Sunday Morning 6/13/99
(8:30am - 11:45am) |
Classical Phase Transitions and Self-Assembly |
| Discussion Leader: Dr. Jessica Weiss, Nestle R&D |
- Prof. Frank Bates, U. of Minnesota
Block Copolymers - From Melts to Micelles
- Prof. Paul Chaikin, Princeton
Lithography with Diblock Copolymers
- Prof. David Weitz, University of Pennsylvania,
Mechanical Properties of Weak Disordered Solids
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Sunday Evening 6/13/99
(7:30pm - 9:30pm) |
Electrons in Confining Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Christopher Lobb, U. Maryland |
- Prof. Raymond Ashoori, MIT
Imaging the Quantum Hall Liquid
- Prof. Philip Phillips, UI Urbana-Champaign
Why Save the Metal?: Superconductivity in 2D Electron Gas
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Monday Morning 6/14/99
(8:30am - 11:45am) |
Self-Assembled Devices |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Mehran Kardar, MIT |
- Prof. Paul McEuen, UC Berkeley
Neutrinos, Luttinger Liquids, and Carbon Nanotubes
- Prof. James Heath, UCLA
Wires, Switches, and Wiring: Making a Molecular Electronic Nanocomputer
- Prof. George Whitesides, Harvard
Self-Assembly of Millimeter- to Micrometer-Scale Objects
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Monday Evening 6/14/99
(7:30pm - 9:30pm) |
Quantum Phase Transitions |
| Discussion Leader: Dr. Achim Rosch, Rutgers |
- Prof. Thomas Rosenbaum, Chicago
Quantum Transitions and Fluctuations
- Dr. Gabriel Aeppli, NEC
New Quantum Life Forms
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Monday Evening 6/14/99
(9:45pm) |
Special Session on the Future of Condensed Matter Physics |
- Dr. H. Hollis Wickman, National Science Foundation
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Tuesday Morning 6/15/99
(8:30am - 11:45am) |
Jamming Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Eric Clément, U. Paris |
- Prof. Robert Behringer, Duke
Fluctuations, Flow and Transitions in Granular Materials
- Dr. Mark Shattuck, UT Austin
Granular Fluids: Microscopic Meets Macroscopic
- Prof. Douglas Durian, UCLA
Jammed Foams: A Draining Experience
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Tuesday Evening 6/15/99
(7:30pm - 9:30pm) |
Vortex Matter in Type-II Superconductors |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Peter Young, UC Santa Cruz |
- Prof. Franco Nori, Michigan
Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors
- Prof. Andreas Schilling, Zurich
Phase Transitions in Vortex Matter; An Unexplored Field for Thermodynamic Experiments
- David J. Bishop, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories
Visualizing Vortex Dynamics
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Wednesday Morning 6/16/99
(8:30am - 11:45am) |
Entropy in Multicomponent Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Alice Gast, Stanford |
- Prof. Arjun Yodh, U. Pennsylvania
Entropic Interactions and Instabilities Directly Observed in Suspension
- Prof. Seth Fraden, Brandeis
Entropically Driven Phase Transitions in Mixtures of Rods and Spheres
- Prof. Ken Schweizer, UIUC
Microscopic Theory of Structure, Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions of Particle Polymer Mixtures
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Wednesday Evening 6/16/99
(7:30pm - 9:30pm) |
Polyelectrolytes and Biopolymers |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Tom Witten, Chicago |
- Prof. William Gelbart, UCLA
In Vitro Condensation and Complexation of DNA
- Prof. John Marko, UI Chicago
Polymer Biophysics of DNA and Chromosomes
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Thursday Morning 6/17/99
(8:30am - 11:45am) |
Self-Assembly in Complex Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Prof. Helmut Stey, Amherst |
- Prof. Phil Nelson, U. Pennsylvania
Positively Charged Vesicles can Repel Negative Objects
- Prof. Stanislas Leibler, Princeton
Robust Phenomena in Complex Systems
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