NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
1993-94 Academic Year


Kenneth Ball, University of Texas at Austin, Mechanical Engineering
     Simulations of oscillatory convection in low Prandtl number fluids

Neil Balmforth, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies
     Pulse dynamics in one-dimension

Herb Berk, University of Texas at Austin, Physics
     Wave energy bursts in weakly driven systems

Andrew Bernoff, Northwestern University
     Advection of a passive scalar by a dipolar vortex couple

Kirk Brattkus, Southern Methodist University
     Diffusive front modeling of liquid-solid interfaces

Michael Cross, California Institute of Technology	
     Spatial patterns and spatiotemporal chaos in systems far from equilibrium

Katie Coughlin, University of Montreal, Canada
     Intermittent bursts in Couette-Taylor flow

Predrag Cvitanovic, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
     Quantum chaos

Charles Doering, Clarkson University
     Variational bounds of energy dissipation for incompressible flows

J. C. Duh, NASA Lewis Research Center
     Double-layer Marangoni convection

Tom Erber, Illinois Institute of Technology
     Hysteresis and fatigue

Martin Florian, University of Bayreuth, Germany
     Ginzburg-Landau type transition to spatiotemporal chaos

Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston
     Coupled oscillators with global and internal symmetries

Edgar Knobloch, University of California at Berkeley
     Pattern selection in oscillatory magnetoconvection

E. Kuznetsov, Landau Institute, Moscow
     Two-dimensional wave collapse in the boundary layer

Victor S. L'vov, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
     Multiscaling and "intermittency" in hydrodynamic turbulence

Herbert Levine, University of California at San Diego
     Stability of waves in excitable media: two biological examples

Philip Marcus, University of California at Berkeley
     A theory of everything for Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Ehud Meron, University of Arizona
     Complex patterns in reaction-diffusion systems: a tale of two front instabilities

Charles Radin, University of Texas at Austin, Mathematics
     Are there chaotic crystals?

Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin, Physics
     Toward an experimental realization of the quantum kicked rotor

Zhen-su She, University of Arizona
     A new scaling theory for fully developed turbulence

Bala Sundaram, Texas A&M University
     More surprises in the photoeffect

J. B. Swift, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
     Effects of fluctuations in systems of the Brasolvsky class

Toshiki Tajima, University of Texas at Austin, Physics
     l/f noise: a personal perspective

L. N. Trefethen, Cornell University
     Hydrodynamic stability without eigenvalues

Joseph Werne, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder
     Two-dimensional turbulent convection


12 August 1997