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Inaugural Session [Hall J]

Monday 5 July 2004

Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks : From the topology of the www to the cell's genetic network

The physics of active processes in living cells

1100-1300

Recent results for the 6 and 8 vertex model at roots of unity and hard sphere virial coefficients

O(1) ground states, stochastic processes and fully packed loops

Self-avoiding polygons, planar random loop boundaries and the Airy distribution

The double fully packed loop ( FPL² ) model

New Results for Exactly Solvable Systems with Frustration

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking by Partial or Topological Fields

Double Criticality and Density Anomaly in Lattice Gas Model

Dominant Paths and the Bootstrap Transition : Reunification of Theory and Simulations near the Arrest

Critical Dynamics of Superconductors in the Charge regime

Session 5.1 [Hall AB]

Measurements of the Lagrangian Statistics in the Fully Developed Turbulence of Dilute Polymer Solutions

Pattern formations in chaotic extended systems

Multifractality in the Stochastically Forced Burgers Equations

Transport of passive scalars by three-dimensional chaotic flows

Statistical properties of driven Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in three dimensions

Evolution of scale-free random graphs : Potts model formulation

Generalised Percolation for Complex Networks

Self-organised pattern formation in a model of collective choice dynamics

Transient Patterns and Traffic in Colonies of Organisms

Optimal random searches of revisitable targets : crossover from superdiffusive to ballistic random walks

1545-1745

Session 3.1 [Hall J]

Universal scaling for growth processes in one space dimension

Condensation Transitions in Non-equilibrium Systems

Mode-coupling theory of heat conduction in a chain

Universal Distribution of Resistance Fluctuations in Highly Disordered Granular Materials

Segregation in diffusion-limited multispecies pair annihilation

Session 4.1 [Hall E] 

Length Scales and Time Scales in First-Passage of Step Wandering on Solid Surfaces

Network Formation of Cavity Regions in a Granular Material due to Viscous Flow

Persistence of Height Fluctuations in Radially Growing Surfaces

Studying Infrequent Processes by Transition Interface Sampling

The Depletion Zone in Low-Dimensional Photobleaching Trapping Reactions

Interface Characteristics of Spreading Droplets

Session 6.1 [Hall AB]

"Strange" electrostatics in physics, chemistry and biology

Simulation and theory of vibrational phase relaxation in the critical and supercritical nitrogen : Origin of observed anomalies

Dynamics of drag and force distributions for projectile impact in a granular medium

Computer simulation of the phase diagram of water

Response of Hexagonal Granular Packing under Localized External Force

Session 9.1 [Hall F]

From Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules to BCS Pairing in Ultra-Cold Fermi Gases

Superfluid, Mott-Insulator, and Mass-Density-Wave Phases in the One-Dimensional Extended Bose-Hubbard Model

Neutron Scattering Spectra of Alternating Spin Chains

Quantum instanton approximation of the isotopic effects on the reaction rate constants

1815-1900

Session 3.2 [Hall J]

Non-equilibrium relaxation method: an alternative simulation strategy

Clustering of passive scalars advected by a 1-d noisy Burgers fluid

Session 6.2 [Hall AB]

Bending and Buckling waves of Thin Granular Layer

Session 9.2 [Hall F]

Interplay of Interactions, Disorder and Magnetic Field in the 2D Hubbard Model

Exact Solution For the Influence of Spectral Diffusion on Single-Molecule Photon-Statistics

Session 10.1 [Hall E]

A sigma model approach to fluctuations in systems with glassy dynamics

Onset temperature of slow dynamics and fragility in glass forming liquids

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Theoretical Approaches to the Glass Transition in Simple Liquids

1100-1300

Structure and cluster formation in granular media

Control of Spatio-temporal Disorder in Parametrically Forced Surface Waves

Dislocation Formation in Phase - Separating Alloys

Patterns in Melting Snow and Vapour Deposited Layers

R. Roy

From Eden to Invasion: Field Induced Domain Growth in Random-Field Ising Model

Power Laws, Precursors and Predictability During Failure

Synchronization by Nonlinear Frequency Pulling

Turbulent viscosity in Rayleigh-Benard convection

Nonlinear dynamical systems with parametric modulation

Kinetic theory of Turbulence: A Microscopic Derivation of Subgrid Model

Destruction of bulk ordering by surface randomness

Surface critical behaviour of one-component fluids near weakly attractive substrate

Interfacial structure at a two-dimensional wedge filling transition: Exact results and a renormalization group study

Transport of Liquid Monolayers on Substrates with Chemical Patterns

A new model for the velocity auto correlation function and self-diffusivity of inhomogeneous fluids

Statistical physics, Optimization and Coding Theory

Clustering and information in correlation based financial networks

Modelling the evolution of the yeast protein interaction network in the framework of protein families

Analysis and Comparison of Incomplete Enumeration Monte-Carlo algorithm for Linear and Branched Polymers

