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