Dear Colleague:
Here is a tentative
program of the next statistical mechanics conference where our guest of
honor will be George Stell.......
Professor Joel L. Lebowitz
lebowitz@math.rutgers.edu
Center for Mathematical
Sciences Research FAX:
732-445-4936
Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey PHONE: 732-445-3117/3923
110 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
PROGRAM
8:00 - 9:00
Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 9:20
Scientific Research Together with George Stell Since 1972
J. Hoye, University of Trondheim, hoye@phys.ntnu.no
9:20 - 9:40
Some Mathematical Problems in Kinetic Theories of Dense Fluids
J. Polewczak, California State, Northridge, jacek.polewczak@csun.edu
9:40 - 10:00
Analytical Results for Yukawa Fluids
L. Blum, University of Puerto Rico, lblum@upracd.upr.clu.edu
10:00 - 10:20
Ornstein-Zernike
Approximations for Disordered Spin Systems,
M.-L. Rosinberg, University P. & M. Curie,mlr@lptl.jussieu.fr
10:20 - 10:40
Gaussian
Ensembles and The Glassy Dynamics of Protein Folding
A. Erzan, Istanbul, erzan@sariyer.cc.itu.edu.tr
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 12:30
SHORT
TALKS, SESSION A
12:30 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:10
Applications of the Ziff-Cummings-Stell Walk
R. Ziff, University of Michigan, rziff@engin.umich.edu
2:10 - 2:30
Reconstructing Random Media: An Intriguing Inverse Problem
S. Torquato, Princeton, torquato@matter.princeton.edu
2:30 - 2:50
The Equation of State of an Energy Landscape
P. G. Debenedetti, Princeton, pdebene@pucc.princeton.edu
2:50 - 3:10
The Ground State of the Low Density Bose Gas
E. Lieb. Princeton, lieb@math.princeton.edu
3:10 - 3:30
Relaxation to Equilibrium for Lattice Gas Dynamics
H.-T. Yau, New York University, yau@cims.nyu.edu
3:30 - 3:50
Blocking and Persistence in Zero-Temperature Spin Dynamics
C. Newman, New York university, newman@cims.nyu.edu
3:50 - 4:20
Coffee
4:20 - 4:40
Flow Induced Organization and Memory of a Vortex Lattice
E. Andrei, Rutgers University, eandrei@physics.rutgers.edu
4:40 - 5:00
A Geometric Generalization of Field Theory to Manifolds of Arbitrary Dimension
M. Kardar, MIT, kardar@cmt7.mit.edu
5:00 - 5:20
The Force Exerted by a Molecular Motor
M. E. Fisher, I.P.S.T., University of Maryland
5:20 - 5:40
Phase Transitions and Finite-Size Scaling: From Statistical
Physics to Computer Science
C. Borgs, Microsoft, borgs@microsoft.com
5:40 - 6:00
Lattice Models with Ground State Degeneracy
R. Kotecky, Microsoft/Prague, kotecky@microsoft.com
6:00 - 8:00
Dinner
8:00 - 9:30
Round Table on Phase Transition in Coulombic Systems.
Participants include: M. E. Fisher, G. Patey, patey@theory.chem.ubc.ca,
and G. Stell, gstell@sbchm1.chem.sunysb.edu
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1999 -
8:00 - 9:00
Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 10:00
SHORT TALKSM SESSION B
10:00 - 10:20
Recent
Exact Results on the Close Packing of Hard Spheres in Three Dimensions
J. Lagarias, AT&T, jcl@research.att.com
10:20 - 10:40
Close
to Close Packing
O. Penrose, Heriot-Watt University, O.Penrose@ma.hw.ac.uk
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee
11:00 - 11:40
Review:
Neuronal Spike Train Statistics and Synaptic Transmission Probabilities
L. Abbott, Brandeis University, abbott@volen.brandeis.edu
11:40 - 12:30
Human
Rights and Social Responsibilities of Scientists.
Participants include: E. Chudnovsky, CHUDNOV@lcvax.lehman.cuny.edu,
A. Erzan, X.-Y. Fu, xin-yuan.fu@yale.edu, and L. Shepp, shepp@stat.rutgers.edu
12:30 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:10
Some Aspect of Dynamics in Supercooled Fluids
B. Berne, Columbia University, berne@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu
2:10 - 2:30
Hydrophobicity at Small and Large Length Scales: Two Faces of Water
D. Chandler, Berkeley, chandler@gold.cchem.berkeley.edu
2:30 - 2:50
A Liquid-Liquid Transition in Supercooled Water: Simulations, Theory,
and Experiment
E. Stanley, Boston University, hes@buphy.bu.edu
2:50 - 3:10
Synaptic Fluctuations and Cooperativity in Neural Networks
J. Marro, University of Granada, jmarro@goliat.ugr.es
3:10 - 3:30
Spontaneous Chaotic Granular Mixing,
T. Shinbrot, Rutgers University, shinbrot@sol.rutgers.edu
3:30 - 4:00
Coffee
4:00 - 4:40
Review: Excited Granular Matter: Coexisting Phases and Statistics
J. P. Gollub, Haverford and Pennsylvania, gollub@haverford.edu
4:40 - 5:20
Review: Spatial Stochastic Problems in Ecology
S. Levin, Princeton University, slevin@eno.princeton.edu
5:20 - 6:00
Review: Conformal Analysis of Pattern Selection for a Fluid Finger
M. Feigenbaum, Rockefeller, feigenb@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
6:00
Banquet in honor of George Stell
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We take this opportunity to invite you to contribute an article to a special issue of the Journal of Statistical Physics in honor of George Stell. George has made very important contributions to many areas of equilibrium and nonequilibrum statistical mechanics. In addition he has been a wonderful friend and mentor to many people in the statistical mechanics community. This issue will provide us with an opportunity to acknowledge his contributions.
July 31, 1999, is the deadline for receiving papers and we hope that yours will be included. All papers will be refereed exactly the same as they are for regular JSP articles. Hopefully their quality will be even higher than the average JSP article. We welcome either an original research paper or a very high quality review article.
In addition to the
special issue of the JSP we will honor George at the next Statistical Mechanics
Conference which will take place on May 9-11at Rutgers University.
We will send you more information on that soon. It would be nice
if we could have at least the abstracts of the manuscripts by May 5 so
we could prsent them to George at the meeting.
.....
Sincerely yours,
Joel L. Lebowitz
Oliver Penrose Sal Torquato
Robert Ziff
Editor-in-Chief
Co-Editors of the George Stell Special JSP Issue