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May 31 - June 2, 2007
Lattices and Trajectories:
A Symposium of Mathematical Chemistry in honour of
Ray Kapral and Stu Whittington
Fields Institute, Toronto
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Organizing Committee:
Jeremy Schofield (Chemistry, UToronto)
John Valleau (Chemistry, UToronto)
Robbie Grunwald (Chemistry, UToronto)
Gary Iliev (Chemistry, UToronto)
Maria Sabaye Moghaddam (Biochemistry, UToronto)
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The Connaught Fund
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This symposium
will celebrate the outstanding scientific work and stellar academic
careers of Ray Kapral and Stu Whittington at the University of Toronto
on the occasion of their 65th birthdays. To this end, the symposium
will draw together a number of leading researchers from an international
community in Chemical Physics to discuss recent developments in the
fields to which the honorees have contributed so meaningfully.
Sessions
Knots and Polymers
Random Spatial Processes
Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics
Nonlinear Systems and Pattern Formation
Current List of Invited Speakers
Richard Brak, University of Melbourne
Giovanni Ciccotti, Rome
Hugues Chaté, Saclay
David Coker, Boston University
Tony Guttmann, University of Melbourne
Frank den Hollander, University of Leiden & EURANDOM
J.T. Hynes, University of Colorado and Ecole Normale Supérieure,
Paris
Neal Madras, York University
Gregoire Nicolis, Brussels
Gian-Luca Oppo, Strathclyde
Enzo Orlandini, Universita degli Studi di Padova
Buks van Rensburg, York University
Ken Showalter, West Virginia
Christine Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
De Witt Sumners, Florida State
Schedule
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Invited Talks |
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Contributed Talks |
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Thursday, May 31
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Friday, June 1
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Saturday, June 2
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Session Chair:
Glenn Torrie
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Session Chair:
Ken Millett
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| 9:00 – 10:20 |
Registration |
9-9:40 |
Hugues
Chaté - Collective properties of active polar and nematic
particles |
9-9:40 |
Neal
Madras - Polymers on hyperbolic lattices |
| 10:20-10:30 |
Opening
Remarks |
9:45-10:25 |
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Witt Sumners - Random thoughts about random knotting |
9:45-10:25 |
Gregoire
Nicolis - Nonlinear dynamics and self-organization in
the presence of metastable phases |
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Session Chair:
John Valleau
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10:30-10:45 |
Break |
10:30-10:45 |
Break |
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Session Chair:
David Gaunt
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Session Chair:
Gary Iliev
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| 10:30-11:15 |
Tony
Guttmann - Role of conformational entropy in force-induced
bio-polymer unfolding |
10:45-11 |
Steve
Nielsen - Quantifying the surfactant coverage of nanoparticles
by molecular dynamics simulation: the physisorbed versus chemisorbed
cases |
10:45-11 |
Leon
Glass - Predicting and preventing sudden cardiac death |
| 11:20-12:05 |
Giovanni
Ciccotti - Minimum free energy paths and isocommittor
surfaces |
11:05-11:45 |
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J Janse van Rensburg - Knotted lattice polygons |
11:05-11:45 |
Enzo
Orlandini - Directed walk models of polmers stretched
by a force |
| 12:05-2:00 |
Lunch |
11:50-12:05 |
Tom
Shiokawa - Non-Markovian dynamics and quantum Brownian
motion |
11:50-12:05 |
Jennifer
Lee - Collapse transition in the presence of an applied force |
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Session Chair:
Ed Celarier
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| 2:00-2:15 |
Garnet
Ord - Counting oriented rectangles and the propogation
of waves |
12:05-2:30 |
Lunch |
12:05-2:30 |
Lunch |
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Session Chair:
Steve Carnie
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Session
Chair:
Ramses Van Zon |
| 2:20-3:00 |
Chris
Soteros - Random copolymer models |
2:30-3:10 |
Kenneth
Showalter – Spatio-temporal dynamics of networks of excitable
nodes |
2:30-3:10 |
J T
Hynes - Solvation and photochemical funnels: Environmental
effects on conical intersection structure and dynamics |
| 3:05-3:20 |
Antonio
Politi - Chaos without exponential instability |
3:15-3:30 |
Charles
