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