SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2002
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, michael.mahoney@yale.edu
9:20 - 9:40 Surface Crystallization of Cloud Droplets: Implications
for Climate Change and Ozone Depletion
A. Tabazadeh, NASA, atabazadeh@mail.arc.nasa.gov
9:40 - 10:00 Adiabatic Nucleation, an Alternative Nucleation Model
E. Meyer, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil,
erich@if.ufrj.br
10:00 - 10:20 The Uphill Turtle Race; Short Time Behavior of
Nucleation Probabilities
H. van Beijeren, Utrecht University, The Netherlands,
H.vanbeijeren@phys.uu.nl
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee
1-:50 - 11:10 Toward the Maximally Random Jammed State of Sphere
Packings
S. Torquato, Princeton University,
torquato@electron.princeton.edu
11:10 - 11:30 Unusual Properties of the Classical Gaussian Core Model
F. H. Stillinger, Princeton University,
fhs@princeton.edu
11:30 - 11:50 Progress in Electronic Density Functional Theory toward
the Treatment of Large Systems
E. Carter, UCLA, eac@chem.ucla.edu
11:50 - 12:30 Self-Assembly of Viral Capsids
W. Gelbart, UCLA, gelbart@chem.ucla.edu
12:30 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:10 Stiff Polymers
H. Frisch, SUNY at Albany, frisch@physics.sun.ac.za
2:10 - 2:30 The Inelastic Hard Sphere Model for Vibrated Granular
Media
J. Talbot, Duquesne University, talbot@duq.edu
2:30 - 2:50 New Results in the Theory of One-Dimensional
Conservative Liquids
P. Choquard, EPFL, Switzerland, philippe.choquard@epfl.ch
2:50 - 3:10 Model Classical Fluids under Nanoscale Confinement
J. K. Percus, Courant Institute, jkp1@scires.acf.nyu.edu
3:10 - 3:30 Phase Transitions in Nanoconfined Fluids
A. V. Neimark, TRI/Princeton, aneimark@triprinceton.org
3:30 - 3:50 Mesoscopic Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
M. Rubi, University of Barcelona, miguel@ffn.ub.es
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, dscorti@ecn.purdue.edu
4:40 - 5:00 Ground State Properties of Dilute Interacting Bose Gases
E. Lieb, Princeton University, lieb@math.princeton.edu
5:00 - 5:20 Proof of Bose-Einstein Condensation for Dilute Trapped
Gases
R. Seiringer, Princeton University,
rseiring@math.princeton.edu
5:20 - 6:00 Kinetics of Monolayer Phase Transitions
C. Knobler, UCLA, knobler@chem.ucla.edu
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, jayanth@phys.psu.edu
10:05 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:10 Zero-dimensional Fermi-liquid
B. Altshuler, Princeton University,
bla@feynman.princeton.edu
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, sarice@uchicago.edu
2:25 - 3:05 Minimalistic Analysis of the Heat Capacity of
Supercooled
Liquids and Glasses near Tg.
D. Kivelson, UCLA, kivelson@chem.ucla.edu
3:05 - 3:45 Bubbles in Trajectory Space and the Dynamical Arrest of
Glass Formers
D. Chandler, University of California, Berkeley,
chandler@gold.cchem.berkeley.edu
3:45 - 4:15 Coffee
4:15 - 4:55 Upper Bounds on Coarsening Rates
R. V. Kohn, Courant Institute, kohn@cims.nyu.edu
4:55 - 5:15 Rotating Crystals in Grain Growth
J. E. Taylor, Rutgers University,
taylor@math.rutgers.edu
5:15 - 5:35 The Baffling Role of Ionic Strength in Chiral Colloidal
Liquid Crystals
S. Fraden, Brandeis Univesity,
fraden@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
5:35 - 5:55 Freezing of Hard Spheres in Confinement
W. Kegel, Utrecht Univeristy, The Netherlands,
w.k.kegel@chem.uu.nl
5:55 - 6:15 Jamming
A. Liu, UCLA, Los Angeles, liu@chem.ucla.edu
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,
chernov@math.uab.edu
9:25 - 9:45 Statistical Physics for Cosmic Structures
L. Pietronero, University of Rome,
luciano@pil.phys.uniroma1.it
9:45 - 10:05 Hysteresis and Dynamic Phase Transition in Kinetic Ising
Models
P. A. Rikvold, Florida State University,
rikvold@csit.fsu.edu
10:05 - 10:35 Coffee
10:35 - 10:55 Biassed Migration: a Model for the Distribution of City
Sizes
F. Leyvraz, UNAM, Mexico, f_leyvraz2001@yahoo.com
10:55 - 11:15 Simulations and Density Functional Theory for the
Selectivity of Ion Channels
D. Henderson, Brigham Young University,
doug@huey.byu.edu
11:15 - 11:35 Discovering and Decoding Genomic Modules for Body
Patterning in Drosophila
N. Rajewsky, Rockefeller University,
nr@edsb.rockefeller.edu
11:35 - 11:55 DNA Mechanics and Gene Regulation
W. Olson, Rutgers University, olson@rutchem.rutgers.edu
11:55 - 12:15 Some Problems in Structural Genomics Which Bridge
Chemistry, Physics, and Bioinformatics
R. M. Levy, Rutgers University,
ronlevy@lutece.rutgers.edu
12:15 - 12:35 Characterization of the Visited Volume in Optical
Imaging
G. Weiss, NIH, ghw@helix.nih.gov
12:35 - 2:00 Lunch