Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 27 JUNE 2001

Session Q1. Visualization.

Wednesday afternoon, 15:30, Building 10, Room 250

15:30 Q1.001 Terascale Visualization: Multi-resolution Aspirin for Big-Data Headaches
Mark Duchaineau (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
16:06 Q1.002 VPython: Writing Real-time 3D Physics Programs
Ruth Chabay (Carnegie Mellon University)
16:42 Q1.003 Scalable Visualization, applied to Galaxies,Oceans amp; Brains
Bernard Pailthorpe (University of Sydney, Australia), NPACI Collaboration

Session Q2. Turbulence.

Wednesday afternoon, 15:30, Building 4, Room 237

15:30 Q2.001 Retrieval of Micro-scale Flow Structures from High Resolution Doppler Lidar Data Using an Adjoint Model
Ching-Long Lin, Tianfeng Chai (Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Iowa)
15:42 Q2.002 Application of Vorticity Confinement to the Prediction of the Flow over Complex Bodies
John Steinhoff (University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN)
15:54 Q2.003 Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of a Flow over a 3D Cube in a wind Tunnel
Richard Shock (), Hudong Chen (Exa Corp.), Victor Yakhot (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ and Boston University)
16:06 Q2.004 Turbulence and instabilities
Oleg Belotserkovskii (Institute for Computer Aided Design RAS, Moscow, Russia)
16:18 Q2.005 A novel velocity-vorticity simulation method for boundary-layer disturbances
Christopher Davies (Coventry University, United Kingdom), Peter W. Carpenter, Duncan A. Lockerby (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
16:30 Q2.006 High resolution optimized weighted-eno schemes for direct numerical simulations of compressible turbulence
Sergio Pirozzoli, Donatella Ponziani, Francesco Grasso (University of Rome "La Sapienza" Department of Mechanics and Aeronautics, 18 Via Eudossiana, Rome Italy 00184)
16:42 Q2.007 Turbulence Modeling Using Body Force Potentials
Blair Perot (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
16:54 Q2.008 Passive-scalar turbulence and the geometry of loops
Greg Huber (University of Massachusetts Boston), Jane' Kondev (Brandeis University)
17:06 Q2.009 Simplifications Arising from Complexity in Urban Contaminant Transport
Jay Boris, Sally Cheatham, Jr. Young (Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC)

Session Q3. Computational Materials Science Methods.

Wednesday afternoon, 15:30, Building 4, Room 153

15:30 Q3.001 Coupling from the Past Method of Perfect MCMC Sampling
David B. Wilson
16:06 Q3.002 Dynamic of a non homogeneously coarse grained system
Stefano Curtarolo, Ceder Gerbrand (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139)
16:18 Q3.003 Long-time Rejection-free Dynamic Simulations of Discrete and Continuous Spin Models
M.A. Novotny, José D. Muñoz, Steven J. Mitchell (CSIT, Florida State U.)
16:30 Q3.004 Analysis of BCC-HCP transformation in Ti by coupling symmetry to first-principles calculations.
S.G. Srinivasan, D.M. Hatch, T. Lookman, A.B. Saxena (Los Alamos National Laboratory), H.T. Stokes (Brigham Young University)
16:42 Q3.005 Using Model Hamiltonians to Obtain Thermodynamics from First Principles
Dane Morgan, Anton van der Ven, Gerbrand Ceder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
16:54 Q3.006 Deposition of Polymer Chains on a Substrate: Density Profile and Interface Growth
Jun Xie, Frank Bentrem (Affiliation), Ras Pandey (University of Southern Mississippi)
17:06 Q3.007 Phase-field modeling of directional solidification
Blas Echebarria, Alain Karma (Northeastern University)

Session Q4. Lattice Models in Statistical Physics.

Wednesday afternoon, 15:30, Building 4, Room 231

15:30 Q4.001 Mass Distribution of the Incipient Infinite Cluster in Percolation
Martin Bazant (Dept. of Mathematics, MIT)
15:42 Q4.002 How to build very large percolation clusters with very little computer memory
Gerald Paul (Center for Polymer Studies and Physics Department, Boston University), Robert M. Ziff (Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan), H. Eugene Stanley (Center for Polymer Studies and Physics Department, Boston University)
15:54 Q4.003 Phase transition of the random field Ising model at zero temperature
Ilija Dukovski, Jonathan Machta (Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-3720)
16:06 Q4.004 Slow dynamics and aging in a non-randomly frustrated spin system: a Monte Carlo study
Hui Yin, Bulbul Chakraborty (Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University)
16:18 Q4.005 Cluster Algorithm for Ising Path Sampling
Xuenan Li (Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Jonathan Machta
16:30 Q4.006 Monte Carlo simulations of random bond Potts models
Kan Shen, Jonathan Machta (University of Massachusetts)
16:42 Q4.007 Efficient algorithm for determining critical properties
Liacir Lucena (International Center for Complex Systems and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil), Umberto Fulco (Affiliation), Fernando Nobre, Edemerson Morais (Departamento de Fisica - UFRN, Natal, Brazil), Luciano Silva (Center for Polymer Physics, Boston University)
16:54 Q4.008 Entropy vanishing transition in a model glass
Dibyendu Das, Jane' Kondev, Bulbul Chakraborty (Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University)