Invited Speakers

Eva Andrei  (Rutgers University) 

             Ageing memory and glassiness of driven vortex matter

 

Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)

             Exact results in curvature driven coarsening

 

Peter Grassberger (University of Calgary and Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

             Records, causal networks, and earthquakes

 

Reinhard Lipowsky (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm, Germany)

             Molecular Motors: Energy conversion, cargo transport, and traffic

             phenomena     

 

Hernán Makse (City College of New York)

             Statistical mechanics of jammed matter

 

Hervé Marand (Virginia Tech)

             Physical aging of crystallizable polymers above the glass transition              temperature

 

Greg McKenna (Texas Tech)

             Aging and structural recovery in ‘concentration’ glasses:                        Comparisons with ‘temperature’ glasses

 

Mark Novotny (Mississippi State University)

             Far from equilibrium processes in magnetic nanoparticles and thin

            films

 

Jeff Olafsen (Baylor University)

             Recapturing thermostatistical behavior in systems driven far from              equilibrium

 

Maya Paczuski (University of Calgary)

             Complexity of living and non-living matter-  A physicist looks at life

 

Dragana Popovic (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

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

 

Katharina Vollmayr-Lee (Bucknell University)

             Self-organized criticality below the glass transition