Please click on the talk title to see the abstract (if available)!
| 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