Prof. Orly Alter
University of Texas at Austin, Biomedical Engineering Dept.
“Genomic Signal Processing: Large-Scale Data, Mathematical Models ad Basic Biological Principles”
October 4, 2004
Dr. Eldad Bettelheim
University of Chicago, James Franck Institute
“Dispersive Regularization Approach to the Saffman-Taylor Problem”
February 14, 2005
Prof. William E. Brownell
Baylor College of Medicine
”Membranes as Motors: Nonlinear Dynamics in Hearing”
April 11, 2005
Prof. Gustavo Gioia
University of Illinois
“The Energetics of Folding in Thin-Film Diaphragms”
August 30, 2004
Prof. Gustavo Gioia
University of Illinois
“Urbana-Champaign Structure, Diffusion, and Velocity Correlations in Dense Granular Flow”
August 31, 2004
Dr. Daniel Goldman
University of California Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology
“Dynamic Animal Locomotion on Challenging Terrain”
November 1, 2004
Prof. Steven P. Gross
University of California Irvine, Developmental & Cell Biology Dept.
“Molecular Motors in Vitro and in Vivo”
September 20, 2004
Prof. Paolo Grigolini
University of North Texas
“Intermittency in Blinking Quantum Dots”
November 11, 2004
Dr. Charles Jackson
Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin
“Climate Physics and the Problem of Abrupt Climate Change”
September 13, 2004
Professor Chris Jones
University of North Carolina
“Lagrangian Dynamics in the Ocean: its Assimilation and Assessment”
March 7, 2005
Alexander Leshchiner
Moscow State University
“DC Glow Discharge between Coaxial Cylindrical Electrodes”
January 4, 2005
Prof. Edward Marcotte
Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, UT Austin
“Reconstructing the Logical Organization of Yeast Proteins”
March 9, 2005
Prof. Lauren Ancel Meyers
UT Austin, Integrative Biology
“Contact Network Epidemiology: New Methods for Predicting and Controlling Infectious diseases”
April 4, 2005
John Pearson
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Markov Models for Ion Channel Kinetics"
April 25, 2005
Prof. Eugenia Corvera Poire
UNAM (Mexico)
“Lateral Instability of Saffman-Taylor Viscous Fingers”
October 11, 2004
Yves Pomeau
Institut de France, Academie des Sciences (Paris)
“Finite Time Singularities of Solutions of the 3D Euler Equations in Fluids”
March 9, 2005
Dr. Arthur La Porta
Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences
“Using Optical Tweezers and the Optical Torque Wrench to Probe Force and Torque Generation by Single Bio-Molecules”
February 21, 2005
Prof. Thorsten Poschel
Humboldt University, Berlin
”Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Driven Granular Gas”
May 23, 2005
Prof. Hans-Georg Purwins
Institute for Applied Physics Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
“Dissipative Solitons: Particle like Behavior of Self-Organized Patterns in Nonlinear Systems”
November 29, 2004
Prof. Mark Raizen
CNLD, UT Austin
“Cooling of Atoms with an Optical “Maxwell’s Demon”
October 18, 2004
Dr. Eduardo Ramos
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca
“Electromagnetically Driven Flows in Shallow Fluid Layers”
February 7, 2005
Prof. Ravi-Chandar
UT Austin, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
”Dynamics of Strings and Rods”
May 2, 2005
Prof. Peter Schiffer
Penn State University
“Local Jamming: Drug and Penetration Through Granular Media”
November 10, 2004
Prof. Michael Shelley
Applied Math Lab, Courant Institute, New York University
“Locomotion by Destabilizing Symmetries”
November 17, 2004
Prof. Eric Weeks
Emory University
“Local Jamming: Drag and Stirring in Colloidal Suspensions”
November 8, 2004
Dr. Hepeng Zhang
University of Texas at Austin
“Brillouin Scattering Study of Salol: Exploring the Effects of Rotation-Translation coupling”
September 27, 2004
Prof. Jun Zhang
Physics Department and Courant Institute, New York University
“Flapping Locomotion Leads to Forward Flight”
October 25, 2004