8:00 - 9:00 Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 9:20 Fragile-to-Strong Transition in Liquid Silica
P. H. Poole, University of Western Ontario,
9:20 - 9:40 Rapidly Growing Length Scales in Glass-forming Liquids
S. C. Glotzer, University of Michigan,
9:40 - 10:00 Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation in Slowly Sheared Dense Granular Materials
H. Makse, CUNY,
10:00 - 10:20 Fractals, Where's the Meat?: Using Fractal Interpolation Techniques as Predictive Tool for Coarse-Grained Nonlinear PDEs
C. Meneveau, John Hopkins University,
10:20 - 10:40 Kinetics of Phase Transitions in Systems with Long-Range Interactions
W. Klein, Boston University,
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee
11:10 - 11:30 Levy Flights with Absorbing Boundary Conditions: a Model for Biological Foraging
S. V. Buldyrev, Boston Univeristy,
11:30 - 11:50 Vortex Patterning in the Driven XY Rotor Model
R. L. B. Selinger, Catholic University,
11:50 - 12:30 Aging Phenomena in Glasss: Two-Time Scaling of Dynamics
H. Z. Cummins, City College of New York,
12:30 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:10 Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks
A.-L. Barabasi, Notre Dame,
2:10 - 2:30 Percolation Theory for the Stability of the Internet
S. Havlin, Bar Ilan University,
2:30 - 2:50 Passive-Scalar Turbulence and the Geometry of Loops
G. Huber, UMass-Boston,
2:50 - 3:10 New Equations in Hydrodynamic Turbulence and Their Experimental Assessment
K. R. Sreenivasan, Yale University,
3:10 - 3:30 The Hofstadter Butterfly Viewed as a Quantum Phase Diagram
Y. Avron, Technion,
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 4:40 Statistics, Spins, and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Small Particles
B. I. Halperin, Harvard University,
4:40 - 5:20 The Bose Gas: A Subtle Many-Body Problem
E. Lieb, Princeton University,
5:20 - 6:00 Max Planck and the Experiments which Gave Rise to the Quantum Hypothesis
M. Nauenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz,
6:10 BANQUET CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAY OF EUGENE STANLEY
MONDAY, MAY 7, 2001
8:00 - 8:45 Coffee and Registration
8:45 - 10:00 Short talks, Session A
10:00 - 10:20 Relations between Micro-Scale Interactions and Macro-Scale Patterns in Granular and Slurry Flows
T. Shinbrot, Rutgers University,
10:20 - 10:40 Do Granular Media Transmit Forces as a Solid Does?
T. A. Witten, University of Chicago,
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:40 Shock Waves in Granular Flows
H. Swinney, University of Texas at Austin,
11:40 - 12:30 Session on Human Rights and Social Responsibilities of Scientists
12:30 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:10 Statistical Mechanics of Steady State Entropy Production
C. Maes, K. U. Leuven,
2:10 - 2:30 Fractal Scaling in Health and its Breakdown with Aging and Disease
A. L. Goldberger, Harvard University,
2:30 - 2:50 Fundamental Patterns Underlying Gene Expression Profiles
J. Banavar, Penn State University,
2:50 - 3:30 Cluster Analysis of DNA-Chip Data
E. Domany, Weizmann Institute,
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 4:35 The Small World of the Cortex
L. Abbott, Brandeis University,
4:35 - 5:10 Modelling the Primary Visual Cortex of the Macaque Monkey
D. McLaughlin, Courant Institute,
5:10 - 5:45 What Problem is the Brain Trying to Solve
W. Bialek, NEC,
5:45 - 7:30 COCKTAILS AND DINNER
7:30 Informal discussion on: The Organization of the Brain and Other Biological Problem
Abbott, McLaughlin, Bialek, and many others
TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2001
8:00 - 8:45 Coffee and Registration
8:45 - 9:50 Short talks, Session B
9:50 - 10:10 Fermi-Liquid Renormalization of the Effective Mass and g*-Factor in High-Mobility Si Inversion Layers
M. Gershenson, Rutgers University,
10:10 - 10:30 Density Functional Theory and the Accurate Treatment of Many-Body Effects
K. Burke, Rutgers University,
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee
10:50 - 11:10 Elastic Compatibility and Structural Phase Transitions: Consequences for Shape Memory Alloys
A. Saxena, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
11:10 - 11:30 Metastability and Hysteresis in Confined Systems
A. Neimark, TRI/Princeton,
11:30 - 11:50 Lattice Density Functional Theory for Confined Fluids
G. Aranovich, Johns Hopkins Univeristy,
11:50 - 12:10 Lyapunov Exponents for Granular Fluids
M. Mareschal, CECAM, ENS-Lyon,
12:10 - 12:30 Gelation and Aggregation Driven by a Conformational Transition
R. Bansil, Boston University,
12:30 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:10 MSA and the Equilibrium in Charged Systems
L. Blum, University of Puerto Rico,
2:10 - 2:30 Reversible Lattice Models of Branched Growth
R. D'Souza, Bell Labs,
2:30 - 2:50 Properties of Stationary Nonequilibrium States in the Thermostatted Periodic Lorentz Gas with Many Weakly Interacting Particle
F. Bonetto, Rome,
2:50 - 3:10 Diffusion on Dendrimer Structures
P. Argyrakis, University of Thessaloniki,
3:10 - 3:30 Kinetic Modeling of Chemically Reacting Dense Gases
J. Polewczak, California State University,
3:30 - 3:50 Statistical Mechanics and Evolutionary Entropy
L. Demetrius, Harvard Univeristy,