8:30–10:00a Registration (Room 304)

9:00–10:00a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion in Conference Room 201)

10:00–10:05a David P. Landau (The University of Georgia)

Introductory Remarks

10:05–11:05a Michail Michailov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

"Monte Carlo Simulations of Monoatomic Layers"

11:20–11:35a Joan Adler (Technion)

"Visualizing Bulk and Surface Melting"

11:50a–12:05p Dennis Rapaport (Bar-Ilan University)

"Folding"

12:15p Lunch

2:00–3:00p Malcolm Stocks (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

"First Principles Spin Dynamics Studies of the Magnetic Structure of Alloys and Interfaces"

3:15–3:30p Thomas Prellberg (Technische Universität Clausthal)

"Monte Carlo Investigation of Lattice Models of Polymer Collapse in Five Dimensions"

4:00-4:15p Andrey Milchev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

"Wetting in a Wedge"

4:30–4:45p Marc Fasnacht (Carnegie Mellon University)

"Adaptive Monte Carlo"

5:00-5:15p Kurt Binder (Universität Mainz)

"The Droplet Evaporation/Condensation Transition in a Finite Volume"

5:30-5:45p Jason DeJoannis (Emory University)

"Configurational Bias Monte Carlo Applied to Lipid Membranes in the Semi-grand Ensemble to Speed up Mixing"

9:00–10:00a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion) (Conference Room 201)

10:00–11:00a Phillip Duxbury (Michigan State University)

"Network Algorithms Which Globally Optimize Random Manifolds"

11:15–11:30a Thomas Schulthess (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

"The Electronic State of Mn Impurities in III-V Semiconductors"

11:45a–12:00 Noon Yukiyasu Ozeki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

"Numerical Study of Critical Exponents for Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition Systems"

12:15p Lunch

2:00–3:00p Wolfgang Paul (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität)

"Computer Simulations of Polymers: Physics and Methods from Specific to Universal"

3:15-3:30p Aniket Bhattacharya (University of Central Florida)

"Amphiphlic Self-assembly: Comparison of Simulation Results from Different Models and Methods"

4:00-5:00p Harvey Gould (Clark University)

(Special Physics Dept./CSP Workshop Joint Colloquium in Main Auditorium)

"Teaching Statistical Physics Using Simulations"

9:00–10:00a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion) (Conference Room 201)

10:00–11:00a Toru Sakai (Tohoku University)

"Finite Temperature Simulation Based on Lanczos Algorithm for Low-dimensional Quantum Systems"

11:15–11:30a Hiroshi Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

"Non-equilibrium Relaxaton Analysis on Two-dimensional Melting"

11:45a–12:00 Noon Kristel Michielsen (University of Groningen)

"Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanoindentation"

12:15p Lunch

2:00–3:00p John Laszcz (IBM)

"High Performance Computing"

3:15–3:30p Oner Kozan (Carnegie-Mellon University)

"Building Networks with Random Graphs"

4:00-4:15p Ed Lyman (Virginia Tech)

"A Nonequilibrium Lattice Gas of Two-species: Monte Carlo Investigations"

4:30-4:45p Hans De Raedt (University of Groningen)

"Decoherence in Quantum Spin Systems"

5:00-5:15p Tota Nakamura (Tohoku University)

"Weak Universality of Spin Glass Models in Three Dimensions"

5:30-5:45p Stratos Manousakis (Florida State University)

"Long Range Phase Coherence in Arrangements of Hole-poor/Hole-rich Domains in Doped 2D Quantum Antiferromagnets"

7:00–8:30p Workshop Reception [Dean Rusk Hall, 4th Floor Reception Hall ( see map in folder)]

9:00–9:30a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion) (Conference Room 201)

9:30–9:45a Per Rikvold (Florida State University)

"Punctuated Equilibriua in a Model of Coevolving Biological Populations"

10:00–11:00a Beatte Schmittmann (Virginia Tech)

"Fast Coarsening in a Quasi One-dimensional Driven System"

11:15–11:30a Vladimir Antropov (Iowa State University)

"First Principle Simulations of the Finite Temperature Properties in Magnets"

11:45a–12:00 Noon Nobuyasu Ito (The University of Tokyo)

"Nonequilibrium Relaxation of Spin-Glass System"

12:15p Lunch

2:00–3:00p Karin Rabe (Rutgers University)

"Lattice Instabilites of Complex Oxides from First Principles"

3:15–3:30p György Korniss (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

"Stochastic Growth in a Small World"

4:00–5:00p Hugo Martel (University of Texas)

(Computational Astrophysics Colloquium in Main Auditorium)

"Innovative Numerical Algorithms for Astrophysical Simulations"

9:00–9:30a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion) (Conference Room 201)

9:30-9:45a Wolfhard Janke (Universität Leipzig)

"Quenched Disorder in Three-dimensional Ferromagnets"

10:00-10:15a Hans-Georg Matuttis (University of Tokyo)

"Quantum Computing Simulation Using the Auxiliary Field Decomposition"

10:30-10:45a Ben Jesko Schulz (Johannes Gutenberg Universität)

"Thin Films of a Compressible Binary Mixture Confined Between Competing Walls"

11:00-11:15 Yusuke Tomita (University of Tokyo)

"Generalized Probability-Changing Algorithm"

11:30-11:45 Munehisa Matsumoto (University of Tokyo)

"Quantum Phase Transitions of Quasi-one-dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnets"

12:00-12:15p Heinz-Bernd Schüttler (The University of Georgia)

"An Ensemble Approach of Biological Circuit Identification"

12:30p David P. Landau (The University of Georgia)

Closing Remarks