Wu - Ion dynamics in non-perfect quadrupole traps |
3:15-3:30 |
Royce
Zia - Percolation of a collection of finite random walks:
A model for gas permeation through thin polymeric membranes |
| 3:20-3:35 |
Break |
3:35-4:05 |
Richard
Brak - Directed path models of certain polymer phase
transitions |
3:30-3:45 |
Break |
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Session Chair:
Rob Grunwald
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Session Chair:
Jeremy Schofield
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| 3:35-3:50 |
Rashmi
Desai - Epitaxial Growth in coherent, strained, asymmetric
alloy films |
4:05-4:20 |
Break |
3:45-4:00 |
Katrin
Rohlf - From excitable media on the large scale to reaction-diffusion
mechanisms on the small scale |
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Session Chair:
Simon Fraser
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| 3:55-4:35 |
Gian-Luca
Oppo – Spatio-temporal Structures in photonics and chemistry |
4:25-4:40 |
Andrew
Rechnitzer – Mean unknotting times of random knots and
embeddings |
4:05-4:20 |
Aleks
Owczarek - Polymers in a slab with attractive walls:
Scaling and numerical results. |
| 4:40–
5:00 |
Jörn
Davidsen - Filament induced surface spiral turbulence |
4:45-5:30 |
David
Coker - Modeling electronic and vibrational pure dephasing
and dissipation dynamics in condensed phase systems |
4:25-5:10 |
Frank
Den Hollander - Copolymers in emulsions |
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Reception |
6:30
– 8:00 |
Concert
at Hart House with
Catherine Manoukian |
6:30
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Banquet |
Participant List as of June 2, 2007
| Fullname |
University Name |
| Alvarez, Juan |
University of Saskatchewan |
| Arbuckle, Susan M. |
University of Toronto |
| Brak, Richard |
The University of Melbourne |
| Carnie, Steven |
University of Melbourne |
| Celarier, Edward |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Chaté, Hugues |
CEA |
| Ciccotti, Giovanni |
Universitŕ degli Studi di Roma-"La Sapienza" |
| Coker, David |
Boston University |
| Davidsen, Jörn |
University of Calgary |
| Davoudi, Jahanshah |
University of Toronto |
| den Hollander, Frank |
Universiteit Leiden |
| Desai, Rashmi |
University of Toronto |
| Diao, Yuanan |
University of North Carolina - Charlotte |
| Fraser, Simon |
University of Toronto |
| Gaunt, David |
King's College London |
| Glass, Leon |
McGill University |
| Grassberger, Peter |
University of Calgary |
| Gruner, Daniel |
University of Toronto |
| Grunwald, Robert |
University of Toronto |
| Guttmann, Tony |
University of Melbourne |
| Hanna, Gabriel |
University of Michigan |
| Hernandez de la Pena, Lisandro |
Concordia University |
| Hynes, James |
Ecole Normale Superieure |
| Iliev, Gerasim |
University of Toronto |
| James, Edna |
Algoma University College |
| Kapral, Maureen |
University of Toronto |
| Kapral, Raymond E. |
University of Toronto |
| Kelly, Aaron |
University of Toronto |
| Lawniczak, Anna T. |
University of Guelph |
| Lee, Jennifer |
University of Toronto |
| Levere, Trevor |
University of Toronto |
| Madras, Neal |
York University |
| Martin-Nielsen, Richard |
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada |
| Millett, Kenneth |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Nicolis, Grégoire |
Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| Nielsen, Steven |
University of Texas at Dallas |
| Oppo, Gian-Luca |
University of Strathclyde |
| Opps, Sheldon |
University of Prince Edward Island |
| Ord, Garnet |
Ryerson University |
| Orlandini, Enzo |
Universita degli Studi di Padova |
| Owczarek, Aleksander |
University of Melbourne |
| Plyukhin, Alex |
University of Saskatchewan |
| Politi, Antonio |
CNR |
| Rechnitzer, Andrew |
University of British Columbia |
| Rohlf, Katrin |
Ryerson University |
| Sabaye Moghaddam, Maria |
University of Toronto |
| Schofield, Jeremy |
University of Toronto |
| Sharma, Bhanu Pratap |
ILAS |
| Shiokawa, Tom |
National Center for Theoretical Sciences |
| Showalter, Kenneth |
West Virginia University |
| Snider, Neil |
Northwestern University |
| Soteros, Christine |
University of Saskatchewan |
| Sumners, De Witt |
Florida State University |
| Tesi, Maria Carla |
University of Bologna |
| Torrie, Glenn |
Royal Military College |
| Valleau, John |
University of Toronto |
| van Rensburg, E. J. Janse |
York University |
| Van Zon, Ramses |
University of Toronto |
| Whittington, Stuart |
University of Toronto |
| Wu, Xiao-Guang |
Revionics, Inc. |
| Zia, Royce |
Virginia Tech |
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Travel Support for PDF and students
There is limited support to assist PDF and students with travel expenses.
Deadline to apply was April 1, 2007.
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