Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Year 1999


Friday, January 8, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M 416, 2:00pm
Professor V. Steinberg,   Weizmann Institute, Israel
Title: Elasticity and Turbulence in a polymeric flow
Abstract and details available


Friday, January 15, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech LR 3, 2:00pm
Professor A. Huebler,   U. Illinois, Urbana
Title: Harmonicity: Self-Adjusting Systems Avoid Chaos
Special Note: Note: unusual location
Abstract and details available


Friday, January 22, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M 416, 2:00pm
Professor P. Voorhees,   Northwestern
Title: Morphological Evolution of Alloy Thin Films
Abstract and details available


Friday, January 29, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. R. Grigoriev,   U. Chicago
Title: Symmetry in Chaos Control and Phase Space Reconstruction
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 12, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. I. Aranson,   Argonne National Lab
Title: Dynamics of axial segregation in a long rotating drum
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 19, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. K. Hill,   Northwestern U.
Title: Mixing, Segregation, and Signatures of Chaos in Tumbled Granular Materials
Abstract and details available


Friday, February 26, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor G. Gunaratne,   U. Houston
Title: Characterization of natural patterns
Abstract and details available


Friday, March 5, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor S.-J. Chang,   U Illinois Urbana
Title: Chaos in Quantum Map
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 2, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. A. Tkachenko,   U. Chicago
Title: Sand Science: from Description to Understanding
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 9, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor Gregory Ryskin ,   Northwestern U.
Title: On Markov processes and invariance
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 16, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor Gregory Luther,   Northwestern U.
Title: Understanding control strategies for resonant waves interactions using geometric techniques
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 23, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor D. Ferster,   Northwestern U.
Title: Assembly of receptive fields in cat visual cortex
Abstract and details available


Friday, April 30, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor C. Josserand,   U. Chicago
Title: Self-organisation in soliton wave turbulence
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 7, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. Chris Moore,   Santa Fe Institute
Title: Three- and Four-color Potts Models in the Plane: Vortices, Entropic Forces and Interfaces
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, May 12, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor C. Surko,   U. California, San Diego
Title: Phase Defect Description of Traveling-Wave Convection
Special Note: Note: unusual day!
Abstract and details available


Friday, May 28, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 3:00pm
Dr. H. Chate,   Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Title: Phase-Ordering, Interface Dynamics, and Persistence Exponents in Spatially-Extended Dynamical Systems
Special Note: Note unusual time
Abstract and details available


Friday, September 24, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. Yi-Ju Chen,  
Title: Flow-Induced Morphology
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 15, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor Leslie Hocking,   University College London
Title: Spreading of a liquid drop with mass loss
Contact info here


Tuesday, October 19, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 4:00pm
Professor V. Steinberg,   Weizmann Institute, Israel
Title: Parametric Generation of Second Sound in Superfluid Helium
Special Note: Note unusual day and time. This seminar is jointly with the Physics Condensed Matter Seminar
Abstract and details available


Friday, October 29, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. M. van Hecke ,   CATS/Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen
Title: Pattern Formation for Vortex Ripples: 1D theory and 2D experiments
Abstract and details available


Friday, November 5, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor S. Mussa-Ivaldi,   Northwestern U.
Title: Nonlinear Models of Motor Learning
Abstract and details available


Friday, November 12, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Professor M. Dennin,   UC Irvine
Title: Taming spatiotemporal chaos: periodic modulations of the control parameter.
Abstract and details available


Tuesday, November 30, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm
Dr. P. Thomas,   U. Chicago
Title: Modeling Pattern Formation in Primary Visual Cortex
Abstract and details available



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