Subject: PC95info (fwd)

From: Evelyn Goldfield <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 10:36:05 -0500 (EST)

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PHYSICS COMPUTING '95  [for the latest info see http://aps.org]

June 5-8 1995 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

This conference will present some of the newest research 
results and developments in computational physics in a 
wide variety of subjects, including mini-symposia on 
lattice gauge theory, density functional methods, advances 
in computational materials science, computers in education, 
nonlinear dynamics and time series analysis.

The conference is sponsored by the American Physical Society 
Division of Computational Physics. 

ABSTRACTS 

Abstracts are due by March 10, 1995.

They can be mailed to 

APS Meetings Department/PC95 Abstracts 
One Physics Ellipse 
College Park, MD 20740-3844 

or submitted electronically. 
For information on electronic abstracts, send email to 

[email-masked].

Please include the word "info" in the text of your message.

LOCATION 

The Westin William Penn, a national landmark, is located in 
the heart of downtown Pittsburgh within one block of notable 
restaurants, tourist attractions, shopping centers and sporting events. 

The Westin William Penn features 595 guest rooms, a business center, 
a fitness center, two restaurants and two lounges, and valet parking. 
All of which are accessible to the handicapped in accordance with
the Americans with Disabilities Act. Each guest room features color 
television, radio, voice message service, alarm clock, hairdryers, 
and bath amenities. 

ACCOMMODATIONS 

The Westin William Penn 
530 William Penn Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

(412) 281-7100
Fax: (412) 553-5239

Single and Double Room Rates: $101.00/night
One bedroom suite: $190/night
Room Reservation DEADLINE: May 8, 1995

TRAVEL 

The Westin William Penn is only 25 minutes from the Pittsburgh 
International Airport, the hub airport facility for USAir. 

The Airport Limousine Bus Company provides transportation on a 
regular basis to and from the airport. 
The cost is $12.00 one way or $20.00 for a round trip. 
At the airport, follow signs to ground transportation. 

The shuttle schedule to the The Westin William Penn:

   Monday though Friday: Hourly 6:45 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. 
   Saturday and Sunday: Hourly 7:10 a.m. until 11:40 p.m 

The hotel is a few blocks from the Pittsburgh bus and train stations. 
A taxi is suggested as the simplest way to find it from either.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT... 

Lorilee Graul
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
4400 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
[email-masked]
412-268-5131

or

APS Meetings Department
[email-masked]
301-209-3288 (phone)
301-209-0866 (fax)

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Plenary speakers:

   Tomas Arias, MIT, Wavelet bases in the numerical solution of 
   coupled non-linear partial differential equations and applied 
   to the ab initio calculation of electronic structure 

   Roberto Car, Lausanne 

   David Landau, Georgia, Exploring Phase Transitions with Modern 
   Monte Carlo Techniques 

   Zaida Luthey-Schulten, NCSA, Protein structure prediction using 
                                optimized hamiltonians 

   Gregory Mcrae, MIT, Quantum Mechanics, Chemical Plants, and the Environment 

   Bruce Sherwood, Carnegie-Mellon, Using and developing educational software 

   Junko Shigemitsu, Ohio State, Using Numerical Simulations to Probe the 
                                 Standard Model of Particle Physics 

   Steve White, Irvine, The Density Matrix Renormalization Group 

   Gert Zumofen, ETH Zurich, Levy Statistics in Dynamical Systems 
                             and Related Phenomena 

MINI-SYMPOSIA

Contributed talks are welcome. 
See above for information on submitting abstracts. 
Note the firm March 10 deadline. 

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS MINI-SYMPOSIUM 

Coordinator: Dawn Meridith, [email-masked] 

Invited talks: 

   Gert Zumofen, ETH Zurich, Levy Statistics in Dynamical Systems 
                             and Related Phenomena (plenary talk) 

   Tim Sauer, George Mason University, Reliability of computed 
                           trajectories in chaotic simulations 

   Kevin Short, University of New Hampshire, Computational issues 
                in unmasking chaotic communications 

   Emily Stone, Utah State University, Archetypical analysis of 
                              complex spatio-temporal data sets 

   James Theiler, Los Alamos National Lab, Hypothesis testing in 
   nonlinear time series using constrained-realization surrogate data 

MINI-SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROLE OF COMPUTATION IN THE UNDERGRADUATE
PHYSICS CURRICULUM 

Coordinators: Harvey Gould ([email-masked]), 
Bob Ehrlich, and Michael Strayer

Invited talks: 

   Amy Bug, Swarthmore, chair 

   Bruce Sherwood, Carnegie-Mellon, Using and developing 
                     educational software (plenary talk) 

   Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College 

   Jim Feagin, California State University, Fullerton 

   John Risley, North Carolina State University 

   Jan Tobochnik, Kalamazoo College 

LATTICE GAUGE THEORY MINI-SYMPOSIUM 

Coordinator: Claudio Rebbi, [email-masked]

Invited talks: 

   Junko Shigemitsu, Ohio State, Using Numerical Simulations 
   to Probe the Standard Model of Particle Physics (plenary talk)

   Aida El-Khadra 

   Steve Gottlieb 

   Vittorio Lubicz 

   Robert Mawhinney 

MINI-SYMPOSIA ON "DENSITY FUNCTIONAL METHODS" AND "ADVANCES IN
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE" 

Coordinator: Barry Klein, [email-masked]

Physics Computing '95 program committee:

   Dan C. Barnes (Conference Chair) 
   Michael Creutz (Program Chair) 
   David Anderson 
   Jay Boris 
   Emily A. Carter 
   Richard DeVore 
   Gary Doolen 
   Robert Ehrlich 
   Roscoe Giles 
   Evelyn Goldfield 
   Harvey Gould 
   Barry M. Klein 
   Dawn C. Meredith 
   John Negele 
   Elaine Oran 
   Sok Pantelides 
   Karin M. Rabe 
   Claudio Rebbi 
   Peter Reynolds 
   Ralph Roskies 
   Michael R. Strayer 
   Robert Swendsen