Workshop on Large Fluctuations and
Collective Phenomena in Disordered
Materials
Institute for Condensed Matter Theory
&
Materials Computation Center
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
May 16-19, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
9:00am
Welcome - Dale van Harlingen, Head Department of Physics,
University of Illinois
Session Chair: Karin Dahmen
9:05am David Campbell - Transfer of
Bose-Einstein Condensates through Discrete Breathers in an Optical Lattice
9:35am Richard Weaver - Seismic Noise
Correlations
10:05am Alfred Hübler - Emergence of Complex
Functionality in Physically Evolving Networks
10:35am
Coffee break
10:55am Laura Greene - Detection of novel electronic order in Fe-based
superconducting (and related) materials with point contact spectroscopy
11:25am Michael Assaf - Rare Fluctuations and Large Scale Circulation
Cessations in Turbulent Convection
11:55pm Eduard Vives - Large Fluctuations During the Boiling Crisis
12:25pm
Lunch
Session Chair: Nir Friedman
1:40pm Sascha Hilgenfeldt - Fracture in
Aqueous Foam
2:10pm
2:40pm Mark Robbins - Effect of Inertia on
Avalanche Distributions in Sheared Amorphous Solids
3:10pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm Michael Falk – Metallic Glass Failure
Modes Studied via Molecular Dynamics Simulation
4:00pm Luiza Angheluta – Avalanche Statistics
and Intermittency in Topological Defects Mediated Flows
4:30pm Dervis Vural – Universal sound
Attenuation in Amorphous solids at Low Temperatures
5:00pm Poster Session
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Session Chair: Georgios Tsekenis
9:00am
Gordon Baym – Neutron Star Glitches
9:30am Bob Behringer
- Fluctions in Granular Materials
10:00am
Corey O’Hern
– Basins of Attraction of Mechanically Stable Packings on the Density Landscape
10:30am
Coffee Break
10:50am Craig Maloney – Avalanches and Diffusion Near
Jamming
11:20am Douglas Durian – Unsteadiness and Dynamical Heterogeneities in
Dense Granular Materials
11:50am Karen Daniels – Stick-Slip Failure in Sheared Granular Materials
12:10pm Group photo
12:20pm Lunch
Session Chair: Tyler Earnest
1:40pm Georgios Tsekenis - Dislocations Jam at Any Density
2:10pm Julia Greer – Intermittent
Nano-Mechanical Properties of Small-Scale Crystals
2:40pm Dennis Dimiduk
- Intermittent Flow in Microcrytal Plasticity
3:10pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm David Lockner
- Transitional and Non-Regular Response in High Pressure Rock Friction
Experiments
4:00pm David Jiles - Theory and Practice -- Making use of the Barkhausen Effect
4:30pm Stefanos Papanikolaou
- Universality in Theory and Experiments: Looking at Shapes of Scaling
Functions
5:00pm Poster
Session
6:30pm Banquet
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Session Chair: Braden Brinkman
9:00am
Dale van Harlingen - Chiral order parameter domain structure and dynamics in Sr2RuO4.
9:30 am Eduardo Fradkin - Electronic Liquid
Crystal Phases in Strongly Correlated Systems
10:00 am Erica Carlson - Spatial Complexity Due
to Incipient Electronic Nematicity in Cuprates
10:30am Coffee Break
10:50am Mike Weissman - Low frequency
noise signatures of broken symmetry in YBCO Pseudogap
11:20 am Zeb Rocklin - Addressing Soft-Matter Questions Using Quantum Many-Body Tools