The Spring 2010 Rutgers Stat Mech meeting, always an extravaganza of nobelists and notables of mathematics and physics, is coming May 9-11:
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Sunday, May 9
8:00-9.00 REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
9:00 – 9:25 L. Bunimovich, Georgia Tech.
Which Hole is Leaking the Most: Topological approach to open systems and dynamical networks
9:25 – 9:50 T. Kennedy, University of Arizona
Renormalization group maps for Ising models in lattice gas variables
9:50 – 10:15 C. Newman, Courant Institute
Ground states of the 2D Edwards-Anderson spin glass
10:15 – 10:45 COFFEE
10:45 – 11:10 L. Chayes, UCLA
The McKean-Vlasov Equation in Finite Volume
11:10 – 11:35 E. Ben-Naim, Los Alamos
Strong Mobility in Disordered Systems
11:35 – 12:00 J. Machta, University of Massachussetts
Monte Carlo methods for rough free energy landscapes
12:00 – 12:30 P. Chaikin, NYU
Self-Replication Without Life
12:30 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 – 2:25 V. Yakovenko, University of Maryland
Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth
2:25 – 2:50 M. Lipkin, Columbia University/Katama Trading, LLC
Restrictions on short-selling Create bubbles!
2:50 – 3:15 P. Krapivsky, Boston University
Kinetics of Cell Division
3:15 – 3:40 B. Chazelle, Princeton University
The Total S-Energy: an Analytical Tool for Multiagent Dynamics
3:40 – 4:10 COFFEE
4:10 – 4:35 J. Gollub, Haverford College
Statistical Mechanics of Swimming Microorganisms
4:35 – 5:00 H. Levine, University of California, San Diego
Information Limits on Eukaryotic chemotaxis
5:00 – 5:25 E. Shakhnovich, Harvard University
Dynamics of evolution and adaptation: insights from ab initio multiscale models
5:25 – 5:55 A. Chakraborty, MIT
Why people with certain genes can control hiv without therapy: from statistical mechanics to the clinic
6:00 – 8:00 COCKTAILS AND CONCERT WILL BE HELD AT THE FIBER OPTICS
AUDITORIUM. SPONSORED BY SPRINGER, PUBLISHER OF JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL
PHYSICS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. ALL ARE INVITED.
8:00 BANQUET WILL BE HELD AT THE BUSCH CAMPUS FACULTY DINING ROOM.
ADVANCED RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED
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Monday, May 10
8:00 – 8:30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE
8:30 – 10:00 Short talks, Session A
10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE
10:30 – 10:55 V. Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute
Models of the innate immune system: theory and medical implications
10-55 – 11:20 D. Nelson, Harvard University
Life at Low Reynolds Number
11:20 – 11:50 P. W. Anderson, Princeton University
What is wrong with QMC?
11:50 – 12:30 Human Rights session with E. Chudnovsky
12:30 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 – 2:25 E. Chudnovsky, Lehman College
Self-organized tunneling dynamics of molecular nanomagnets
2:25 – 2:50 K. Rabe, Rutgers University
Spin-lattice coupling in magnetic perovskite thin films and superlattices
2:50 – 3:15 N. Berker, Sabanci University
Anisotropy Effects and Impurity Induced Antiferromagnetism: Renormalization-
Group Theory of d=3 Electronic Models
3:15 – 3:40 E. Andrei, Rutgers University
Electronic properties of graphene
3:40 – 4:10 COFFEE
4:10 – 4:35 R. Ecke, Los Alamos
Unstable diffusion layers: From thermal convection and material dissolution to
sequestration of CO2
4:35 – 5:00 M. Alber, University of Notre Dame
Multiscale Modeling in Biology
5:00 – 5:25 J. Marko, Northwestern University
Linking topology of large DNA molecules
5:25 – 5:50 C. Callan, Princeton University
Deep sequencing, mutual information and the thermodynamics of gene regulation
5:50 – 6:15 D. Pine, NYU
Non-equilibrium phase transitions and random ordering in driven suspensions of rods
6:15 – 8:15 Cocktails and dinner
8:15 – A. Libchaber, Rockefeller University
>From geophysics to biology, the effect of temperature and pressure gradients
Tuesday, May 11
8:00 – 8:45 REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
8:45 – 10:00 Short talks, Session B
10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE
10:30 – 10:55 R. Car, Princeton University
Quantum protons and hydrogen bonds
10:55 – 11:20 P. Debenedetti, Princeton University
Thermodynamic and kinetic models of the appearance and amplification of
biological chirality
11:20 – 11:45 D. Haldane, Princeton University
Dissipationless “Hall viscosity” and its relation to incompressibility of quantum Hall fluids
11:45 – 12:10 D. Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
Orbital magnetoelectric effects and topological insulators
12:10 – 12:35 D. Weitz, Harvard University
Fast Crystals and Strong Glasses
12:35 – 1:50 LUNCH
1:50 – 2:15 R. Kohn, Courant Institute
Surface relaxation below the roughening temperature: steps, pde’s and self-similarity
2:15 – 2:40 J. Sethna, Cornell University
Bending Crystals: The evolution of self-similar dislocation structures
2:40 – 3:05 F. Family, Emory University
Physics of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
3:05- 3:30 L. Blum, Rutgers University
Hyperscaling theory for charged complex systems
3:30 – 3:55 M. Kiessling, Rutgers University
On the N dependence of classical and quantum N-body ground state energies
3:55 – 4:20 M. Monastyrskiy, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow
Kramers-Wannier duality for non-abelian spin systems
4:20 – Short talks, Session C