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

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Teaching

FOUN 091.44: Life and Times of Great Physicists (Fall 2010)
PHYS 331: Advanced Classical Mechanics (Fall 2014)

PHYS 317: Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics (Fall 2018)
Junior Lab PHYS 310 (Spring 2022)
PHYS 333: Electromagnetic Theory I (Fall 2022)
PHYS 338: Computer Simulations in Physics (Spring 2023)
PHYS 317: Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics (Fall 2023)
Summer Research

PA Young Women in Physics Conference: April 23, 2022, Information & Registration (free)

Amorphous SiO₂: Dynamics Below the Glass Transition (in collaboration with A. Zippelius, H. Castillo, J. Cookmeyer, Ch. Gorman, and J. Horbach)

Granular Media: Dynamics of Hard Spheres (in collaboration with A. Zippelius, T. Aspelmeier, H. Castillo, and K. Avila)

List of Publications

Jammed solids with pins: Thresholds, force networks, and elasticity
A.L. Zhang, S.A. Ridout, C.Parts,A. Sachdeva, C.S. Bester, K. Vollmayr-Lee, B.C. Utter, T. Brzinski, and A.L. Graves
Phys.Rev.E 106, 034902 (2022) (abstract) .
Introduction to molecular dynamics simulations
K. Vollmayr-Lee
Am.J.Phys. 88, 401-422 (2020) (pdf), (abstract) .
Supplementary Material: (tar.gz) doi: DOI: 10.1119/10.0000654
This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing.
This article appeared in Am.J.Phys. 88, 401-422 (2020) and may be found at (abstract) .
Universal scaling in the aging of the strong glass former SiO₂
K. Vollmayr-Lee, Ch.H. Gorman, and H.E. Castillo
J.Chem. Phys. 144, 234510 (2016) (abstract) (pdf) doi: 10.1063/1.4953911
(JCP Editor's Choice: Paper & Invited Talk)
Slow and long-ranged dynamical heterogeneities in dissipative fluids
K.E. Avila, H.E. Castillo, K. Vollmayr-Lee, and A. Zippelius
Soft Matter 12, 5461 (2016) (pdf) (abstract) doi: 10.1039/C6SM00784H
Glass formers display universal non-equilibrium dynamics on the level of single-particle jumps
J. Helfferich, K. Vollmayr-Lee, F. Ziebert, H. Meyer and J. Baschnagel
Europhys. Lett. 109, 36004 (2015) (pdf) doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/109/36004
Strong Dynamical Heterogeneity and Universal Scaling in Driven Granular Fluids
K.E. Avila, H.E. Castillo, A. Fiege, K. Vollmayr-Lee, and A. Zippelius
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 025701 (2014) (abstract) (pdf)
Temperature-dependent defect dynamics in the network glass SiO₂
K. Vollmayr-Lee and A. Zippelius
Phys. Rev. E 88, 052145 (2013) (abstract) (pdf)
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)