Friday, January 16, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Shankar Venkataramani,   U. Chicago

Title: Pattern formation with period doubling: Patterns in a vibrated sandbox
Special Note: Coffee and cookies FOLLOWING the seminar
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, January 27, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech L313 (now called L361), 4:00pm

Dr. M. Chertkov,   Princeton U.

Title: Theory of turbulent advection
Special Note: For students (and others interested) there will be an informal introduction to the subject at 3:30 pm in Tech 3371 (Condensed Matter Theory). Note unusal time and location of the seminar.
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 30, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Alan Dorsey,   University of Florida

Title: From Dendrites to Labyrinths: The Morphology of Magnetic Flux Patterns in Superconductors
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 6, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Yuhai Tu,   IBM Watson Research

Title: Dynamics of Flocking: How Birds Fly Together
Special Note: For students there will be an informal introduction to the topic at 1:30 in M416
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 20, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Julio Ottino,   Northwestern U.

Title: Mixing, Segregation, and Chaos in Granular Materials
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 27, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Monica Olvera de la Cruz ,   Northwestern U.

Title: Phase Segregation in Ternary Polymer Blends
Special Note: For students there will be an informal introduction at 1:30 in M416
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 6, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       M416, 2:00pm

Professor Bob Eisenberg,   Rush Medical Center

Title: Ionic Channels in Biological Membranes: Natural Nanotubes Described by the Drift-diffusion Equations
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 14, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 4:00pm

Professor S. Morris,   U. Toronto, Canada

Title: Electroconvection patterns in suspended smectic films
Special Note: unusual day and time
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 14, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 1:00pm

Professor Steve Morris,   U. Toronto, Canada

Title: Electroconvection patterns in suspended smectic films
Special Note: unusal day and time
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 17, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Liz Bradley,   University of Colorado

Title: Chaos and Control
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 24, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Alvin Bayliss,   Northwestern U.

Title: New Modes of Burning in Solid Fuel Combustion
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 8, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Alastair Rucklidge,   Cambridge U., England

Title: Bifurcations of periodic orbits with spatio-temporal symmetries
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 22, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Susan Friedlander,   U. Illinois, Chicago

Title: Nonlinear Instabilities in fluid flows
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 29, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Giles Novak,   Northwestern U.

Title: New observations of interstellar magnetic fields
Abstract and details available

Thursday, August 27, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. J. Eggers,   U. Essen

Title: Coalescence of Two Spheres
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, September 23, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Gregory King,   University of Warwick, UK

Title: Recent results on the physics of chaotic advection in wavy Taylor vortex flow
Contact info here

Friday, October 2, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. H.P. Grimm,   Northwestern U.

Title: Steps, Kinetic Anisotropy, and Long--Wave Instabilities in Directional Solidification
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 9, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor J. Fineberg,   Hebrew U., Israel

Title: New Structures in a Shaking Fluid
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 16, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       , 2:00pm

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Title: No seminar due to UC/NU workshop on October 14
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       , 2:00pm

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Title: No seminar due to UC/NU workshop on October 14
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Friday, October 23, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor N. Spruston,   Northwestern U.

Title: Cable properties of cortical neurons: theory and experiment
Special Note: http://www.nwu.edu/neurobiology/Spruston/
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 6, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor H. Jaeger,   U. Chicago

Title: Compaction and Compression of Granular Matter
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 13, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor J. Houk,   Northwestern U.

Title: Distributed Modular Networks for Controlling Movement and Cognition
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 20, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor R. Freeman,   Northwestern U.

Title: Robust Nonlinear Control Systems: Theory and Design
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, December 2, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professors L. Kramer,   U. Bayreuth, Germany

Title: Secondary instabilities in anisotropic convection
Special Note: Note unusual day!
Contact info here

Thursday, December 3, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. M. van Hecke,   CATS, Copenhagen, Denmark

Title: Local Structures and Spatiotemporal Chaos
Special Note: Note unusal day!
Abstract and details available

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