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)