8:00 - 9:00 Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 9:20 The Computational Statistical Mechanics of Simple Models of Liquid Water.
M. W. Mahoney, Yale University,
9:20 - 9:40 Surface Crystallization of Cloud Droplets: Implications for Climate Change and Ozone Depletion
A. Tabazadeh, NASA,
9:40 - 10:00 Adiabatic Nucleation, an Alternative Nucleation Model
E. Meyer, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
10:00 - 10:20 The Uphill Turtle Race; Short Time Behavior of Nucleation Probabilities
H. van Beijeren, Utrecht University, The Netherlands,
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee
1:50 - 11:10 Toward the Maximally Random Jammed State of Sphere Packings
S. Torquato, Princeton University,
11:10 - 11:30 Unusual Properties of the Classical Gaussian Core Model
F. H. Stillinger, Princeton University,
11:30 - 11:50 Progress in Electronic Density Functional Theory toward the Treatment of Large Systems
E. Carter, UCLA,
11:50 - 12:30 Self-Assembly of Viral Capsids
W. Gelbart, UCLA,
12:30 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:10 Stiff Polymers
H. Frisch, SUNY at Albany,
2:10 - 2:30 The Inelastic Hard Sphere Model for Vibrated Granular Media
J. Talbot, Duquesne University,
2:30 - 2:50 New Results in the Theory of One-Dimensional Conservative Liquids
P. Choquard, EPFL, Switzerland,
2:50 - 3:10 Model Classical Fluids under Nanoscale Confinement
J. K. Percus, Courant Institute,
3:10 - 3:30 Phase Transitions in Nanoconfined Fluids
A. V. Neimark, TRI/Princeton,
3:30 - 3:50 Mesoscopic Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
M. Rubi, University of Barcelona,
3:50 - 4:20 Coffee
4:20 - 4:40 Monte Carlo Simulations in the Isothermal-Isobaric Ensemble: The Requirement of a "Shell" Molecule and Simulations of Small Systems
D. S. Corti, Purdue University,
4:40 - 5:00 Ground State Properties of Dilute Interacting Bose Gases
E. Lieb, Princeton University,
5:00 - 5:20 Proof of Bose-Einstein Condensation for Dilute Trapped Gases
R. Seiringer, Princeton University,
5:20 - 6:00 Kinetics of Monolayer Phase Transitions
C. Knobler, UCLA,
6:00 COCKTAIL PARTY IN HONOR OF HOWARD REISS' 80TH BIRTHDAY, COURTESY OF KLUWERACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBLISHERS, ALL ARE INVITED
7:00 BANQUET DINNER IN HONOR OF HOWARD REISS'S 80TH BIRTHDAY
MONDAY, MAY 20, 2002
8:00 - 8:30 Coffee and Registration
8:30 - 9:45 Short talks, Session A
9:45 - 10:05 Geometry and Physics of Proteins
J. Banavar, Penn State University,
10:05 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:10 Zero-dimensional Fermi-liquid
B. Altshuler, Princeton University,
11:10 - 11:50 Motor Proteins: Appropriate Statistical Mechanics
M. E. Fisher, University of Maryland
11:50 - 12:30 Human Rights Session
12:30 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 2:25 Structure in the Liquid-Vapor Interfaces of Metals and Alloys
S. Rice, University of Chicago,
2:25 - 3:05 Minimalistic Analysis of the Heat Capacity of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses near Tg.
D. Kivelson, UCLA,
3:05 - 3:45 Bubbles in Trajectory Space and the Dynamical Arrest of Glass Formers
D. Chandler, University of California, Berkeley,
3:45 - 4:15 Coffee
4:15 - 4:55 Upper Bounds on Coarsening Rates
R. V. Kohn, Courant Institute,
4:55 - 5:15 Rotating Crystals in Grain Growth
J. E. Taylor, Rutgers University,
5:15 - 5:35 The Baffling Role of Ionic Strength in Chiral Colloidal Liquid Crystals
S. Fraden, Brandeis Univesity,
5:35 - 5:55 Freezing of Hard Spheres in Confinement
W. Kegel, Utrecht Univeristy, The Netherlands,
5:55 - 6:15 Jamming
A. Liu, UCLA, Los Angeles,
6:15 - 7:45 COCKTAIL PARTY, COURTESY OF KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBLISHERS, ALL ARE INVITED
6:45 - 7:45 DINNER
7:45 - 9:15 Round Table on Statistical Mechanics of Hard Objects
What Can Statistical Mechanics Do for Biology? A Discussion. M. E. Fisher, Chair. Participants include: B. Bialek, D. Fisher, J. L. Lebowitz, E. Siggia, and others.
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2002
8:00 - 8:30 Coffee and Registration
8:30 - 9:05 Short talks, Session B
9:05 - 9:25 Dynamics of a Massive Piston in an Ideal Gas: Oscillatory Motion, Approach to Equilibrium and Scaling Limit
N. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
9:25 - 9:45 Statistical Physics for Cosmic Structures
L. Pietronero, University of Rome,
9:45 - 10:05 Hysteresis and Dynamic Phase Transition in Kinetic Ising Models
P. A. Rikvold, Florida State University,
10:05 - 10:35 Coffee
10:35 - 10:55 Biassed Migration: a Model for the Distribution of City Sizes
F. Leyvraz, UNAM, Mexico,
10:55 - 11:15 Simulations and Density Functional Theory for the Selectivity of Ion Channels
D. Henderson, Brigham Young University,
11:15 - 11:35 Discovering and Decoding Genomic Modules for Body Patterning in Drosophila
N. Rajewsky, Rockefeller University,
11:35 - 11:55 DNA Mechanics and Gene Regulation
W. Olson, Rutgers University,
11:55 - 12:15 Some Problems in Structural Genomics Which Bridge Chemistry, Physics, and Bioinformatics
R. M. Levy, Rutgers University,
12:15 - 12:35 Characterization of the Visited Volume in Optical Imaging
G. Weiss, NIH,
12:35 - 2:00 Lunch