88th Statistical Mechanics Conference
Rutgers University, Hill Center, Room 114
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, December 15-17, 2002
Conference Program
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2002
8:00 - 9:00
Coffee, rolls, juice and Registration
9:00 - 9:20
D. Mattis, University of Utah, dancmat@aol.com
Some Exactly Solvable, Frustrated, Ising Models: Their
Tc, Ground State Energy, and Ground State Degeneracy
9:20 - 9:40
F. Wu, Northeastern University, fywu@neu.edu
Some Recent Results in Dimer Statistics
9:40 - 10:00
G. Tian, Peking University, China, tiangs@sun.ihep.ac.cn
Some Rigorous Results on the Strongly-Correlated
Electron Systems by Lieb's Spin-Reflection-Positivity Method
10:00 - 10:20
J. Yngvason, University of Vienna, Austria,yngvason@thor.thp.univie.ac.at
Superfluidity in Dilute Trapped Bose Gases
10:20 - 10:40
M. Loss, Georgia Institute of Technology, loss@math.gatech.edu
Approach to Equilibrium in the Kac Model and Related
Stochastic Evolutions
10:40 - 11:10
Coffee
11:10 - 11:50
J. Bellissard, Georgia Tech,
jeanbel@math.gatech.edu
Random Matrices and the 2D Anderson Model
11:50 - 12:30
T. Spencer, IAS,
spencer@math.ias.edu
A Supersymmetric Approach to Random Matrices
12:30 - 1:50
Lunch
1:50 - 2:10
D. Brydges, University of British Columbia,
db5d@math.ubc.ca
A Massless Quantum Field Theory in Three Dimensions
2:10 - 2:30
G. Gallavotti, University of Rome/Rutgers,
gallavotti@roma1.infn.it
Navier-Stokes and Equivalent Equations: Numerical Tests
2:30 - 2:50
V. Yakhot, Boston University,
vy@bu.edu
A Hydro-Kinetic Equation for Description and Simulations
of Strongly Non-Linear Fluids
2:50 - 3:10
G. Eyink,
University of Arizona/Johns Hopkins University, eyink@mts.jhu.edu
Local 4/5-Law and Energy Dissipation Anomaly in Turbulence
3:10 - 3:40
Coffee
3:40 - 4:20
H. Spohn, TU Munchen, Germany,spohn@mathematik.tu-muenchen.de
Fluctuations of the Atomic Step Bordering a Crystalline
Facet
4:20 - 5:00
I. Daubechies,
Princeton University, ingrid@math.princeton.edu
(Approximately) Inverting a Compact Operator under
Sparsity Constraints
5:00 - 5:40
K. Hepp, ETH, Zurich,
khepp@itp.phys.ethz.ch
Constructive Neuroscience: lessons from Ada
5:40 - 5:50
H.E. Stanley, Boston University, hes@meta.bu.edu
Symmetry Breaking in Complex Financial Markets:
Identification of Two Phases
6:00
COCKTAIL PARTY IN HONOR OF ELLIOTT LIEB'S 70TH
BIRTHDAY, FOLLOWED BY A PIANO RECITAL
BY RENANA GUTTMAN AT 7:00PM
BACH - PARTITA IN E MINOR NO. 6
MOZART - SONATA IN D MAJOR
DEBUSSY - 2 ETUDES
SPONSORED BY KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
ALL ARE INVITED
7:45
BANQUET DINNER (Reservations Required)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2002
8:00 - 8:30
Coffee, rolls, juice and Registration
8:30 - 10:20
Short talks, Session A
10:20 - 10:40
G. Falkovich, Weizmann/IAS, fnfal@ias.edu
Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen Measures and Rain Initiation in Warm
Clouds
10:40 - 11:05
Coffee
11:05 - 11:45
P. J. Steinhardt, Princeton University,
steinh@Princeton.edu
The Entropy Problem and A New View of Oscillating Cosmology
11:45 - 12:30
Human Rights Session on Social Responsibilities of
Scientists
Participants include: G. Barber, ACLU, gb@graysonbarber.com Civil Liberties After 9-11 - Click
here to read bio.
