Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Year 1998
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
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- Title: No seminar due to UC/NU workshop on October 14
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- Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
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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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