On the one hand, interactions among the constituents of a macroscopic system and imposition of external driving forces can destabilize the existing order in the system. On the other hand, interactions in driven systems can also affect the transport properties causing slow (glassy) relaxation and jamming. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas between theorists and experimentalists on the interplay of interaction, instability, transport and glassy kinetics in condensed matter.

This conference will be held from 4th to 8th February, 2010.

This is a SATELLITE Meeting of the ICTS Program on "Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics"

Centre for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science,
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics,
A DAE Vision Initiative

Chief Patron: Professor Sanjay G. Dhande, Director, IIT Kanpur

Patrons:
Professor Raj K. Thareja, Deputy Director, IIT Kanpur
Professor K. Muralidhar, DORD, IIT Kanpur
Professor Sanjeev Agarwal, DRPG, IIT Kanpur
Professor Manindra Agrawal, Chairman, Golden Jubilee Committee, IIT Kanpur
Professor Y. N. Mohapatra, Head, Physics Department, IIT Kanpur

M. Barma (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
K. Binder (University of Mainz, Germany)
R. C. Budhani (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
P. Chaddah (UGC-DAE CSR, Indore, India)
B. Derrida (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
T. Duke (London Center for Nanotechnology, UCL, London, UK)
P. Gaspard (Free University, Brussels, Belgium)
J. Howard (Max-Planck Institute-CBG, Dresden, Germany)
F. Jülicher (Max-Planck Institute-PKS, Dresden, Germany)
M. Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA)
R. Lipowsky (Max-Planck Institute-KG, Golm, Germany)
G. Parisi (University of Rome, Italy)
J. M. R. Parrondo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
S. Ramakrishnan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
T. V. Ramakrishnan (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)
A. K. Raychaudhuri (SN Bose Nat. Centre for Basic Sci., Kolkata, India)
S. Sondhi (Princeton University, USA)
A. K. Sood (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
H. E. Stanley (Boston University, USA )
R. B. Stinchcombe (Oxford University, UK)
K. Vijayraghavan (National Centre for Bio. Sciences, Bangalore, India)
E. Zeldov (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

Debashish Chowdhury, IIT, Kanpur (Chair)
Bikas K. Chakrabarti, SINP, Kolkata (Co-chair)
Arun K. Grover, TIFR, Mumbai (Co-Chair)
Amit Dutta, IIT, Kanpur (Convener)
Satyajit Banerjee, IIT, Kanpur (Co-convener)
Rajendra Prasad, IIT, Kanpur (Member)
V. Ravishankar, IIT, Kanpur (Member)
Manoj K. Harbola, IIT, Kanpur (Member)
Anjan K. Gupta, IIT, Kanpur (Member)
Zakir Hossain, IIT, Kanpur (Member)
Sudeep Bhattacharjee, IIT, Kanpur (Member)

Organizing Secretary: Ashok Garai

Debashish Chowdhury, IIT, Kanpur
Bikas K. Chakrabarti, SINP, Kolkata
Arun K. Grover, TIFR, Mumbai
Advisor:
T V. Ramakrishnan, BHU, Varanasi
and
IISc., Bangalore

A. J. Leggett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

G. Aeppli (London Center for Nanotechnology, University College of London, UK)
E. Andrei (Rutgers University, Picataway, New Jersey, USA)
A. Banerjee (UGC-DAE CSR, Indore, India)
M. Barma (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
G. Baskaran (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India)
S. Bending (University of Bath, UK)
J. K. Bhattacharjee (S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India)
G. Blatter(ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
H. Bouchiat (University of Paris, France)
R. C. Budhani (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
B. Chakraborty (Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA)
P. Coleman (Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA)
V. Croquette (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
L. F. Cugliandolo (University of Paris, France)
C. Dasgupta (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
D. Dhar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
T. Duke (London Center for Nanotechnology, University College of London, UK)
M. Fuchs (University of Konstanz, Germany)
P. Gaspard (University of Brussels, Belgium)
T. Giamarchi (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
J. Howard (Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)
J. K. Jain (Penn State University, USA)
F. Julicher (Max-Planck Institure for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
H. R. Krishnamurthy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
J. Krug (University of Cologne, Koln, Germany)
R. Lipowsky (Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Golm, Germany)
P. Majumdar (Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India)
S. Majumdar (University of Paris, France)
P. Matsudaira (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
G. I. Menon (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India)
D. Mukamel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
S. R. Nagel (University of Chicago, USA)
R. Pandit (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
S. Puri (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)
T. V. Ramakrishnan (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)
S. Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
A. K. Raychaudhuri (S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India)
B. Rosenstein (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
S. B. Roy (RRCAT, Indore, India)
G. Santoro (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
S. Sastry (Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
G. M. Schutz (Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany)
U. Seifert (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
D. Sen (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
S. Sengupta (IACS/SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India)
R. Shankar (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India)
A. K. Sood (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
H. E. Stanley (Boston University, USA)
R. B. Stinchcombe (Oxford University, UK)
A. Tarafdar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
S. Wadia (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and ICTS, Mumbai, India)
E. Zeldov (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

S. S. Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
K. Damle (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
D. Das (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)
M. Deshmukh (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
A. Dhar (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India)
A. Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
A. Ghosal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India)
S. W. Grill (Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
A. K. Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
Z. Hossain (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
K. Jain (Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
Y. Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
S. Klumpp (Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Golm, Germany)
A. B. Kolomeisky (Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA)
S. P. Koushika (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India)
P.B. Sunil Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India)
P. K. Maiti (Indian institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
R. Mallik (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
P.K. Mohanty (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, kolkata, India)
Maithreyi Narasimha (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
R. Narayanan (indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India)
R. Paul (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India)
K. Ray (Tata Instute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
P. Raychaudhuri (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)
S. Sabhapandit (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India)
A. Sain (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)
K. sengupta (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, kolkata, India)
G. V. Shivashankar (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India)
H. Suderow (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain)
Z. Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Accomodation for the invited speakers have been booked in the guest houses of IIT Kanpur and some nearby institutions. Organizers will extend full local hospitality (including rent for the guest house accomodation) to all the invited speakers. The guest house of IIT Kanpur (called Visitors' Hostel) is located in the green-, environment friendly-, well equipped-, modern campus of IIT Kanpur and it is adjacent to the venue of the conference. The full details of the accomodations arranged by the organizers will be communicated well in advance.

