Workshop on Complex and Collective Phenomena |
Friday and
Saturday, March 5-6, 1999
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California (directions)
Building 66, Auditorium - 2nd Floor
Building 66, Auditorium - 2nd Floor
Questions?
Call/email Sharon Long, SC-10,
301/903-5565
Marth A. Krebs, Convenor
Patricia M. Dehmer and Charles V. Shank, Co-organizers
Charge to Workshop:
Assist the Office of Science in developing a program in complex and collective phenomena.
1. Review preliminary research topics and modify as needed
Each group is being asked to
first examine and perhaps improve upon the description of its assigned area and its list
of major topics, narrowing or focusing, or perhaps adding where appropriate. The goal here
is to carefully define the area, and to clearly, to the extent possible, delineate which
research activities are included and which are not.
2. Identify the scientific challenges
- Vision for the future: where research may lead
- Roadmap: chart research courses
- Potential endpoints: problems to be solved
Second, the groups are asked to
identify the major scientific challenges in each area and topic, challenges which can now,
and in the future, be appropriate topics for productive research ventures. This will
require a vision of the future, and the development of a sense of where the fields can
lead in a decade or more. It entails the development of a "roadmap", charting
the course of the work in the field-- to the extent that research progress and discoveries
can be predicted. This will lead to the definition of a set of "endpoints,"
broad problems that would be solved as the work proceeds.
3. Possible impacts on society and human welfare
Finally, each group is asked to
speculate on the impact that research in their area might make on society-on its economic
and social well being, on the health of its population and on its cultural growth with its
expanded understanding of its universe and its workings.
Working Group Chairs:
> Unusual Materials - Don Murphy (email), Lucent Technologies
> Strongly Coupled Systems - David Awschalom
(email), University of California at
Santa Barbara
> Non Linearity in Space and Time - Moungi Bawendi (email), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Control of Entropy - Peter Wolynes (email), University of Illinois
> Functional Design and Synthesis - Co-Chairs:
Jean Fréchet (email), University of California at
Berkeley
Sam Stupp (email), Northwestern University
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Friday Morning (March 5,
1999)
7:00 Continental Breakfast available
7:30 Workshop Check-in and Registration
8:00 Welcome - Charles V. Shank, Director, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
8:10 Martha Krebs -- Director, DOE Office of Science
8:30 Patricia Dehmer--Associate Director, DOE Office of Basic Energy
Sciences
8:50 Workshop format and the Five Areas of Study
9:05 Unusual Materials - Don Murphy, Chair
9:20 Strongly Coupled Systems - David Awschalom, Chair
9:35 Non-linearity in Space and Time - Moungi Bawendi, Chair
9:50 Break
10:00 Control of Entropy - Peter Wolynes, Chair
10:15 Functional Design and Synthesis, Jean Frechet and Sam Stupp, Co-Chairs
10:45 Formation of Study Area panel discussion groups
Friday Afternoon
11:00-5:00 Panel discussions (sandwich lunches
available to carry to breakout locations)
5:30 Cocktails at UC Berkeley Faculty Club
6:30 Dinner - Faculty Club, with 10 minute progress reports by
Chairs
Saturday Morning (March 6,
1999)
8:00 Panel discussions and preparation of Executive Summaries
10:30 Break
10:45 Study Area panel reports--15 minutes each
12:00 Adjourn workshop
Lunch for Panel Chairs
THE FIVE PRELIMINARY TOPICS:
The following list of five topics were identified
by the preliminary planning group for this workshop as major areas in
the field of Complex and Collective Phenomena. The Chairs of each session will meet
for dinner, Thursday, March 4: 7:00 p.m., at Perseverance Hall, Building 54, Room 130
(note that the Hall adjoins the Laboratory Dining Center) to discuss this list and alter
it as appropriate.
> Materials
whose structures are "unusual" > Materials
whose structures are "unusual" Materials
whose structures are "unusual" > Materials
whose structures are "unusual" > Materials
whose structures are "unusual" Materials
whose structures are "unusual" to Workshop:
Assist the Office of Science in developing a program in complex and collective phenomena.
1. Review preliminary research topics and modify as needed
Each group is being asked to
first examine and perhaps improve upon the description of its assigned area and its list
of major topics, narrowing or focusing, or perhaps adding where appropriate. The goal here
is to carefully define the area, and to clearly, to the extent possible, delineate which
research activities are included and which are not.
2. Identify the scientific challenges
- Vision for the future: where research may lead
- Roadmap: chart research courses
- Potential endpoints: problems to be solved
Second, the groups are asked to
identify the major scientific challenges in each area and topic, challenges which can now,
and in the future, be appropriate topics for productive research ventures. This will
require a vision of the future, and the development of a sense of where the fields can
lead in a decade or more. It entails the development of a "roadmap", charting
the course of the work in the field-- to the extent that research progress and discoveries
can be predicted. This will lead to the definition of a set of "endpoints,"
broad problems that would be solved as the work proceeds.
3. Possible impacts on society and human welfare
Finally, each group is asked to
speculate on the impact that research in their area might make on society-on its economic
and social well being, on the health of its population and on its cultural growth with its
expanded understanding of its universe and its workings.
