Unless
noted otherwise, seminars take place on Tuesdays at 1:15 p.m. in Room
1116, IPST Building 085. As in the previous academic year, it
has been resolved to keep alive the seminar this coming semester and not
necessarily on a regular basis. This seminar is organized by Professor
Michael Fisher. Please send suggestions for speakers to Caricia
Claremont
(claremon at ipst.umd.edu).
As in the past, each seminar will
be preceded by an INFORMAL CAFETERIA LUNCH to which all are welcome, departing
from Room 2100B about five minutes after 12:00 noon.
For further information, contact:
Professor Christopher cjarzyns@umd.edu (301)-405-4439
Professor John Weeks jdw@ipst.umd.edu (301)-405-4802
Professor Michelle Girvan girvan@umd.edu(301)-405-1610
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR – SPRING 2008
Tuesday, February
12th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
Speaker: Greg Morrison
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: The Influence of
Handles on the Folding Landscape and Kinetics of RNA Hairpins
http://cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb
Tuesday, February
19th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
Speaker: Professor J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Department of Economics, James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, VA
Topic: Econophysics and
Economic Complexity
http://cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR – FALL 2007
Tuesday, September 4th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
Speaker: Professor Janusz Holyst
Faculty of Physics - Warsaw University of Technology
- Warsaw, Poland
Topic: Phase Transitions
and Scaling in Complex Networks
Tuesday, September 11th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
Speaker: Dr. Edward Ott
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: The Onset of
Coherence in Large Networks of Coupled Heterogeneous Oscillators
Tuesday, September 25th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Michael E. Fisher
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Atoms and Ions:
Universality, Singularity and Particularity; Boltzmann's Vision
a Century Later
Tuesday, October 2nd
Speaker: Dr. Zhonghan Hu
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Transport Properties,
Optical Response and Slow Dynamics of Ionic Liquids
Tuesday, October 16th
Speaker:
Dr. Hal Tasaki
Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan
Topic: The Hubbard Model
and the Origin of Ferromagnetism
Tuesday, October 23rd
Speaker: Dr. Andriy Anishkin
Department of Biology, UMCP
Topic: Bypassing Limitations
of Conventional MD in Studies of Ion Channel Gating
Tuesday, October 30th
OPEN
Tuesday, November 6th
Speaker: Dr. John Angle
Inequality Process Institute,
Maryland
topic: A Stochastic
Generator Mimicking Wealth-Income Dynamics?
Tuesday, November 13th
Speaker: Professor Daniel Kosov
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: Electron Transport
Through Molecules
Tuesday, November 20th
Speaker: Prof. Caio Lewenkopf
Rio de Janeiro State University, Harvard
Topic: Nonlinear Transport
in Nanoscopic Devices: Violations of the Onsager Relations
Tuesday, November 27th
Speaker: Dr. Matthew P.A. Fisher
Microsoft, Station Q - University of California, Santa
Barbara
Topic: Bose and Fermi Quantum
Fluids with Critical d-wave Correlations
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR – SPRING 2007
6 February
Prof. Christopher Jarzynski
Institute for Physical Science & Technology and Department of Chemistry,
UMCP
“Microscopic Reversibility, Macroscopic Irreversibility and Fluctuation Theorems”
13 February
Dr. Yael Roichman
Center for Soft Matter Research, Physics Dept., New York University
20 February
Prof. Konstantina Trivisa
Department of Mathematics, UMC
“On Multicomponent Reactive Flows”
27 February Prof. Michelle Girvan
Department of Physics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“To Be Announced”
Updated 1/29/07
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR – FALL 2006
12
September Professor Rob
Walker
Department.of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
.
