Katharina Vollmayr-Lee

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Contact

• Email: kvollmay@bucknell.edu
• Office: 152 Olin
• Phone: (570) 577-3109
• Fax: (570) 577-3153
• Department of Physics and Astronomy
  Bucknell University
  Lewisburg, PA 17837

Advising

Sign-Up Sheet for Advising (Oct. 2009)

Teaching

My Spring 2009 Schedule

FOUN 094.39: Life and Times of Great Physicists (Fall 2003)

PHYS 331: Advanced Classical Mechanics (Fall 2007)

Capstone 498-11: Computer Simulations (Spring 2008)

PHYS 317: Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics (Fall 2008)

Capstone 499-11: Computer Simulations (Spring 2009)

PHYS 317: Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics (Fall 2009)

Service: COI

Marty's Governance Webpage

Faculty Meetings: Agenda & Minutes

CoI Faculty Meeting Nov.6, 2007

CoI Report (Goals) Faculty Meeting Dec. 4, 2007

Report & Revised BU Educational Vision

Timeline of BU Educational Vision

FLS-Forum Nov. 13 (IDEA)

Current Research

Granular Media: Dynamics of Hard Spheres (in collaboration with A. Zippelius, T. Aspelmeier, and T. Kranz)

Amorphous SiO₂: Dynamics Below the Glass Transition (in collaboration with J.Horbach, J. Roman, and R. Bjorkquist)

Binary Lennard-Jones Glass: Dynamics Below the Glass Transition (in collaboration with E.A. Baker)

Selected List of Publications

• Self-Organized Criticality Below The Glass Transition
  K. Vollmayr-Lee and E. A. Baker
  Europhys. Lett. 76, 1130 (2006)

• Heterogeneities in The Glassy State
  K. Vollmayr-Lee and A. Zippelius
  Phys. Rev. E 72, 041507 (2005)

• Single Particle Jumps in a Binary Lennard-Jones System Below The Glass Transition
  K. Vollmayr-Lee
  J. Chem. Phys. 121, 4781 (2004)

• Dynamical Heterogeneities Below the Glass Transition
  K. Vollmayr-Lee, W. Kob, K. Binder and A. Zippelius
  J. Chem. Phys. 116, 5158 (2002)

• Using Mean Field Theory to Determine The Structure of Uniform Fluids
  K. Vollmayr-Lee, K. Katsov and J. D. Weeks
  J. Chem. Phys. 114, 416 (2001)

• Cooling Rate Dependence and Dynamic Heterogeneity Below The Glass Transition in a Lennard-Jones Glass
  K. Vollmayr-Lee, W. Kob, A. Zippelius and K. Binder
  Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 10, 1443 (1999)

• Roles of Repulsive and Attractive Forces in Determining the Structure of Nonuniform Liquids: Generalized Mean Field Theory
  J. D. Weeks, K. Katsov and K. Vollmayr
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4400 (1998(

• Intermolecular Forces and the Structure of Uniform and Nonuniform Fluids
  J. D. Weeks, K. Vollmayr and K. Katsov
  Physica A 244, 461 (1997)

• Cooling Rate Effects in Amorphous Silica: A Computer Simulation
  K. Vollmayr, W. Kob and K. Binder
  Phys. Rev. B 54, 15808 (1996)

• How do the Properties of a Glass Depend on the Cooling Rate? A Computer Simulation Study of a Lennard-Jones System
  K. Vollmayr, W. Kob and K. Binder
  J. Chem. Phys. 105, 4714 (1996)

Useful Links

A useful guide to HTML
My kids: Martin and Miriam

Germany map and Memmingen and Springe Innenstadt and Goettingen Panorama and Goettingen Gaenseliesel and Uni Goettingen and Mainz

my CV

talk at APS March Meeting 2009 and talk at Ohio University, Oct. 2009 and talk at Bucknell University, Sept. 2009 and talk at Patriot League Conference, BU, Oct. 2009

last update of this page: May 2008