactly Solvable, Frustrated, Ising Models: Their Tc, Ground State Energy, and Ground State Degeneracy

9:20 - 9:40
F. Wu, Northeastern University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Some Recent Results in Dimer Statistics

9:40 - 10:00
G. Tian, Peking University, China, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Some Rigorous Results on the Strongly-Correlated Electron Systems by Lieb's Spin-Reflection-Positivity Method

10:00 - 10:20
J. Yngvason, University of Vienna, Austria,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Superfluidity in Dilute Trapped Bose Gases

10:20 - 10:40
M. Loss, Georgia Institute of Technology, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Approach to Equilibrium in the Kac Model and Related Stochastic Evolutions

10:40 - 11:10
Coffee

11:10 - 11:50
J. Bellissard, Georgia Tech, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Random Matrices and the 2D Anderson Model

11:50 - 12:30
T. Spencer, IAS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A Supersymmetric Approach to Random Matrices

12:30 - 1:50
Lunch

1:50 - 2:10
D. Brydges, University of British Columbia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A Massless Quantum Field Theory in Three Dimensions

2:10 - 2:30
G. Gallavotti, University of Rome/Rutgers, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Navier-Stokes and Equivalent Equations: Numerical Tests

2:30 - 2:50
V. Yakhot, Boston University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A Hydro-Kinetic Equation for Description and Simulations of Strongly Non-Linear Fluids

2:50 - 3:10
G. Eyink, University of Arizona/Johns Hopkins University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Local 4/5-Law and Energy Dissipation Anomaly in Turbulence

3:10 - 3:40
Coffee

3:40 - 4:20
H. Spohn, TU Munchen, Germany,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Fluctuations of the Atomic Step Bordering a Crystalline Facet

4:20 - 5:00
I. Daubechies, Princeton University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
(Approximately) Inverting a Compact Operator under Sparsity Constraints

5:00 - 5:40
K. Hepp, ETH, Zurich, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Constructive Neuroscience: lessons from Ada

5:40 - 5:50
H.E. Stanley, Boston University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Symmetry Breaking in Complex Financial Markets: Identification of Two Phases

6:00
COCKTAIL PARTY IN HONOR OF ELLIOTT LIEB'S 70TH
BIRTHDAY, FOLLOWED BY A PIANO RECITAL
BY RENANA GUTTMAN AT 7:00PM
   BACH - PARTITA IN E MINOR NO. 6
   MOZART - SONATA IN D MAJOR
   DEBUSSY - 2 ETUDES

SPONSORED BY KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
ALL ARE INVITED

7:45
BANQUET DINNER (Reservations Required)

MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2002

8:00 - 8:30
Coffee, rolls, juice and Registration

8:30 - 10:20
Short talks, Session A

10:20 - 10:40
G. Falkovich, Weizmann/IAS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen Measures and Rain Initiation in Warm Clouds

10:40 - 11:05
Coffee

11:05 - 11:45
P. J. Steinhardt, Princeton University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Entropy Problem and A New View of Oscillating Cosmology

11:45 - 12:30
Human Rights Session on Social Responsibilities of Scientists
Participants include: G. Barber, ACLU, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Civil Liberties After 9-11 - Click here to read bio.
J. Lebowitz, Rutgers, Academics and the Middle East

12:30 - 1:50
Lunch

1:50 - 2:10
V. Korepin, SUNY at Stony Brook, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Quantum Spin Chains and Number Theory

2:10 - 2:30
M. T. Batchelor, Australian National University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
More Combinatorial Aspects of the Ice Model/XXZ Chain

2:30 - 2:50
A. N. Berker, Istanbul Technical University and MIT, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
From tJ to Hubbard: an Excursion in Phase Diagram Space

2:50 - 3:10
M. Cohen, Rutgers University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Chemical Reactivity Theory, `Atoms' in `Molecules', and Non-integer Electron Numbers in Density Functional Theory

3:10 - 3:30
S. Balibar, ENS, France, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Casimir Forces and Anomalous Wetting

3:30 - 4:00
Coffee

4:00 - 4:20
K. Rabe, Rutgers University,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Statistical Mechanics of Real Materials from First Principles

4:20 - 4:40
M. Vogelius, Rutgers University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Existence and Blow-up of Solutions to a Nonlinear Boundary Value Problem Arising in Corrosion Modeling

4:40 - 5:00
A. Soffer, Rutgers University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Multidimensional Nonlinear Dispersive Waves: From Exact Results to Applications

5:00 - 5:20
M. Weinstein, Bell-Labs, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Scattering Resonances and Higher Order Homogenization Theory

5:20 - 5:40
E. Ben-Naim, Los Alamos National Laboratories, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Maxwell Model of Inelastic Collisions

5:40 - 6:20
P. Chaikin, Princeton University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Hard Spheres and Nonspheres in fields: Packings and Crystallization of Colloids

6:20 - 8:10
Cocktails and Dinner

8:10 - 8:25
F. Dyson, IAS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Elliott's World: From Square Ice to Cubic Jellium

8:25 - 8:35
G. Emch, University of Florida, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
On Lieb's Models

8:35 - 9:30
M. Klein, Yale University
Gibbs, Einstein and Statistical Mechanics a Century Ago

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2002

8:15 - 9:00
Coffee, rolls, juice and Registration

9:00 -10:30
Short talks, Session B

10:30 - 10:50
Coffee

10:50 - 11:10
D. Huse, Princeton University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nernst effect due to thermal fluctuations in superconductors

11:10 - 11:30
D. Sherrington, University of Oxford, U.K./IAS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Glassy Behaviour Due Purely to Kinetic Constraints

11:30- 11:50
A. Sokal, New York University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Potts Models, Chromatic Polynomials, and All That

11:50 - 12:10
L. Chayes, UCLA, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mean-Field Driven First Order Transitions (A belated tribute to reflection positivity)

12:10 - 12:30
J. Kenney, Russian Academy of Sciences, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Thermodynamic Stability of the Hydrogen-Carbon System

12:30 - 1:40
Lunch

1:40 - 2:00
A. Dhar, Raman Research Institiute, Bangalore, India/University of California, Santa Cruz, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Transport in One-Dimensional Wires: the Role of Reservoirs

2:00 - 2:20
M. Kiessling, Rutgers University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Some Remarks on Electromagnetism and Quantum Theory

2:20 - 2:40
O. Costin, Rutgers University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
New Analytic Methods in the Study of Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation; Applications to Ionization Problems

2:40 - 3:00
C. Bardos, Jussieu, France, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Comparison between Hartree and Hartree Fock Approximation for N body Time Dependent Schrodinger Equation

3:00 - 3:20
E. Caglioti, University of Rome, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
On the Distribution of Free Path Lengths for the Periodic Lorentz Gas

3:20
Coffee and...

Photos of Cocktail Party and Banquet in Honor of Elliott Lieb's 70th Birthday

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Banquet Pictures December 15, 2002