At this meeting we will celebrate the achievements of five distinguished experimental colleagues: Guenther Ahlers, Herman Cummins, Jerry Gollub, Anneke Sengers, and Harry Swinney.
The list of tentative titles include:
GUEST OF HONOR SPEAKERS
* Guenter Ahlers: The large-scale circulation in Rayleigh-Benard convection: A dynamical system driven by the fury of turbulence!
* Herman Cummins: Light-Scattering Spectroscopy of Phase Transitions: From Liquid-Vapor to Liquid-Glass and Liquid-Gel
* Jerry Gollub: Curvature Fields, Topology, and the Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Chaos
* Anneke Sengers: Women for Science - Retrospective and Outlook
* Harry Swinney: Volume fluctuations, an invariant distribution, and a phase transition in a static granular medium
INVITED SPEAKERS
* Mahesh Bandi: Dynamics of the Jamming Transition
* Andrea Bertozzi: Swarming by Nature and by Design
* Lesser Blum: The Analytical Solution of the Extended Soft Binding Mean Spherical Approximation
* Bulbul Chakraborty: Phase Space for Jamming: A statistical ensemble for granular packings
* Susan Coppersmith: Using the renormalization group to classify Boolean functions
* Siegfried Dietrich: Critical Casimir Forces
* Charles Doering: Statistical steady state mixing measures and effective diffusivities
* Alexander Figotin: Nonlinear dynamics of a system of particle-like wavepackets
* Michael Fisher: TBA
* Gabor Forgacs: Computational tissue-engineering: relating biophysical properties across scales from the subcellular to the organ level
* Seth Fraden: The Phase Chip Manipulating Phase Diagrams with Microfluidics
* Peter Fratzl: Natural materials as mechanical devices
* Sharon Glotzer: TBA
* Italo Guarneri: Accelerator Modes in Cold Atom Optics
* Pierre Hohenberg: TBA
* Stanislas Leibler: TBA
* Jackson Mayo: Front propagation in random media: An application of Burgers turbulence and directed polymers
* Zohar Nussinov: Inhomogeneous orders, glassy dynamics, and unusual thermodynamics on curved surfaces and frustrated systems
* Adrian Parsegian: Polymers Confined: in cells, in test tubes, and in brushes
* David Pine: A nonequilibrium dynamical transition in periodically strained suspensions
* Mark Ratner: TBA
* Daniel Rothman: Time-Dependent Reactivity in Earth's Carbon Cycle
* Beate Schmittmann: Lack of consensus in social systems
* Eugene Shakhnovich: How statistical mechanics of proteins shapes biological evolution
* Alan Sokal: Fermionic (Grassmann) representation for spanning (hyper)forests and other combinatorial objects
* Gene Stanley: New Results on Water in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological Environments
* Henk VanBeijeren: Green-Kubo for solids
* Michael Vogelius: Electromagnetic cloaking and near-cloaking of objects
* John Weeks: Structure of water near charged or hydrophobic walls
* Ron Weiss: Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells
* Ben Widom: Effect of a solute on the structure and energetics of its solvent - and vice versa
* Michael Widom: Target gene identification for RNA interference
* Robert Ziff: Percolation and the Quasi-static state of dynamical processes