Conference Program
 
GRANULAR & GRANULAR-FLUID FLOW

June 30 - July 5, 2002
Holderness School
Holderness, NH

Chairs:
Troy Shinbrot, Benjamin Glasser & Lev S. Tsimring


SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and check-in
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmOpen Issues in Granular-Fluid Flows
Discussion Leader: Guy Metcalfe (CSIRO)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmJin Ooi (Edinburg)
"An evaluation of discrete and continuum modeling of granular systems"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmJerry Gollub (Haverford)
"How good are hydrodynamic models for granular flows?"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmProgress in Numerical Methods
Discussion Leader: TBA
9:00 am - 10:00 amStefan Luding (Stuttgart)
"From a micro- to a macro-description of granular media"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amThorsten Pöschel (Humboldt)
"Granular Gases: Kinetic theory meets computer simulations"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmFarhang Radjai (Montpellier)
"Granulence"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmColloids vs. Grains I: Phenomena
Discussion Leader: Susan Coppersmith (Wisconsin)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmAD Dinsmore (Harvard)
"Measurements of Topology and Elasticity of Colloidal Gels Using Three-Dimensional Confocal Microscopy"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmAnnette Hosoi (Harvey Mudd) & Nhat-Hang Duong (Rutgers)
"Slurry patterns: coexistence of solid and liquid structures"
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmCohesive Effects
Discussion Leader: Bob Behringer (Duke)
9:00 am - 10:00 amSankaran Sundaresan (Princeton)
"Fluidization, contact stresses and cohesion"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amArshad Kudrolli (Clark)
"Instabilities in the flow of dry and wet granular matter"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmPeter Schiffer (Penn State)
"Avalanche dynamics and stability in wet granular media"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmColloids vs. Grains II: Thermodynamics
Discussion Leader: H. Eugene Stanley (Boston)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmJohn Brady (Caltech)
"From Viscous Suspensions to Granular Media"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmArjun Yodh (Pennsylvania)
"Entropic assembly in suspension"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmGeophysical Granular Flows
Discussion Leader: Jim Jenkins (Cornell)
9:00 am - 10:00 amAlexandre Valance (U. Rennes 1)
"The Formation and Dynamics of Aeolian Ripples"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amJay Melosh (Arizona)
"Acoustic Fluidization: A Continuum Approximation for Granular Flow"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmNorbert Schorghofer (MIT)
"Geophysical Granular Flows"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmShocks and Instabilities
Discussion Leader: Harry Swinney (Texas)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmErin Rericha (Texas)
"Rapid Granular Flow Past Obstacles"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmWolfgang Losert (Maryland)
"Granular flow transients and instabilities: Hysteresis and segregation effects"
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 pmBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmTheory Developments
Discussion Leader: Hugo Caram (Lehigh)
9:00 am - 10:00 amIgor Aronson (ANL)
"Order parameter description of avalanches in granular materials"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amJMNT (Nico) Gray (Manchester)
"Shock waves, dead zones and particle free regions in granular free surface flows"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmStephane Douady (ENS, Paris)
"Granular surface flows"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNew Results for Longstanding Problems
Discussion Leader: Isaac Goldhirsch (Tel Aviv)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmStephen Morris (Toronto)
"Concentration and angle measurements for axial segregation in a rotating tube"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmMichel Louge (Cornell)
"Granular flows in open and closed channels"
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture

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