Physics: The Opening to Complexity
Organized by Philip Anderson
June 26-27, 1994
Irvine, CA
Sunday, June 26
Philip W. Anderson, Princeton University, Introduction
Session One - Physics in a Random World
Marvin Goldberger, University of California, San Diego, Moderator
Spin Glasses and Nonergodicity
Richard G. Palmer, Duke University
Mesoscopics: From Anderson Localization to Quantum Chaos
Boris L. Altschuler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brain Dynamics and Earthquake Models
Andreas Herz, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois and John Hopfiels, California Institute of Technology
Session Two - Outstanding Problems in Quantum Physics at Ordinary Scales
Patricia E. Cladis, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Moderator
Decoherence, Chaos, and Quantum Measurement
Wojcieck H. Zurek, Leader, Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe Institute
Exotic Phases in the Quantum Hall Effect
Matthew P. A. Fisher, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Heavy Electron Physics
Zachary Fisk, Los Alamos National Laboratory
New Physics of Metals: Fermi Surfaces without Fermi Liquids
Philip W. Anderson, Princeton University
Monday, June 27
Session Three - Physics of Complex Materials
Clare Yu, University of California, Irvine, Moderator
Nanometers and Piconewtons: Using Optical Tweezers to Study Biological Motors
Steven M. Block, Princeton University
The Old Problems of Glass and Some New Twists
Charles Austen Angell, Arizona State University
Macromolecular Physics
Philip A. Pincus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Is There [Any] Physics in Mitosis?
Stanislas Leibler, Princeton University
Self Organized Criticality
Per Bak, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Session Four - Systems Which Scale
Gene F. Mazenko, Associate Provost and Professor, The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Moderator
Scaling in Geology: Landforms and Earthquakes
Donald L. Turcotte, Cornell University
Turbulence: Order and Disorder in Fluid Motion
Jerry P. Gollub, Haverford College, University of Pennsylvania
Sand Piles, Scaling and Singularities
Glen Swindle, University of California, Santa Barbara
Summary and Adjournment
James S. Langer, Institute for Theoretical physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
