Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Year 1997
Friday, February 28, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor R. Almgren, U. Chicago
- Title: Phase-Field Asymptotics for Unequal Diffusivities
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 7, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Dr. C. Dettmann, Northwestern U.
- Title: Crisis in the Lorentz gas
Abstract and details available
Tuesday , March 11, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:00pm
- Professor R. Dorfman, U. Maryland
- Title: Some Applications of Chaos Theory to Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Special Note: Note unusual day and time
Abstract and details available
Friday, March 14, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 1:30pm
- Professor W. Kang, U. Chicago
- Title: Magneto-sonoluminescence: interplay of light and sound in magnetic fields
Contact info here
Friday, April 4, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor G. Vattay, Eotvos U., Budapest, Hungary
- Title: Periodic orbit theory in quantum and mesoscopic physics
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 11, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor U. Mueller, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
- Title: Can the magnetic field of the earth be simulated in a laboratory experiment?
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 18, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor J.D. Crawford, U. Pittsburgh
- Title: Weakly unstable systems in the presence of neutrally stable modes
Abstract and details available
Friday, April 25, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor A. Bernoff, Northwestern U.
- Title: Longwave Models of Solidification: Self-similar Blow-up and its Regularization
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 2, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor C. Doering, U. Michigan
- Title: Convection, Stability and Turbulence
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 9, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor J. Franks, Northwestern U.
- Title: Periodic Points for Area Preserving Surface Homeomorphisms
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, May 13, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 3:00pm
- Prof. S. Dippel, FZ Juelich, Germany
- Title: Dissipation in granular flow on a rough inclined plane
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 16, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor A. Skeldon, City University, London, UK
- Title: Generic stability results for steady periodic patterns and their application to convection problems
Abstract and details available
Friday, May 30, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor T. Young, Northwestern U.
- Title: Triple collision in the Newtonian 3-body problem
Abstract and details available
Friday, June 6, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3396, 2:00pm
- Professor P. Cvitanovic, Northwestern U.
- Title: Hopf's last hope: spatiotemporal chaos in terms of unstable recurrent patterns
Abstract and details available
Friday, September 26, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor Sara A. Solla, Northwestern University
- Title: The Dynamics of Incremental Learning in Multilayered Neural Networks
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 3, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor Jonathan Robbins, U. Bristol and BRIMS, Hewlett-Packard Labs
- Title: The spin-statistics relation from nonrelativistic quantum mechanics
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 10, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Dr. Alexander Golovin, Northwestern University
- Title: Effect of Anisotropy on Nonlinear Evolution of Morphological Instability in the Freezing of a Hypercooled Melt
Abstract and details available
Tuesday, October 21, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3823, 2:00pm
- Professor Mark Saffman, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark
- Title: Spatial dynamics in nonlinear optics: from disorder to control
Special Note: Please note unusual day and location!
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 31, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor Prem Kumar, Northwestern U.
- Title: Parametric Devices for Ultra-high-speed Systems
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 7, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor Emily Stone, Utah State University
- Title: Using Archetypes to Analyze and Control Complex Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 14, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech 3827, 2:00pm
- Professor W.L. Kath, Northwestern University
- Title: Controlling solitons in nonlinear optical fibers with phase-sensitive amplifiers
Abstract and details available
Friday, November 21, 1997
- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Tech M416, 2:00pm
- Dr. P. Umbanhower , University of Pennsylvania
- Title: Wave patterns in shaken sand
Special Note: Note changed location because of video
Abstract and details available
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