NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
2000-01 Academic Year
Mokhtar Adda-Bedia,Laboratoire de Physique Statistique,Ecole Normale
Superieure - 4/27/01
Steady state slip pulses between dissimilar materials
Kenneth Ball, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin - 4/23/01
Turbulent Boundary Layer Drag Reduction Using an Oscillating Wall
Michael P. Brenner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 11/8/00
Electrospinning: A whipping jet generates submicron polymer fibers
Zahir Daya, Los Alamos National Laboratory - 4/9/01
Knots and random walks in `granular polymers`
Charles Doering, University of Michigan - 1/22/01
Stochastic Ratchets
James W. Dufty, University of Florida - 9/25/00
Kinetic theory for rapid granular flow
Richard Fitzpatrick, UT Physics - 3/19/01
Nonlinear dynamics in fusion plasma physics
Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston - 12/4/00
Bursting as a Local Phenomenon
Henry Greenside, Duke University - 4/2/01
Extensive Chaos
Gemunu Gunaratne, University of Houston - 11/27/00
Towards the Development of Non-Invasive Diagnostics for Osteoporosis:
A Model-Based Approach
Jim Jenkins, Cornell University - 10/23/00
Dense, Frictional Granular Flows
David Hillis, Integrative Biology, UT Austin - 9/11/00
Phylogenetic Analysis
Alain Karma, Northeastern University - 9/19/00
Multiscale modeling of microstructural evolution: From atoms to dendrites
Josef Käs, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, UT Austin - 9/13/00
The Physics of the Actin Cytoskeleton: From Nonequilibrium Polymer Physics
and Anomalous Diffusion to Nerve Regeneration and Cancer Diagnostics
Friedrich Kremer, Physik und Geowissenschaften, Universitaet Leipzig - 8/28/00
Polymers in Confining Geometries: From Isolated Polymer Chains to Polymer
Brushes
Matthew Lane, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, UT Austin - 10/18/00
Molecular Dynamics Simulation - Fracture in vitreous silica
Baruch Meerson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - 2/12/01
Normal and Anomalous Scaling in Fractal Coarsening, or How a
Fractal Gets Smooth
Stephen Morris, University of Toronto - 9/20/00
The curious dynamics of sand segregating in a rotating tube
Christoph A. Naumann, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
- 3/5/01
Single molecule fluorescence imaging of phospholipid and phospholipid
-lipopolymer monolayers at the air-water interface
Qi Ouyang, Peking University - 1/29/01
Spiral Wave Instabilities
Nicholas Peffley, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, UT Austin - 8/30/00
Turbulence in liquid metal flows
Paul Petersan, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, UT Austin - 11/15/00
Path Instabilities in Dynamic Fracture
Martin Poenie, Department of Biological Sciences, UT Austin - 2/19/01
Modulated Polarization Microscopy Sheds New Light on the
Cytoskeleton
Mario Ragwitz, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems (Dresden) - 11/13/00
Determinism in time series measurements for 2-dimensional turbulence
Mark Raizen, Department of Physics, UT Austin - 2/5/01
Controlling Atomic Motion with Optical Dipole Potentials
Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, UT Austin
- 4/30/01
Dynamic failure under shear loading
Benoit Roman, Les Universites a Marseille (France) - 4/16/01
From Elastica to Wrinkled Sheets
Michael Saxton, Institute of Theoretical Dynamics, UC Davis - 11/13/00
Anomalous subdiffusion in cell membranes
Paul Shapiro, Department of Astronomy, UT Austin - 10/2/00
The Universal Equilibrium Structure of Cosmological Halos
Eran Sharon, Hebrew University and UT Austin - 10/16/00
Crack front waves in dynamic fracture
Tom Solomon, Bucknell University - 10/30/00
Lagrangian chaos in two- and three-dimensional fluid flows
Qui Tran-Cong, Kyoto Institute of Technology - 10/9/00
Mode-Selection Process in Chemically Reacting Polymer Mixtures
Mu Wang, Natl. Lab. Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University
- 3/28/01
Pattern Formation in Lipid Monolayers
Robert E. Wyatt, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UT Austin
- 2/26/01
Go with the flow: the hydrodynamic approach to quantum dynamics
14 June 2002