“At
Arm's Length - Correlating Molecular Structure with Interfacial Solvation”
19 September Jocelyn
Rodgers
Institute
of Physical Science & Technology, UMCP
“Nonuniform Charged Systems:
Accurate Short-Ranged Simulations”
26 September
Open
3 October
Dr. Jürgen Mimkes
Physics
Department, U. Paderborn, Germany
“Chemistry
of Social Bonds: A Thermodynamic View of Socio-Economic Systems”
10 October
Dr. Olga Dudko
Center for Information Technology National Institutes
of Health
“Single Molecule Experiments:
Rates and Activation Free Energies”
17 October
Professor
Elliot Elson
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Washington University School of Medicine
“Molecular Cluster-Size Distributions From Fluorescence
Fluctuations”
24 October
Dr. Denis
Tsygankov
Institute for Physical Science & Technology,
UMCP
“Wrong-way Walking and Hidden Steps of Molecular
Motors”
31 October
Professor Surajit
Sengupta
S.N.
Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata , India
“Microstructure Selection During Solid State Transformations:
The role of non-elastic variables”
7 November No Seminar
14 November
Dr. Saar Rahav
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
“The Classical Limit of Quantum Transport”
21 November
Professor Sean Sun
Mechanical Engineering and Whitaker Institute, Johns Hopkins
University
“The Physics of Bacterial Cell Division”
28 November
Professor Sow-Hsin Chen
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, M.I.T.
“Dynamic Crossover in Protein Hydration Water and the Glass Transition in Biopolymers”
5 December
Professor Thomas C. Schelling
Department of Economics, UMCP
To be Announced
12 December
Daphne A. Fuentevilla
Department of Chemical Engineering, UMCP
“Two
Liquid Waters: Secrets Revealed through Supercooling”
Updated 11/9/06
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR – SPRING 2006
31 January No Seminar
7 February Dr. Subir
K. Das
Institute for Physical Science & Technology, UMCP
“Critical Dynamics in
a Binary Fluid: Resolving a controversy by simulation” “
14 February
Dr. Sumanta Tewari
Condensed Matter Theory Center, UMCP
21 February Open
28 February Professor Horst Meyer
Department of Physics, Duke University
“Convection in a Supercritical Fluid: How is it started?”
7 March Professor Moira Steyn-Ross & Dr Alistair Steyn-Ross
Department of Physics & Electronic Engineering,
University Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
“Phase-transition Model for Anesthesia and Natural Sleep”
14 March APS Meeting
21 March SPRING BREAK
28 March Professor M. A. Anisimov
Chemical Engineering and Institute for Physical Science & Technology, UMCP
“Complete Scaling and Asymmetry in Fluids: Can thermodynamics teach us
something new?”
4 April
Dr. Natasha Denesyuk
Institute
for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Mixing Immiscible Polymers: Adding block copolymers”
11 April
Professor Oleg Tchernyshyov
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins
University
“Fractional
Vortices and Domain Walls in Nanomagnets”
18 April
Dr. Elshad Allahyarov
Heinrich Heine Universityof Dusselfdorf
“Simulation of Critical Electrolytes in a Channel”
25 April OPEN
2 May Professor Douglas B. Abraham
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University
“Pinning and Depinning at a Grain Boundary”
9 May Rutgers Statistical Mech. Meeting
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR – FALL 2005
12 September
Prof. Michael E. Fisher
Institute
for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“CRITICALITY IN IONIC SYSTEMS:
Recent Progress, Open Questions”
20 September
Dr. Madhav Ranganathan
Institute for Physical Scienceand
Technology, UMCP
“Dynamics of spiral steps on Crystalline nanomounds”
27 September
Dr. Robert Axtell
Center on Social and Economic
Change, Brookings Institution
“Heavy-Tailed Fluctuations
in Firm Sizes and the Central Limit Theorem”
4 October Dr. Denis Tsygankov
Institute
for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“SPONTANEOUS SYNCHRONIZATION: Josephson Junctions and Fiber Lasers”
11 October Professor Alan DeSilva
Institute
for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, UMCP
“Observations of Electrical Conductivity in Metal Plasmas”
18 October–1 November NO SEMINARS
8 November
Jeng-da Chai - DISSERTATION DEFENSE
“Orbital-free
Density Functional Theory of Atoms, Molecules, and Solids”
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME: 1:30 PM.
