Statistical Mechanics
A conference in honour of the
75th birthday of
Oliver Penrose
24 & 25 June 2004, Edinburgh
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| Thursday 24 June | |
| 09.30-10.00 |
Registration |
| 10.00-11.00 |
Joel Lebowitz Entropy and the time evolution of macroscopic systems |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30-12.30 |
Balint Toth
Hydrodynamics limit for two-component systems |
| 12.30-14.30 |
Lunch break |
| 14.30-15.30 | Mathew Penrose Random sequential deposition in discrete spaces |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Tea |
| 16.00-17.00 | Roger Penrose On the cosmological origin of the second law |
| 17.30-19.00 | Reception |
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| Friday 25 June | |
| 10.00-11.00 |
John Ball
Compatibility and phase nucleation |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30-12.30 |
Jack Carr Becker-Doring equations |
| 12.30-14.30 |
Lunch break |
| 14.30-15.30 | Peter Fratzl Pattern formation in materials under the influence of mechanical loads |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Tea |
| 16.00-17.00 | Herbert Spohn The 3D Ising droplet at low temperatures and nonintersecting line ensembles |
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Expected Participants
21 June 2004
| Name | Institution |
| Abraham, Eitan | Heriot-Watt University |
| Ball, John | University of Oxford |
| Biryuk, Andrei | Fields Institute (visiting) |
| Carr, Jack | Heriot-Watt University |
| Catarino, Nuno | Heirot-Watt University |
| Davies, Penny | University of Strathclyde |
| Duncan, Dugald | Heriot-Watt University |
| Eilbeck, Chris | Heriot-Watt University |
| Elton, Daniel | Heriot-Watt University |
| Fratzl, Peter | Max Planck Institute |
| Grinfeld, Michael | Strathclyde University |
| Gyongy, Istvan | Edinburgh University |
| Johnston, Des | Heriot-Watt University |
| Knops, Robin | Heriot-Watt University |
| Korff, Christian | University of Edinburgh |
| Kuksin, Sergei | Heriot-Watt University |
| Lacey, Andrew | Heriot-Watt University |
| Landsberg, Peter | Univeristy of Southampton |
| Lebowitz, Joel | Rutgers University |
| Lord, Gabriel J | Heriot-Watt University |
| Mottram, Nigel | University of Strathclyde |
| Neilson, Matt | University of Strathclyde |
| Penrose, Roger | University of Oxford |
| Penrose, Oliver | Heriot-Watt University |
| Penrose, Mathew | University of Bath |
| Schroers, Bernd | Heriot-Watt University |
| Slingerland, Joost | Heriot-Watt University |
| Spohn, Herbert | TU München |
| Szabo, Richard | Heriot-Watt University |
| Temperley, Neville | |
| Tóth, Bálint | Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Weston, Robert | Heriot Watt University |
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