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

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8:00 BANQUET WILL BE HELD AT THE BUSCH CAMPUS FACULTY DINING ROOM.

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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