Michael Widom Invited Talks

Invited Conference Talks

  • "Chaos in Conformal Mappings," Dynamic Days, La Holla, CA, January 1983
  • "Renormalization Group Analysis of Quasiperiodicity in Conformal Mappings," Conference on Dynamical Systems, University of Maryland, April 1983
  • "Phase Transitions in Chaotic Systems," Dynamics Days, Enschede, The Netherlands, May 1983
  • "Topological Phase Transition," Conference on Chaos and Statistical Mechanics, Kyoto, Japan, September 1983
  • "Renormalization Group Analysis of Quasiperiodicity in Conformal Mappings," Berkeley Institute for Mathematics, March 1984
  • "Icosahedral Symmetry in a Polytope Model of Glass," Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, University of Maryland, May 1984
  • "Model of Icosahedral Order," Nonlinearity in Condensed Matter, Los Alamos, May 1986
  • "Short and Long Ranged Icosahedral Order in Glass, Crystals, and Quasicrystals," Erhard Physics Conference, San Francisco, January 1987
  • "Short and Long Ranged Icosahedral Order in Glass, Crystals, and Quasicrystals, APS March Meeting, New York, March 1987
  • "Phase Diagram of a Random Tiling Quasicrystal," CECAM Workshop, Orsay, France, June 1989
  • "Finite Site Scaling in Incommensurate Phases," CECAM Workshop, Orsay, France, June 1989
  • "Computer Simulation of Model Quasicrystals," Quasicrystal Workshop at Trento, Italy, June 1989
  • "Phase Diagram of a Random Tiling Quasicrystal," Quasicrystal Workshop at Trento, Italy, June 1989
  • "Entropically Stabilized Quasicrystals," Adriatico Research Conference on Quasicrystals, Trieste, Italy, July 1989
  • "Random Tiling Model of Quasicrystalline Order," Sixteenth Taniguchi Symposium, Ise-Shima, Japan, November 1989
  • "Quasicrystals: Between Crystal and Glass," Gordon Conference on Order/Disorder, New London, New Hampshire (1990)
  • "National Academy of Sciences Symposium on the Frontiers of Science," Irvine, October 1990. (Invited Participant)
  • "Random Tiling Models: Quasicrystals and More," Rutgers Conference on Statistical Mechanics, Rutgers University, Invited talk, December 19, 1991
  • "Random Tiling Approach to Real Quasicrystals," 4th International Conference on Quasicrystals, St. Louis, MO, June 2, 1992
  • "Molecular Theory of Polar Fluids," B. Widom Birthday Symposium, Cornell University', August, 1992
  • "Global Phase Diagrams for Ferrofluids," APS March Meeting, Seattle, March 1993
  • "Do Spontaneously Magnetized Liquids Exist?" SIAM Conference on Mathematics and Materials Science, Pittsburgh, April 1993
  • "How Do I Tile the Plane? Let Me Count the Ways," Les Houches Winter School on geometrical frustration, January 1995
  • "Phason Entropy of Quasicrystals," 5th International Conference on Quasicrystals, Avignon, France, May 1995
  • "Electronic Structure Based Pair Potentials for Aluminum-Cobalt Alloys and Structural Models of Quasicrystals," International Conference on Advanced Materials, Cancun, Mexico (September, 1995)
  • "Electronic Structure Based Pair Potentials for Aluminum-Cobalt Alloys and Structural Models of Quasicrystals," Max Born Symposium, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland (September, 1995)
  • "Textures and Shapes of Spontaneously Magnetized Liquid Droplets," APS March Meeting, St. Louis (March, 1996)
  • "Solvable Tiling Models of Quasicrystals and Incommensurate Phases," Workshop on Quasicrystals and Modulated Phases, Krakow, Poland (July, 1996)
  • "Structure of Decagonal AlCoNi", French GDR on Quasicrystals (June, 1996, Paris)
  • "Random Tilings of High Co-Dimensions", 7th International Conference on Quasicrystals (delivered on my behalf by Remy Mosseri, June, 1997, Tokyo)
  • "Mode Coupling Analysis of the Saffman-Taylor Problem", Rutgers Conference on Statistical Mechanics (December, 1997)
