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Registration - Duboc Seminar Rm |
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4-331 Breakfast / coffee available |
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| 9:00 AM |
Session A [Chair: M. Kardar] (4-231) |
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H. Eugene Stanley: Liquid Water, the "Most Complex" Liquid: New Results in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological Environments |
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Moses Chan: Is Supersolid a Superfluid? |
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Robert Hallock: Some reasons why helium is special |
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Michael Fisher: Vortex Reconnection in Superfluid Turbulence |
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| 10:20 AM |
Coffee / Snack break (Room 4-331) |
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| 10:40 AM |
Session B [Chair: S. McKay] (4-231) |
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Robert Swendsen: Footnotes to the History of Statistical Mechanics: In Boltzmann's words |
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Selim Berker: Can Brain Scans Teach Us about the Nature of Right and Wrong? |
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Joel Lebowitz: Rounding of Phase transitions in Random Quantum Systems |
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Hidetoshi Nishimori: Spin glasses on Hierarchical Lattices: The Best Platform to Test New Ideas |
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| 12:00 PM |
LUNCH BREAK (Green Center) |
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| 1:30 PM |
Session C [Chair: M. Kaufman] (4-231) |
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| 3:10 PM |
Coffee / Snack break (Room 4-331) |
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| 3:40 PM |
Session D [Chair: Joseph Indekeu] (4-231) |
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M. Cengiz Dökmeci: Hamilton's Principle and Associated Stochastic Variational Principles in Piezoelectricity |
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Henri Orland: Prediction of RNA Structures with Pseudoknots |
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Anastasios Malakis: Uncovering the Secrets of the Two-Dimensional Random-Bond Blume-Capel Model; Ground states – Phase diagram – Critical properties |
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John Joannopoulos: Nanotechnologies for Enhanced Survivability |
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| 5:00 PM |
Conclusion |
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| 6:00 PM |
Reception (Pappalardo Room) |
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| 6:45 PM |
Dinner served (Pappalardo Room) |
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| 8:00 PM |
After dinner program [MC: David Andelman] |
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