Dr. Dwight Barkley
University of Warwick (UK)
"Patterns, dynamics, and spectra in excitable media"
September 18, 2002
Dr. Ido Braslavsky
Caltech
"Step by step up the DNA ladder: From Visualization of DNA Polymerase Activity to Single Molecule DNA Sequencing"
February 24, 2003
Dr. Leonid Bunimovich
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Systems With Divided Phase Space: Exact and Visible examples"
September 23, 2002
Dr. Dr. Benny Davidovich
Weizmann Institute
"Laplacian Growth and Diffusion--Limited Agregation: Different Universality Classes?" March 7, 2003
Dr. Hans-Guenter Dobereiner
Max Planck-Institute for Colloids and Interfaces (Golm)
"Physics and Biology of Interfaces: insights and New Questions"
January 27, 2003
Dr. Freeman Dyson
Institute for Advanced Study
"Looking for Life in Unlikely Places: Reasons why Planets may not be the best places to look for life"
March 26, 2003
Dr. Ernst-Ludwig Florin
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg)
"Mechanical single molecule experiments in the thermal energy regime"
February 3, 2003
Dr. Ernst-Ludwig Florin
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
"From molecular interactions to complex functions in living cells"
March 31, 2003
Professor Scott Franklin
Rochester Institute of Technology
"Needle in the Haystack: the physics of prolate granular piles"
January 15, 2003
Professor Venkat Ganesan
UT Chemical Engineering
"Simulations of Polymers and Complex Fluids"
November 11, 2002
James Glazier
Indiana University
"Computational Modeling of Biological Development"
April 21, 2003
Dr. Sascha Hilgenfeldt
University Twente (Netherlands)
"Ultrasound-driven microbubbles: a tool for probing vesicle and cell mechanics"
March 17, 2003
Dr. Dominic Holland
San Diego Supercomputer Center
"Interatomic Potentials and Using Fracture as a Probe"
April 7, 2003
Professor Stephan Koehler
Emory University
"Foam Drainage on the Micro-Scale"
March 24, 2003
Professor Herbert Levine
University of California, San Diego
"Physics meets developmental biology: The case of Dicyoselium Amoeba aggregation" February 12, 2003
Professor Herbert Levine
University of San Diego
"Intracellular Calcium Dynamics: A Stochastic Excitable Medium"
February 12, 2003
Dr. Michael Marder
UT Physics
"Membranes and Metrics"
October 2, 2002
Professor John Marko
University of Illinois, Chicago
"Micromechanical Study of Nucleic Acid Organization"
November 18, 2002
Dr. Thomas O'Brien
U. S. Dept of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
"Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations of Fluidized Beds"
October 7, 2002
Dr. Olivier Praud
UT and Coriolis Laboratory (Grenoble)
"Turbulence and coherent structures in a stably stratified fluid"
February 24, 2003
Professor Mark Raizen
UT Austin
"Controlling the Motion of Matter with Light: from Single Atoms toNeurons"
January 15, 2003
Dr. Michael Rivera
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Scale-to-scale energy transport in two-dimensional turbulence"
February 17, 2003
Dr. Tetsuya Sato
Earth Simulator Research Center (Japan)
"The Earth Simulator and Its Impact on Science and Technology"
April 30, 2003
Professor Wolfgang Schleich
University Ulm
"Fresnel Representation of the Wigner Function: An Operational Approach"
April 25, 2003
Dr. Matthias Schroeter
Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg
"Fingering in electrodeposition"
November 20, 2002
Professor Julie Theriot
Stanford University
"Crawling Cells and Comet Tails"
April 23, 2003
Dr. Laurette Tuckerman
LIMSI/Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)
"Heteroclinic cycles and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the flow between exactly counter-rotating disks"
November 22, 2002
Dr. Jeff Weiss
University of Colorado at Boulder
"A Dynamical Systems View of Planetary Turbulence"
October 28, 2002
Dr. Wendy W. Zhang
University of Chicago
"Disappearance of a spout"
January 29, 2003