93rd STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE
Rutgers University, Hill Center, Room 114
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, May 15-17, 2005
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2005
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:20
F. Alexander, Los Alamos National
Loboratory, fja@lanl.gov
Hybrid Numerical Methods for Multiscale Modeling
9:20 - 9:40
A. Middleton, Syracuse University, aam@syr.edu
Optimization for Physics and the Physics of Optimization
9:40 - 10:00
E. vanden Eijnden, New York University,
eve2@cims.nyu.edu
Minimum Free Energy Paths, Blue Moon Sampling, and
String Method
10:00 - 10:20
T. Kennedy, University of Arizona, tgk@math.arizona.edu
Monte Carlo Comparisons of the 2d Self-Avoiding Walk and SLE
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee
10:50 - 11:20
M. Kalos, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, kalos@llnl.gov
Fermion Monte Carlo
11:20 - 11:40
P. Reynolds, Army Research Office, peter.reynolds@us.army.mil
Circumventing the Fermion Sign Problem by Learning
About Wave Function Nodes
11:40 - 12:00
D. Ceperley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
ceperley@uiuc.edu
Can Metallic Hydrogen be a Ground State Liquid?
12:00 - 12:30
E. Lieb, Princeton University, lieb@math.princeton.edu
Rigorous Results on the Ground State Energy of Bose
Gases, Including Bose Einstein Condensation
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
D. Frenkel, AMOLF, the Institute for Atomic and
Molecular Physics, The Netherlands, frenkel@amolf.amolf.nl
From One to Zero: Minimal Models in Molecular Dynamics
2:30 - 3:00
W. Krauth, ENS, France, werner.krauth@lps.ens.fr
Pivot Cluster Algorithm for Hard Spheres and Related Systems:
Application to Mixtures, Glasses, Dimers...
3:00 - 3:30
H.J. Herrmann, University of Stuttgart, hans@ica1.uni-stuttgart.de
Searching for the Perfect Packing
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 4:20
M. Alber, University of Notre Dame, malber@nd.edu
On Three-Dimensional Modeling of Myxobacteria Aggregation and
Morphogenesis
4:20 - 4:40
N. S. Wingreen, Princeton University,
Wingreen@molbio.Princeton.EDU
Modeling the Chemosensing System of E. coli
4:40 - 5:20
A. Chakraborty, Berkeley, Arup@uclink.berkeley.edu
Intercellular Communication in the Immune System
5:20 - 6:00
L. Abbott, Brandeis University, abbott@brandeis.edu
Spontaneous and Evoked Activity in Neural Networks
6:00 - 7:45
COCKTAILS, CONCERT
COCKTAILS AND CONCERT ARE SPONSORED BY
SPRINGER, PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL OF STAT. PHYS. AND
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATH. PHYS. THEY ARE
DEDICATED TO BERNI ALDER
ALL ARE INVITED
7:50 BANQUET DINNER (Reservations Required)
MONDAY, MAY 16, 2005
8:00 - 8:35 Breakfast and Registration
8:35 - 9:50 Short Talks, Session A
9:50 - 10:20 Coffee
10:20 - 10:35
R. Car, Princeton University, rcar@princeton.edu
Quantum Kinetic Approach to Transport in Molecular Devices
11:20 - 11:50
M. Scully, Princeton/Texas A&M University, scully@tamu.edu
From Bose and Einstein to Bogoliubov and Beyond: a
Rich Tradition of Optical and Statistical Physics
11:50 - 12:30 Human Rights and Social Responsibilities of Scientists.
J. L. Lebowitz and others
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:20
B. Widom, Cornell University, widom@vdwaals.chem.cornell.edu
What Gibbs Never Told You
2:20 - 2:40
G. Stell, SUNY at Stony Brook, gstell@sbchem.sunysb.edu
What's New in Liquid-State TPT
2:40 - 3:00
K. E. Gubbins, North Carolina State University, keg@ncsu.edu
Effect of Confinement on Chemical Reactivity
3:00 - 3:20
M.G. Velarde, Universidad Complutense,
Madrid, Spain, mvelarde@pluri.ucm.es
The Transition from Linear to Nonlinear Solitonic Electric
Conduction in a Dissipative Toda Lattice
3:20 - 3:40
M. Mareschal, Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
mmaresch@ulb.ac.be
Simulation of Lamellar Phases
3:40 - 4:10 Coffee
4:10 - 4:30
J. R. Dorfman, University of Maryland, jrd@ipst.umd.edu
Long Time Tails in Classical and Quantum Lorentz Gases
4:30 - 4:50
R. K. P. Zia, Virginia Tech, rkpzia@vt.edu
Exact Solution for a class of Mass Transport Models,
Condensation Transitions, and the Nature of the Condensate
4:50 - 5:10
A.J.C. Ladd, University of Florida, ladd@che.ufl.edu
Axial Segregation of a Settling Suspension in a
Rotating Cylinder
5:10 - 5:30
K. Kadau, Los Alamos National Laboratory,kkadau@lanl.gov
Nanohydrodynamics Simulations: An Atomistic View of
the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
5:30 - 6:10
Y. Sinai, Princeton University, sinai@Math.Princeton.EDU
Power Series for Solutions of the 3D-Navier-Stokes System
6:10 - 8:00 COCKTAILS AND DINNER
8:00 - 9:30
Round Table: Current Status of the Derivation and
Solution of the Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations
Participants include: B. Alder, S. Chen, Y. Sinai,
V. Yakhot and N. J. Zabusky. Joel L. Lebowitz, chair.
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2005
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:00 Short talks, Session B
10:00 - 10:20
A. B. Harris, University of Pennsylvania, harris@physics.upenn.edu
Two Topics: a) 1/d Expansion for k-core Percolation,
b) Ferroelectric Incommensurate Magnets
10:20 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 11:15
P. Coleman, Rutgers University, coleman@physics.rutgers.edu
Quantum Criticality: Signs of a New Universality
11:15 - 11:35
M. Aizenman, Princeton University, aizenman@princeton.edu
On Delocalized Eigenstates in the Presence of Disorder
11:35 - 11:55
L. Chayes, University of California, lchayes@math.ucla.edu
Ordering Due to SpinWaves (AKA Order by Disorder)
11:55 - 12:15
R. de la Lllave, University of Texas, llave@math.utexas.edu
Recent Progress in Geometric Mechanisms for Arnold Diffusion
12:15 - 12:45
Ph. Choquard, EPFL, Switzerland, philippe.choquard@epfl.ch
On a Class of Exactly Integrable Radial Solutions of the
Continuity and Euler's Equations for nD Systems with
Long Range Interactions
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:20
B. Jancovici, Universite de Paris XI,
bernard.jancovici@th.u-psud.fr
The Casimir Effect in Some Classical
(i.e. Non-Quantum) Situations
2:20 - 2:40
S. Goldstein, Rutgers University, oldstein@math.rutgers.edu
Einstein, Hidden Variables, and Nonlocality
2:40 - 3:00
R. Seiringer, Princeton University, rseiring@Princeton.Edu
A Stronger Subadditivity of Entropy
3:00 - 3:20
P. Kleban, University of Maine, kleban@maine.edu
The Farey Fraction Spin Chain
3:20 - 3:40
B. Boghosian, Tufts University, bruce.boghosian@tufts.edu
Recent Developments in Lattice Boltzmann Models of Fluid Dynamics
3:40 - 4:00
J. Yepez, Air Force Research Laboratory,
jeffrey.yepez@gmail.com
Quantum Computation of Nonlinear Classical Dynamics
4:00 Short Talks, Session C
Coffee and discussions