Working Group Chairs:
> Unusual Materials - Don Murphy (email), Lucent Technologies
> Strongly Coupled Systems - David Awschalom
(email), University of California at
Santa Barbara
> Non Linearity in Space and Time - Moungi Bawendi (email), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Control of Entropy - Peter Wolynes (email), University of Illinois
> Functional Design and Synthesis - Co-Chairs:
Jean Fréchet (email), University of California at
Berkeley
Sam Stupp (email), Northwestern University
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Friday Morning (March 5,
1999)
7:00 Continental Breakfast available
7:30 Workshop Check-in and Registration
8:00 Welcome - Charles V. Shank, Director, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
8:10 Martha Krebs -- Director, DOE Office of Science
8:30 Patricia Dehmer--Associate Director, DOE Office of Basic Energy
Sciences
8:50 Workshop format and the Five Areas of Study
9:05 Unusual Materials - Don Murphy, Chair
9:20 Strongly Coupled Systems - David Awschalom, Chair
9:35 Non-linearity in Space and Time - Moungi Bawendi, Chair
9:50 Break
10:00 Control of Entropy - Peter Wolynes, Chair
10:15 Functional Design and Synthesis, Jean Frechet and Sam Stupp, Co-Chairs
10:45 Formation of Study Area panel discussion groups
Friday Afternoon
11:00-5:00 Panel discussions (sandwich lunches
available to carry to breakout locations)
5:30 Cocktails at UC Berkeley Faculty Club
6:30 Dinner - Faculty Club, with 10 minute progress reports by
Chairs
Saturday Morning (March 6,
1999)
8:00 Panel discussions and preparation of Executive Summaries
10:30 Break
10:45 Study Area panel reports--15 minutes each
12:00 Adjourn workshop
Lunch for Panel Chairs
THE FIVE PRELIMINARY TOPICS:
The following list of five topics were identified
by the preliminary planning group for this workshop as major areas in
the field of Complex and Collective Phenomena. The Chairs of each session will meet
for dinner, Thursday, March 4: 7:00 p.m., at Perseverance Hall, Building 54, Room 130
(note that the Hall adjoins the Laboratory Dining Center) to discuss this list and alter
it as appropriate.
> Materials
whose structures are "unusual" > Materials
whose structures are "unusual" Materials
whose structures are "unusual" > > Materials
whose structures are "unusual" Materials
whose structures are "unusual" > Materials
whose structures are "unusual" Materials
whose structures are "unusual" and where it is that unusual
nature that imparts its novel properties. For example, materials that are:
--combinations of a large number of different elements-e.g. CMR materials
--non-stochiometric-e.g. superconductors with variable oxygen content
--not at equilibrium-e.g. glassy metals
--dimensionally restricted with low symmetry, either structural or artificial--e.g. films,
tubes, dots, quantum wells, layered materials, nanocrystals
--in extreme environments- e.g. high pressure, strain, energy density
> Strongly
coupled systems. > Strongly
coupled systems> Strongly
coupled systems. > Strongly
coupled systems> Strongly
coupled systems. > Strongly
coupled systems> Strongly
coupled systems. > Strongly
coupled systems> Strongly
coupled systems. > Strongly
coupled systemsStrongly
coupled systems. Phenomena that by their nature are collective, in which
components have a significant influence over each other, for example
--Bose-Einstein condensation
--high temperature superconductivity
--strongly correlated electron systems
--quantum phase transitions
--plasma behavior in laboratory and astrophysical environments
> Non-linearity
in space and time. > Non-linearity
in space and time. > Non-linearity
in space and time. > Non-linearity
in space and time. > Non-linearity
in space and time. > Non-linearity
in space and time. > Non-linearity
in space and time. > Non-linearity
in space and time. > Non-linearity
in space and time. > Non-linearity
in space and time. Non-linearity
in space and time. Description and understanding of the breakdown of
scaling laws; where properties of a material, or characteristics of a phenomena are not
"self similar" across dimensions of space or time but are instead a complex
function of dimension, for example.
--fracture mechanics
--non-equilibrium dynamics
--seismic and electromagnetic wave propagation in hierarchically heterogeneous media
--reactive chemical transport in geological media
--multiphase flow in fractured and heterogeneous media
--plasma dynamics spanning multi-decades in time & space scales
> The
control of entropy > The
control of entropy > The
control of entropy > The
control of entropy > The
control of entropy > The
control of entropyThe
control of entropy in extended structures
--Fabrication, usually through self assembly, of highly ordered functional systems.
--Study of living systems that are highly ordered and functional e.g. folded proteins,
complex membranes
--Study of living systems that function to produce lower entropy products e.g.
photosynthesis
--Fabrication of structures that mimic these systems
> Functional
design and synthesis. > Functional
design and synthesis. Functional
design and synthesis.
--fabrication of specific materials through precise, predetermined positioning of
constituent atoms
--prediction of properties of multi-component materials from a knowledge of their
component atoms.
--prediction of the changes in properties that would result from subtle changes in atomic
composition or arrangement
--in the absence of prediction, development of techniques to screen large numbers of
combinations of constituents to achieve structures with desired properties.
The members of the preliminary
planning group were:
Gregory Boebinger, LANL
Daniel Chemla, LBNL
Steven Colson, PNNL
Patricia Dehmer, DOE/BES
Gary Jacobs, ORNL
Christian Mailhiot, LLNL
Geraldine Richmond, U Oregon
George Samara, SNL
Sunil Sinha, ANL
Iran Thomas, DOE/BES
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