NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
1992-93 Academic Year
Dwight Barkley, Princeton University
Spirals, symmetries, and instabilities
Michael Bestehorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Pattern formation in Rayleigh-Bénard and Bénard-Marangoni Convection
Roger Bonnecaze, University of Texas at Austin, Chemical Engineering
Homogeneous and particle driven gravity currents
J. Christopher Clemens, University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy
Whole earth telescope observations of pulsating white dwarf stars
Patrick de Kepper, Université de Bordeaux, France
Turing patterns, one-dimensional spirals, and chemical turbulence
Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin, Mathematics
Transport of magnetic fields by conducting fluids
Robert E. Ecke, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Patterns, traveling waves, and vortices in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
W. Stuart Edwards, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Quasicrystalline surface wave patterns
Michael Gorman, University of Houston
Chaos and ratcheting dynamics in cellular flames
Steven Gross, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
Acoustic emission from propagating cracks
Phil Holmes, Cornell University
Euler's problem Euler's method and the standard map, or the discrete charm of buckling
Victor L'vov, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
New exact relations in the theory of developed hydrodynamic turbulence
James McWilliams, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder
Symmetries and scaling in geostrophic turbulence
Philip Mees, University of Alberta, Canada
Convective instability in curved duct flow leading to traveling waves
Sherif Noah, Texas A&M University
Nonlinear dynamics problems in rotor systems
J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering/Engineering Mechanics
Error estimation and control in computational physics
Edward Ott, University of Maryland
Fractals in fluid flows
Hermann Riecke, Northwestern University
Localized waves in binary-mixture convection
Mark Schell, Southern Methodist University
Electrochemical instabilities
Laurette Tuckerman, University of Texas at Austin, Mathematics
Dynamic mechanism for the formation of metastable states
Laurette Tuckerman, University of Texas at Austin, Mathematics
Numerical study of the Faraday instability
Misha M. Vishik, University of Texas at Austin, Mathematics
Dynamo theory methods for hydrodynamic instability
Ethan Vishniac, University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy
Nonlinear processes in accretion disks
Vladimir V. Yankov, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow
Turbulence in 2D fluids, or What is the difference between solitons and vortices
2 December1997