Friday, January 21, 2000

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

Prof. Paul Bressloff,   Loughborough University (Visiting U.Chicago)

Title: Nonlinear dynamics of synaptically coupled neural oscillators
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 27, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech F235 (Physics Conference Room), 4:00pm

Professor Mogens H. Jensen,   The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen

Title: A Hierarchical Description of Proteins: Thermodynamics, Critical, and Motor Properties
Special Note: jointly with Department of Physics (Condensed Matter seminar)
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 28, 2000

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

Prof. Ian Melbourne,   University of Houston

Title: Brownian motion in deterministic dynamical systems with Euclidean symmetry
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 4, 2000

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

Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar,   Weizmann Institute (Visiting U.Chicago)

Title: Big islands in dispersing billiard like potentials.
Special Note: The talk by W. Pesch that was scheduled for this day, unfortunately, has to be cancelled for now.
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 11, 2000

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

Professor I. Yu,   Seoul National University

Title: What will happen if you rotate sand in a tilted spinning bucket?
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 18, 2000

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

Dr. V. Kalatsky ,   Argonne National Laboratory

Title: Continuum field description of crack propagation
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 25, 2000

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

Dan Goldman ,   U. Texas, Austin

Title: Lattice oscillations of square patterns in a vertically vibrated granular layer
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 17, 2000

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

Professor W. van Saarloos,   U. Leyden, Netherlands

Title: The remarkable simple and universal properties of "pulled" fronts propagating into an unstable state
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 7, 2000

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

Professor Carl Gardner,   Arizona State University

Title: Electrodiffusion Model Simulation of Rectangular Current Pulses in a Cell Membrane Channel
Special Note: Talk joint with the Mathematics Department
Contact info here

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M235, 3:30pm

Dr. Ronnie Mainieri,   Theoretical Division, LANL & Institute for Physical Sciences

Title: Physical constraints on error correction
Special Note: Two seminars on 1 day. Rescheduling was unfortunately not possible any more
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 25, 2000

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

A. Lemaitre,   Saclay, France

Title: Strongly coupled chaotic maps: collective behavior, universality, and models.
Special Note: Note unusual day
Contact info here

Friday, April 28, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 3:00pm

Professor M. Johnson,   Northwestern U.

Title: An Operational Test for Distinguishing between Complicated and Chaotic Behavior in Deterministic Systems
Special Note: Unusal time!!
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 16, 2000

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

Professor S. Wiggins,   CalTech

Title: TALK CANCELLED
Special Note: Unfortunately, the talk by S. Wiggins has to be cancelled.
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 19, 2000

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

Dr. Peter Andresen,   Northwestern U.

Title: Instabilities in Open Flow Chemical Systems
Abstract and details available

Friday, June 2, 2000

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

Ehud Meron,   Ben Gurion Univerisity, Israel

Title: Phase patterns in forced oscillatory systems: theory vs. experiment
Abstract and details available

Friday, June 9, 2000

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

Andrew Belmonte,   Penn State U.

Title: Snap, Jump, and Wiggle: Motion in Micellar Fluids
Abstract and details available

Monday, June 12, 2000

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 1:30pm

Daniel Lathrop,   U. Maryland

Title: Toward a Self-generating Magnetic Dynamo: the Role of Turbulence
Special Note: Note unusal date and time!
Abstract and details available

Monday, June 19, 2000

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

Hans Peter Grimm,   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

Title: Cell Motility: Modeling of Actin Distribution and Shape of Advancing Lamellipodia
Special Note: Note unusal day!
Contact info here

Friday, September 29, 2000

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

Professor E. Knobloch,   UC Berkeley

Title: Simulations of Oscillatory Binary Fluid Convection in Large Aspect Ratio Containers
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 6, 2000

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

Professor Jacques Fejoz,   Northwestern

Title: Global secular dynamics in the planar three-body problem
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 13, 2000

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

Professor C. Chandre,   CEA Saclay

Title: Renormalization for the analysis of stability in Hamiltonian flows
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 10, 2000

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

Professor G.M. Homsy,   Stanford University

Title: Interfacial fluid mechanics in microgeometries
Abstract and details available

Friday, November 17, 2000

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

Dr. Daniel Howell,   Argonne National Laboratory

Title: Stress Structure and Fluctuation in Granular Matter
Abstract and details available

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