Nucleation Theory

GENERAL INFORMATION

Research workshops on Nucleation Theory and Applications have been organised at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, since 1997 every year in close co-operation between the Department of Physics of the University of Rostock, Germany (Dr. Juern W. P. Schmelzer, Prof. Gerd Roepke) and the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia (Prof. Vyatcheslav B. Priezzhev, Dr. Vyatcheslav I. Zhuravlev, Mrs. Galina G. Sandukovskaya). The organisation of the workshops was and is supported by colleagues from the International Department of the JINR (Mrs. Elena N. Rusakovich) and sponsored by the Heisenberg - Landau program of the German Ministry for Science and Technology (BMBF), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the German Academic Exchange Council (DAAD), Q(uarz)S(chmelze)IL(menau) Germany, Guardian Industries Corporation USA, the Russian Foundation for Basis Research and the UNESCO-Regional Office for Science and Technology in Europe.

The general aim of the workshops was and is

to discuss recent developments in this field with particular emphasis on the work done in the different groups invited;
to establish and/or tighten direct co-operation links in the framework of different common projects (DFG, BMBF, DAAD, QSIL etc.);
to bring together a number of leading scientists in the field of the theoretical description and experimental investigations of first-order phase transformations of the member countries of JINR, Germany and beyond in order to perform or develop new research projects in this field;
to check whether the experimental facilities available at the JINR in Dubna can be utilised for an experimental investigation of the kinetics of phase transformation processes in different systems of interest.

These aims could be fully realised as it is evident also from the Workshop Proceedings which have been published in Dubna in 1999, 2002, 2005, and 2008. A special volume of selected lectures on topics presented in the workshops was published 2005 (J. W. P. Schmelzer (Ed.), Nucleation Theory and Applications, WILEY-VCH, 2005). These accounts could be supplemented by the several monographs. In particular, in April 2011 a monograph of J. W. P. Schmelzer and I. S. Gutzow was published by WILEY entitled Glasses and the Glass Transition. The 5th volume of the proceedings of the workshops, covering the period 2009-2011, is submitted to the publishing department of the JINR and will be published in 2011. .

TIME-TABLE

The 16^th research and scientific communication meeting will be held in Dubna for a period of one month in the range from April 1 - 30, 2012, hereby the mutual detailed information on the research carried out in the different groups (workshop part) will be covered primarily in the time from April 14 (arrival) till April 22 (departure), 2012. Work on common projects under way (1. 4. - 30. 4. 2012) will be performed by special arrangement.
Mutual research visits of the participants in the course of the year (in dependence on financial funds available).

The program of the workshop part will be tentatively finalised in January, 2012. A topic of special interest will consist in phase formation at varying boundary conditions. So, please, submit us your proposals for contributions (e.g. cooling and heating), confirmations or corrections to the list given below in due course till the end of December, 2011. Some contributions, which have been already proposed by different colleagues (partly already last year but could not be presented by different reasons), are given below (in any case, please reconfirm or modify the proposals):

