Coarse graining in statistical mechanics with long range potentials
24 January 2001, Neuville-sur-Oise
Moderator:
Errico Presutti (Rome)
09.45 - 10.30 Errico PRESUTTI (Rome): Introduction.
10.30 - 11.15 Thierry BODINEAU (Paris):
Phase coexistence for a finite range Kac Ising model.
Coffee break
11.40 - 12.25 Joel L. LEBOWITZ (Rutgers):
Why van der Waals?: Behavior and relevance of systems with long range
potentials
12.25 - 13.10 Livio TRIOLO (Rome):
Free energy functionals and their critical points in the mesoscopic description
of phase transitions.
Lunch
14.30 - 15.00:
Human Rights and Social Responsibility of Scientists
15.00 - 15h45 Oliver PENROSE (Edinburgh):
Statistical mechanics of nonlinear
elasticity and some related solid-solid phase transitions.
15.45 - 16.30 Lorenzo BERTINI (Rome): TBA
Coffee break
16.50 - 17.35 Amine ASSELAH (Marseille) :
Exit problem from metastable states for mean field conservative dynamics.
17.35 - 18h20 Milos ZAHRADNIK (Prague):
Cluster expansions and Pirogov Sinai theory for long range spin systems of Kac
Ising type.