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Program Statistical Mechanics 2012


Wednesday, 19/09
 

Thursday, 20/09
 

Friday, 21/09
 
8:00-9:00   Registration


9:00-10:00

- Opening remarks

  Chair: Peter Virnau

- Michael Fisher
Computing for the simplest model electrolyte: Correlations, Sum Rules, and Criticality in the RPM

  Chair: Fathollah Varnik

- Juan de Pablo
Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystals in Nanoparticles
- Doros Theodorou
Energy landscape analysis of atomic and polymer glasses

  Chair: Tanja Schilling

- Daan Frenkel
Unusual phase behavior of DNA-functionalized colloids
- Christoph Dellago
Nucleation and growth in small systems
10:00-10:30   Coffee break   Coffee break   Coffee break

10:30-12:00

  Chair: Martin Weigel

- Nigel Wilding
Chemical potential estimation in single and multiple occupancy crystals
- Richard Vink
A simple model of cell adhesion and its connection to the fundamentals of statistical physics
- Erik Luijten
Synchronized self-assembly of magnetic Janus particles

  Chair: Jürgen Horbach

- Alexander Grosberg
From melt of rings to chromosome territories: topological constraints in genome folding
- Jörg Baschnagel
On the sub-diffusive motion of the center of mass of a chain in polymer melts
- Pep Espanol
Functional Thermo-Dynamics and the Entropy Functional

  Chair: Kurt Kremer

- Michele Parrinello
Proteins in motion
- Giorgio Parisi
Recent results on very large scale spin glass simulations
- Pierre Hohenberg
Why are there so many interpretations of quantum mechanics?

- Closing remarks
12:00-13:30   Lunch break   Lunch break   Lunch break

13:30-15:00

  Chair: Martin Oettel

- Andrew Parry
The order of condensation in capillary grooves
- Siegfried Dietrich
Critical Casimir forces
- Bob Evans
Fluids confined between competing (solvophilic and solvophobic) substrates: Interfaces, metastability and layering transitions

  Chair: Katharina Vollmayr-Lee

- Jean-Louis Barrat
Dynamical correlations and viscosity divergence at the jamming transition
- Walter Kob
Static and dynamic length scales in glass-forming systems
- Wolfhard Janke
Generalized Ensemble Simulations of polymer adsorption

15:00-17:00

  Poster session
 

  Poster session
 

17:00-18:00

  Chair: Peter Nielaba

- David Landau
New insights from simple models: Monte Carlo studies of protein folding
- Kurt Binder
Beyond the van der Waals loop: What can be learned from simulating fluids inside the region of phase coexistence?

  Chair: Rudolf Hilfer

- Annette Zippelius
Cohesive granular fluids
- Hartmut Löwen
Collective behaviour of active colloidal particles

19:00

  Conference dinner

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