Please note: all lectures will take place in Room 311 in the Brimacombe Building (AMPEL), 2355 East Mall.
Saturday Sunday Monday
9-9:45am James Langer: Dynamics and Thermodynamics of the Glass Transition Douglas Osheroff: The Role of TLS-TLS Interactions In the Dielectric and Accoustic Responses in Glasses Mark Ediger: Dynamics of polymer glasses during active deformation
9:45-10:30am Peter Wolynes: Classical and Quantum Aspects of Structural Glasses Andreas Fleischmann: tba Bela Joos: Microstructure and aging of a polymer glass subjected to instantaneous shear strains
10:30-11am Coffee Break
11-11:45am David Weitz: Structure and Properties of Colloidal Glasses Alexander Burin: Theory of slow relaxation in amorphous solids induced by external electric field. Applications to dielectric constant and hopping conductivity Michael Falk: The Statistical Mechanics of Strain Localization in Metallic Glasses
11:45-12:30pm Kenneth Schweizer: Glassy Dynamics and Mechanical Properties of Quiescent and Stressed Particle Suspensions Zvi Ovadyahu: Dissipative effects in the electron glass Craig Maloney: Amorphous systems in the athermal, quasistatic limit
12:30-2pm Lunch Break
2-2:45pm Leticia Cugliandolo: Dynamic fluctuations in glassy and simple coarsening systems Claudio Chamon: Universality in glassy dynamics Ludovic Berthier: Universal nature of particle displacements close to the glass transition
2:45-3:30pm Michael Moore: Understanding glasses via spin glasses Clare Yu: Dipole Glasses Are Different from Spin Glasses: Absence of a Dipole Glass Transition for Randomly Dilute Classical Ising Dipoles Peter Harrowell: The Spatial Character of Irreversible Relaxation in a Supercooled Liquid
3:30-4pm Coffee Break
4-4:45pm Marek Cieplak: Two-state behavior in an exact model of protein folding Posters Maria Kilfoil: Direct observation of dynamical heterogeneities near the attraction-driven glass
4:45-5:30pm Steven Plotkin: Multiple minima problems in biopolymers Horacio Castillo: Fluctuations in the aging of structural glasses
Conference dinnner - Shaughnessy restaurant in van Dusen garden
 Please note: all lectures will take place in Room 311 in the Brimacombe Building (AMPEL), 2355 East Mall.