Wednesday, May 14

    8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Registration

    9:00 - 9:10 a.m.

Welcome

    9:10 - 10:00 a.m. 

Maya Paczuski, University of Calgary, Canada

Complexity in living and non-living matter-A physicist looks at life (invited)

   10:00 - 10:20 a.m.

Rahul Kulkarni, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Modeling of processes governing subcellular protein localization in E. coli

   10:20 - 10:40 a.m.

Coffee break

   10:40 - 11:30 a.m.

Mark Novotny , Mississippi State University

Far from equilibrium processes in magnetic nanoparticles and thin films (invited)

   11:30 - 11:50 a.m.

Zhi-Feng Huang, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Multiscale modeling of strained film epitaxy: Island formation and dislocation nuleation

   11:50 - 12:10 p.m.

Hill Thompson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Resolution-dependent mechanisms for bimodal switching time distributions in simulated Fe nanopillars

   12:10 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

    2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Peter Grassberger, University of Calgary, Canada

Records, causal networks, and earthquakes (invited)

    2:50 - 3:10 p.m.

Hang-Hyun Jo, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Relevance of abelian symmetry and stochasticity in directed sandpile models

    3:10 - 3:30 p.m.

Coffee break

    3:30 - 4:20 p.m.

Leticia Cugliandolo, Université Pierre et Marie Currie, Paris VI, France

Exact results in curvature driven coarsening (invited)

    4:20 - 4:40 p.m.

Hyun Keun Lee, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Recurrent character of biased random walk on regular lattice

    4:40 - 5:00 p.m.

David Adams, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Signpost method for obtaining the harmonic measure of 2D percolation clusters

Thursday, May 15

    9:00 - 9:50 a.m.

Reinhard Lipowsky , Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Molecular Motors: Energy conversion, cargo transport, and traffic phenomena (invited)

    9:50 - 10:10 a.m.

Creighton Thomas, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

Using patchwork dynamics to simulate glassy systems

   10:10 - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee break

   10:30 - 11:20 a.m.

Eva Andrei, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey

Ageing memory and glassiness of driven vortex matter (invited)

   11:20 - 11:40 a.m.

Gregory G. Kenning, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

The effects of initial conditions on physical aging in spin glasses

   11:40 - 12:00 noon

Paolo Sibani, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Intermittent linear response and spontaneous fluctuations in off-equilibrium aging dynamics

   12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch

    2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Greg McKenna, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Ageing and structural recovery in ‘concentration’ glasses: Comparisons with ‘temperature’ glasses (invited)

    2:50 - 3:10 p.m.

Stephan A. Mackowiak, Columbia University, New York, NY

Single molecule study of dynamics near the glass transition

    3:10 - 3:30 p.m.

Coffee break

    3:30 - 4:20 p.m.

Katharina Vollmayr-Lee , Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Self-organized criticality below the glass transition (invited)

    4:20 - 5:10 p.m.

Hervé Marand, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

The physical ageing of crystallizable polymers above the glass transition temperature (invited)

    5:10 - 6:40 p.m.

Poster session

Friday, May 16

    9:00 - 9:50 a.m.

Hernan Makse , City College of New York, New York

Statistical mechanics of jammed matter (invited)

    9:50 - 10:10 a.m.

Stefan Boettcher, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Unjamming local search heuristics through extremal driving

   10:10 - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee break

   10:30 - 11:20 a.m.

Dragana Popovic, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida

Glassy dynamics of electrons near the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions (invited)

   11:20 - 12:10 p.m.

Jeff Olafsen, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

Recapturing thermostatistical behavior in systems driven far from equilibrium (invited)

   12:10 - 12:30 p.m.

Brian Utter, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Jamming in granular systems with imposed vibrations

   12:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Lunch

    2:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Trip/hike to the Cascades waterfall