Preliminary Program

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Sunday, November 12  
   
18:00 - 21:00 Registration
   
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome Buffet
   
   
Monday, November 13  
   
08:15 - 08:30 Opening by Jan-Michael Rost (MPI PKS)
   
08:30 - 09:15 David Weitz (Harvard University)
  Colloidal glasses and gels
   
09:20 - 10:05 Dirk Holland-Moritz (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt)
  Short-range order in undercooled metallic melts and its influence on nucleation
   
10:05 - 10:10 Group Photo
   
10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break
   
10:30 - 11:15 Laszlo Gránásy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  Predicting polycrystalline patterns in two and three dimensions: A phase field approach
   
11:20 - 11:40 Roel Dullens (Universität Stuttgart)
  Second-type disorder in colloidal crystals
   
11:45 - 12:05 Wolfram Miller (Institut für Kristallzüchtung Berlin)
  Phase field calculations of pattern formation in solidification of binary alloys
   
12:05 - 12:30 Short Lunch Break
   
12:30 - 16:00 Kick-off SPP 1296
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
   
16:30 - 17:30 POLKOM06 Colloquium:
  Frans Spaepen (Harvard University)
  Colloidal systems: 'Analog Computers' for simulating the dynamics of crystals and glasses
   
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
   
19:00 - ... Internal Meeting SPP 1296 Committee
   
   
   
Tuesday, November 14  
   
08:30 - 09:15 Thomas Palberg (Universität Mainz)
  Accessing phase transition kinetics in model colloids
   
09:20 - 10:05 Peter Schall (University of Amsterdam)
  Colloidal crystals and glasses: Tools for a multiscale analysis in plasticity?
   
10:05 - 10:30 Coffee Break
   
10:30 - 11:15 Hartmut Löwen (Universität Düsseldorf)
  Colloidal dispersions in external fields: From equilibrium to nonequilibrium
   
11:20 - 11:40 Hans Joachim Schöpe (Universität Mainz)
  Crystallisation kinetics in hard sphere colloids: Observation of a two step nucleation process
   
11:45 - 12:05 Patrick Wette (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt)
  Nucleation kinetics of charged sphere suspensions
   
12:05 - 14:00 Lunch Break
   
14:00 - 14:45 Alain Karma (Northeastern University)
  Orientation selection in dendritic evolution
   
14:50 - 15:35 Michael Allen (University of Warwick)
  Computer simulation of interfaces in liquid crystalline systems
   
15:40 - 16:00 Ricardo Siquieri (RWTH Aachen)
  The influence of hydrodynamic convection on peritectic growth systems
   
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
   
16:15 - 17:00 Jörg Neugebauer (MPI für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf)
  Ab initio based simulation of crystal growth
   
17:05 - 17:25 Thomas Kraska (Universität zu Köln)
  Nucleation of metal clusters by molecular dynamics simulation
   
17:30 - 17:50 Karl-Heinz Heinig (Forschungszentrum Rossendorf)
  Nucleation and nanostructure formation at mixed interfaces
   
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
   
19:00 - ... Poster Session I
   
   
   
Wednesday, November 15  
   
08:30 - 09:15 Andreas Meyer (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt)
  Mechanisms of atomic transport in metallic liquids
   
09:20 - 10:05 Jürgen Horbach (Universität Mainz)
  The melting of B2-AlNi: Computer simulation studies
   
10:05 - 10:30 Coffee Break
   
10:30 - 11:15 Tanja Schilling (Universität Mainz)
  Shape matters - Two stories about colloidal liquid crystals
   
11:20 - 11:40 Denis Danilov (Hochschule Karlsruhe)
  Solute trapping during rapid solidification of binary alloys: A phase- field study
   
11:45 - 12:05 Andreia Sommerfeld (TU Clausthal)
  Substrates in cast iron melts - Nucleation enhancement?
   
12:05 - 14:00 Lunch Break
   
14:00 - 14:45 Matthias Wuttig (RWTH Aachen)
  Ultrafast data storage with phase change media: From crystal structures to crystallization kinetics
   
14:50 - 15:35 Alan L. Greer (University of Cambridge)
  Heterogeneous nucleation of solidification at small supercooling
   
15:40 - 16:00 Matthias Jurgk (MPIPKS Dresden)
  Two methods of length-scale coupling in the modeling of dendritic solidification
   
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
   
16:15 - 16:35 Maciej Duras (Cracow University of Technology)
  Statistical properties of the quantum anharmonic oscillator
   
19:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner at the restaurant Luisenhof
   
   
   
Thursday, November 16  
   
08:30 - 09:15 Georg Maret (Universität Konstanz)
  Elasticity and melting of colloidal crystals
   
09:20 - 10:05 Daan Frenkel (AMOLF)
  Surface and interface effects on crystal nucleation
   
10:05 - 10:30 Coffee Break
   
10:30 - 11:15 Adam A. Wheeler (University of Southampton)
  Diffuse interface model of edges
   
11:20 - 11:40 Robert Spatschek (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
  Elastic effects on the growth kinetics of solid-solid transformations
   
11:45 - 12:05 Dmitrii Kharchenko (Sumy State University)
  Phase transitions induced by noise cross-correlations
   
12:05 - 14:00 Lunch Break
   
14:00 - 14:45 Peter Galenko (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt)
  Theory and modelling of eutectic and spinodal decompositions in binary systems
   
14:50 - 15:35 Paul Leiderer (Universität Konstanz)
  Phase transitions in colloidal systems in confined geometry
   
15:40 - 16:00 Axel Voigt (Forschungszentrum caesar)
  A geometric Ginzberg-Landau theory for surfaces of crystalline materials
   
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
   
16:15 - 17:00 Jürgen Eckert (IFW Dresden)
  Phase formation and microstructure development in multicomponent alloys
   
17:10 - 17:30 Ingo Steinbach (RWTH Aachen)
  Phase-field simulation of nucleation and growth in Mg-alloys
   
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
   
19:00 - ... Poster Session II
   
   
   
Friday, November 17  
   
08:30 - 09:15 Ragnvald Mathiesen (SINTEF)
  Time-resolved x-ray imaging in studies of advanced alloy solidification processes
   
09:20 - 10:05 Mathis Plapp (Ecole Polytechnique)
  On phase-field models for polycristalline materials
   
10:05 - 10:30 Coffee Break
   
10:30 - 11:15 Jan van der Eerden (Utrecht University)
  Polymorphism: Atomically subtle, macroscopically obvious
   
11:30 Lunch/Departure


last update: November 15, 2006