NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
1996-97 Academic Year
Max Baer, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems (Dresden)
Wave instabilities and spatiotemporal chaos in reaction-diffusion models
R. Malcolm Brown, Jr., University of Texas at Austin
Cellulose biosynthesis: a useful system for nonlinear dynamics applications
An-Ti Chai, NASA Lewis Research Center
Marangoni-Benard convection in an evaporating thin layer
George Cody, Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory
Discontinuity in particle granular temperature at the Geldart A/B transition
Jean-Pierre Delville, Bordeaux and the University of Texas at Austin
Laser-induced liquid-liquid phase separation: growth kinetics and optical hysteresis
Jay Fineberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dissipative solitary states in driven surface waves
Raymond Goldstein, University of Arizona
Pearling and pinching: propagation of Rayleigh instabilities
Marty Golubitsky, University of Houston
Animal gaits and oscillations in coupled systems
Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University
Faraday waves - viscous wall modes, potential theory or quantum billiards
Roy Jackson, Princeton University
Bubbling and other phenomena in fluidized beds: an old puzzle revisited
Paul Janmey, Harvard University Medical School
Structure and mechanics of biopolymer gels
Jim Kakalios, University of Minnesota
Phase transitions and unmixing in sand piles
Josef Käs, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
Changes in filament stiffness modulate mechanical stability of actin networks
Kevin Kremeyer, University of Arizona
Cellular automata simulations of binary solidification
Lyle Levine, Washington State University/NIST
Deformation of metals: the inside story
Anna Lin, University of Michigan
Anomalous kinetics of diffusion-limited reactions in quasi 1-D: experiments and simulations
Fred MacKintosh, University of Michigan
Fluid membranes: physics in two curved dimensions
Philip Marcus, University of California at Berkeley
2D turbulence and east-west winds of jupiter
Guillermo Marshall, University of Buenos Aires
Theoretical and experimental results of transport phenomena in ramified electrochemical deposition
Ehud Meron, Ben-Guiron University, Israel
The dynamics of curved fronts: beyond geometry
Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University
Turbulence in rotating shallow water and its application to atmospheres of the giant planets
Hermann Riecke, Northwestern University
Complex structures in parametrically driven waves
Dmitry Rinberg, The Weizmann Institute of Science
Parametric generation of second sound by first sound in super-fluid helium
Wing Yim Tam, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Soap froths
R. P. Tagg, University of Colorado, Denver
Ray chaos - scenarios for chaotic propagation of optical and acoustic signals
Penger Tong, Oklahoma State University
Velocity measurements in turbulent thermal convection
Jihad Touma, University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy
The phase-space adventure of earth and moon
Dennis Vigil, Iowa State University
Oscillatory behavior in a heterogeneous surface reaction: breakdown of the mean-field approximation
14 August 1997