Distribution of epicenters in the Olami-Feder-Christensen Model

1545-1745

Bulk and Boundary Critical Behaviour at Lifshitz Points

Phase Transition in Parallel Computational Complexity in Statistical Physics

Going Extreme: Liquid Stability Limits and the Energy Landscape Approach

Percolation of water in aqueous systems and its relation to phase transitions

A new kind of Monte Carlo Sampling in Statistical Physics

Phase transitions, the entropy function and topology

Phase separation in binary mixtures: Oscillatory instabilities under continuous cooling or heating

Non-linear Visco-Elasticity of Biopolymer Networks

Polymer-colloid mixtures: The effects of polymer excluded volume

Long-lived Bound Pairs : Direct Evidence for Long-range Attraction Between Like-Charged Colloids

Mutual attraction of charged nanoparticles at interfaces

Effect of quenched disorder on the elasticity of a smectic liquid crystal

The Geometrical Structure of Disordered Sphere Packings

Equilibrium glassy phase in a polydisperse hard -sphere system

Recent developments in the theory of spin glasses

Experimental study of the diffusion properties in a sheared granular media

Kinetically constrained models and glassy dynamics: analytical results for the Kob-Andersen Model

Genome Evolution by Substitutions, Duplications and Deletions

Self-organised Pattern Formation in Motor-Microtubule Mixtures

Statistical Analysis of Bacillus Subtilis Protein-Protein Interaction Network

1815-1900

Why you need a functional RG to survive in a disordered world

Universality Near Dynamical Arrest and the Glass transition

Do secondary structures play a role in messenger RNA processing ? A statistical study

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Boltzmann Award Session [Hall J]

Wednesday 7 July 2004

Statistics and Dynamics - An Unresolved Problem

Correlated Randomness and Statistical Physics : Liquid Water, Economics, and Alzheimer's Disease

Fluctuations and Large Deviations in Non-equilibrium Systems

Phase Transitions, Interfacial Fluctuations and Hidden Symmetries for Fluids near Structured Walls

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Aspects of Dynamics in soft and Granular Systems

1015-1215

Session 1.2 [Hall J]

Thursday 8 July 2004

On the dynamical foundations of non-extensive statistical mechanics

Inhomogeneous classical charge fluids at equilibrium

Existence of solution to the Bethe Ansatz equations for the one dimensional Hubbard model on a finite lattice

The exact high-temperature expansion method for integrable low-dimensional quantum spin systems and comparison with real materials

Finite size corrections for the dimer model

A General Matrix Product Ansatz for Integrable Quantum Chains

Session 3.3 [Hall E]

Thursday 8 July 2004

Interplay of Wetting and Phase Separation at Surfaces

Heat and Work Fluctuations in Small Driven Systems With a Heat Bath

Irreversible transport in a fully Hamiltonian Model

Force and Velocity Autocorrelation Functions of Liquid Metal

On the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Piston Problem

Flow-induced currents in nanotubes: A Brownian dynamics approach

On the probability distribution of residence times of sand grains in sandpile models

Session 5.3 [Hall F]

Thursday 8 July 2004

Onsager and the Theory of Hydrodynamic Turbulence

Aging dynamics at edge of chaos and intermittency at critical transition

Statistics of unstable periodic orbits of a chaotic dynamical system with a large number of degrees of freedom

The Varieties of Dynamic Multiscaling in Turbulence

Aging in Sub-Diffusion Generated by a Deterministic Dynamical System

Stabilization and destabilization of the synchronized state in coupled dynamical systems by varying coupling strengths

Session 8.2 [Hall AB]

Thursday 8 July 2004

The dynamics of droplets on chemically and topologically patterned substrates

Fluctuation-Induced Interaction In and Out of Equillibrium

Thermodynamic Casimir forces in 3He-4He mixtures films near bulk tricritical point

Pathways of dewetting of one-layer and two-layer films of soft matter

Predicting physical properties of disordered media from a single tomographic image

1500-1700

Session 2.4 [Hall E]

Thursday 8 July 2004

The analytic structure of lattice models

Correlated Acoustic Emission and Shape Memory Effect

Quantum spin chains and mass spectrum of the O(3) sigma model with theta term

Anisotropic colloidal particles in critical fluids

Large scale numerical simulations of "ultrametric" long range depinning

Surprises in driven diffusive systems with two species of particles

Session 7.3 [Hall F]

Thursday 8 July 2004

Polymer Mixtures in Confined Geometry: Model Systems To Explore Phase Transitions

Colloidal interactions in nematic liquid crystals

Levy Flights in Viscoelastic Gels of Cylindrical Micelles : A Dynamic Light Scattering Study

Equilibrium phase behaviour of polydisperse hard spheres

Collective dynamics of relatively sheared soft monolayers: shear induced melting and re-entrance, and melting-freezing cycles

Study of Phase transformations via Anomalous Peak(s) Effects in Weakly Pinned Superconductors

Session 10.4 [Hall AB]

Thursday 8 July 2004

Aging, rejuvenation and memory effects in glassy magnetic systems

Sample to sample fluctuations in spin glasses

Metastability and Supersymmetry in Disordered Systems

Complexity and supersymmetry in mean-field spin glasses

Gaussian density fluctuations, mode coupling theory, and all that

Session 11.3 [Hall J]

Thursday 8 July 2004

Simulating the kinetics of a simplified polypeptide model: what can it tell us about cooperativity?

