Frontiers of Statistical Physics

Presentations

• Lars Onsager Prize Lecture: A Random Walk Through Theoretical Physics

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 28, 2012, 2:30 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ian Affleck

    • University of British Columbia

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• Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Lecture: Understanding Nonequilibrium via Rare Fluctuations

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:06 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Giovanni Jona-Lasinio

    • Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Roma ``La Sapienza'' and INFN, Roma, Italy

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• Experimental confirmation of Landauer's principle

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:42 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • John Bechhoefer

    • Simon Fraser University

  • Yonggun Jun

    • Simon Fraser University

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• The Basis of the Second Law of Thermodynamics in Quantum Field Thoery

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:54 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • David Snoke

    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

  • Gangqiang Liu

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

  • Steven Girvin

    • Department of Physics, Yale University
    • Yale University
    • Physics Department Yale University
    • Physics Department, Yale University
    • Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA

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• The Stochastic Geometry of non-Gaussian Fields

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:06 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Thomas Beuman

    • Institute Lorentz, Leiden University

  • Ari Turner

    • University of Amsterdam

  • Vincenzo Vitelli

    • Instituut Lorentz for Theoretical Physics
    • Institute Lorentz, Leiden University
    • Leiden University

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• Differential geometry of the space of Ising models

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:18 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Benjamin Machta

    • Department of Physics, Cornell University

  • Ricky Chachra

    • Cornell Univ.
    • Department of Physics, Cornell University

  • Mark Transtrum

    • Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center

  • James Sethna

    • LASSP, Cornell University
    • Department of Physics, Cornell University
    • LASSP, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
    • Cornell
    • Cornell University
    • Deparment of Physics, Cornell University

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• Growth Inside a Corner: Limiting Interface Shape

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:30 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Jason Olejarz

    • Boston University

  • Paul Krapivsky

    • Boston University

  • Sidney Redner

    • Boston University

  • Kirone Mallick

    • CEA Saclay, France

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• The magnetisation distribution of the Ising model for $d\ge 5$

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:42 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Per Lundow

    • KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

  • Anders Rosengren

    • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
    • KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

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• A Topological Phase Transition in Models of River Networks

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:54 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Jacob Oppenheim

    • Rockefeller University

  • Marcelo Magnasco

    • Rockefeller University

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• Finite size scaling of the dynamical free-energy in the interfacial regime of a kinetically constrained model

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 5:06 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Vivien Lecomte

    • Laboratoire Probabilit\'es et Mod\`eles Al\'eatoires (LPMA), CNRS UMR 7599, Universit\'es Paris 6 et Paris 7, France
    • Laboratoire Probabilite et Modeles Aleatoires, Universities Paris VI and Paris VII (France)

  • Thierry Bodineau

    • DMA, Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure (UMR 8553), 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris, France

  • Cristina Toninelli

    • Laboratoire Probabilit\'es et Mod\`eles Al\'eatoires (LPMA), CNRS UMR 7599, Universit\'es Paris 6 et Paris 7, France

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• Effective Temperature Dynamics of Radiation Induced Amorphization

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 5:18 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Ido Regev

    • Center for non linear studies and Theoretical division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Xiangdong Ding

    • Theoretical division, Los Alamos National Laboratory 61097340

  • Turab Lookman

    • Theoretical division, Los Alamos National Laboratory 61097340

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