Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Year 2003


Friday, January 17, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Feodor Borodich,   Northwestern University
Title: Similarity and Fractals in Contact and Nano Mechanics
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Friday, January 24, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Leo Silbert,   University of Chicago
Title: Gravity-driven dense granular flows
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Friday, January 31, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Maximino Aldana,   University of Chicago
Title: BBoolean Dynamics in Complex Networks with Scale-Free Topology
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Friday, February 14, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy,   Technion
Title: Feedback Control of Morphological Instabilities
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Friday, February 21, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Stephen Hagen,   University of Florida
Title: Drool of lizard, heart of horse...what goes into fast protein folding?
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Friday, February 28, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Amy Shen, Washington University,   St. Louis
Title: Granular Fingering
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Friday, March 7, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dr. James Gilchrist,   UIUC
Title: Mixing and Segregation of Granular Materials in Spherical and Cubical Tumblers
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Friday, March 14, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Eric Weeks,   Emory University
Title: The physics of the colloidal glass
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Friday, April 4, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Wouter Rappel,   University of California-San Diego
Title: Cellular signaling networks in Dictyostelium discoideum:
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Friday, April 11, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Igor Aronson,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Driven Granular Media: Phase Transitions, Patterns and Vortices
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Friday, April 18, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dave Benson,   Desert Research Institute
Title: Aquifers and Streams as Fractal Filters: Fractal Calculus in Your Backyard
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Friday, April 25, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Stephen Morris,   University of Toronto
Title: Traveling Waves in Axial Segregation: The Dynamics of Subsurface Core
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Friday, May 2, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Alan Hastings,   University of California-Davis
Title: Biocomplexity in the Design of Marine Reserves
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Friday, May 9, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
David Westwick,   University of Calgary
Title: Nonlinear system identification: A tool for modeling complex biosystems
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Friday, May 16, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Jack Dockery,   Montana State University
Title: Finger Formation in Biofilm Layers
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Friday, May 23, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Stephen Morris,   University of Toronto
Title: Traveling Waves in Axial Segregation: The Dynamics of Subsurface Core
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, June 6, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Brad Werner,   Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Title: Self-organization and emergent behavior in natural systems: examples from permafrost terrain
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Thursday, June 26, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 11:00AM
Romulus Breban,   University of Maryland
Title: Competition in Phase Synchronization of Chaotic Attractors & Indeterminate Saddle-Node Bifurcation
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Romulus Breban,   University of Maryland
Title: Competition in Phase Synchronization of Chaotic Attractors & Indeterminate Saddle-Node Bifurcation
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Friday, June 27, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 11:00AM
Zong-Hua Liu,   Arizona State U.
Title: Transition to chaos in continuous-time random dynamical systems
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Friday, October 10, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Igal Szleifer,   Purdue University
Title: Kinetics of protein adsorption: multi-scale approach for bridging time scales
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Friday, October 17, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Howard Weiss,   Pennsylvania State
Title: Remarkable Dynamics of an Overcompensatory Leslie Population Model
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Friday, October 24, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Herman Makse,   City College of the City University of New York
Title: Thermodynamics of Jammed Matter
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Friday, October 31, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Erik Luijten,   University of Illinois
Title: How to Stabilize Colloidal Suspensions? Application of a New Algorithm for Complex Fluids
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
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Friday, November 7, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Malcolm MacIver,   Northwestern University
Title: Congruence of sensing and locomotor volumes in an omnidirectional animal
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Friday, November 14, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Charles R. Doering,   Department of Mathematics and Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics
Title: The stochastic Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscunov equation,
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Friday, November 21, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Robert Clewley,   Boston University
Title: Multiple scale analysis and local models generate low-dimensional maps
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Friday, December 5, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Nikos V. Mantzaris,   Rice University Chemical Engineering Department, , Houston, TX
Title: A Computational Study of the Signal Transduction Mechanisms and Wave Propagation in Astrocytic Glial Cells
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