SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2001
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, poole@cmrg.apmaths.uwo.ca
9:20 - 9:40 Rapidly Growing Length Scales in Glass-forming Liquids
S. C. Glotzer, University of Michigan, sglotzer@umich.edu
9:40 - 10:00 Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation in Slowly Sheared
Dense Granular Materials
H. Makse, CUNY, makse@levdec.engr.ccny.cuny.edu
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, meneveau@pegasus.me.jhu.edu
10:20 - 10:40 Kinetics of Phase Transitions in Systems with Long-Range
Interactions
W. Klein, Boston University, klein@buphy.bu.edu
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,
sergey@miranda.bu.edu
11:30 - 11:50 Vortex Patterning in the Driven XY Rotor Model
R. L. B. Selinger, Catholic University,
selinger@wsphd.phys.cua.edu
11:50 - 12:30 Aging Phenomena in Glasss: Two-Time Scaling of Dynamics
H. Z. Cummins, City College of New York,
cummins@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
12:30 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:10 Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks
A.-L. Barabasi, Notre Dame, alb@nd.edu
2:10 - 2:30 Percolation Theory for the Stability of the Internet
S. Havlin, Bar Ilan University,
havlin@ophir.ph.biu.ac.il
2:30 - 2:50 Passive-Scalar Turbulence and the Geometry of Loops
G. Huber, UMass-Boston, huber@cs.umb.edu
2:50 - 3:10 New Equations in Hydrodynamic Turbulence and Their
Experimental Assessment
K. R. Sreenivasan, Yale University,
k.sreenivasan@yale.edu
3:10 - 3:30 The Hofstadter Butterfly Viewed as a Quantum Phase
Diagram
Y. Avron, Technion, avron@physics.technion.ac.il
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 4:40 Statistics, Spins, and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Small
Particles
B. I. Halperin, Harvard University,
halperin@hall.harvard.edu
4:40 - 5:20 The Bose Gas: A Subtle Many-Body Problem
E. Lieb, Princeton University, lieb@math.princeton.edu
5:20 - 6:00 Max Planck and the Experiments which Gave Rise to the
Quantum Hypothesis
M. Nauenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz,
michael@mike.ucsc.edu
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, shinbrot@sol.rutgers.edu
10:20 - 10:40 Do Granular Media Transmit Forces as a Solid Does?
T. A. Witten, University of Chicago,
t-witten@uchicago.edu
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:40 Shock Waves in Granular Flows
H. Swinney, University of Texas at Austin,
swinney@chaos.ph.utexas.edu
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,
Christian.Maes@fys.kuleuven.ac.be
2:10 - 2:30 Fractal Scaling in Health and its Breakdown with Aging and
Disease
A. L. Goldberger, Harvard University,
agoldber@caregroup.harvard.edu
2:30 - 2:50 Fundamental Patterns Underlying Gene Expression Profiles
J. Banavar, Penn State University,
jayanth@phys.psu.edu
2:50 - 3:30 Cluster Analysis of DNA-Chip Data
E. Domany, Weizmann Institute,
fedomany@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 4:35 The Small World of the Cortex
L. Abbott, Brandeis University, abbott@brandeis.edu
4:35 - 5:10 Modelling the Primary Visual Cortex of the Macaque
Monkey
D. McLaughlin, Courant Institute, dmac@cims.nyu.edu
5:10 - 5:45 What Problem is the Brain Trying to Solve
W. Bialek, NEC, bialek@research.nj.nec.com
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,
gersh@physics.rutgers.edu
10:10 - 10:30 Density Functional Theory and the Accurate Treatment of
Many-Body Effects
K. Burke, Rutgers University,
kieron@rutchem.rutgers.edu
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, abs@viking.lanl.gov
11:10 - 11:30 Metastability and Hysteresis in Confined Systems
A. Neimark, TRI/Princeton, aneimark@triprinceton.org
11:30 - 11:50 Lattice Density Functional Theory for Confined Fluids
G. Aranovich, Johns Hopkins Univeristy,
aranovich@jhu.edu
11:50 - 12:10 Lyapunov Exponents for Granular Fluids
M. Mareschal, CECAM, ENS-Lyon, mmaresch@cecam.fr
12:10 - 12:30 Gelation and Aggregation Driven by a Conformational
Transition
R. Bansil, Boston University, rb@buphy.bu.edu
12:30 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:10 MSA and the Equilibrium in Charged Systems
L. Blum, University of Puerto Rico,
lblum@rrpac.upr.clu.edu
2:10 - 2:30 Reversible Lattice Models of Branched Growth
R. D'Souza, Bell Labs, raissa@research.bell-labs.com
2:30 - 2:50 Properties of Stationary Nonequilibrium States in the
Thermostatted Periodic Lorentz Gas with Many Weakly Interacting
Particle
F. Bonetto, Rome, bonetto@tolomeo.roma1.infn.it
2:50 - 3:10 Diffusion on Dendrimer Structures
P. Argyrakis, University of Thessaloniki,
panos@kelifos.physics.auth.gr
3:10 - 3:30 Kinetic Modeling of Chemically Reacting Dense Gases
J. Polewczak, California State University,
jacek.polewczak@csun.edu
3:30 - 3:50 Statistical Mechanics and Evolutionary Entropy
L. Demetrius, Harvard Univeristy, ldemetr@oeb.harvard.edu
Coffee, additional talks, discussions