THE CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES ~ THEORETICAL DIVISION

SYMPOSIUM

JIM KRUMHANSL: SCIENCE & POLICY

JANUARY 12, 2005

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER STUDY CENTER
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO USA

TENTATIVE AGENDA
*Unconfirmed

8:45
Dr. Thomas Bowles Chief Science Officer, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Welcoming Remarks
  Early Cornell Years
9:00
Prof. Albert Sievers Cornell University:  Localized Modes: Past, Present and Future
9:30
Prof. Sir Roger Elliott Oxford University:  Order and Disorder (with Jim) in Physics
10:00
Prof. Robert Guyer University of Massachusetts:  JAK and Phonon Hydrodynamics: The Annotated History of a Problem
10:30 Break
  Science & Policy
11:00
Prof. Walter Kohn University of California -- Santa Barbara:  New Thoughts about Condensed Electronic Matter
11:30
Dr. Gene Wells American Physical Society:  Krumhansl was a Topological Soliton
12:00 Lunch -- Ottowi Cafeteria
  Nonlinear and Materials Science
1:30
Prof. Neal Lane  Rice University:  Jim Krumhansl: Model 'Civic Scientist'
2:00
Dr. Sig Hecker Los Alamos National Laboratory:  Personal Reminiscences of Jim Krumhansl
2:30
Dr. Alan Bishop Los Almaos National Laboratory:  Jim Does Solitons -- Structural Transitions to DNA
3:00 Break 
  Phase Transitions and Biophysics
3:30
Prof. Katja Lindenberg University of California -- San Diego:  Noise and Nonlinearity
4:00
Dr. Lee Tanner Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:  Krumhansl, Martensite, and all that Jazz
6:00
Reception: Fuller Lodge
6:30
Banquet: Fuller Lodge -- Remembrances: open floor
Closing: Jim Krumhansl, Jr.
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