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