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