JAKS-2012 : SYMPOSIUM TIMETABLE
DAY 1: 6 Feb 2012
Session 1
09:15- 09:30 Talk 1.0 Avadh Saxena (LANL)
Unifying concepts in physics, biophysics and materials science
09:30-10:15 Talk 1.1 T. V. Ramakrishnan (Varanasi/IISc)
Emergence of d-wave like superconducting order in a Ginzburg- Landau like theory for superconductivity in the cuprates.
10:15- 11:00 Talk 1.2 Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis)
Statistical mechanics of jamming of frictional grains
11:00- 11:30 Coffee
Session 2
11:30- 12:15 Talk 1.3 Devang Khakhar (IIT Bombay)
Dense granular flows: Rheology and segregation
12:15- 13:00 Talk 1.4 Corey S O’Hern (Yale)
The contact percolation transition in athermal particulate systems
13:00- 14:00 Lunch
Session 3
14:00- 14:45 Talk 1.5 Kaushik Bhattacharya (Caltech)
Peeling adhesive tape: A case study for understanding the effective properties of heterogenous materials.
14:45- 15:30 Talk 1.6 G Ananthakrishna (IISc)
Correlation between stick-slip events and contact charging in dynamics of sliding friction at nano-scales
15:30- 17:45 Posters, Coffee
Session 4
17:45- 18:30 Talk 1.7 David Rodney (Grenoble)
Exploring the potential energy landscape of materials: from defected crystals to metallic glasses
18: 30- 19:15 Talk 1.8 Claus Heussinger (Goettingen)
Jamming and glassy dynamics in driven particulate systems
19:30- 21:30 Dinner (at NCBS)
DAY 2: 7 Feb 2012
Session 5
09:30-10:15 Talk 2.1 Ludovic Berthier (Montpelier)
Rheology of disordered materials from soft glasses to jammed solids?
10:15- 11:00 Talk 2.2 Thomas Voigtmann (Konstanz)
Yielding dynamics of glass-forming materials
11:00- 11:30 Coffee
Session 6
11:30- 12:15 Talk 2.3 John C Crocker (U Penn)
Dissecting the molecular determinants of cellular rheology and stress fluctuations??
12:15- 13:00 Talk 2.4 Mahesh Bandi (Okinawa)
Shock-driven jamming and periodic fracture at particulate interfaces.?
13:00- 14:00 Lunch
Session 7
14:00- 14:45 Talk 2.5 Michael E Cates (Edinburgh)
How different are polymer glasses from simple glassy fluids?
14:45- 15:30 Talk 2.6 Paul A Janmey (U Penn)
Mechanical communication between cells and substrates
15:30- 16:15 Talk 2.7 Cristina Marchetti (U Syracuse)
Collective dynamics of active matter: from self-propelled particles to migrating cell layers.
16:15- 16:45 Coffee
Session 8
16:45- 17:30 Talk 2.8 Anael Lemaitre (Paris)
Elementary mechanisms of plastic deformation in amorphous materials
17:30- 18:15 Talk 2.9 Shobo Bhattacharya (TIFR)
Amorphous to amorphous transition in athermal particle rafts
18:15- 19:00 Talk 2.10 Rajesh Ganapathy (JNCASR)
Grain boundary dynamics In colloidal crystals
19:00- 21:00 Banquet (at NCBS)
DAY 3: 8 Feb 2012
Session 9
09:15- 09:30 Talk 3.0 Rahul Pandit (IISc)
Early Krumhansl interactions at Cornell
09:30-10:15 Talk 3.1 Eran Bouchbinder (Weizmann)
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of driven glassy materials
10:15- 11:00 Talk 3.2 Praveen Chaddah (Indore)
Glass-like arrested states across first-order magnetic transitions
11:00- 11:30 Coffee
Session 10
11:30- 12:15 Talk 3.3 Xiaobing Ren (Tsukuba)
A glass form of martensite: Strain glass and strain-glass transition
12:15- 13:00 Talk 3.4 Turab Lookman (LANL)
Heterogeneity and phase transformations in materials: from Krumhansl to now
13:00- 14:00 Lunch
Session 11
14:00- 14:45 Talk 3.5 Oliver Kastner (Bochum)
MD simulations study of microstructure formation during martensitic transformations
14:45- 15:30 Talk 3.6 U Ramamurthy (IISc)
Fracture in amorphous alloys: in search of a length scale
15:30-16:15 Talk 3.7 Dhananjai Pandey (Varanasi)
Magnetoelectric coupling and isostructural phase transitions in the solid solutions of the multiferroic BiFeO3 with ferroelectric BaTiO3 and PbTiO3
16:15- 16:45 Coffee
Session 12
16:45- 17:30 Talk 3.8 Peter D Entel (Duisburg)
Functional properties of magnetic Heusler alloys from an ab initio point of view
17:30- 18:15 Talk 3.9 Lluis Manosa (Barcelona)
Materials for eco-friendly refrigeration
18:15- 19:00 Talk 3.10 Mehmet Acet (Duisburg)
Relationship of the elemental properties of Fe and Mn to magnetostructural transition related multifunctionality in martensitic Heusler alloys
19:00- 19:15 Talk 3.11 Concluding comments
19:30-20:30 Snacks (at NCBS) or dinner (on your own) in the city.