15 November
Professor C. David Levermore
IPST
and Department of Mathematics, UMCP
“Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics: Entropy-Based Closures”
22 November
Martin Lind é n
KTH-Stockholm and IPST, UMCP
“Bacterial Motility via Pilus Retraction: modeling a powerful molecular motor”
29 November OPEN
6 December Professor Bei-lok Hu
Department of Physics, UMCP
“What's Statistical Physics to Quantum Gravity”
13
December Alberto Pimpinelli
Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont-2 and UMCP
“Crystal Surfaces Out of Equilibrium: Instabilities, Multiscaling
and Nonlocality”
Postponed until next semester:
Dr. Subir K. Das
IPST, UMCP
“Spinodal Decomposition in Fluid Films: A Molecular Dynamics Study”
20 December
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY STAT. MECH. MEETING
Updated: 12/12/05
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR – SPRING 2005
1 February
Dr. Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
George Mason University
“Power Laws in the Social Sciences: Origins and Recent Advances”
8 February Professor Ellen D. William
Department of Physics and MRSEC, UMCP
“One-Dimensional Interfaces in Two-Dimensional Structures”
15 February Dr. Stephen M. Hsu
Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Inst. of Standards and Tecnology
“The Science and Technology of Nanofriction.”
22 February “POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 1”
1 March Fariel Shafee
Physics Department, Princeton University
“Spin-glass-like Dynamics of Social Clusters”
8 March Dr. James Warren
National Institute of Standards and Technology
“Modeling the Dynamics of Crystal Growth: The Influence of Liquid Structure”
15 March Dr. Olivier Pierre-Louis
University
Jos. Fourier, Grenoble
“Morphological Transitions of One Dimensional Fronts on Growing Crystal Surfaces”
22 March SPRING BREAK & APS Meeting
29 March Dr. Ana Maria Rey
National Institute of Standards and Technology
“Fermionization of Bosons in an Optical Latice: A Simple Picture”
5 April
Jeng-Da Chai
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Orbital-free
Kinetic Energy and Pseudopotentials for Quantal
Ground States”
12
April
Dr. Justin J. Stambaugh
MIT
Lincoln Laboratory
“The
Self-Assembly of Complex Particles”
19 April
Profesor Richard A. Ferrel
Department of Physics, UMCP
“A Nonconventional Computation
of the Anomalous Dimension, Eta, Using the
Lorentz Metric”
26 April
Dr. Valeri Barsegov
Institute for Physical Science
and Technology, UMCP
“Unbinding of Cell-adhesion
Molecules: Transition from Catch to Slip Bonds”
3 May
Dr. Anirban Chakraborti
Brookhaven National Laboratory
“Econophysics: Analyses & Modeling”
Last Seminar
10 May
R. Thomas Willis
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Yang-Yang Anomaly in Fluid Criticality: Exactly Soluble Models”
Updated 4/13/05
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR -- FALL 2004
14 September Professor Richard E. Prange
Department of Physics, UMCP
“Resurgence in Quasiclassical Scattering”
21 September Dr. Sumanta Tewari
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Floating Phases in Josephson Junction Arrays”
28 September Professor Michael A. Coplan
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Electron Correlations in Atoms and Molecules”
5 October Professor Shmuel Fishman
The Technion, Haifa, Israel
“Eigenmodes and Thermodynamics of a Coulomb Chain”
12 October Professor Walter I. Goldburg
Physics Department, University of Pittsburgh
“Fluctuating Energy Dissipation in the Steady State”
19 October Professor Wolfgang Losert
IREAP, UMCP
“The Memory of a Sandpile”
26 October Professor J.R. Dorfman
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“What Are the Jarzynski Relations That We Should Be Mindful of Them?”
2 November Professor Ted Jacobson
Department of Physics, UMCP
“What Themodynamics Do Black Holes Have? And Why?”