If any participant wants to stay in a hotel in Kanpur city (which is about 16 Kms. away from IIT campus), (s)he will have to reserve the accomodation and pay the rent directly to the hotel. The organizers can provide a list of the hotels but cannot reimburse hotel rent and the charges for other services provided by the hotels. Moreover, the entire fleet of vehicles will have to deployed for transportation between the airport/railway station and IIT campus; therefore, the organizers will be will not be able to provide vehicles for daily travel from the hotel to the venue of the conference in IIT campus.

How to reach IIT Kanpur

The Campus of IIT Kanpur is located on GT Road at Kalyanpur, about 16 km west of Kanpur city, on 1055 acres of land offered by the Government of UP. It is a residential campus offering accomodation to about 350 faculty members, about 700 support staff members, and about 4000 students. The campus has all the amenities for developing the personal, social and academic skills of the community.

Arrival by AIR: Visitors coming to Kanpur have to fly to Lucknow Airport, Lucknow , the capital city of the state or Uttar Pradesh, India . The organizers will send cars to the Lucknow airport to receive the invitees (invited speakers, invited participants and invited session chairs) in front of the main exit and to bring them to the guest house at IIT campus in Kanpur, provided the arrival details (arrival date, flight number, etc.) are communicated to the organizers well in advance. It takes about two hours to drive from the Lucknow airport to the IIT campus in Kanpur.

*Important notes for invitees from abroad: (i) Even if you check-in your luggage upto Lucknow, your check-in baggage will NOT be transferred automatically to the Lucknow-bound flight. You have to collect your luggage at the international airport (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, or Chennai, as the case may be) for customs clearance and then check-in again for the Lucknow-bound flight. (ii) Delhi International airport authority runs a shuttle service that connects the international arrival terminal with the domestic terminal from where the Delhi-Lucknow flights take off. This mode of transfer (rather than taking a taxi) from the international arrival terminal to the domestic departure terminal is the safest. (iii) We do NOT recommend direct flights to Kanpur for reasons which we can explain by e-mail.

Arrival by TRAIN: Kanpur is connected by rail with the major cities in India . The IIT Kanpur is located at a distance of about 16 kilometers from the Kanpur Central Railway Station, in the vicinity of Kalyanpur, Kanpur. The organizers will send cars to the Kanpur Central Railway Station to receive the invitees (invited speakers, invited participants and invited session chairs) and to bring them to the guest house at IIT campus in Kanpur, provided the arrival details (arrival date, train number, etc.) are communicated to the organizers well in advance. It takes about 40 minutes to drive from the Kanpur Central railway station to the IIT campus in Kanpur.

*Important note for invitees arriving at Kanpur by TRAIN: If you are coming to Kanpur by train, please exit from platform no. 1 where a vehicle will be waiting for you (i.e if you have informed us of your arrival time). Look for a person carrying a placard which will have either your name or the name of your Institute. In the rare possibility that you are unable to locate our vehicle, please call one of the organizers on our mobile phone (the numbers will be communicated to you by e-mail well in advance). If you are unable to contact us on the mobile phone, you can take a taxi from the railway station. The fare will range between Rs. 200 and Rs.250 depending upon the time of your arrival. Do not leave the taxi at the main gate of IIT campus! Ask the driver to take you to the guest house ("visitors' Hostel").

The organizers will also arrange cars for the invitees on their respective dates of departure.

Travel advice for the student/postdoc applicants selected for participation:
Student/Postdoc applicants selected for participation are advised to take a taxi or auto to arrive at the guest house (called "visitors' Hostel") in the IIT campus. Our volunteers will then direct them to the respective places of stay. The rates are about Rs. 200/- to 250/- for a taxi, and Rs. 130/- for an auto-rickshaw from the Kanpur central railway station to IIT campus. Please note that the security guards at the main gate of IIT will ask you for the purpose of your visit; you should mention the name of our ICTS program ("Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics") and tell the guard that you are coming to the visitirs' hostel. The organizers will try to arrange some vehicles for the deperture of the student/postdoc participants for their departure in batches from (but not before) 7 PM of 8th February till 12:00 NOON of 9th February.

Professor Debashish Chowdhury,
Chair, Organizing Committee,
Physics Department,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur 208016.
Email - debch@iitk.ac.in; debchg@gmail.com

Private organizations or individuals interested in sponsoring this conference should contact the chair of the organizing committee. Minimum amount acceptable for sponsorships is Rs.50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand only). Only mode of contribution is through account payee cheque or demand draft drawn in favour of the bank account of the conference. Sponsors have to add an overhead of 15% of the actual amount of sponsorship. IIT Kanpur charges 15% overhead on all gross receipts for the conferences approved and organized in its campus. The names of the sponsors will be displayed at the conference venue and in the book of abstracts provided the full amount, including the overhead, is received before 31st December, 2009.

Students and faculty members from all the departments of IIT Kanpur are welcome to attend the lectures. No registration is required for attending the lectures. Unregistered members of the audience are also welcome to join the registered participants for tea / coffee during the tea breaks.

However, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner arranged by the organizers are only for the registered invitees and participants.

Program

Abstracts