Phase Separation in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
Budapest, July 2-7, 2000
Eötvös School - Program
July 2 (Sunday)
General introduction and overview
9:00- 9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:45 K. Binder
Kinetics of Phase Separation in the Bulk and in
Confined Geometries:
An Overview
11:15-12:45 P.Fratzl
Phase Separation in Materials: Experiments and Computer Simulation
14:30-16:00 A. J. Bray
Dynamics of Phase Separation: Theoretical Perspectives
16:30-18:00 L.Gránásy
Nucleation and growth in discrete and continuum models
(Exercises)
July 3 (Monday)
Complex fluids, granular media, and traffic
9:00-10:30 I. Jánosi
Granular Systems I: Introduction and Phenomenology of Segregation
11:00-12:30 J. Kertész
Granular Systems II: Theoretical Approaches to Stratification,
Traffic Jams, and Clustering
14:30-16:00 Á. Buka and L. Kramer
Abnormal rolls and chevrons in electroconvection
16:30-18:00 W. van Saarloos
What's unusual about (noisy) fronts propagating
into unstable state?
18:00-19:00
Exercises, Workshop I - Short talks
July 4 (Tuesday)
Astrophysical and elementary-particle applications
9:00-10:30, 11:00-11:45 H.J. de Vega
Primordial Cosmology and Particle Physics
11:45-12:30 A. Patkós
From density fluctuations to galaxy formation
14:30-16:00 Z. Fodor
Electroweak phase transitions
16:30-18:00
Exercises, Workshop II - Short talks
July 5 (Wednesday)
Biological applications
9:00-10:30 T. Vicsek
Collective behaviour: from bacteria to humans
11:00-12:30 G. Forgács
Physics in the Extracellular Matrix
14:30-16:00 G. Szabó
Pattern evolution in Lotka-Volterra type systems
16:30-17:30
Workshop III - Short talks
July 6 (Thursday)
Chemical systems
9:00-10:30 M. Droz
Formation of Liesegang patterns
11:00-12:30 J. Vollmer
Frustration, Flow and Phase Separation in Amphiphilic Mixtures
14:30-16:00 H. Frisch
Diffusion through barriers
16:30-18:00 V. Privman
Size distribution in growth of fine particles
July 7 (Friday)
Far from equilibrium driven systems
9:00-10:30 D. Mukamel
Coarsening processes in driven systems
11:00-12:30 R. K. P. Zia
Phase Ordering in Driven Diffusive Systems
14:30-16:00 B. Schmittmann
Vacancy-mediated dynamics: Towards order or disorder
16:30-18:00 M. Plischke
Surface Growth and Phase Separation
18:00-19:00
Workshop IV - Short talks