9 November
16 November 2:00 PM - IPST Colloquium
Michael Shlesinger
“Elliott W. Montroll: A Retrospective”
23 November Dr. Charles W. Clark
Chief, Electron and Optical Physics Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
“Superfluid and Laser Analogies with Coherent Matter Waves”
30 November Dr. Charanbir Kaur
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“A Molecular Field Theory for Charged Walls and Counterions”
7 December Dr. Peter G. Velikov
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston
“Phase Transitions in Protein Solutions”
14 December To be Announced
21 December Christmas Week
Updated 11/16/04
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR -- SPRING 2004
Materials Research and Engineering, Harvard University
“Local Gate Control Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots”
3 February Professor Michael E. Fisher
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Lars Onsager and the Ising Model: Some Fruits of Genius”
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Fractal Forms in Chaotic Transport”
17 February OPEN
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Simulating Criticality to High Precision via Finite-Size Scaling”
2 March Magdalena Constantin
Department of Physics, UMCP
“Persistence in Fluctuating Steps on Crystal Surfaces”
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
"Stretching Biomolecules"
Physics Department, UMCP
“The Mott Insulator as a Quantum Computer”
23 March SPRING BREAK
30 March Dr. Alexander V. Neimark
TRI/Princeton Core Technology Program
“Phase Behavior and Nucleation in Nanoconfined Fluids”
6 April Dr. Taner Yildirim
National Institute of Standards and Technology
“Studying Advanced Materials via Quantum Mechanics and Computers”
13 April Professor J.D. Weeks
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Screening, Structure, and Simulation of Coulomb Systems: The Long and Short of It”
2
Dept. of Chemistry, U.C.L.A.
“Rotational Microrheology”
Host: Jan V. Sengers
27 April Dr. Ferenc Szalma
Department of Physics, UMCP
“Nano-islands Fluctuating on Anisotropic Surfaces”
4 May Professor Sandra C. Greer
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UMCP,
“The Wonders of Poly(ethylene oxide) in Solution”
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
“Local Molecular Field Theory for Ionic Fluids”
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR - FALL 2003
16 September Professor Shmuel Fishman
The Technion
"Kicking Cold Atoms: Quantum resonances and decoherence"
23 September Professor Sean Sun
Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute, Johns Hopkins University
"How to Compute Free Energies from Nonequilibrium Processes"
30 September Dr. Victor Galitski
Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland
"Essential Singularities in Disordered Magnets"
7 October Dr. Professor F. T.M. Nieuwstadt
J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics, The Netherlands
"Drag Reduction by Polymers and Fibers"
14 October Dr. Jean-Nöel Aqua
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
"Ionic Criticality: An exactly soluble model and its lessons"
21 October Dr. Alain Karma
Joint Department of Physics, Northeastern University
w/Biophysics "Patterns of Electrical and Calcium Signaling in Cardiac Arrhythmias"
28 October No Seminar
4 November Professor José M. Ortiz de Zárate
Department of Applied Physics I., Complutense University, Madrid
"Why
are Nonequilibrium Correlations of Long-range?"
11 November Professor A.B. Kolomeisky
Department of Chemistry, Rice University
"Phenomenological Theory of Protein Nucleation Phenomena"
18 November Dr. Amy J. O'Brien
Digital Systems Resources, Inc., Fairfax, VA
"Fuzzy Logic, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Shades of Gray"
25
November Dr. Madhav
Ranganathan
(Thanksgiving Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Week) "Kinetic Theory for Dynamic Fluctuations in Simple Fluids"
2 December Dr. Ramses van Zon
Rockefeller University
"Extensions of the Fluctuation Theorem - Differences between Work and Heat"
9 December Dr. Raymond L. Orbach
Director of Research, U.S. Department of Energy
Title: To be Announced
16 December Open
Informal Statistical Physics/Biophysics Seminar - SPRING 2003
16 January
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Professor David R. Nelson
Lyman Laboratory of Physics,
Harvard University
“Localized States and
Biophysics” 28
January
First day of classes 4
February Professor Das Gupta
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
“Mound Formation and Coarsening in Surface Growth” 11
February Dr.
