NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
2004-05 Academic Year

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