1. J. W. P. Schmelzer, Alexander S. Abyzov (Dubna, Russia & Rostock, Germany; Kharkov, Ukraine): Thermodynamic Analysis of Nucleation in Confined Space: Generalized Gibbs Approach
2. Olaf Hellmuth (Leipzig, Germany): Review on the Phenomenology and Mechanism of Atmospheric Ice Formation: Selected Questions of Interest
3. Jurn W. P. Schmelzer (Rostock, Germany & Dubna, Russia), G. Sh. Boltachev (Ekaterinburg, Russia): On the Definition of Temperature and its Fluctuations in Small Systems
4. Alexander S. Abyzov, Bin Yang, Yulai Gao, Changdong Zou, Qijie Zhai, E. Zhuravlev, J. W. P. Schmelzer, C. Schick (Kharkov, Ukraine; Shanghai, China; Rostock, Germany): Cooling Rate Dependence of Under-cooling of a Pure Sn Single Drop by Fast Scanning Calorimetry: Experiment and Theory
5. Jurn W. P. Schmelzer (Rostock, Germany & Dubna, Russia): Dependence of the Glass Transition Temperature on Pressure
6. V. V. Slezov, Oleg A. Osmayev, R. V. Shapovalov (Kharkov, Ukraine): Homogeneous Nucleation and Growth of the Nuclei - Comparison of Analytical and Numerical Calculations on the Example of Grain Boundary Solutions
7. Rafael M. Hovhannisyan, M. Hovhannisyan, A. Baresghyan (Yerevan, Armenia): Glass-forming Melts Super-cooling as an Effective Method of Phase Diagrams Construction
8. Anton A. Abyzov (Moscow, Russia), A. A. Ishchenko (Julich, Germany), V. I. Gordeliy (Grenoble, France): Process of Crystallization of Bacteriorhodopsin in Lipid Bicelles
9. Roman V. Shapovalov, V. V. Slezov, A. S. Abyzov, Leonid N. Davydov (Kharkov, Ukraine): Nucleation and Growth of Nano-particles in Confined Domains at Variable External Parameters
11. Victor B. Kurasov (St. Petersburg, Russia): Distribution of Droplets in Multi-component Nucleation under Smooth External Conditions
12. Arkady E. Glikin (St. Petersburg, Russia): Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation Causing Different Mechanisms of Oriented Crystal Overgrowth (Epitaxy)
13. Elena N. Kotelnikova (St. Petersburg, Russia): Phase Transitions of Pure and Mixed Molecular Crystals: Paraffins and Fatty Acids
14. Nikolay S. Yuritsyn, V. M. Fokin (St. Petersburg, Russia): Crystal Nucleation and Growth in Na2O-CaO-SiO2 Glasses
15. Vladimir V. Yanovskij (Kharkov, Ukraine): Theory of Fragmentation Processes15. Andrey V. Osipov (St. Petersburg, Russia): Formation of Domain Structures as a Cooperative Process
16. Valeri V. Golubkov (St. Petersburg, Russia): Kinetics of Structural Relaxation Below Glass Transition Temperature According to Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering for Inorganic Glasses
17. Natalija M. Vedishcheva (St. Petersburg, Russia): Thermo¬dynamic Modelling of Melt Structure and Properties Based on the Theory of Associated Solutions
18. Tatjana. V. Lokotosh, Nikolay P. Malomuzh, and V. I. Marenkov (Odessa, Ukraine): Crystallization Processes in Dusty Plasmas
19. Robert I. Nigmatulin (Moscow, Russia): Metastable States Under Extremely High Pressure
20. Vadim Brazhkin (Troitsk, Russia): Non-Equilibrium Phase Diagrams of Metastable Molecular Compounds under High Pressure
21. Lionel Mercury (Orleans, France): Geochemical Consequences of Superheating
22. Claire Ramboz (Orleans, France): Kinetics of Nucleation at High Degrees of Supersaturation in Aqueous Solutions
23. Alexander A. Milchev (Sofia, Bulgaria): Electrocrystallization: An Atomistic Approach to the Nucleation Stage
24. Alexander K. Shchekin and V. I. Leiman (St. Petersburg, Russia): Kinetic Peculiarities of Nucleation in Glasses at Anomalous Diffusion
25. V. P. Klyuev, Boris Z. Pevzner (St. Petersburg, Russia): Thermal Expansion over the Glass Transition Region: Influence of Glass Composition and Structure
26. Christiane Helling (St. Andrews, Scotland): Astrophysikalische Modellierung der Staubbildung
27. Boriz Z. Pevzner, V. V. Golubkov, O. V. Yanush (St. Petersburg, Russia): Initiation of Defects in Quartz and Vitreous Silica and their Evolution into the Vitreous Coesite Phase under the Influence of Neutron Irradiation /li>

Some Hints Concerning Presentations

The time for the speakers in their lectures is - if not specified otherwise - not strictly limited to allow a detailed explanation even of details of the research and an extensive discussion. Nevertheless, due to the large number of highly interesting contributions already proposed now and to have some order in anticipating the program, commonly either 1 hour or 30 minutes are taken as a rough estimate for the duration of one lecture. Please specify the time you need in submitting your proposal.

The workshop languages are English and Russian. If possible, English should be preferred. At least, the presentations (Power point etc.) should be written in English. Summaries of the content in the respective alternative language will be given as far as necessary.

ACCOMMODATION and FINANCIAL REGULATIONS

No conference fee is required. We will cover, as a rule, the costs for the stay in Dubna and, as far as possible, the travel expenses (at the level of the costs for railway tickets of the cheapest category (“platzkartnyi vagon”)) for invited speakers from Russia and the former Soviet Republics to Dubna and back (for refunding the expenses, please, do not forget to take a komandirovotschnoe udostoverenie with you). Moreover, our colleagues from Moscow and Moscow region we would like to ask to pay the travel costs by themselves as already done in previous years. In case of questions, please, contact us.

CONTACT ADDRESSES

All questions concerning the workshop, please, submit to

Dr. Juern W. P. Schmelzer and Prof. Vyatcheslav B. Priezzhev

Postal address:

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,
Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics,
141980 Dubna
Moscow region
Russia

Phone: (+49 381) 498 6944; (+7 09621) 63 703 (Schmelzer),
   (+7 09621) 65 333 (Priezzhev);

Fax: (+49 381) 498 6942; (+7 09621) 65 084 or 40 594
E-mail: juern-w.schmelzer@physik.uni-rostock.de
   juern@theor.jinr.ru (Schmelzer);
   priezzvb@theor.jinr.ru(Priezzhev);

preferably via Email: juern-w.schmelzer@physik.uni-rostock.de (till March 31, 2011)
juern@theor.jinr.ru (from April 1, 2011)

For further details see also the homepage of the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

Looking forward to see you in Dubna.

Jurn W. P. Schmelzer Gerd Roepke Vyatcheslav B. Priezzhev

For any comments and changes please send email to Elena Kolganova