External Visitor Program (1998)

The purpose of the external visitor program is to keep in touch with the latest developments in the field and to help in the identification of research directions for the LANL effort.

Visitors to date/confirmed visitors:

L. P. Kadanoff (University of Chicago)

Title: ``Built on Sand:'' Theoretical Ideas Inspired by the Flow of Granular Materials

Date: January 9, 1998. Abstract: Not Available, Notes (postscript, 17 KB gzipped, 40 KB raw).

Rudy Wenk (University of California, Berkeley)

Title: Deformation of the Earth's Mantle: From Single Crystals to Seismic Anisotropy

Date: January 21, 1998. Abstract: Not Available, Notes (postscript, 12 KB gzipped, 27 KB raw).

Richardo Lebensohn (University of Rosario, Argentina)

Title: Self-Consistent Methods for the Calculation of Mechanical Properties of Polycrystals

Date: January 28, 1998. Abstract: Not Available, Notes (postscript, 21 KB gzipped, 49 KB raw).

Sergei Artemenko (Inst. of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

Title: Study of Transport Properties of Superconductors by Means of Keldysh Formalism

Date: March 25, 1998. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 30 KB gzipped, 73 KB raw).

Alexei Koshelev (Argonne)

Title: Simulation of Vortex Matter in Superconductors

Date: April 15, 1998. Abstract: Not Available, Notes: Not Available.

Zhen-Gang Wang (Caltech)

Title: Block Copolymer Microphase Separation

Date: April 29, 1998. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 18 KB gzipped, 40 KB raw).

Future Visitors:

D. Boyanovsky (Pittsburgh)

T. Lookman (Western Ontario)

J. R. Dorfman (Maryland)

Other visitors we are trying to bring are:

R. W. Zwanzig (NIH)

J. Langer (Santa Barbara)

G. Grinstein (IBM)

A. J. Bray (Manchester)

H. E. Stanley (Boston)

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