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