NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
2001-02 Academic Year
Jaewook Ahn, Department of Physics, University of Michigan - 1-25-02
Rydberg atom data register: a use of atomic electronic states for
information storage
Julien Aubert, University of Grenoble - 10-29-01
Experiments and models of convection in the earth's core
Sonya Bahar, Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri at
St. Louis - 11-8-01
Synchronization and Signal Rectification in the Crayfish Tail
Charles Baroud, CNLD, UT Austin - 11-6-01
Transitions from three- to two-dimensional turbulence in a rotating
system
Christian Beck, School of Mathematical Sciences Queen Mary,
University of London - 4-15-02
Nonextensive statistical mechanics---theory and applications
Christian Beck, School of Mathematical Sciences Queen Mary,
University of London - 4-17-02
Nonextensive statistical mechanics---dynamical foundations
Roger Bonnecaze, Dept of Chemical Engineering, UT Austin - 10-30-01
Simulation of Self-assembly of Particles Onto Surfaces
Roger Bonnecaze, Dept of Chemical Engineering, UT Austin - 4-22-02
Coalescence-Induced Coalescence
Freddy Bouchet, University of Florence, Italy - 2-12-02
Statistical mechanics for geophysical flows: from Jovian's atmosphere
modelisation to the parameterization of small scale turbulence
Carlo Cercignani, Politecnico di Milano - 10-22-01
The life and work of Ludwig Boltzmann
Peter Constantin, University of Chicago - 2-18-02
Turbulent Transport
Karen Daniels, Cornell University - 2-28-02
Pattern Formation in Inclined Layer Convection
Silvina Ponce Dawson, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina - 2-11-02
Calcium release and calcium diffusion in the presence of buffers
Jonathan Dingwell, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, UT Austin
- 4-8-02
Experiments on the Nonlinear Dynamics and Neuro-Mechanical Control of
Walking in Humans
Bruce Doak, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University -
2-8-02
Applications of Helium Atom Optics
Robert Dudley, Section of Integrative Biology, UT Austin - 2-4-02
Unsteady Aerodynamic Mechanisms Underlying Animal Flight
Maneuverability: Hummingbirds as Case Example
Eric Gerde, Renaissance Technologies - 2-18-02
R&D in the marketplace, Physicists wanted!
Gerald Gilbert, Director, Quantum Information Science Group, The MITRE
Corporation - 2-6-02
Practical Quantum Cryptography
Raymond Goldstein, Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona - 9-10-01
Twirling and Whirling, Twisting and Writhing: Nonlinear Dynamics in
Cellular Biophysics
Jochen Guck, CNLD, UT Austin - 11-9-01
Optical Deformability: Micromechanics from Cell Research to Biomedicine
David Humphrey, CNLD, UT Austin - 4-24-02
Myosin II alters the viscoelasticity and self-assembly properties of
actin networks
Greg King, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Warwick, UK -
9-19-01
Predicting chaotic dispersion with Eulerian symmetry measures
Lisa Lapidus, National Institutes of Health - 1-14-02
Dynamics of Elementary Structures in Protein Folding
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Cambridge University - 3-4-02
Crumpling and wrinkling
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Cambridge University - 3-6-02
Surface tension short stories
Dmitrii Makarov, UT Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - 10-1-01
Statistical mechanics and folding kinetics of proteins
Michael Marder, CNLD, UT Austin - 10-15-01
Friction and Fracture
Samantha Moore, CNLD, UT - 4-5-02
Optical Deformability: A New Cell Marker?
Van Nguyen, Johns Hopkins University - 4-29-02
Patterning of Small Particles by a Surfactant-Enhanced
Marangoni-Bénard Instability
Mark Raizen, Physics Dept, UT Austin - 11-5-01
Chaos Assisted Tunneling of Atoms
Eduardo Ramos, Center for Energy Research, National University of Mexico -
9-24-01
Natural convection in a cylindrical container
Jori Ruppert-Felsot, CNLD, UT Austin - 12-7-01
Viscous Dissipation in Rotating Flows
Florian Schreck, CNLD, UT Austin - 5-3-02
A Lithium Bose-Einstein Condensate Immersed in a Fermi Sea and
Launched as a Bright Soliton
Joel Sommeria, Director, Coriolis Laboratory, Grenoble, France -
12-3-01
Statistical mechanics and self-organization of geophysical flows
Eric Weeks, Emory University - 11-14-01
The physics of the colloidal glass transition
Charles Wolgemuth, University of California, Berkeley - 11-26-01
Towards a Physics of Cell Motility and Morphology
Dongping Zhong, California Intitute of Technology - 1-28-02
Femtosecond Studies of Complex Molecular Systems: From Gas-Phase
Reaction to Protein Dynamics
20 June 2002