  • "Random rhombus tilings with D-fold symmetry, where D is large", Cornell University Quasicrystal Festival, June 1999
  • "Constructing interatomic potentials for Al-transition metal quasicrystals", Cornell University Quasicrystal Festival, July 1999
  • "Random tiling models of quasicrystals and incommensurate phases", International Union of Crystallography, Glasgow Scotland, August 1999
  • "Thermodynamics, shapes and textures of dipolar fluids", Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University, exploratory workshop March, 2000
  • "The search for spontaneously magnetized liquids", International Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Brasilia, Brazil, Workshop on Magnetic Fluids September, 2000
  • "Mode coupling approach to magnetic fluid pattern formation", International Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Brasilia, Brazil, Workshop on Magnetic Fluids September, 2000
  • "Interatomic Potentials For Metallic Alloys", Materials Research Society, Workshop on Disordered Quasicrystals, Boston (invited talk) November, 2000
  • "Total-energy-based prediction of a quasicrystal structure", National Institute for Metals, workshop on quasicrystals, Tsukuba, Japan, March, 2001
  • "Entropies of random tiling models", Aperiodic Structures 2001, Krynica, Poland, Sept. 2001
  • "Ab-initio simulation of Fe-based alloys", DARPA-SAM Kickoff Meeting, Chicago, Oct. 2001
  • "First-principles simulation of Fe-based glass-forming alloys", DARPA-SAM Workshop on Structure of Glass, Dayton, Ohio, May 2002

    Invited Lectures at Colleges, Universities and Research Labs

  • "N Color Ashkin-Teller Model," MIT, June 1981
  • "Period Doubling in Hamiltonian Systems," Xerox, Palo Alto, March 1982
  • "Hausdorff Dimensions of Invariant Sets of Conformal Mappings," Cornell University, December 1982
  • "Chaos in the Complex Plane", University of Pennsylvania, Jan. 1983
  • "Chaos in the Complex Plane", Harvard University, Jan. 1983
  • "Chaos in the Complex Plane", IBM T.J. Watson Center, Jan. 1983
  • "Icosahedral Symmetry in a Polytope Model of Glass," CCNY, October 1984
  • "Icosahedral Crystals", MIT, Dec. 1984
  • "Icosahedral Crystals", University of. Houston, Jan. 1985
  • "Icosahedral Crystals", Carnegie Mellon University, Jan. 1985
  • "Icosahedral Crystals", University of Illinois (Urbana), Jan. 1985
  • "Icosahedral Crystals", IBM T.J. Watson Center, Jan. 1985
  • "Icosahedral Crystals", UCLA, Feb. 1985
  • "Icosahedral Crystals", Cal-Tech, Feb. 1985
  • "Icosahedral Crystals", Georgia Tech., Feb. 1985
  • "Icosahedral Crystals", U.C. Santa Cruz, Feb. 1985
  • "Renormalization Group Analysis of the Boundary of a Siegel Domain," CUNY Math. Dept., April 1985
  • "Icosahedral Symmetry in a Polytope Model of Glass," Case Western Reserve, March 1986
  • "Icosahedral Symmetry in a Polytope Model of Glass," University of Akron Colloquium, March 1986
  • "Icosahedra, the Golden Mean, and Physics," CMU, Center for Art and Technology, December 1986
  • "Quasicrystals: a Crystalline, Amorphous or Both?" NJIT, May 1987
  • "Random Crystals," Oberlin College Seminar, November 1987
  • "Microscopic Models of Two Dimensional Quasicrystals," University of Maryland Seminar, January 1988
  • "Microscopic Models of Two Dimensional Quasicrystals," University of Pennsylvania Seminar, March 1988
  • "Random Crystals," Ohio State University Seminar, April 1988
  • "Microscopic Models of Two Dimensional Quasicrystals, University of Chicago Seminar, April 1988
  • "Microscopic Models of Two Dimensional Quasicrystals," Argonne National Laboratory Seminar, April 1988
  • "Commensurate-Incommensurate Transitions in a Quasicrystal Forming Alloy," Argonne National Laboratory, July 1988
  • "Models of Quasicrystals," Indiana University of Pennsylvania, December 1988
  • "Microscopic Models of Two Dimensional Quasicrystals," University of Pittsburgh, Chemistry Department, June 1989
