96th STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
HILL CENTER, ROOM 114
SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY
DECEMBER 17-19, 2006
Conference Program
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2006
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:20
D. Langreth, Rutgers University,
langreth@physics.rutgers.edu
Approximate Density Functional Description of the van
der Waals Bond
9:20 - 9:40
M. Randeria, Ohio State University randeria@mps.ohio-state.edu
RVB and High Tc Superconductivity
9:40 - 10:00
J. Schmalian, Iowa State University, schmalian@ameslab.gov
Superconductivity and Spin Liquid Formation in
Frustrated Spin Systems
10:00 - 10:20
H. Kojima, Rutgers University, kojima@physics.rutgers.edu
Magnetic Fountain Pressure and Minority Condensate in
Spin-Polarized Superfluid He-3
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee
10:50 - 11:10
R. D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania,
kamien@physics.upenn.edu
Spherical Phases of Diblocks
11:10 - 11:30
M. Aizenman, Princeton University,
aizenman@princeton.edu
On Anderson-Yuval-Hamann and Some Other Topics
Which Are Too Good to be Left to Physicists
11:30 - 11:50
A. Its, Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis, itsa@math.iupui.edu
Generalized Fisher-Hartwig and Szeg\"o-Widom
Asymptotics. Some new rigorous results and applications
11:50 - 12:30
I. Affleck, University of British Columbia,
iaffleck@physics.ubc.ca
Is There a Large Kondo Screening Cloud?
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:25
W. Brinkman, Princeton University,
wfb@princeton.edu
Is Solid HE4 a supersolid?
2:25 - 2:50
A. Punnoose, punnoose@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Flow Diagram and Quantum Critical Behavior of
the Metal-Insulator Transition in 2D
2:50 - 3:15
G. Kotliar, Rutgers University,
kotliar@physics.rutgers.edu
Dynamical RVB and d-Wave Superconductivity
3:15 - 3:45
S.-W. Cheong, sangc@physics.rutgers.edu
New Magnetic Twists for Ferroelectricity
3:45 - 4:15
Coffee
4:15 - 4:45
M. Franz, University of British Columbia, franz@physics.ubc.ca
Vortex-Boson Duality in 3+1 Dimensions: Cuprates Meet
String Theory
4:45 - 5:15
D. Thouless, University of Washington,
thouless@phys.washington.edu
Mechanical and Statistical Properties of
Quantized Vortices
5:15 - 5:45
D. Fisher, Harvard University, fisher@physics.harvard.edu
Can Evolution Be Understood Quantitatively?
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6:00 COCKTAILS AND CONCERT
DEDICATED TO ELIHU ABRAHAMS AND PHILIP W. ANDERSON.
COCKTAILS AND CONCERT ARE SPONSORED BY
SPRINGER, PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL
PHYSICS AND
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS.
ALL ARE INVITED
8:00 BANQUET DINNER (Reservations Required)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2006
8:00 - 8:40
Breakfast and Registration
8:40 - 10:45
Short Talks - Session A
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee
11:15 - 11:45
P.W. Anderson, Princeton University, pwa@princeton.edu
New Insights into Vortex Liquids
11:45 - 12:30
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCIENTISTS
J. Harrington, Rutgers University
"A Scientist at the US Department of State on How Science and Policy
Interact"
J. Lebowitz, Rutgers University
"The Sad Saga of a Refugee Scientist in the US"
J. Katriel and Y. Avron, Technion, Israel
"Scientists, Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:20
L. Schulman, Clarkson University, schulman@clarkson.edu
Phase Transitions, Clusters, and Geometry from
Spectral Analysis
2:20 - 2:40
S. Nagel, University of Chicago, s-nagel@uchicago.edu
Singularities and Topological Transitions in Fluids
2:40 - 3:40
ROUND TABLE: "IS THERE A STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF
STATIC SAND PILES?"
2:40 - 3:00
Introduction
C. Radin, University of Texas, radin@math.utexas.edu
A Phase Transition in Sand
Panelists:
J. Brujic, Columbia University, jb2379@columbia.edu
A. Liu, University of Pennsylvania, ajliu@physics.upenn.edu
S. Nagel, University of Chicago, s-nagel@uchicago.edu
S. Torquato, Princeton University, torquato@princeton.edu
M.E. Fisher, University of Maryland, Chair
3:40 - 4:10
Coffee
4:10 - 4:30
B. Shklovskii, University of Minnesota, shklovsk@physics.umn.edu
Ion Transport in Ion Channels and Nanopores
4:30 - 4:50
A. B. Kolomeisky, Rice University, tolya@rice.edu
Channel-Facilitated Molecular Transport Across
Membranes: Attraction, Repulsion and Asymmetry
4:50 - 5:10
V. Dobrosavljevic, Florida State University,
vlad@magnet.fsu.edu
2D-MIT as Self-Doping of a Wigner-Mott Insulator
5:10 - 5:30
D. Huse, Princeton University, huse@princeton.edu
Heat Baths, Ergodicity, Many-Body Localization
5:30 - 5:50
V. Oganesyan, Yale University, vadim.oganesyan@yale.edu
Spectral Signatures of Localization in a Quantum
Many-Body System
5:50 - 7:40
COCKTAILS AND DINNER
7:40 - 9:00
Round Table on: "The Metal Insulator Transition."
Participants will include:
P.W. Anderson,
V. Dobrosavljevic, M. Gershenson,
A. Punnoose, M. Sarachik, CCNY, P. Coleman,
Rutgers University - Chair
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2006
8:00 - 8:30
Breakfast and Registration
8:30 - 9:50
Short Talks - Session B
9:50 - 10:10
G. Gallavotti, University of Rome/Rutgers,
giovanni.gallavotti@roma1.infn.it
Phase Space Contraction and Entropy in Fluid Flows
10:10 - 10:40
Coffee
10:40 - 11:00
B. Rozovsky, Brown University, rozovsky@dam.brown.edu
On Passive Scalar Equation for Kraichnan Type Velocity Fields
11:00 - 11:20
V. Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute, vered.rom-kedar@weizmann.ac.il
White Blood Cells and G-CSF Dynamics in the Blood
11:20 - 11:40
M. B. Hastings, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
hastings@lanl.gov
Entropy and Entanglement in Quantum Ground States
11:40 - 12:10
Y. Avron, Technion, avron@physics.technion.ac.il
Entangled Photons From a Quantum Dot
12:10 - 1:20
Lunch
1:20 - 1:50
S. Sheffield, NYU/IAS, sheff@math.nyu.edu
Random Geometry, SLE, and the Gaussian Free Field.
1:50 - 2:10
C. Toninelli, LPMA, Univ.Paris VI-VII, ctoninel@ccr.jussieu.fr
Jamming Percolation and Glass Transition in Lattice Models
2:10 - 2:30
L. Rey-Bellet, University of Massachusetts, lr7q@math.umass.edu
Large Deviations in Dynamical Systems with Some Hyperbolicity
2:30 - 2:50
D. Brydges, University of British Columbia, db5d@math.ubc.ca
Self-Avoiding Loop Correlations and Loop Erasure
2:50 - 3:10
N. Clisby, University of Melbourne, N.Clisby@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Self-Avoiding Walk Enumeration via the Lace Expansion
3:10 - 4:00
Short Talks, Session C
4:00 -
Coffee