Princeton University Princeton Center for Theoretical Science - Rare Events Program - Day 2

The Princeton Center for Theoretical Science will hold a two day meeting on "Complex Energy Landscapes and Long Time Dynamics" November 12 and 13. Organizers: Ravin Bhatt and Roberto Car. Co-sponsored by The D. E. Shaw Group. For more information, and to register, please visit: http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pcts/rareevents/rareevents.html . Nucleation phenomena in materials, relaxation processes in glasses, and large-scale conformational changes in macromolecules involve collective motions of many particles that occur rarely on the time scale of the atomic dynamics. Understanding and predicting these processes poses great theoretical challenges. This workshop intends to provide an overview of the field and stimulate the discussion on the guiding principles that govern this large class of phenomena. Confirmed speakers include: Christoph Dellago(University of Vienna), Weinan E (Princeton), Hannes Jonsson (University of Iceland and Brown University), Randall Kamien (UPenn), Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton), David P. Landau (University of Georgia), Michele Parrinello* (ETHZ-Lugano Center), Bernhard Trout (MIT), Haw Yang (Princeton) and Stefano Piana-Agostinetti (DE Shaw). *M. Parinello will give Joint Physics/PCTS Colloquium on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 at 4:30 pm in Jadwin A-10.