Boulder School 2001: Lecture Notes

Talks/references for Boulder School 2001

All files are in PDF format or direct linked, unless otherwise noted.

Alan Bray (University of Manchester)

• Lectures 1 & 2: Domain Growth & Coarsening I, II (7/2, 7/3)
  • Reference: "Coarsening dynamics of nonequilibrium phase transitions", A. J. Bray (198X). 
• Lectures 3 & 4: Spin Glasses: Relaxation I & II (7/5, 7/6)
  • Reference: "The Ordered Phase of a Spin Glass", A. J. Bray, Comments Cond. Matt. Phys., vol. 14, pp. 21-42 (1988).

Noel Clark (University of Colorado)

• Defects in Liquid Crystals (7/2)

Jorge Kurchan (École Supérieure)

• Lectures 1, 2 & 3: Glasses and Aging I, II, III (7/3, 7/5)
  • Reference: "Rheology, and how to stop aging", available from cond-mat.
  • Also see http://www.itp.ucsb.edu/online/jamming2/kurchan .

Mark  Bowick (Syracuse University)

• Defects in Condensed Matter & Cosmology (7/3)

David Weitz (Harvard)

• Lecture 1 - Colloidal Glasses (7/5)
• Lecture 2 - Jamming & Rheology I (7/6)
• Lecture 3 - Jamming & Rheology II (7/9)

Daniel Fisher (Harvard)

• Related notes: "Collective transport in random media: from superconductors to earthquakes" (7/6, 7/9, 7/10)
  • Available from cond-mat
  • or, if available to your site, the published version Physics Reports, 301 (1-3) (1998) pp. 113-150

Leticia Cugliandolo (LPTENS)

• Lecture: Quantum effects in nonequilibrium systems with slow dynamics

Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins)

• Lecture 1 - Flow Through Porous Media (7/10)
•  Reference: "Growth in Systems with Quenched Disorder", Robbins, et al, in Growth Patterns in Physical Sciences and Biology, ed. J. M. Garcia-Ruiz et al., Plenum Press, New York, 1993.

Per Nordblad (Uppsala University)

• "Experiments on Spi n Glasses", Nordblad & Svedlindh, pp. 1-27, from Spin Glasses and Random Fields, ed. A. P. Young, World Scientific (1998).

Jim Dieterich (USGS)

• Notes no longer available

Shobo Bhattacharya (NEC Research)

• Lecture1 - Charge Density Waves & Vortices in Superconductors: An Experimental Review (7/12)
• Lecture 2 - Charge Density Waves & Vortices in Superconductors: An Experimental Review (7/13)

Karin Dahmen (UIUC)

• Lecture 1 - Avalanches, Disorder, Magnets and Earthquakes (7/13)
• Reference: "Hysteresis and avalanches: phase transitions and critical phenomena in driven disordered systems", Dahmen, et al, accepted for publication in J. Magn. Magn. Mater.
• "Crackling Noise", Sethna, Dahmen and Myers, Nature vol. 410, pp. 242-250 (2001) - available from cond-mat.

Eva Andrei (Rutgers)

• Non-equilibrium vortex states (7/13)

Jim Sethna (Cornell)

• Lecture 1 -  Plasticity to a Physicist (7/16)
• Lecture 2 - Unsolved problems in Plasticity (7/17)
• Reference: "Order Parameters, Broken Symmetry, and Topology", Sethna, in 1991 Lectures in Complex Systems, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lect. Vol. IV, Eds. L. Nadel& D. Stein, Addison-Wesley, 1992. - available from cond-mat.

Cristina Marchetti (Syracuse)

• Lecture 1 - Nonequilibrium phases of dirty driven periodic media (7/16)
• Lecture 2 - Elastic and 'Plastic' Response of Driven Systems (7/17)

Koen Visscher (University of Arizona)

• Notes no longer available

Mark Goulian (University of Pennsylvania)

• Lecture 1 - Introduction to Cell Signaling PPT (7/18)
• Lecture 2 - Enzyme Kinetics  PPT (7/19)
• Lecture 3 - Cell Signaling PPT (7/20)

Herbie Levine (UCSD)

• Lectures (7/25, 7/26)
• Lecture Notes

Robert Behringer (Duke University)

• Lecture 1 - Introduction to Granular Media (7/24)
• Lecture 2 - Pattern Formation in Granular Systems I (7/25)
• Lecture 3 - Pattern Formation in Granular Systems II (7/27)

Nigel Goldenfeld (UIUC)

• Lecture 1- Crystal Growth: Theory (7/23)
• Lecture 2 - Turbulence (7/26)
• Lecture 3 - Renormalization Group Methods Far from Equilibrium (7/27)