Statistical Mechanics: Optimization and Algorithms

Presentations

• Spontaneous emergence of autocatalytic information-coding polymers

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 11:15 AM – March 2, 2015, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Alexei Tkachenko

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Sergei Maslov

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory

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• Evidence against a mean field description of short-range spin glasses revealed through thermal boundary conditions

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 11:27 AM – March 2, 2015, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Machta

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Wenlong Wang

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Helmut Katzgraber

    • Texas A\&M University

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• Probing temperature chaos through thermal boundary conditions

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 11:39 AM – March 2, 2015, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Wenlong Wang

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Jonathan Machta

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Helmut Katzgraber

    • Texas A\&M University

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• Effective Hamiltonians of 2D Spin Glass Clusters

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 11:51 AM – March 2, 2015, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Colin Clement

    • Cornell University

  • Danilo Liarte

    • University of Sao Paulo

  • Alan Middleton

    • Syracuse University

  • James Sethna

    • Cornell University
    • LASSP, Department of Physics, Clark Hall, Cornell University
    • Department of Physics, Cornell University

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• Overfrustrated and Underfrustrated Spin-Glasses in d=3 and d=2: Evolution of Phase Diagrams and Chaos Including Spin-Glass Order in d=2

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 12:03 PM – March 2, 2015, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Efe Ilker

    • Sabanci University

  • A. Nihat Berker

    • Sabanci University and MIT

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• The cavity method for phase transitions in sparse reconstruction algorithms

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 12:15 PM – March 2, 2015, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Mohammad Ramezanali

    • Rutgers University

  • Partha Mitra

    • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

  • Anirvan Sengupta

    • Rutgers University

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• Multiply charged monopoles in cubic dimer model

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 12:27 PM – March 2, 2015, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Sreejith Ganesh Jaya

    • PCS Max Planck Institute
    • NORDITA, Roslagstullsbacken 23, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems

  • Stephen Powell

    • The University of Nottingham

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• A matrix product state method for solving combinatorial optimization problems

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 12:39 PM – March 2, 2015, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • S.S. Pelton

    • University of Central Florida

  • C. Chamon

    • Boston University

  • E.R. Mucciolo

    • University of Central Florida

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• Emergence by Design in Artificial Spin Ice

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 12:51 PM – March 2, 2015, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Cristiano Nisoli

    • LANL

  • Muir Morrison

    • Caltech

  • Gia-Wei Chern

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

  • Ian gilbert

    • University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  • Sheng Zhang

    • ANL

  • Peter Schiffer

    • University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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• Large-Scale Quantization and consequences in statistical mechanics

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 1:03 PM – March 2, 2015, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • George Livadiotis

    • Southwest Research Institute, USA

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• Modeling the thermal conductivity and shear viscosity of mixtures of methane and n-decane under high pressure and high temperature conditions using molecular simulations

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 1:15 PM – March 2, 2015, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • John Shelton

    • Carnegie Mellon Univ

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• Simultaneous determination of the free energy profile and effective dynamics along a reaction coordinate

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 1:27 PM – March 2, 2015, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Jiong Zhang

    • University of Missouri
    • University of Missouri-Columbia

  • Ioan Kosztin

    • University of Missouri-Columbia

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• Unleashing the Power of Microcanonical Inflection-Point Analysis: The Principle of Minimal Sensitivity

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 1:39 PM – March 2, 2015, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Kai Qi

    • The Univ of Georgia

  • Michael Bachmann

    • Univ of Georgia
    • The University of Georgia
    • The Univ of Georgia

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• Optimisation by hierarchical search

  ORAL

  March 2, 2015, 1:51 PM – March 2, 2015, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Ilia Zintchenko

    • ETH Zurich

  • Matthew Hastings

    • Station Q, Microsoft Research
    • Microsoft Research

  • Matthias Troyer

    • Theoretische Physik, ETH
    • ETH - Zurich
    • ETH Zurich

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