Research Workshop

Nucleation Theory and Applications

Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Dubna, Russia, 4. - 27. April 1999

Sponsored by the Heisenberg-Landau program, the Russian Fund for Basic Research and the UNESCO

Program

From April 4 till April 11 and April 20 till April 27
work on common project will be carried out

• Sunday, April 11
  
  19. 30 Get together party
  Basic Program (April, 12. - 17.)
• Monday, April 12

  1.

  Galina A. Sycheva (Grebenshchikov Institute of Silicate Chemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia):
  Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation in Phosphate Glasses;

  2.

  Naoum M. Kortsenstein (Krzhishanovsky Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia):
  The Effect of Temperature Pulsations on the Rate of Homogeneous Nucleation During Vapor Condensation;

  3.

  Alexander P. Grinin (Department of Statistical Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia): Kinetics of Nucleation Under Gradual Slow Creation of the Metastable State;

  4.

  Jürn W. P. Schmelzer (Department of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany, and Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia): Kinetics of Nucleation at Increasing Supersaturation: An Alternative Approach ?!;

• Tuesday, April 13

  1.

  Vladimir P. Skripov (Institute of Thermal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia):
  Nucleation in Liquid-Crystal Phase Transitions;

  2.

  Vladimir P. Skripov (Institute of Thermal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia):
  Thermodynamics of Melting and Simon's Equation;

  3.

  Vitali V. Slezov (Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine): Liquid-Crystal Phase Transformations in Adiabatically Closed Systems;

  4.

  Jürn W. P. Schmelzer (Department of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany, and Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia): Description of Fragmentation Processes: Comparison of Different Approaches (with W. Kleinig, University of Dresden, Germany, and Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia);

• Wednesday, April 14

  1.

  Ivan S. Gutzow (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria):
  Kinetics and Thermodynamics of the Glass Transition;

  2.

  Ira G. Polyakova (Grebenshchikov Institute of Silicate Chemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia):
  The Effect of Dispersity on Phase Equilibria (alkali borate systems);

  3.

  Vladimir M. Fokin (Grebenshchikov Institute of Silicate Chemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia): Determination of the crystal-liquid surface energy from nucleation experiments (45 min.);

  4.

  Oleg V. Potapov (Grebenshchikov Institute of Silicate Chemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia): New Data on the Crystal Nucleation in Glasses of Compositions close to $\rm Na_2O_2CaO3SiO_2$ (45 min);

  5.

  Jörg Möller (Technische Universität Dresden):
  Shapes of Critical Clusters under Stress

• Thursday, April 15

  1.

  Christo N. Nanev, D. Tsekova, S. Dimitrova (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria):
  Heterogeneous Nucleation of Hen-Egg-White Lysozyme Crystals;

  2.

  Andrei M. Gusak (Cherkassy Pedagogical Institute, Cherkassy, Ukraine):
  Nucleation in a Concentration Gradient: Thermodynamics;

  3.

  Andrei M. Gusak (Cherkassy Pedagogical Institute, Cherkassy, Ukraine):
  Nucleation in a Concentration Gradient: Kinetics;

  4.

  B. J. Mokross (Instituto de Fisica Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil):
  Nucleation in Non-Homogeneous Enthalpy Systems;

• Friday, April 16

  1.

  David W. Oxtoby (The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, USA):
  Nucleation in Binary and Ternary Solutions;

  2.

  Ho-Young Kwak (Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea):
  Cluster Models in the Theory of Bubble Formation and Related Problems;

  3.

  Vladimir G. Baidakov, Grey Sh. Boltashev (Institute of Thermal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia):
  Kinetics of Bubble Formation in Superheated Liquid - Gas Solutions;

  4.

  Georgi T. Guria (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia):
  Fractal Approach to Nucleation Theory;

• Saturday, April 17

  1.

  Alexander K. Shchekin (Department of Statistical Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia):
  Thermodynamics of Liquid Film Formation on Solid Insoluble Particles;

  2.

  Alexander K. Shchekin (Department of Statistical Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia):
  Kinetics of Vapor Condensation on Macroscopic Nuclei at Low Dynamic Supersaturations;

  3.

  Boris M. Smirnov (Institute of High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia):
  Phase Transitions in Clusters and Bulk with Pair Interactions of Atoms;

  4.

  Dmitry I. Zhukovitskii (Institute of High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia):
  The Effective Size-Dependent Surface Tension of Small Clusters;

Some minor changes will be possible.


As topics for the special

Discussion Meeting:
On Some Problems with Classical Nucleation Theory

the following contributions will be presented:

12.4.

Boris M. Smirnov (Institute of High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia):
Selective Nucleation in Expanding Vapors;

13.4.

Ivan S. Gutzow (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria):
Kinetics of Crystallization in Glass-Forming Melts: Some Open Problems;

14.4.

Jürn W. P. Schmelzer (Department of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany, and Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia):
Nucleation in Viscoelastic Media: Account of Viscous Stress Relaxation;

15.4.

Vitali V. Slezov (Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine):
Some Comments on Nucleation Theory;

16.4

Vladimir G. Baidakov (Institute of Thermal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia):
On Possible Cooperative Effects in Nucleation;

17.4

First Farewell Party.

As topics for the special

Discussion Meeting (April, 19 - 20):
Kinetics of Bubble Formation: Theory and Experiment

the following contributions will be given:

• Monday, April 19

  1.

  Vladimir P. Skripov (Institute of Thermal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia):
  Bubble Formation in Liquids: The Trouble with Water and Water-Gas Solutions;

  2.

  David W. Oxtoby (The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, USA):
  Bubble Formation: Results of Density Functional Calculations;

  3.

  Vladimir G. Baidakov, Grey Sh. Boltashev (Institute of Thermal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia):
  Kinetics of Bubble Formation in Superheated Liquid - Gas Solutions

  • Experiment;
  • Thermodynamics;
  • Kinetics;

• Tuesday, April 20

  1.

  Vladimir P. Skripov (Institute of Thermal Physics, Ekaterinburg, Russia):
  Binary Solutions and Generalized Equations for Phase Equilibria;

  2.

  Horst Baumgartl (BASF Ludwigshafen, Germany):
  Bubble Formation in Liquid-Gas Solutions: Experimental Results and Theoretical Problems

  3.

  Vitali V. Slezov, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer (Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine; University of Rostock, Germany and JINR Dubna, Russia):
  On the Kinetics of Phase Transformations in Viscous Liquids and Melts;

  4.

  Jürn W. P. Schmelzer, Ivan S. Gutzow (University of Rostock, Germany and JINR Dubna, Russia; Institute of Physical Chemistry, Sofia, Bulgaria): Alternative Approaches in the Determination of the Work of Bubble Formation;

The lectures and discussion meetings are scheduled as follows.

1. Lecture	09. 00 - 10. 30
2. Lecture	11. 00 - 12. 30
Lunch
3. Lecture	14. 00 - 15. 30
4. Lecture	16. 00 - 17. 30
Discussion Meeting (Basic Program)	20. 00

Note, however, that slight deviations from the schedule may happen if required by actual circumstances. The sessions will take place, in general, in the Lecture room of the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at the Second Floor.
 

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