Boulder School 2001: Schedule | Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Scheduled Events 2001

[4 page pdf version]

Daily lectures will take place in G125, Duane Physics Building. Public lectures will be in GB130, Duane. Poster sessions will be on the 11th Floor, Duane. The Friday School BBQ’s will be at Kittredge Pond. On July 10, buses will leave Kittredge at 5 PM for the Flagstaff Mountain cookout.

WEEK 1


Monday, July 2
9:00 – 9:30 AM	Welcome	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Clark – Defects in Liquid Crystals
9:30 – 10:45	Bray - Domain Growth & Coarsening I	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 11:00	Break	7:00 – 9:00	Poster Session I
11:00 – 12:15	Bray - Domain Growth & Coarsening II

Tuesday, July 3
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Kurchan – Glasses & Aging I	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Bowick -Defects in Condensed Matter & Cosmology
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Kurchan – Glasses & Aging II	7:00 – 9:00	Poster Session I

Wednesday, July 4 – Independence Day

Thursday, July 5
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Weitz – Colloidal Glasses	1:45 – 3:00 PM	Kurchan – Glasses & Aging III
10:15 – 10:45	Break	3:00 – 5:00	Poster Session II
10:45 – 12:00	Bray - Spin Glasses: Relaxation I	7:30 – 8:30	Public Lecture – D. Weitz Squishy Physics: How Foam Flows, Jello Gels and Sand Slips

Friday, July 6
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Bray – Spin Glasses: Relaxation II	2:45 – 4:00 PM	Fisher – Introduction to Driven Systems & Depinning
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:00 – 5:00	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Weitz - Jamming & Rheology I	5:00	School BBQ
		7:00 – 9:00	Poster Session II

BOULDER SCHOOL 2001, WEEK 2


Monday, July 9
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Fisher – CDW, Vortices, Fluid Flow I	2:00 – 3:15 PM	Cugliandolo - Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Quantum Glassy Systems
10:15 – 10:45	Break	3:15 – 4:30	Fisher – CDW, Vortices, Fluid Flow II
10:45 – 12:00	Weitz - Jamming & Rheology II	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion

Tuesday, July 10
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Robbins - Flow through Porous Media	2:45 – 4:00 PM	Norblad - Spin Glasses: Experiments I
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:00 – 4:45	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Fisher – Crack propagation in solids & Open Issues	5:00	COOKOUT at Flagstaff Mountain

Wednesday, July 11
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Robbins – Friction I	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Norblad – Spin Glasses: Experiments II
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Dieterich – Tribology & Earthquake Physics I

Thursday, July 12
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Robbins – Friction II	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Bhattacharya – CDWS & Vortices: Experiments I
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Dieterich - Tribology & Earthquake Physics II

Friday, July 13
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Dahmen – Avalanches, Disorder, Magnets and Earthquakes I	2:45 – 4:00 PM	Andrei – Nonequilibrium Vortex States
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:00 – 5:00	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Bhattacharya – CDWS and Vortices: Experiments	5:00	School BBQ

BOULDER SCHOOL 2001, WEEK 3

Monday, July 16
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Sethna – Plasticity: a physicist’s view I	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Marchetti – Nonequilibrium states of dirty driven periodic media
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Dahmen – Avalanches, Disorder, Magnets and Earthquakes II

Tuesday, July 17

9:00 – 10:15 AM	Sethna – Plasticity: a physicist’s view II	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Middleton - Getting results from simulations
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Marchetti – Elastic and Plastic Depinning

Wednesday, July 18
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Goldstein– Introduction to Cell Biology	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Goulian – Introduction to Molecular Biology
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Visscher– Molecular motors I

Thursday, July 19
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Goldstein – Cellular motility I	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Goulian – Cell signaling I
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:00	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Visscher – Molecular motors II

Friday, July 20
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Goldstein – Cellular motility II	2:45 – 4:00 PM	Goulian – Cell signaling II
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:00 – 5:00	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Visscher – Molecular motors III	5:00	School BBQ

BOULDER SCHOOL 2001, WEEK 4


Monday, July 23
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Bodenschatz – Introduction to Pattern Formation	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Coullet – Pattern Formation I (General Concepts)
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Goldenfeld – Crystal growth: theory	7:30 – 8:30	Public Lecture – N. Goldenfeld My Manhattan Project: A Physicist’s Adventure on Wall Street

Tuesday, July 24
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Behringer – Introduction to granular media	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Levine – Pattern Formation in Biological Systems I
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Coullet: - Pattern Formation II (GL equations etc.)

Wednesday, July 25
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Behringer – Pattern Formation in Granular Systems I	3:15 – 4:30 PM	Levine – Pattern Formation in Biological Systems II
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:30 – 5:30	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Bodenschatz – Crystal growth: experiments

Thursday, July 26
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Coullet – Pattern Formation III	3:00 – 3:15 PM	Middleton – Ground state algorithms: why, how, and results
10:15 – 10:45	Break	3:15 – 4:30	Goldenfeld – Turbulence
10:45 – 12:00	Levine – Pattern Formation in Biological Systems III	4:30 - 5:30	Discussion

Friday, July 27
9:00 – 10:15 AM	Behringer – Pattern Formation in Granular Systems II	2:45 – 4:00 PM	Bodenschatz – Turbulence - experiments
10:15 – 10:45	Break	4:00 – 5:00	Discussion
10:45 – 12:00	Goldenfeld – Renormalization Group Methods Far from Equilibrium	5:00	School BBQ