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
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