Approximately 80 people attended the third annual meeting. In addition to the four invited talks, there were 30 contributed talks.

Please join us on Saturday, October 20, 2001 at Brandeis University to talk and listen to your colleagues in the New England area working in statistical mechanics. The main goal of these meetings is to offer an informal, friendly, and supportive environment where people from a variety of departments and institutions can meet and exchange ideas and where old and new friends can meet. About 85 people attended the second annual Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics meeting at Brandeis.

There will be coffee and bagels from 9:00 am to 9:30 am and four sessions beginning at 9:30 am. Each session features a 30 minute invited talk, and the first three sessions also include three minute contributed talks in the spirit of the Rutgers statistical mechanics meetings. Viewgraphs can be used to show graphs and other visualizations of results, but the use of viewgraphs to present equations is discouraged. Contributors also are encouraged to post their viewgraphs during the coffee breaks to facilitate discussions. Coffee will be available at all times.

Schedule

All talks are in Abelson room 131 in the Department of Physics. Signs will be posted.

The cost of the meeting will be subsidized by the New England Section of the American Physical Society, and hence there is no registration fee if you register by the deadline. However, it is necessary to register in advance so that sufficient food and refreshments will be available. The deadline for registration is Monday, October 15. If you miss the deadline, you are still welcome to attend the meeting, but the cost will be $10 and we cannot guarantee that foof will be available.. Information about joining the New England Section if you are not already a member will be available at the meeting.

Morning Session I

1. Royce Zia, Virginia Tech, "Renormalization group studies of a bilayer driven lattice gas."
2. Uwe Tauber, Virginia Tech, "Surprises with anisotropic variants of the KPZ equation."
3. Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Tech, "Unusual growth dynamics in low-dimensional two-species models."
4. Oliver Ruebenacker, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "How superfluid density becomes two different quantities in 2D."
5. Sidney Redner, Boston University, "Some nuggets on the golden ratio random walk."
6. Nikolay Prokofiev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Worm algorithms for classical statistical models: critical point of the weakly interacting Bose gas in d = 2,3."
7. Prabhakar Pradhan, Northeastern University, "Periodic orbit bifurcation and escape rate of chaotic repellers."
8. Xuenan Li, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Cluster algorithm for path sampling in 1D Ising model."
9. Jayajit Das, Virginia Tech, "Dynamics of flux lines in presence of columnar defects."
10. Ivan Georgiev, University of Maine, Orono, "A position-space renormalization-group approach for driven diffusive systems applied to the one-dimensional driven asymmetric chain."
11. Carmen Gagne, Clark University, "Quantifying nonequilibrium behavior in Ginzburg-Landau models with varying cooling rates."
12. Ilya Ponomarev, University of Rhode Island, "New type of size effect in the conductivity of quantized metal films."
13. I. B. Baryakhtar, Tufts University, "Kinetic properties of solitions in integrable systems."
14. Fred Ellis, Wesleyan University, "Bose condensation involving unconventional ground states."

Morning Session II

1. Udayan Mohanty, Boston College, "Anomalous migration of oligomeric DNA."
2. Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Harvard University, "Direct observation of folding transition state ensemble of C-Src SH3 domain in molecular dynamics simulations."
3. Alois Popp, Harvard University, "Application of a theory for semiflexible polymers: Mechanical properties of actin filaments and networks."
4. Blas Echebarria, Northeastern University, "Universal spatiotemporal dynamics of cardiac alternans."
5. Greg Huber, University of Massachusetts, Boston, "Poking membranes and other kinky bilayer action."
6. Thomas R. Powers, Brown University, "Bacterial flagellar mechanics."

Afternoon Session I

1. Nalini Easwar, Smith College, "Force fluctuations in 2D granular flow."
2. Azadeh Samadani, Clark University, "Shocks in sand flowing in a silo."
3. Jaehyuk Choi, MIT, "Diffusion in granular flow."
4. Wentao Lu, Northeastern University, "Close-packed dimers on nonorientable surfaces."
5. Horacio Castillo, Boston University, "A local look at aging in short range spin glasses."
6. Ahmed Ismail, MIT, "A wavelet-based algorithm for Monte Carlo simulations."
7. Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Northeastern University, "Viscoelastic relaxation and effective temperatures in a polymer glass near the glass transition."
8. Keng-hui Lin, U. of Pennsylvania, "Colloidal interactions in suspensions of rods."
9. Daniel Blair, Clark University, "Self-assembling chains, rings and droplets in dipolar granular fluids."
10. Alexandros Pertsinidis, Brown University, "Dislocation dynamics and viscoplastic flow of 2D colloidal crystals."
11. Vrishali Javeri, University of Maine, Orono, "Low-lying energy states in the Ising spin glass."

The first meeting took place on Saturday, October 16, 1999 at Brandeis. We also honored the memory and work of Eugene Gross, a founding member of the physics faculty at Brandeis University and researcher in statistical mechanics.

Announcements

• Fall meeting of the New England Section of the APS/AAPT, Keene State College, November 2-3, 2001. The theme of the conference is the Confluence of Chemistry and Physics, with talks on condensed matter, surface science, applied and physical chemistry, thin films, nanotechnology, and cross-disciplinary education.
• 86th Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, December 16-18, 2001.

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Organizing committee

• Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University, bulbul@brandeis.edu, 617-736-2843.
• Harvey Gould, Clark University, hgould@clarku.edu, 508-793-7485.
• Bill Klein, Boston University, klein@buphy.bu.edu, 617-353-2188.

Advisory committee

• Paul Martin, Susan McKay, Irwin Oppenheim, David Weitz, Po-zen Wong, Sid Yip

Please send questions, comments, and corrections to Harvey Gould, hgould@clarku.edu.