Program Statistical Mechanics 2012
Wednesday, 19/09 |
Thursday, 20/09 |
Friday, 21/09 |
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8:00-9:00 | Registration |
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9:00-10:00 |
- Opening remarks Chair: Peter Virnau - Michael FisherComputing for the simplest model electrolyte: Correlations, Sum Rules, and Criticality in the RPM |
Chair: Fathollah Varnik - Juan de PabloNanoparticles in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystals in Nanoparticles - Doros Theodorou Energy landscape analysis of atomic and polymer glasses |
Chair: Tanja Schilling - Daan FrenkelUnusual 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 WildingChemical 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 GrosbergFrom 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 ParrinelloProteins 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 ParryThe 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 BarratDynamical 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 |
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15:00-17:00 |
Poster session |
Poster session |
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17:00-18:00 |
Chair: Peter Nielaba - David LandauNew 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 ZippeliusCohesive granular fluids - Hartmut Löwen Collective behaviour of active colloidal particles |
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19:00 |
Conference dinner |