Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Systems:
Satellite Meeting to STATPHYS-22

11-13 July 2004
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Kolkata, INDIA.

Venue: All sessions will be held at the Seminar Hall of the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences.

            Sunday, 11 July

8.00 - 8.45 am: Registration
8.45 - 9.00 am: Introductory remarks
   
Morning Session: (Chair)
9.00 - 9.30 am: Julia Yeomans, Oxford (UK)
  Stripe formation in differentially forced binary systems
9.30 - 10.00 am: Yasu Shiwa, Kyoto (JAPAN)
  Toward a dynamical RG theory of striped pattern formation
10.00 - 10.30 am: Sriram Ramaswamy, Bangalore
  Shear-induced melting and collective stochastic resonance
10.30 - 11.00 am: Jens-Uwe Sommer, Mulhouse (FRANCE)
  Polymer crystallization and nonequilibrium structure formation
   
11.00 - 11.30 am: TEA AND COFFEE
   
11.30 am - 12.00: Jayanta Bhattacharjee, Kolkata
  Convective patterns in a rotating container
12.00 - 12.30 pm: Penger Tong (HONG KONG)
  Pattern formation in a rotating suspension of settling particles
12.30 - 1.00 pm: Mustansir Barma, Mumbai
  Clustering of passive scalars in a Burgers fluid
   
1.00 - 2.30 pm: LUNCH
   
Afternoon Session: (Chair)
2.30 - 3.00 pm: Akira Onuki, Kyoto (JAPAN)
  Dynamic van der Waals theory: Wetting and boiling in heat flow
3.00 - 3.30 pm: Ray Kapral, Toronto (CANADA)
  Synchronization, defects and spiral turbulence in chaotic media
3.30 - 4.00 pm: Rahul Pandit, Bangalore
  Pattern formation in models for cardiac arrhytmias
4.00 - 4.30 pm: Deb Shankar Ray, Kolkata
  Pattern formation in presence of external force field
   
4.30 - 5.00 pm: TEA AND COFFEE
   
5.00 - 5.30 pm: Chandan Dasgupta, Bangalore
  Mound formation and coarsening in surface growth
5.30 - 6.00 pm: Debashish Chowdhury, Kanpur
  Self-organized patterns and traffic in social insect colonies
6.00 - 6.30 pm: Srikanth Sastry, Bangalore
  The glass transition and liquid-gas spinodal boundaries
   
6.30 - 8.00 pm: TEA AND COFFEE, POSTER SESSION
   
8.00 pm: DINNER

            Monday, 12 July

Morning Session: (Chair)
9.00 - 9.30 am: Turab Lookman, Los Alamos (USA)
  Pattern formation in strain based materials
9.30 - 10.00 am: Gautam Menon, Chennai
  Self-organized pattern formation in motor-microtubule mixtures
10.00 - 10.30 am: Rudolf Hilfer, Stuttgart (GERMANY)
  Do we know the order-parameter distribution of the 2-$d$ Ising model?
10.30 - 11.00 am: Kay Wiese, Koln (GERMANY)
  Dynamics in a disordered world
   
11.00 - 11.30 am: TEA AND COFFEE
   
11.30 am - 12.00: Hans Herrmann, Stuttgart (GERMANY)
  Pattern formation of wind-driven sand
12.00 - 12.30 pm: Narayanan Menon, Massachusetts (USA)
  Force fluctuations in a dense granular flow
12.30 - 1.00 pm: Meheboob Alam, Bangalore
  Instability-induced ordering and gravity in granular Couette flow
   
1.00 - 2.30 pm: LUNCH
   
Afternoon Session: (Chair)
2.30 - 3.00 pm: Isaac Goldhirsch, Tel Aviv (ISRAEL)
  On frictional granular matter
3.00 - 3.30 pm: Stefan Luding, Delft (NETHERLANDS)
  Clustering dynamics in freely cooling 2- and 3-$d$ granular media
3.30 - 4.00 pm: Umberto Bettolo-Marconi, Camerino (ITALY)
  Dynamics of driven granular gases in periodic structures
4.00 - 4.30 pm: Hisao Hayakawa, Kyoto (JAPAN)
  Statistical mechanics of experimentally accessible granular gases
   
4.30 - 5.00 pm: TEA AND COFFEE
   
5.00 - 5.30 pm: Devang Khakhar, Mumbai
  Patterns formed by granular mixtures in rotating cylinders
5.30 - 6.00 pm: Anita Mehta, Kolkata
  Shaken, not stirred: why gravel packs better than bricks
6.00 - 6.30 pm: Robin Stinchcombe, Oxford (UK)
  Universal dynamics and dynamical heterogeneities in a model glass
   
8.00 pm: DINNER

            Tuesday, 13 July

Morning Session: (Chair)
9.00 - 9.30 am: Sebastien Balibar, Paris (FRANCE)
  How far can one pressurize a liquid before it crystallizes?
9.30 - 10.00 am: Doris Vollmer, Mainz (GERMANY)
  Instabilities in phase separation for continuously-ramped temperatures
10.00 - 10.30 am: Peter Olmsted, Leeds (UK)
  TBA
10.30 - 11.00 am: Sanjay Puri, New Delhi
  Aging and domain growth in ternary mixtures
   
11.00 - 11.30 am: TEA AND COFFEE
   
11.30 am - 12.00: H.W. Diehl, Essen (GERMANY)
  Dynamic critical behavior of systems with boundaries
12.00 - 12.30 pm: Jürgen Horbach, Mainz (GERMANY)
  Spinodal decomposition in a confined geometry
12.30 - 1.00 pm: Surajit Sengupta, Kolkata
  Formation of smectic bands in stretched thin solid strips
   
1.00 - 2.30 pm: LUNCH
   
Afternoon Session: (Chair)
2.30 - 3.00 pm: Ashutosh Sharma, Kanpur
  Adhesion and debonding of elastic films: Patterns and metastability
3.00 - 3.30 pm: Uwe Thiele, Dresden (GERMANY)
  Structure formation in liquid films: Beyond a single evolution equation
3.30 - 4.00 pm: Len Pismen, Haifa (ISRAEL)
  Spinodal dewetting and coarsening in thin liquid films
4.00 - 4.30 pm: Gunter Schütz, Jülich (GERMANY)
  Recent progress in understanding two-component driven systems
   
4.30 - 5.00 pm: TEA AND COFFEE
   
8.00 pm: DINNER