Program overview
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 26 JUNE 2001
Session J1. Multiscale Modeling and Mechanical Properties.
Tuesday afternoon, 15:30, Building 10, Room 250
- 15:30 J1.001
Multiscale Modeling and Experiments on Dislocation Dynamics in Metals
- V. Bulatov (LLNL)
- 16:06 J1.002
Multiscale Theory and Simulation of Electromechanically-Induced Failure in Ductile Metallic Thin Films
- Dimitrios Maroudas (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- 16:42 J1.003
Matching conditions for atomistic/continuum modeling
- Weinan E (Department of Math and PACM, Princeton University), Zhongyi Huang (PACM, Princeton Unversity and Department of Math, Tsing-Hua University)
- 16:54 J1.004
Interactions between point defects and dislocations in Al: An ab initio study
- Gang Lu (Department of Physics, Harvard University), Qing Zhang, Nicholas Kioussis (Department of Physics, California State University Northridge), Efthimios Kaxiras (Department of Physics, Harvard University)
Session J2. Discrete Methods for Hydrodynamics.
Tuesday afternoon, 15:30, Building 4, Room 237
- 15:30 J2.001
Entropic Lattice Boltzmann Models
- Bruce Boghosian (Department of Mathematics, Tufts University)
- 15:42 J2.002
Dimension-splitting for simplifying lattice-gas models of diffusion
- Raissa D'Souza (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ), Mark Smith (Harvard University, Cambridge MA), Norman Margolus (Boston University, Boston MA; and MIT, Cambridge MA)
- 15:54 J2.003
A Multi-speed Compressible Lattice Boltzmann Model
- R.J. Mason (Los Alamos National Lab)
- 16:06 J2.004
An Implicit Characteristic Galerkin Method for the Lattice Boltzmann Equation
- Ching-Long Lin, Taehun Lee (Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Iowa)
- 16:18 J2.005
Lattice kinetic formulation for magnetohydrodynamics
- Paul Dellar (University of Cambridge)
- 16:30 J2.006
Nonlinear Filtering for Low-Velocity Gaseous Microflows
- Carolyn Kaplan, Elaine Oran (Naval Research Laboratory)
Session J3. Patterns in Complex Systems.
Tuesday afternoon, 15:30, Building 4, Room 153
- 15:30 J3.001
Noise Effects on the Complex Patterns of Abnormal Heartbeats
- Verena Schulte-Frohlinde, Yosef Ashkenazy, Plamen Ch. Ivanov (Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University), Leon Glass (Dep. of Physiology, McGill University), Ary L. Goldberger (Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School), H. Eugene Stanley (Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University)
- 15:42 J3.002
General Earthquake Models: A Computational-Statistical Physics Approach to the Problem of Earthquakes
- John Rundle (Department of Physics, CIRES/C4, University of Colorado at Boulder), Andrea Donnellan (Exploration Systems Autonomy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory), ACES: APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations Collaboration
- 15:54 J3.003
Power law correlations in the Southern Oscillation Index fluctuations characterizing El Nino
- Kristinka Ivanova (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802)
- 16:06 J3.004
Simulating the quantum baker's map on quantum computers
- Todd Brun (Institute for Advanced Study), Ruediger Schack (Royal Holloway College, University of London)
- 16:18 J3.005
Quasiclassical Calculations of Wigner Functions via Wavelets
- Antonina Fedorova, Michael Zeitlin (Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences), Mathematical Methods in Mechanics Group Team
- 16:30 J3.006
Pattern Formation, Localization and Coherent Structures in Nonlinear Collective/Wave Dynamics
- Antonina Fedorova, Michael Zeitlin (Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences), Mathematical Methods in Mechanics Group Team
- 16:42 J3.007
Representation of Random Expansion by Pairs in a Moderate Number of Finite Systems
- W. Kozlowski (Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomed. Eng., Warsaw, Poland)
- 16:54 J3.008
The Effect of Crystallographic Texture on Piezoelectric Ceramics
- R. Edwin Garcia, W. Craig Carter (MIT)
Session J4. Computational Nuclear Physics and Quantum Field Theory.
Tuesday afternoon, 15:30, Building 4, Room 231
- 15:30 J4.001
Nuclear Structure and Dynamics from Light Nuclei to Neutron Stars
- Joseph Carlson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- 16:06 J4.002
The Quark Structure of the Nucleon from Lattice QCD
- John W. Negele (Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT)
- 16:42 J4.003
"A new efficient method for the Lippman-Schwinger integral equation"
- George H. Rawitscher (Physics Department, University of Connecticut), Israel Koltracht (Mathematics Department, University of Connecticut)
- 16:54 J4.004
Oblique Basis Shell-Model Calculations
- Vesselin G. Gueorguiev, Jerry P. Draayer, William E. Ormand, Calvin W. Johnson (Louisiana State University)
- 17:06 J4.005
Caloric curves and scaling in HIC at Intermediate energies.
- Armando Barranon (Dept. of Basical Sciences, Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico City), Jorge Lopez (Dept. of Physics, The University of Texas at El Paso, TX, USA.), Claudio Dorso (Dept. of Physics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.), Ariel Chernomoretz (Dept. of Physics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), LATINO Collaboration
- 17:18 J4.006
An Update - New Numerical Methods for Quantum Field Theories on the Continuum
- Pinar Emirdag, Gerald S. Guralnik, Stephen C. Hahn (Brown University), Richard Easther (Columbia University)
- 17:30 J4.007
Exact Results for the 't Hooft Model at Finite Nc with the Overlap Dirac Operator.
- Federico Berruto, Leonardo Giusti, Christian Hoelbling, Claudio Rebbi (Boston University-Department of Physics)
- 17:42 J4.008
Fermions, Gauge Theories, and the Sinc Function Representation for Feynman Diagrams
- Dmitri Petrov (Department of Physics, Brown University), Richard Easther (Department of Physics, Columbia University), Gerald Guralnik, Stephen Hahn (Department of Physics, Brown University)