  • "Phase Diagram of a Random Tiling Quasicrystal," Harvard University, October 28, 1989
  • "Quasicrystals: Between Crystal and Glass,": University of Mexico (UNAM), March 1990
  • "Phase Diagram of a Random Tiling Quasicrystal," University of Mexico (UNAM), March 1990
  • "Irrationality: Where Physics Meets Number Theory," CMU Colloquium, February 1991
  • "Structural Phase Transitions of Quasicrystals," Princeton University, April 1991
  • "Structural Phase Transitions of Quasicrystals," Yale University, April 1991
  • "Chain Formation and Magnetic Anisotropy in Low Dimensional Ferrofluids," Exxon Research Laboratory, New Jersey, August 20, 1991
  • "Constrained and Frustrated Ferrofluids," LASSP Solid State Theory Seminar, Cornell University, September 19, 1991
  • "Constrained and Frustrated Ferrofluids," University Trento, Italy, Department of Physics, October 11, 1991
  • "Models of Quasicrystals," Lab. de Physique de la Matière Condensée, College de France, Paris, France, October 14, 1991
  • "Structural Phase Transitions of Quasicrystalline Alloys," Univ. de Paris Sud, Vitry, France, October 16, 1991
  • "Domain Wall Models of Quasicrystals," Research Seminar in Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, October 25, 1991
  • "Irrationality: Where Physics Meets Number Theory," Cornell University, Physics Colloquium, January 20, 1992
  • "Constrained and Frustrated Ferrofluids," Syracuse University, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, February 5. 1992
  • "Bethe Ansatz Solution of the Square-Triangle Tiling Model," LNS Theory Seminar, Cornell University, March 27, 1992
  • "Constrained and Frustrated Ferrofluids," Bordeaux, France, June 1993
  • "Microscopic Model of Decagonal Phase Quasicrystals," Univ. Paris Sud (Orsay) July 1993
  • "Spontaneous Magnetization of Strongly Coupled Ferrofluids," Penn State University, October 1993
  • "Al-TM Quasicrystals: Structural Models and Total Energies," Purdue University Seminar, October 1994
  • "Al-TM Quasicrystals: Structural Models and Total Energies," University of Pittsburgh Seminar, October 1994
  • "Ferrofluid Structure and Thermodynamics," Univ. Paris 7 (Jussieu) January (1995)
  • "Ferrofluid Structure and Thermodynamics," U. Ctl. Florida, March (1995)
  • "Electronic Structure Based Pair Potentials for Aluminum-Cobalt Alloys and Structural Models of Quasicrystals," Iowa State University, October, 1995
  • "Atomistic Model of Decagonal Quasicrystals", Jussieu, France (University Paris VI) (June, 1996)
  • "Repton Model of Gel Electrophoresis", Purdue University (November, 1996)
  • "Open Discussion of Hele-Shaw Flow", University of Pittsburgh (March, 1998)
  • "Thermodynamic stability, phason elasticity and diffuse scattering from quasicrystals", University of Amsterdam (April, 1998)
  • "Thermodynamic stability, phason elasticity and diffuse scattering from quasicrystals", Julich (April, 1998)
  • "Quasicrystals: where are the atoms?" UFPE (Brazil) Colloquium, March 1999
  • "Survey of ferrofluid physics", UFPE (Brazil) minicourse, March 1999
  • "Thermodynamics of ferrofluids", UFPE (Brazil) minicourse, March 1999
  • "Statistical mechanics of ferrofluids", UFPE (Brazil) minicourse, March 1999
  • "Hydrodynamics of ferrofluids", UFPE (Brazil) minicourse, March 1999
  • "Magnetorheological fluids", UFPE (Brazil) minicourse, March 1999
  • "Finger tip splitting in Saffman-Taylor flow", Univ. Paris VII (Jussieu) March, 1999
  • "Repton model of gel electrophoresis", CMU Undergraduate Physics Colloquium, Nov. 1999
  • "The search for spontaneously magnetized fluids", U. Penn Seminar, Jan. 2001
  • "Quasicrystals: old problems and new answers", U. Tokyo ISSP Seminar, March 2001
  • "Entropy in the solid state", U. Virginia Physics Colloquium, Oct. 2001