This meeting will have scientific presentations on
Friday, Saturday
and Sunday
morning. There will be a banquet with other festivities on Saturday
night. A two hour poster session is planned for Friday night.
New: There will be two registration sessions: (1)
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Thursday afternoon; & (2) 7:30 am to 8:15 am
Friday
morning.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided at the meeting
on all three days. This includes a special Dim Sum Party for
Sunday Lunch. For evening meals, the participants can sample
the many superb restaurants in the Berkeley and San Francisco
area. Please view David Chandler's
recommendations on several restaurants.
The sixth
Statistical Mechanics Meeting will involve a formal Banquet on
Saturday night,
January 8th. This will
include the presentation of the special
issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry dedicated to David Chandler,
with David Logan presiding. Speakers will include
Bruce Berne, Giovanni Ciccotti, Michael Klein and William
Miller.
Invited speakers and other functionaries
include Hans C. Andersen (Stanford), C. Austin Angell (Arizona),
Jean-Louis Barrat (Lyon), Peter Bolhuis
(Amsterdam),
Gavin Crooks (Berkeley), Michael
Deem (Rice), Christoph Dellago (Vienna), Aaron Dinner (Chicago),
Michael E. Fisher (Maryland), Daan Frenkel (Amsterdam), Juan
Pedro Garrahan (Nottingham), Sharon Glotzer (Michigan), Sandra
Greer (Maryland),
Alexander Grosberg (Minnesota),
Robin Hochstrasser
(Pennsylvania),
Mehran
Kardar (MIT), Martin Karplus (Harvard),
Branka Ladanyi (Colorado), Irwin
Oppenheim (MIT), M Parrinello (ETH), Lawrence Pratt (LANL),
David Reichman (Columbia), Benoit Roux (Cornell), Kenneth Schweizer
(Illinois), Eugene Shakhnovich (Harvard), Berend Smit (Amsterdam),
Michiel Sprik (Cambridge),
Frank Stillinger (Princeton), Richard Stratt (Brown), Peter Rein
tenWolde (Amsterdam), Greg Voth (Utah), John Weeks (Maryland),
Ben Widom
(Cornell),
and Robert Zwanzig (NIH).
