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