Katharina Vollmayr-Lee

Professor of Physics

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 (March/April 2012)

For information: Course Information and Course Catalog (Arts & Sciences) and Course Catalog (Engineering) and CCC requirements and Info For Registration (including Registration Times) and Premed Info and (to look at your Academic Progress Report: BU home page → Students → My Bucknell → Banner → Academic Progress Report)

Teaching

My Spring 2012 Schedule

PHYS 331: Advanced Classical Mechanics (Fall 2007)
PHYS 317: Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics (Fall 2010)
FOUN 091.44: Life and Times of Great Physicists (Fall 2010)
Capstone 491-11: Computer Simulations (Spring 2011)
Junior Lab PHYS 310 (Spring 2012)
Capstone 492-11: Computer Simulations (Spring 2012)

Service:

Marty's Governance Webpage
Faculty Meetings: Agenda & Minutes
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, R. Bjorkquist, L. Chambers, and H. Castillo and A. Parsaeian)

List of Publications

Microscopic Picture of Aging in SiO₂
K. Vollmayr-Lee, R. Bjorkquist, and L. M. Chambers
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 017801 (2013) (abstract) (pdf)

Hydrodynamic correlation functions of a driven granular fluid in steady state
K. Vollmayr-Lee, T. Aspelmeier and A. Zippelius
Phys. Rev. E 83, 011301 (2011) (abstract) (pdf)

Aging to Equilibrium Dynamics of SiO₂
K. Vollmayr-Lee, J. A. Roman and J. Horbach
Phys. Rev. E 81, 061203 (2010) (abstract) (pdf)

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

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

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

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

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) (pdf)

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) (pdf)

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) (pdf)

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) (pdf)

Useful Links

A useful guide to HTML
My kids: Martin and Miriam and Claymation of Gabe & Martin
For Miriam's School Visit: Germany map and Memmingen and Springe Innenstadt and Goettingen Panorama and For Berlin Images and Deutsches Alphabet
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 Bucknell University, July 2012 talk at Patriot League Conference, BU, Oct. 2009 and talk at APS March Mtg. 2011 and talk at DPG Fruehjahrstagung 2013 and talk in Duesseldorf 2013
last update of this page: July 2012