NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
1995-96 Academic Year


Richard G. W. Anderson, Southwest Medical Center of the University of Texas
     Caveolae: a membrane organelle specialized for signal transduction

Joe Breeden, Santa Fe Institute
     Partitioning real valued data to aid anlysis with examples from astrophysics

David Brydon, Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Texas
     Unconditionally stable stiff reaction-diffusion systems

John Burgess, University of Texas at Austin, Physics
     Instability of a two-dimensional flow with spatially periodic forcing

George Cody, Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory
     Granular temperature in a gas fluidized bed

Fred Driscoll, University of California at San Diego	
     2D vortices and turbulence using magnetized electron columns

Richard Fitzpatrick, University of Texas at Austin, Physics
     The effect of externally imposed velocity perturbations on sheared fluid flow

Michael Ghil, UCLA
     The ocean's wind-driven double-gyre circulation

Gemunu Gunaratne, University of Houston 
     Dynamics of flame patterns

Wendell Horton, University of Texas at Austin, Physics
     Coherent structures and transport in plasmas and fluids

Bernardo Huberman, Palo Alto Research Center
     Dynamics of social dilemmas

Kayo Ide, UCLA
     Data assimilation for large-scale eddies: observing-system design and fluid-mixing estimation

Peter Kaplan, Rockefeller University
     Building a biochemical computer: an experimental review of promises and challenges of
     DNA-based computation

Josef Käs, Harvard Medical School, Div of Experimental Medicine
     F-actin, a model polymer for semiflexible chains in dilute, semidilute and
     liquid crystalline solutions

Michael Lilly, University of Massachusetts
     Hysteretic capillary condensation and avalanche phenomena

Dan Luss, University of Houston
     Spatiotemporal temperature patterns on catalytic surfaces

Tom Mason, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (Bordeaux)
     Optical measurement of the linear viscoelasticity of complex fluids

Joseph McCauley, University of Houston
     Simulations, complexity, and laws of nature

Ehud Meron, Ben Gurion University, Israel
     Controlling domain patterns far from equilibrium

Florian Mertens, Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin
     Chemical waves in an anisotropic medium: NO + H_2 reaction on a rhodium catalyst

Qi Ouyang, Institut Non Lineaire de Nice
     Transition from spirals to defect turbulence

Stephen Quake, Stanford University
     Polymer physics with single molecules of DNA

Peter Schuster, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Jena
     Evolutionary dynamics in an RNA-neighborhood

Mark Shattuck, Duke University
     Porous media convection: visualization by magnetic resonance imaging

Tom Solomon, Bucknell University
     Chaotic mixing of miscible and immiscible impurities

Venkatesh Sreekantan, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
     A fast recursive algorithm and the 2-D dendrite problem

Whitney White, AT&T Bell Labs
     Domain structure of polymer mixtures and emulsions

George Zaslavsky, Courant Institute New York University
     Fractional kinetics, existence of exact selfsimilarity, and role of the accelerator
     modes for Hamiltonian chaotic dynamics



12 August 1997