J. Lebowitz, Rutgers, Academics and the Middle East
12:30 - 1:50
Lunch
1:50 - 2:10
V. Korepin, SUNY at Stony Brook,
vladimir@insti.physics.sunysb.edu
Quantum Spin Chains and Number Theory
2:10 - 2:30
M. T. Batchelor, Australian National University,
murrayb@maths.anu.edu.au
More Combinatorial Aspects of the Ice Model/XXZ Chain
2:30 - 2:50
A. N. Berker, Istanbul Technical University and MIT,
nihat@gursey.gov.tr
From tJ to Hubbard: an Excursion in Phase Diagram Space
2:50 - 3:10
M. Cohen, Rutgers University, mhcohen@prodigy.net
Chemical Reactivity Theory, `Atoms' in `Molecules', and
Non-integer Electron Numbers in Density Functional Theory
3:10 - 3:30
S. Balibar, ENS, France, Sebastien.Balibar@lps.ens.fr
Casimir Forces and Anomalous Wetting
3:30 - 4:00
Coffee
4:00 - 4:20
K. Rabe, Rutgers University,rabe@physics.rutgers.edu
Statistical Mechanics of Real Materials from First
Principles
4:20 - 4:40
M. Vogelius, Rutgers University,
vogelius@hilbert.rutgers.edu
Existence and Blow-up of Solutions to a Nonlinear Boundary Value
Problem Arising in Corrosion Modeling
4:40 - 5:00
A. Soffer, Rutgers University, soffer@math.rutgers.edu
Multidimensional Nonlinear Dispersive Waves: From Exact
Results to Applications
5:00 - 5:20
M. Weinstein, Bell-Labs,
miw@research.bell-labs.com
Scattering Resonances and Higher Order Homogenization Theory
5:20 - 5:40
E. Ben-Naim, Los Alamos National Laboratories,
ebn@lanl.gov
Maxwell Model of Inelastic Collisions
5:40 - 6:20
P. Chaikin, Princeton University,
chaikin@princeton.edu
Hard Spheres and Nonspheres in fields: Packings and
Crystallization of Colloids
6:20 - 8:10
Cocktails and Dinner
8:10 - 8:25
F. Dyson, IAS, dyson@ias.edu
Elliott's World: From Square Ice to Cubic Jellium
8:25 - 8:35
G. Emch, University of Florida, gge@math.ufl.edu
On Lieb's Models
8:35 - 9:30
M. Klein, Yale University
Gibbs, Einstein and Statistical Mechanics a Century Ago
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2002
8:15 - 9:00
Coffee, rolls, juice and Registration
9:00 -10:30
Short talks, Session B
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee
10:50 - 11:10
D. Huse, Princeton University, huse@princeton.edu
Nernst effect due to thermal fluctuations in superconductors
11:10 - 11:30
D. Sherrington, University of Oxford, U.K./IAS,
D.Sherrington1@physics.ox.ac.uk
Glassy Behaviour Due Purely to Kinetic Constraints
11:30- 11:50
A. Sokal, New York University,
sokal@nyu.edu
Potts Models, Chromatic Polynomials, and All That
11:50 - 12:10
L. Chayes, UCLA, lchayes@math.ucla.edu
Mean-Field Driven First Order Transitions (A belated tribute to reflection positivity)
12:10 - 12:30
J. Kenney, Russian Academy of Sciences,
jfk@alum.mit.edu
The Thermodynamic Stability of the Hydrogen-Carbon
System
12:30 - 1:40
Lunch
1:40 - 2:00
A. Dhar, Raman Research Institiute, Bangalore,
India/University of California, Santa Cruz,
dabhi@bartok.ucsc.edu
Transport in One-Dimensional Wires: the Role of Reservoirs
2:00 - 2:20
M. Kiessling, Rutgers University,
miki@math.rutgers.edu
Some Remarks on Electromagnetism and Quantum Theory
2:20 - 2:40
O. Costin, Rutgers University,
costin@math.rutgers.edu
New Analytic Methods in the Study of Time-Dependent Schrodinger
Equation; Applications to Ionization Problems
2:40 - 3:00
C. Bardos, Jussieu, France,
bardos@math.jussieu.fr
Comparison between Hartree and Hartree Fock
Approximation for N body Time Dependent Schrodinger Equation
3:00 - 3:20
E. Caglioti, University of Rome,
caglioti@mat.uniroma1.it
On the Distribution of Free Path Lengths for the
Periodic Lorentz Gas
3:20
Coffee and...