Alasdair Steven
NIH
“Phase Transitions in Prions and Viruses and their Functional Implications” 18 February Canceled
Due to Snow
25
February
Dr. Joanna Aizenberg
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
“Biologically-formed Single Crystals: Architecture, Mechanics, Optics Biomimetics”
4 March Gibbs Double
Centennial Symposium, March 5th and 6th 11
March
Professor David Fushman
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UMCP
"Conformation and dynamics of polyubiquitin chains” 18
March
Dr. Martin Greiner
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology - Information and Communications,
Munich, Germany “Complex
Wireless Communication Networks -- an Applied Statistical Physics View” 26
March
SPRING BREAK
Note: Special Day (Wed.)
Professor Vijay Pande
Stanford
“Folding@Home: using
equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and
100,000 CPUs to tackle difficult problems in computational biophysics” 1 April Rescheduled
from 18 February
Rogerio de Sousa
Department of Physics, UMCP
“Spin Echoes and Coherence for Quantum Computation” 8 April Professor
Albert J. Libchaber
"Some Physics Techniques for Biology" Department
of Astronomy, UMCP
“Star Formation:
the Big Picture” 22 April Professor
Corey O’Hern
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
"Effective Temperatures in Systems near Jamming"
29
April
Professor Alan Finkelstein
Departments of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine
“Protein Translocation Associated with Channel Gating”
6 May
Professor J. V. Sengers
Institute for Physical Science & Technology, UMCP
"Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in fluid layers below the
Rayleigh-Benard
Convective Instability" 13 May
Dr.
Sergey Leikin
Chief, Section on Physical Biochemistry
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
"Biophysics of Brittle Bones and Hyperextensible Joints: New Lessons
from
Collagen Studies" 20
May
"Rescheduled"
Professor Albert J. Libchaber
Laboratory for Experimental Condensed Matter, Rockefeller University
"Some Physics Techniques for Biology"
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR - FALL 2002
15 April Professor
Eve Ostriker
3 September No Seminar
10
September Professor Victor Muñoz
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
"Equilibrium and Kinetics in Protein Folding: Downhill Folding and
Hydrophobic Collapse"
17
September Professor Sankar Das Sarma
Department of Physics, UMCP
"How to Make Semiconductors Ferromagnetic: A First Course in
Spintronics"
24
September Dr. Jean-Noël Aqua
Institute for Physical Science & Technology, UMCP
"Classical and Quantal Coulombic Fluids Near a Wall"
1 October Professor
Amnon
Aharony
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
"A Diabatic Quantum Pumping"
8
October Dr. Young C.
Kim
Institute for Physical Science & Technology, UMCP
"Screening in Electrolytes near Criticality: What to Simulate and How"
15 October No Seminar
22 October
Professor
T. L. Einstein
Department of Physics, UMCP
"Terrace-Width Distributions on Stepped Surfaces: From Man Field to 'Wigner
Surmise'"
29 October No Seminar
5 November No Seminar
12 November Professor
John Weeks
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
"Gaussian Fluctuations and Molecular Fields: A Simple Theory of
Nonuniform Fluids"
19 November Dr. Nicos
S. Martys
National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Mesoscopic Modeling of Complex Fluid Flow: Theory and Validation"
26 November Dr. Steven J. Schiff
Krasnow Professor of Neurobiology and Professor of Psychology,
George Mason University
"Relating Bad Brains, Rocks, and Gases -- Are Seizures Phase Transitions?"
3 December No Seminar
10 December Yng-gwei Chen
Institute for Physical Science and Techology, University of Maryland"
"Different Thermodynamic Pathways to the Solvation Free Energy"
17 December No Seminar
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINARS - Spring
2002
(Pre-Semester)
22
January Dr. Smitha
Vishveshwara
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Carbon Nanotubes: A Playground for Luttinger Liquid Physics"
5 February No Seminar
12 February No
Seminar
19 February Dr. Peter
Blair Blakie
Electron and Optical Physics Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices"
26 February No
Seminar
5 March
Professor Wim van Saarloos
University of Leiden
"Force Distributions in Granular Media"
12 March
Dr. Johannes Hager
I.P.S.T., UMCP
"Droplet Condensation and Crystal Shapes in Two Dimens