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NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
 Academic Year 2005-2006

Fall 2005

Date/Day Time Room Speaker&Title Special Note
Aug 29
Mon
9AM RLM 7.118 J. Matthew Lane
UT
A new continuous Hugoniot method for numerical studies of shocks
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Sep 12
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Robert Shaw
Protolife Srl, Venice
Asymmetric Diffusion
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Sep 14
Wed
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Professor Howard Stone
Harvard University
Themes in microfluidics: Mixing, colloidal armor, and a cellular-scale differential manometer
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Sep 19
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Zdzislaw E Musielak
University of Texas at Arlington
Routes to Chaos in Dynamical Systems with Multiple Degrees of Freedom
astronomy colloq on Tues on stellar astrophysics
Sep 26
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Professor Charles Radin
UT Mathematics Department
Symmetry and order in dense packings
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Oct 3
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Professor Jonathan Dingwell
UT Department of Kinesiology
Mechanisms governing the dynamic stability of human walking
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Oct 10
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Professor Michael Marder
UT
Attenuation and fracture in disordered materials
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Oct 17
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204
Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar on Wednesday this week
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Oct 19
Wed
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Greg Lewis & Dr. Nathan Kreisberg
Aerosol Dynamics, Inc. (Berkeley)
Lewis -- "Counting aerosol particles"; Kreisberg -- "The missing mass problem in aerosol science"
each will speak 20 minutes
Oct 24
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Olivier Marchal
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Chaotic particle transport in horizontal convection
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Oct 26
Wed
4:15PM RLM 4.102 Dr. Ido Golding
Princeton University
Physics Department Colloquium: Real-time kinetics of gene activity in individual bacteria
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Oct 27
Thu
3:30PM CPE 2.212 John Doyle, the Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems
Caltech
Biological Complexity and Robustness
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Oct 28
Fri
4:00PM RLM 5.104 Professor Wendell Hill
Institute for Physical Science & Technology and Department of Physics at the University of Maryland
Bessel beams with embedded vortices: building blocks for atom optics
CNLD/AMO seminar
Oct 31
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Edvardas Narevicius
University of Texas at Austin
"Planar Lightwave Circuits: Optical Switching and Attenuation"
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Nov 2
Wed
4:15PM RLM 4.102 Dr. Meredith Lambert
University of Michigan
Physics Department Colloquium: Structural studies of non-coding RNAs by biophysical techniques
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Nov 7
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. William Merryfield
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, University of Victoria
The role of entropy in geophysical fluid dynamics
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Nov 9
Wed
4:15PM RLM 4.102 Dr. George Shubeita
University of California, Irvine
Physics Department Colloquium: Towards a quantitative understanding of complex biological systems: molecular motor-based cargo transport in cells
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Nov 14
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Professor Jay Fineberg
Hebrew University
Detachment waves and the onset of friction
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Nov 15
Tue
3:30PM ACES 6.304 Gerhard Hummer
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIH (Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Water, Proton, and Ion Transport: From Nanotubes to Biomolecular Machines
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Nov 17
Thu
3:30PM RLM 5.104 Prof. Barry C. Sanders
Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, Canada
"Large Double-EIT and Mutual Phase Shifts in Rubidium"
Joint CNLD/Statistical Mechanics Seminar
Nov 21
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204
seminar on Wednesday rather than Monday this week
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Nov 23
Wed
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Charles Baroud
Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)
Marangoni forcing of liquid-liquid interfaces in microfluidic devices
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Dec 5
Mon
10:00 - 11 ACE 2.402 Andrew T. Lee
UT
Dissertation Defense: Dynamics of a Single Sphere Sedimenting in a Fluid
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SPRING 2006

Date/Day Time Room Speaker&Title Special Note
Jan 23
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Brian Arbic
UT Institute of Geophysics
Baroclinic instability, bottom friction, the inverse cascade, and oceanic eddies
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Jan 30
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Jeremy B. Lechman
Sandia National Laboratories
Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Flow
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Jan 30
Mon
4:00PM RLM 14.318 Dr. Jochen Guck
Leipzig University
Interaction of light with biological cells
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Feb 1
Wed
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Avraham Be`er
Tel Aviv University
Reactive-Wetting Spreading Droplets: Interface Characteristics
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Feb 1
Wed
4:15PM RLM 4.102 Prof. Federico Capasso
Harvard University
Physics Department Colloquium: Playing with virtual photons: measurement and design of long-range QED forces and torques and their application in nanomechanics
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Feb 6
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Harry Swinney
UT
G.I. Taylor: role model for 21st century nonlinear dynamicists
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Feb 13
Mon
11:00 AM RLM 6.116 NOTE Hantao Ji
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Laboratory Astrophysics: Magnetorotational Instability and Hydrodynamic Stability at Large Reynolds Numbers
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Feb 15
Wed
4:15 PM RLM 4.102 Dr. Benjamin Santer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Physics Department Colloquium: "The Case for A Human Effect on Global Climate"
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Feb 20
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Prof. Matteo Pasquali
Rice University
Bending and buckling at the sub-micron (nano?) scale
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Feb 22
Wed
4:15PM RLM 4.102 Prof. Tom Lubensky
University of Pennsylvania
Physics Department Colloquium: Rods and gels in soft physics
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Feb 22
Wed
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Professor Tom Lubensky
University of Pennsylvania
Nonlinear elasticity in biological gels
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Feb 27
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Jennifer Curtis, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow
Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg
Twists and turns in orbital angular momentum and cell mechanics
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Feb 28
Tue
3:30PM RLM 5.104 Dr. Ennio Arimondo
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita` di Pisa, Italy
Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices: nonlinear effects
Joint Condensed Matter/CNLD/Complex Quantum Systems
Mar 6
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Erin Rericha
University of Maryland and NIH
Disturbing Dicty: Probing the Chemotaxis Pathway
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Mar 7
Tue
5PM RLM 7.104 Prof. E. L. Florin
Pizza Seminar: Biophysics and Biological Physics: From molecules to organisms
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Mar 9
Thu
3:30PM RLM 7.104 Han Pu
Rice University
Dipolar Condensate in Atomic Gases
Joint CQS/CNLD seminar
Mar 13
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 No seminar
spring break
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Mar 20
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Prof. Frederik Sachs
Department Of Physiology And Biophysics, SUNY Buffalo
Mechanical Transduction by Ion Channels; From Biophysics to Bedside
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Mar 27
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Professor Ernst-Ludwig Florin
U Texas
Brownian Motion and Nanofluidics
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Apr 3
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Prof. Eric Kostelich
Arizona State University
Data Assimilation: Finding the Initial Conditions in Large Dynamical Systems
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Apr 10
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Adela N. Comanici
University of Houston
Patterns on Growing Square Domains via Mode Interactions
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Apr 17
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Professsor Clint Dawson
UT Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Modeling Coastal Hydrodynamics and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
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Apr 24
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Dr. Arnd Pralle
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Morphological Gradient in Mitotic Cells Quantified by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
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May 1
Mon
1:00PM RLM 11.204 Professor Mark Shattuck
Levich Institute, City College of New York of the City University of New York
Phase-Transitions in Granular Non-Equilibrium Steady States
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May 2
Tue
3:30PM RLM 5.104 Professor Valery Pokrovsky
Texas A&M University
Tunneling of Magnetization in Molecular Magnets
Joint CM/CQS/CNLD

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