The Complex Systems Group

The Center for Nonlinear Studies


Third Summer Conference on

Statistical Physics of Complex Systems


Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, New Mexico

July 26-August 6, 2004



Schedule:

Morning coffee: 9:30AM
Morning talk: 10AM-11AM
Afternoon coffee: 2:30PM
Afternoon talk: 3PM-4PM (Monday, Wednesday, Friday only)

Day
Date
10AM talk
3PM talk
Monday
7/26
Moore
Ertasz
Tuesday
7/27
Schwartz
Wednesday
7/28 Krapivsky Jarzynski
Thursday
7/29
Cohen

Friday
7/30
Korniss
Connaughton
Monday 8/2
Ernst Sherrington
Tuesday 8/3
Moore
Wednesday 8/4
Bassler Zaboronsky (1:30PM)
Thursday 8/5
Lebedev
Friday 8/6
Kolokolov

Invited Participants:

Name
Affiliation
Dates
Talk
Kevin Bassler Houston 7/26-8/6 The Evolution of Canalization in Networks of Competing Boolean Nodes
Itai Cohen Harvard 7/28-8/4 The Shear Excitement of Confined Colloidal Suspensions
Colm Connaughton
ENS, Paris
7/28-8/6
Constant Flux Relation in Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics
Matthieu Ernst Utrecht/LANL 7/26-8/6 The rich behavir of the Boltzmann equation for driven inelastic systems
Denis Ertasz Exxon 7/26-7/30 Clusters and the rheology of dense granular flows
Gyorgy Korniss Rensselaer 7/26-7/30
Extreme fluctuations in small worlds with relaxational dynamics
Paul Krapivsky Boston 7/26-7/30
Dynamics of zero-temperature Ising ferromagnets
Igor Kolokolov Landau 7/26-8/6 Probability of anomalously large Bit-Error-Rate in long-haul optical transmission
Vladimir Lebedev Landau 7/26-8/6 Intermittency in dynamics of two-dimensional vortexlike defects
Michael Moore Manchester 7/26-8/6 1. Does Replica Field Theory apply to Finite-Dimensional Spin glasses?
2. Generalized Bose-Einstein phase transition in large-m component spin glasses
David Sherrington Oxford 7/26-8/6 Glassy Behaviour due to Constrained Dynamics
Jennifer Schwartz
UCLA 7/26-7/30
On the Percolation of Unsatisfiability in Finite Dimensions
Oleg Zaboronsky
Warwick 7/26-8/6 Kolmogorov scaling and Intermittency in cluster-cluster aggregation

Local Participants:

Format: An informal workshop with 1-2 talks per day and plenty of time dedicated to discussions and collaborations.