Jamming and Rheology: Constrained Dynamics on Microscopic and Macroscopic Scales

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Jamming and Rheology: Constrained Dynamics on Microscopic and Macroscopic Scales

October 12-16, 1997

Coordinators: S. Edwards, A. J. Liu, S. Nagel and M. Robbins

Schedule

All sessions in ITP Main Seminar Room, Kohn Hall, unless otherwise indicated.

Transparencies from talks at this conference are presented below --- just click on the links. ITP intends to keep this conference posted on the Web indefinitely.

You can also hear audio recordings from some of the principal talks, if your computer is suitably equipped. Look for talks marked [Audio].

ITP is grateful to the Coordinators and the ITP staff who made this conference a success.

Sunday, October 12, 1997

Time	Speaker	Title
1:00 pm	Registration	ITP Lobby
1:45	David Gross, ITP Director	Welcome to the ITP
	Chair: Matthew Fisher
2:00	Sidney Nagel	Experimental Remarks[Audio]
2:30	Sam Edwards	Theoretical Remarks[Audio]
3:15	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
Glasses I	Chair: Gary Grest
3:45	Gilles Tarjus	Glasses: OVERVIEW[Audio]
4:25	Mark Ediger	Evidence for spatially heterogeneous dynamics in supercooled liquids.
4:55	Herman Cummins	Dynamics of Liquids and the Glass Transition: Recent Comparisons with the Mode Coupling Theory
5:25	Robert Leheny	Dielectric Susceptibility Studies of Deeply Supercooled Liquids
5:55	Daniel Kivelson	Frustration-Limited Domains: a Theory of Supercooled Liquids
6:30	Buffet Dinner	ITP FrontPatio

Monday, October 13, 1997

Time	Speaker	Title
Powders I	Chair: Elie Raphael
9:00 am	Susan Coppersmith	Powders: OVERVIEW[Audio]
9:40	Joachim Wittmer	Stress Propagation and Arching in Static Sandpiles
10:10	George Cody	Particle Fluctuation Velocity, or Granular Temperature, in Gas Fluidized Beds - Scaling with Gas Flow and Particle Diameter, and Correlation with Accepted (Jackson/Wallis) Models of Initial Stability of Fluidized State, and Empirical (Geldart) Classification of Fluidization Phenomena
10:40	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
11:10	Naryanan Menon	Dynamics in Driven Granular Media
11:40	Irwin Oppenheim	Molecular Description of Granular Flow
12:10 pm	Lunch	ITP Center Patio
Foams I	Chair: Gary Leal
2:00	Andrea Liu	Foams: OVERVIEW[Audio]
2:40	Francois Lequeux	Behavior of Concentrated Emulsions under Strain
3:10	David Weitz	Rheology of Compressed Emulsions
3:40	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
4:10	Dov Levine	Some Geometrical Aspects of Emulsion Rheology
4:40	Andrew Kraynik	Microrheology of Ordered and Random Foams
5:10	POSTER SESSION	(Light Refereshments)

Tuesday, October 14, 1997

Time	Speaker	Title
Unsteady Rheology	Chair: Glenn Fredrickson
9:00 am	Mark Robbins	Unsteady Rheology: OVERVIEW[Audio]
9:40	Arlette Baljon	Simulations of Stick-to-Slip Transition and Memory in Confined Fluids
10:10	Jean Carlson	Friction at Lubricated Interfaces
10:40	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
11:10	Jerry Gollub	Frictional Dynamics of Sheared Granular Materials
11:40	Doug Durian	Bubble Dynamics in Flowing Foams
12:30 pm	Patio Barbeque	ITP Front Patio
	Afternoon Free

Wednesday, October 15, 1997

Time	Speaker	Title
Aging	Chair: Daniel Fisher
9:00	Jorge Kurchan	Aging: OVERVIEW[Audio]
9:40	J.-P. Bouchaud	Large Length Scales Energy Landscape for Pinned Objects and Aging
10:10	J.-L. Barrat	Aging Dynamics and Fluctuation-Dissipation Ratio in a Lennard-Jones Glass
10:40	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
Foams II	Chair: Martin Gelfand
11:10	Peter Sollich	Rheology of Soft Glassy Materials
11:40	Stephen Langer	"Temperature" of Flowing Foam
12:10 pm	Michael Dennin	Shearing 2D Foams: an Experimental Study
12:40 pm	Lunch	ITP Front Patio
Glasses II	Chair: Shivaji Sondhi
2:30	Bulbul Chakraborty	Glassy Relaxations in a Frustrated Spin Model
3.00	Akira Onuki	Nonlinear Rheology in a Highly Supercooled Liquid
3:30	Sharon Glotzer	Dynamic Heterogeneities and Cooperative Motion in Simulations of Glass-forming Liquids
4:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
4:30	Sergei Obukhov	Topologically Induced Glass Transition in Freely Rotating Rods
5:00	William Klein	The Role of Structures in Structural Glasses
5:30	Robin Stinchcombe	Nonequilibrium Granular and Glassy Models
6:00	POSTER SESSION	(Light Refreshments)

Thursday, October16, 1997

Time	Speaker	Title
Powders II	Chair: David Pine
9:00 am	Joe Goddard	Reynolds Dilatancy as Macro-constraint
9:30	Ed Nowak	Relaxation, Reversibility, and Fluctuations in the Density of Vibrated Granular Material
10:00	Anita Mehta	Dynamics of Shaken Granular Materials
10:30	Refreshment Break	ITP Front Patio
11:00	Dan Howell	Fluctuations in Sheared Granular Materials
11:30	Antonio Coniglio	Frustrated Models for Glasses and Granular Compaction
12:00	Lunch	ITP Front Patio
Wrap-up Session	Chair: James Langer
2:00	Shlomo Alexander	Summary[Audio]
2:40	T.V. Ramakrishnan	Summary[Audio]
3:20	Thomas Witten	Summary[Audio]
4:00	Conference Ends

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