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Dynamic Energy Landscapes and Functional Systems - Santa Fe, 2004
Leilani Conradson
conradson.leilani at email.atdiv.lanl.gov
Sat Jan 17 09:48:58 CST 2004
DELFS 04: Dynamic Energy Landscapes and Functional Systems
In conjunction with the workshop on
Lifelike Matter: Emergent Functionality From the Standpoint of
Template Controls on Energy Landscapes
Sponsored by the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
And a Symposium on:
Heterogeneous Aspects of Cuprates and Correlated Materials
Santa Fe, New Mexico; 28 March-3 April, 2004
www.lanl.gov/mst/delfs2004
The most interesting solids and molecules are mesoscopically
functional ones that are active on the scale of domains within
individual macromolecules or of less than a thousand atoms in a
solid. This action can involve correlated properties such as
transformation or the conduction of spins or Cooper pairs or chemical
ones such as the conduction of ions, the catalysis of coupled or
multi-step chemical reactions, and communication and regulation.
What many of these systems have in common is that not only are they
statically complex in terms of their compositions and structures on
the nanoscale, but also dynamically complex, exhibiting multiple,
coexisting conformations or arrangements of the atoms in these
distinct domains. This conference will address the fundamental
questions posed by these functional systems in condensed matter,
chemistry, and biology, and the coupling of these properties with the
intrinsic, mesoscale, dynamic heterogeneity of these systems and its
origin in a modifiable local energy landscape with multiple local
minima. The emphasis will not be on complexity per se, but rather on
actual examples of materials that exhibit these characteristics,
including correlated and transformational crystalline solids, mixed
valence oxides, alloys and solid solutions, catalysts, polymers and
other soft materials and molecular compounds, proteins and nucleic
acids, actinides and other f electron systems, semiconductors and
photo-excited transformational compounds, ionic conductors,
biomolecular assemblies, and fabricated heterostructures.
Speakers include:
K. Alex Muller
Philip Anfinrud
Antonio Bianconi
Alan Bishop
Russell Chianelli
J. C. Seamus Davis
Takeshi Egami
Hans Frauenfelder
Siegfried Hecker
Gerhard Hummer
Masaru Ichikawa
Dorothee Kern
William Klein
James Krumhansl
Rodney McKee
Adriana Moreo
Alexandra Navrotsky
Kazuhiro Otsuka
Stuart Parkin
Davor Pavuna
Michel Peyrard
Simon Ringer
Paul Selvin
Zhi-xun Shen
Peter Wolynes
Christopher Yip
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Leilani Conradson
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Manuel Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center
LANSCE-12, MS-H805, TA-53
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Office: 505-665-9505
Fax: 505-665-2676
Pager: 505-996-0092
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