98th STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY,
HILL CENTER, ROOM 114
SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 16-18, 2007

GUEST OF HONOR SPEAKERS
• Guenter Ahlers
  The large-scale circulation in Rayleigh-Benard convection: A dynamical system driven by the fury of turbulence!
  
  
• Herman Cummins
  Light-Scattering Spectroscopy of Phase Transitions: From Liquid-Vapor to Liquid-Glass and Liquid-Gel
  
  
• Walter Goldburg
  Fluctuating Entropy of Particles on a Turbulent Sea
  
  
• Jerry Gollub
  Curvature Fields, Topology, and the Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Chaos
  
  
• Anneke Levelt Sengers
  Women for Science - Retrospective and Outlook
  
  
• Harry Swinney
  Volume fluctuations, an invariant distribution, and a phase transition in a static granular medium
  
  INVITED SPEAKERS
• Mahesh Bandi
  Dynamics of the Jamming Transition
  
  
• Andrea Bertozzi
  Swarming by Nature and by Design
  
  
• Lesser Blum
  The Analytical Solution of the Extended Soft Binding Mean Spherical Approximation
  
  
• Bulbul Chakraborty
  Phase Space for Jamming: A statistical ensemble for granular packings
  
  
• Susan Coppersmith
  Using the renormalization group to classify Boolean functions
  
  Marcel den Nijs
  ECoG observations of a power law in the brain
  
  
• Siegfried Dietrich
  Critical Casimir Forces
  
  
• Charles Doering
  Statistical steady state mixing measures and effective diffusivities
  
  
• Alexander Figotin
  Nonlinear dynamics of a system of particle-like wavepackets
  
  
• Michael Fisher
  Equilibrium Critical Phenomena: Some Significant Experiments
  
  
• Gabor Forgacs
  Computational tissue-engineering: relating biophysical properties across scales from the subcellular to the organ level
  
  
• Seth Fraden
  The Phase Chip Manipulating Phase Diagrams with Microfluidics
  
  
• Peter Fratzl
  Natural materials as mechanical devices
  
  
• Italo Guarneri
  Accelerator Modes in Cold Atom Optics
  
  
• Pierre Hohenberg
  Critical Dynamics and Chaos
  
  
• Jackson Mayo
  Front propagation in random media: An application of Burgers turbulence and directed polymers
  
  
• Baruch Meerson
  Spectral Theory of Extreme Statistics in Birth-Death Systems
  
  
• Zohar Nussinov
  Inhomogeneous orders, glassy dynamics, and unusual thermodynamics on curved surfaces and frustrated systems
  
  
• Adrian Parsegian
  Polymers Confined: in cells, in test tubes, and in brushes
  
  
• David Pine
  A nonequilibrium dynamical transition in periodically strained suspensions
  
  
• Daniel Rothman
  Time-Dependent Reactivity in Earth's Carbon Cycle
  
  
• Beate Schmittmann
  Lack of consensus in social systems
  
  
• Eugene Shakhnovich
  How statistical mechanics of proteins shapes biological evolution
  
  
• Alan Sokal
  Fermionic (Grassmann) representation for spanning (hyper)forests and other combinatorial objects
  
  
• Gene Stanley
  New Results on Water in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological Environments
  
  
• Henk VanBeijeren
  Green-Kubo for solids
  
  
• Michael Vogelius
  Electromagnetic cloaking and near-cloaking of objects
  
  
• Watt Webb
  Critical phenomena in 2 dimensional structures including living cells -like ours!
  
  
• John Weeks
  Structure of water near charged or hydrophobic walls
  
  
• Ron Weiss
  Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells
  
  
• Ben Widom
  Effect of a solute on the structure and energetics of its solvent - and vice versa
  
  
• Michael Widom
  Target gene identification for RNA interference
  
  
• Robert Ziff
  Percolation and the Quasi-static state of dynamical processes