Boulder School 2001: Lecture Notes

Talks/references for Boulder School 2001

• Alan Bray (University of Manchester)
  • Lectures 1 & 2: Domain Growth & Coarsening I, II (7/2, 7/3)
•           Reference: “Coarsening dynamics of nonquilibrium phase transitions”, A. J. Bray (198X).
  • Lectures 3 & 4: Spin Glasses: Relaxation I & II (7/5, 7/6)

            Reference: “The Ordered Phase of a Spin Glass”, A. J. Bray, Comments Cond. Matt. Phys., vol. 14, pp. 21-42 (1988).

• Noel Clark (University of Colorado)
  • Defects in Liquid Crystals (7/2)
• Jorge Kurchan (École Supérieure)
  • Lectures 1, 2 & 3: Glasses and Aging I, II, III (7/3, 7/5)
•           Reference: “Rheology, and how to stop aging”, available from cond-mat.
  • Also see http://www.itp.ucsb.edu/online/jamming2/kurchan .
• Mark Bowick (Syracuse University) (7/3)
  •  Defects in Condensed Matter & Cosmology
• David Weitz (Harvard)
  • Lecture 1 - Colloidal Glasses (7/5)
  • Lecture 2 - Jamming & Rheology I (7/6)
  • Lecture 3 - Jamming & Rheology II (7/9)
• Daniel Fisher (Harvard)
  • Related notes: “Collective transport in random media: from superconductors to earthquakes” (7/6, 7/9, 7/10)
    • Available from cond-mat
    • or, if available to your site, the published version Physics Reports, 301 (1-3) (1998) pp. 113-150
• Leticia Cugliandolo (LPTENS)
  • Lecture: Quantum effects in nonequilibrium systems with slow dynamics
• Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins)
  • Lecture 1 - Flow Through Porous Media (7/10)
  •  Reference: “Growth in Systems with Quenched Disorder”, Robbins, et al, in Growth Patterns in Physical Sciences and Biology, ed. J. M. Garcia-Ruiz et al., Plenum Press, New York, 1993.
• Per Nordblad (Uppsala University) (7/10, 7/11)
  • “Experiments on Spi n Glasses”, Nordblad & Svedlindh, pp. 1-27, from Spin Glasses and Random Fields, ed. A. P. Young, World Scientific (1998).
• Jim Dieterich (USGS)
  • Lecture 1 - Rate- and state-dependent friction (7/11)
  • Lecture 2 - Earthquake nucleation and seismicity (7/12)
• Shobo Bhattacharya (NEC Research)
  • Lecture1 - Charge Density Waves & Vortices in Superconductors: An Experimental Review (7/12)
  • Lecture 2 - Charge Density Waves & Vortices in Superconductors: An Experimental Review (7/13)
• Karin Dahmen (UIUC)
  • Lecture 1 - Avalanches, Disorder, Magnets and Earthquakes (7/13)
  • Reference: “Hysteresis and avalanches: phase transitions and critical phenomena in driven disordered systems”, Dahmen, et al, accepted for publication in J. Magn. Magn. Mater.
  • “Crackling Noise”, Sethna, Dahmen and Myers, Nature vol. 410, pp. 242-250 (2001) - available from cond-mat..
• Eva Andrei (Rutgers)
  • Non-equilibrium vortex states (7/13)
• Jim Sethna (Cornell)
  • Lecture 1 -  Plasticity to a Physicist (7/16)
  • Lecture 2 - Unsolved problems in Plasticity (7/17)
  • Reference: “Order Parameters, Broken Symmetry, and Topology”, Sethna, in 1991 Lectures in Complex Systems, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lect. Vol. IV, Eds. L. Nadel& D. Stein, Addison-Wesley, 1992. - available from cond-mat.
• Cristina Marchetti (Syracuse)
  • Lecture 1 - Nonequilibrium phases of dirty driven periodic media (7/16)
  • Lecture 2 - Elastic and ‘Plastic’ Response of Driven Systems (7/17)
• Koen Visscher (University of Arizona)
  • Lecture 1 - Molecular motors (7/18, 7/19,7/20)
  • Lectures 2 & 3 - Molecular motors
• Mark Goulian (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Lecture 1- Introduction to Cell Signaling (7/18)
  • Lecture 2 - Enzyme Kinetics (7/19)
  • Lecture 3 - Cell Signaling (7/20)
• Herbie Levine (UCSD)
  • Lectures (7/25, 7/26)
  • Lecture Notes
• Robert Behringer (Duke University)
  • Lecture 1 - Introduction to Granular Media (7/24)
  • Lecture 2 - Pattern Formation in Granular Systems I (7/25)
  • Lecture 3 - Pattern Formation in Granular Systems II (7/27)
• Nigel Goldenfeld (UIUC)
  • Lecture 1- Crystal Growth: Theory (7/23)
  • Lecture 2 - Turbulence (7/26)
  • Lecture 3 - Renormalization Group Methods Far from Equilibrium (7/27)