COLLECTIVE ASPECTS OF STOCHASTIC
NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHENOMENA
AT SURFACES AND INTERFACES

Lorentz Center, Leiden University, 14-25 June 2004


PROGRAM: (as of June 10)



Monday, June 14:
  • Timothy Halpin-Healy (Barnard College, Columbia)
    Within the Realm of KPZ.
  • Barend Thijsse (Delft)
    Atomistic Simulation of Processes at Surfaces and Interfaces
  • Joost Frenken (Leiden)
    When do we call it Friction?
  • Wine and cheese (Common Room)
Tuesday June 15:
  • Erio Tossatti (Trieste)
    Physics of Atomically Thin Noble and Transition Metal Nanowires
  • Bas Hendriksen (Leiden)
    Dynamics of Surface Chemistry under "Practical" Reaction Conditions.
  • Daan Frenkel (Amolf)
    Simulating heterogeneous crystal nucleation
  • Boat trip with diner
Wednesday June 16:
  • Ellen Williams (Maryland)
    Fluctuations on Nanoscale Structures: Correlation Length, Persistence and Survival.
  • Sebastien Balibar (ENS, Paris)
    Helium Crystals as Model Systems: Solved and Open Questions
  • Hubert Knops (Nijmegen)
    The sine-Gordon Model and Friction
Thursday June 17:
  • Joachim Krug (Cologne)
    Secondary Growth Instabilities on Vicinal Surfaces
  • Raoul van Gastel (Twente)
    Direct Measurement of Domain Boundary Energies in Self-Assembled
    Pb/Cu(111) Nanostructures
  • Ute Ebert (CWI Amsterdam and TU Eindhoven)
    Sparks and High Altitude Lightning: How Channels Branch
  • BBQ in front of Oort building
Friday June 18:
  • Michael Tringides (Iowa State)
    Novel Routes to Nanostructure Self-Organization in
    Pb/Si(111): QSE-Driven Growth and a "Devil's Staircase"
  • Hyunggyu Park (KIAS, Seoul)
    Overview of Absorbing State Dynamic Phase Transitions
  • See-Chen Ying (Brown University)
    Path Integral Formalism for Stochastic Dynamics
Monday June 21::
  • Roland Bennewitz (McGill, Montreal)
    High-resolution Dissipation Microscopy: Observing Atoms at Work
  • Ted Einstein (Maryland)
    Interactions Mediated by Surface States:
    From Pairs and Trios to Adchains and Ordered Overlayers
  • Sergey Krylov (Moscow)
    Atomic friction: Temperature as a lubricant
  • Wine and cheese (Common Room)
Tuesday June 22:
  • Mikko Alava (Helsinki)
    Interface Depinning in Random Media and Self-organized Criticality
  • Talat Rahman (Kansas State)
    Adventures in Surface Diffusion with a Self-Teaching Kinetic Monte Carlo Technique
  • speaker t.b.a

Wednesday June 23:
  • Ali Alavi (Cambridge)
    Some Problems which require us to go beyond Total-Energy Calculations
  • Marcel den Nijs (Seattle)
    A Queuing Phase Transition Flow through Channels, Faceting in
    Slow Paper Combustion, and Polymer Localization
  • Rinke Wijngaarden (VU, Amsterdam)
    Self Organized Criticality in Rice and Superconductors
Thursday June 24:
  • Bo Persson (Julich)
    Contact Mechanics and Adhesion between Elastic Bodies with Randomly Rough Surfaces
  • Martin van Hecke (Leiden)
    Granular Flows
  • Tapio Ala-Nissila (Helsinki)
    Dynamics of Liquid Fronts in Confined Geometries: Phase-Field Approach




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