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.