Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Year 2004


Friday, January 9, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
H.-G. Purwins,   University of Muenster, Germany
Title: Dissipative solitons in physical systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, January 16, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Jeff Moehlis,   University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: The Response Dynamics of Neural Oscillator Populations
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, January 23, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
C. McKinstrie,   Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Title: Phase jitter in soliton communication systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, January 30, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
none,   none
Title: no seminar due to NSF site visit of the IGERT program
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 6, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
R. Morimoto,   Northwestern University
Title: The Biological Response to the Stress of Misfolded Proteins: Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 13, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Tom Solomon,   Bucknell University
Title: Reaction-advection-diffusion systems with chaotic advection
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 20, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Ute Ebert,   CWI Amsterdam
Title: Branching sparks --- the dynamics of electric breakdown
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 27, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Gemunu Gunaratne,   University of Houston
Title: How to Find out when Bones may Break
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, March 5, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Alex Gaeta,   Cornell University
Title: Nonlinear Wave Collapse of Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, March 12, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Mark Newman,   University Of Michigan
Title: Community structure in complex networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Roman Grigoriev,   Georgia Tech
Title: Chaotic mixing in microdroplets: theory and experiment
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 2, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Steven T. Cundiff,   JILA, NIST
Title: Pulse dynamics in modelocked lasers
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 9, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Michael Brenner,   Harvard University
Title: Packing spheres with capillary forces
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 16, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Mark Saffman,   University of Wisconsin
Title: Spatiotemporal dynamics of intracavity second harmonic generation:
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 23, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Robert Ghrist,   University of Illinois
Title: Optimal coordination in robotics
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 30, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dr. Linn F. Mollenauer,   Bell Labs
Title: Ultra-Long-Haul Dense WDM with Dispersion-Managed Solitons: The paradox of best performance from this most nonlinear of transmission modes
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 7, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Robert Behringer,   Duke University
Title: Science in the Sandbox: Forces and Flucutations in Granular Materials
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 14, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Jerry Gollub,   Haverford College and University of Pennsylvania
Title: Internal Structure of Granular Shear Flows*
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 21, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Kevin Bassler,   University of Houston
Title: The Evolution of Developmental Canalization in Networks of Competing Boolean Nodes
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 28, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Joceline Lega,   U. Arizona
Title: Instability of local deformations of an elastic filament
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 1, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Hermann Riecke,   Northwestern University, Engineering Sciences and Applied Math
Title: Persistence and Failure in Networks of Excitable Neurons with Local and Non-Local Connectivity
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 8, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Bruno Eckhardt,   University of Marburg, Germany
Title: Transition to turbulence in pipe flow:new aspects of an old problem
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 15, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Naomi Ehrich Leonard,   Princeton University
Title: Collective Motion and Mobile Sensor Networks
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 22, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
John F. Marko,   University of Illinois at Chicago
Title: Micromechanical study of proteins interacting with single DNA molecules
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 29, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Kathleen C. Howell,   Purdue University
Title: Spacecraft Mission Design in Multi-Body Regimes and the Application of Dynamical Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, November 5, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Francesco Bullo,   University of California at Santa Barbara
Title: Motion Coordination for Multi-Agent Networks: Algorithmic Design and Theoretical Framework
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, November 12, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Mitra Hartmann,   Northwestern University
Title: Hardware Models for Studying Sensory Coding in the Nervous System
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, November 19, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Jean-Pierre Nadal,   ENS, Paris
Title: Neural computation in the cerebellum (and elsewhere): what silent synapses tell us
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, December 3, 2004

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Eric Klavins,   University of Washington
Title: Self-Organizing Robotic Systems
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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