NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
1994-95 Academic Year
Jerry Bona, Penn State University
Low Reynolds number free surface flows
Michael Brenner, University of Chicago
A cascade of structure from a dripping faucet
Stephen Brown, Sandia National Laboratories
Frictional heating on faults: New insights on the earthquake mechanism
Geoffrey Canright, University of Tennessee
Polytypes, diagraphs, and polytopes: disordered ground state for 1D lsing problems
Jay Fineberg, Hebrew University, Israel
Dynamic crack propagation: is that thing wiggling or am I seeing double?
Clifford Frohlich, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics
Origins of earthquakes with peculair radiation patterns: the sweet earthquake dilemma
Gemunu Gunaratne, University of Houston
Pattern formation in the presence of symmetries
Dror Haim, Technion University, Israel and University of Texas at Austin
Planning of a photochemical reactor based on Taylor-Gortler flow
Alfred Hill, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Carbonate acidizing and wormholes
Karl Kempf, Intel Corporation
Chaotic behavior in manufacturing systems
Daniel Lathrop, Emory University
Kolmogorov theory and k-1 velocity spectra in high Reynolds number boundary layers
Laurent Limat, School of Physics and Chemistry Industrial, Paris, Lab. of Hydrodynamics
Pattern formation induced by gravity on unstable liquid films
Michael Marder, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics
Fracture and the arrow of time
Klaus Mecke, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Integral geometry in statistical physics: percolation, complex fluids,and large scale
structure of the universe
Roman Mints, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Self-replication of normal domains in superconductors
Lee Panetta, Texas A&M University
Jets, vortices, and spectral cascades
John Pearson, Los Alamos National Laboratories
Self-replicating chemical spots: theoretical, numerical and experimental questions
Randall Peters, Texas Tech University
The peculiar collective world of mesoanelastic complexity
Valery Petrov, West Virginia University
Stabilizing multidimensional states in spatially extended systems
David Raitt, Florida State University
Stability of domain structures
Gregory Rodin, University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering/Eng. Mechanics
Role of inhomogeneities in fracture
Paul Shapiro, University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy
Making mountains out of molehills: the gas-dynamical simulation of galaxy and large
scale structure formation
Zhen-su She, University of Arizona
Scalings in turbulence: measurements and comparisons with theory
Oliver Steinbock, West Virginia University
External control of excitation patterns in chemical systems
Randall Tagg, University of Colorado at Denver
Controlling chaos in a parametrically forced pendulum
Alan Wolf, The Cooper Union
Dynamical diagnosis revisited
William Young, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Collapse and clustering in granular media
12 August 1997