Dynamics of active fission-fusion on membranes :Trafficking networks

1730-1815

Session 6.3 [Hall E]

Thursday 8 July 2004

Intermediate range order and transport processes in multicomponent melts: Computer simulation studies

Session 7.4 [Hall F]

Thursday 8 July 2004

Local Simulation Algorithm with Coulombic Interactions

A Frustrated Packing Model for the B6-B1-B2 Sequence of Phases Exhibited by Banana-Shaped Molecules

Session 10.5 [Hall AB]

Thursday 8 July 2004

Cluster Coexistence, Memory Effects, Energy Landscape in Spin Models with Competing Interactions and Bond Disorder

TAP Complexity, the Cavity Method and Supersymmetry

Session 11.4 [Hall J]

Thursday 8 July 2004

Oscillating Gene Expressions in Regulatory Networks

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Critical Casimir Forces and Anomalous Wetting

Mathematical Aspects of Scaling Limit of 2-d Critical Systems

1100-1300

Session 3.4 [Hall F]

Friday 9 July 2004

Application of the Density Matrix Renormalization Group in Non-equilibrium Systems

Asymmetric Random Average Process

Ab initio Derivation of the Hydrodynamic Modes and Entropy Production

Flow-Induced Current and Voltage Generation in Carbon Nanotubes

Application of Dynamic Density Fluctuation Theory to Steady State Distributions

Session 4.3 [Hall AB]

Friday 9 July 2004

Exact Nonstationary Probabilities in the Asymmetric Exclusion Process on a Ring

On The Geometry of 2D Network Patterns: Soap Froths, Fractures and leaf venation

Spatiotemporal Rheological Chaos in a Sheared Nematogenic Fluid

Steady States and Pattern Formation in vibrated granular materials

Session 7.5 [Hall E]

Friday 9 July 2004

Screening of Spherical Colloids Beyond Mean Field { A Local Density Functional Approach}

Novel Experiments Lead to Statistical Measurements of Jamming

The Cone Phase and the Escape "Disclination" Phase of Liquid Crystals

Lattice Dynamics of bcc and fcc Charged Colloidal Crystals

Session 11.5 [Hall J]

Friday 9 July 2004

Free-energy recovery of RNA tertiary structure from irreversible measurement of mechanical unfolding and refolding

Study of Diffusion and Chemotaxis in Cell Motion Using Cellular Potts Model

Percolation and Burgers' Dynamics in a Model of Capillary Formation

Scaling with log-periodic Oscillations in a Null Model For RNA Interference

Stability , Dynamics and Rheology of Suspensions of Active Particles

Chromatin Dynamics and Symmetry Breaking During Genomic Regulation

1545-1745

Session 1.3 [Hall E]

Friday 9 July 2004

Integral Geometry in Statistical Physics: The Shape of Matter

Non-dissipating Transport and Crossover Phenomena in the Spin-1/2 XXZ Chain

Structure Function of an Ising Model on a Penrose Tiling

Session 6.4 [Hall AB]

Friday 9 July 2004

Effects of a Metastable Liquid-Liquid Critical Point On the Crystal Nucleation

Effective Pair Potential Description of Simple Atomic Fluids with three-Body Interactions

Statistics of Power Input into a vibrated Granular System

Statistics of Friction Fluctuations at the Liquid / Solid Granular Phase Transition

Session 9.3 [Hall F]

Friday 9 July 2004

Existence of a Gapless Line and a Possible Lifshitz Point for the One Dimensional Quantum Axial Next Nearest Neighbour Ising (ANNNI) Chain

Semiclassical Foundation of Universality in Quantum Chaos

Frustration Due to Exchange Anisotropy in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

Generalized Disorder Measures and Quantum Entanglement

A New Look at the Quantum Phase Transition in the 2D Quantum Ising Spin Glass

Session 12.3 [Hall J]

Friday 9 July 2004

First Order Phase Transition in a Simple Social Network Dynamics

Searching Good Strategies in Evolutionary Minority Game Using Variable Length Genetic Algorithm

Intelligent Controlling Simulation of Traffic Flow at a Small City Network

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Informal talk by D.J.Bukman on The editorial process for Physical Review right after the formal scientific session in Hall J

Informal session http://www.if.ufrgs.br/~barbosa/society.htmlright after the formal scientific session in Hall J