Dr. James R. Anglin
Department of Physics and Center for Ultra-Cold Atoms, MIT
“Spinning BEC”
May 3, 2004
Dr. Andrew L. Belmonte
Pennsylvania State University
“Dimpling and Buckling Instabilities of Viscoelastic Free Surfaces”
May 21, 2004
Dr. Gareth Block
Applied Research Laboratories, UT – Austin
“Multi-Scale Modeling of Ocean Sediments”
September 15, 2003
Dr. John Bush
MIT
“New Structures in Free Surface Flows”
February 9, 2004
Dr. David Chandler
Sandia National Laboratory
“Cooling Molecules by Single Collisions”
September 12, 2003
Dr. Michel Cloitre
Laboratoire Matière Molle et Chimie, (ESPCI) – Paris
“The Fate of Pastes: Yielding, Flowing, Slipping, Aging”
April 19, 2004
Dr. E. G. D. Cohen
Rockefeller University
“Superstatistics”
October 23, 2003
Dr. E. G. D. Cohen
Rockefeller University
“Boltzmann and Statistical Mechanics”
October 22, 2003
Dr. Oren Cohen
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
“Linear and Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Photonic Lattices”
October 15, 2003
Dr. Shiyi Chen
Johns Hopkins University
“Multiscale Simulation of Micro-and Nano-Fluidics
October 13, 2003
Dr. Todd Ditmire
UT – Austin, Dept. of Physics
“High Field and High Energy Density Science with Terawatt and Petawatt Lasers”
September 8, 2003
Dr. Thomas Fischer
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University
“Hydrodynamics and Biomimetics between Two and Three Dimensions”
April 21, 2004
Dr. Ernst-Ludwig Florin
University of Texas at Austin
“From Molecular Interactions to Complex Cellular Functions”
March 22, 2004
Dr. Theo Geisel
University of Gottingen and Director, Max Planck
Institüt für Strömungsforschung
"Pattern Formation in the Developing Visual Cortex"
November 5, 2003
Dr. Thomas C. Halsey
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
“Dense Granular Flow”
October 27, 2003
Dr. William G. Hoover
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“Simulating Thermostated Systems”
December 4, 2003
Dr. Brent Iverson
UT- Austin, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
“Chemistry of Very Large Molecular Systems”
September 29, 2003
Dr. Alexandr Jonas
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
“Molecular Contact Spectroscopy: Molecular-Scale Mechanics Explored with High Precision Fluorescent Particle Tracking”
February 16, 2004
Dr. Philip Marcus
University of California Berkeley
“Prediction of a Global Climate Change on Jupiter”
January 26, 2004
Dr. Frederic Moulin
Ocean Research Institute (ORI), Tokyo University
“Wave-Vortex Interactions in a Rotating Stratified Fluid and Transport through a Dynamical Barrier”
December 1, 2003
Dr. Noboru Nakamura
University of Chicago
“Mixing in the Stratosphere: Diagnostics Based on Tracer Coordinates”
November 3, 2003
Dr. Vitali Nesterenko
University of California San Diego
“Granular Materials: Media with New Wave Dynamics”
November 10, 2003
Dr. Francesco Pampaloni
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
“Thermal Fluctuations of Grafted Semi-Flexible Biopolymers: Experiment vs Theory”
March 29, 2004
Dr. Ignacio Provencio
Uniformed Services University at Bethesda
“Melanopsin and the Photic Regulation of Circadian Rhythms”
April 12, 2004
Dr. David Reynolds
University of California Santa Barbara
“Local versus Nonlocal Coarse Graining: Searching for Robust Properties of Physical Systems”
March 1, 2004
Dr. Rajarshi Roy
University of Maryland
“Synchronization of Chaotic Optical Systems”
November 17, 2003
Dr. Michael Schatz
Georgia Tech
“Chaotic Mixing of Microdroplets: Experiments and Theory”
March 8, 2004
Dr. Robert B. Scott
Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin
“Observing the Turbulent Ocean from a Satellite: Direct Evidence of the Inverse Kinetic Energy Cascade”
February 2, 2004
Dr. Daniel Spiegel
Trinity University
“Thermal Localization of Electroconvection Patterns”
April 28, 2004
Dr. Charles Sukenik
Old Dominion University
“Using Light to Trap Cold Atoms and Cold Atoms to Trap Light”
November 24, 2003
Dr. Sankaran Sundaresan
Princeton University
“Meso-Scale Structures and Non-Uniform Distribution of Particles in Gas-Particle Flow through Vertical Pipes”
April 26, 2004
Dr. Steve Tomsovic
Washington State University
“Ray and Wave Behaviors in Coherent Branched Flow”
January 29, 2004
Dr. Thomas Truskett
UT – Austin, Dept of Chemical Engineering
“Statistical Geometry and Energy Landscape Perspectives on Structural Arrest”
September 22, 2003
Dr. Alan Wolf
Physics Dept. of The Cooper Union and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University)
“Science in the Law: a Physicist Morths into a Lawyer”
April 23, 2004
Dr. Pavel Zemanek
Institute of Scientific Instruments, Academy of Sciences (Czeck Republic)
“Behavior of Colloidal Microparticles in a Planar 3-Beam Interference Field”
August 12, 2004