Tutorial for students and postdoctoral researchers
KPTC 120, Friday, Oct 21
2:00 PM Critical Phenomena, Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
3:15 PM Break
3:45 PM Turbulence, Detlef Lohse (University of Twente, Netherlands)
5:00 PM Pizza dinner for students/postdocs
Kadanoff Memorial Symposium:
KPTC 106, Saturday, Oct 22
9:00 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 AM Pierre Hohenberg - An Overview of Leo's Scientific Legacy
9:40 AM Édouard Brézin - Critical fluctuations : Leo's legacy
10:05 AM Michael Fisher - Leo Kadanoff as I knew him
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Susan Coppersmith - Searching for more simple lessons from complexity
11:25 AM Mitch Feigenbaum
11:50 AM Scott Shenker - What I Learned from Leo
12:15 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Albert Libchaber
2:25 PM Boris Shraiman - New Physics from Biology?
2:50 PM Sara Solla - Learning in a noisy environment: a Lyapunov equation approach
3:15 PM David Bensimon - A quantitative perturbative study of somitogenesis
3:40 PM Break
4:10 PM Tony Leggett - Topological quantum computing in (p+ip) Fermi superfluids:some unorthodox thoughts
4:35 PM Amy Kolan - Interactive Computation for Undergraduates: The Next Generation
5:00 PM David Nelson - Non-Hermitian Localization in Biological Networks
Dinner
5:45 PM Reception and Dinner at Quadrangle Club (University Ave and 57th Street)
KPTC 106, Sunday, Oct 23
9:00 AM Gordon Baym - [Baym,Kadanoff]
9:25 AM Steve Shenker - Black holes and random matrices
9:50 AM Ben Widom - On being educated by Leo Kadanoff
10:15 AM Break
10:45 AM Guenter Ahlers - From critical phenomena to turbulence: How I benefited from knowing Leo
11:35 AM Ray Goldstein - Unstable Minimal Surfaces, Topological Transitions, and Systolic Geometry
12:00 noon Chao Tang - Growth behavior of microbes: Monod's problem revisited
12:25 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Jane Wang - Insect flight: from newton's to neurons
2:25 PM Mogens Jensen - Mode Hopping in Cell Dynamics
2:50 PM Dan Rothman - Ocean-Acidification Transition
3:15 PM Michael Brenner - Singularities
3:40 PM Adjourn