This workshop brings together the vast variety of world class researchers working on different aspects of the phenomenon of growing interfaces. This phenomenon started to attract the community's attention in the last quarter of the 20th century, and in particular during the last several years. It turns out that it involves such diverse areas as hydrodynamics, Riemannian geometry, the theory of integrable systems, matrix models, quantum gravity and others. Researchers from applied physicists to pure mathematicians are working in this area. This workshop is expected to play a tremendous role in facilitating the exchange of ideas between these diverse groups of researchers.

Oded Agam, (Jerusalem)
Yuri Antipov, (Louisiana State U.)
Martine Ben Amar, (Paris)
Eldad Bettelheim, (U. of Chicago)
Darren Crowdy, (Imperial College)
Linda Cummings, (Nottingham)
Benny Davidovitch, (Harvard)
Vladimir Entov, (Moscow)
Mitchell Feigenbaum, (Rockefeller)
Jay Fineberg, (Jerusalem)
Thomas Frisch (Marseilles)
Raymond Goldstein, (U. of Arizona)
Björn Gustafsson, (Stockholm)
Vincent Hakim, (Paris)
Thomas Halsey, (Exxon)
Sam Howison, (Oxford)
Vladimir Kazakov, (Paris)
David Kessler, ( Bar Ilan)
John King, (Nottingham)
Jim Langer, (UC, Santa Barbara)
Alexander Leshchiner, (U. Texas)
Dmitry Leshchiner, (Yahoo)
Herbert Levine, (UC, San Diego)
Daniel Livescu, (Los Alamos)
Igor Loutsenko, (Oxford)
Baruch Meerson, (Jerusalem)
Mark Mineev, (Los Alamos)
Andrei Mironov, (Moscow)
Alexandre Orlov, (Moscow)
Itamar Procaccia, (Weizmann)
Mihai Putinar, (UC, Santa Barbara)
Leif Ristroph, (Cornell)
Leonard Sander, (U. of Michigan)
Eran Sharon, (Jerusalem)
Boris Spivak, (U. of Washington)
Matthew Thrasher, (U. Texas)
Chris Tomkins, (Los Alamos)
Dmitry Vasiliev, (Moscow)
Peter Vorobieff, (U. New Mexico)
Paul Weigmann, (U. of Chicago)
Anton Zabrodin, (Moscow)

Mark Mineev, LANL
 

Physics:

Viscous Fingering

Universal Phenomena in Fractal Growth

Droplet and Crack Formation

Quantum Gravity

Mathematics:

Laplacian Growth and Stokes Free Boundary Problem

Conformal Maps and Integrable Hierarchies

Whitham Theory and Random Matricies

Quadrature Domains and Inverse Potential Problem

This Workshop is Open to
the Interested Public

Ar. Abanov, LANL
R. Ecke, LANL
S. Howison, Oxford, ICCAM
J. Kamm, LANL
M. Mineev, LANL
A. Zabrodin, ITEP