Dwight Barkley, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick - 2/23/98
     Computations, bifurcations, and explanations for open fluid flows

Francoise Brochard, Institut Curie, Paris - 1/26/98
     DNS coils in strong flows and
     Bursting of polymer films

David Brydon, Thesis Defense, UT Austin - 4/6/98
     A method for solving stiff differential equations

Eric Clement, Jussieu, Paris, France - 10/27/97
     Pattern formation in vibrated granular layers

John de Bruyn, Memorial University of Newfoundland - 10/6/97
     Contributions to the cell voltage in electrochemical deposition

Pierre de Gennes, ESPCI, Paris - 1/26/98
     Some puzzles in granular materials and
     Proposals for artificial muscles

Robert Deegan, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago - 5/18/98
     Dirty little drops: sedimentation at the static and dynamic contact
     line of drying sessile drops

Rashmi Desai, University of Toronto - 2/9/98
     Pattern formation and associated instabilities in laser induced melting

Weinan E, Courant Institute, New York University - 3/2/98
     Pattern formation in liquid crystal phase transition

Scott Franklin, Thesis Defense, UT Austin - 11/24/97
     Inhomogeneous plasticity: The Portevin-Le Chatelier effect

Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute - 4/13/98
     Scaling phenomena

Paul Goldbart, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - 4/20/98
     Universality and its origins in rubber, glass, and other random 
     network forming media and Classical and quantal properties of 
     Andreev billiards

Dan Goldman, Qualifier, UT Austin - 11/10/97
     Localized structures: From solitons to oscillons

Wolfgang H. Goldmann, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard 
     Medical School - 11/3/97
     Role of vinculin in the mechanics and assembly of focal adhesions

Michael Gorman, University of Houston - 11/20/97
     Chaotic dynamics of flames heats up

Anne Juel, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, UT Austin - 3/30/98
     Magnetohydrodynamic convection in molten gallium

Arthur La Porta, University of California, San Diego - 9/8/97
     Phase defects as a measure of disorder in a traveling-wave pattern

S.P. Lin, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY - 3/23/98
     Control of instability in a flowing liquid film

Phil Marcus, University of California, Berkeley - 3/9/98
     Two-dimensional/three-dimensional interactions in Jovian fluid dynamics

Anita Mehta, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta, India - 2/16/98
     Dynamics of vibrated sandpiles

Stephen Morris, University of Toronto - 2/18/98
     Electroconvection patterns in suspended smectic films

Mark Nelkin, New York University - 11/3/97
     How does the pressure scale in isotropic turbulence

Franco Nori, University of Michigan - 2/2/98
     Vortex dynamics: plastic flow, voltage bursts, and avalanches in superconductors

Qi Ouyang, NEC Resaerch Institute, Princeton, NJ - 5/4/98
     In vitro evolution

Jérôme Paret, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris - 4/22/98
     Experimental study of two-dimensional turbulence

Don Paul, Department of Chemical Engineering, UT Austin - 3/3/98
     Polymer structure and properties: blends and membranes

Brendan Plapp, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, UT Austin - 9/22/97
     Spirals in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Joanna Roder, Los Alamos National Laboratory - 4/27/98
     Simulations and modeling of sliding friction"

Christine Schmidt, UT Austin - 11/13/97	
     Engineering therapies to improve nerve regeneration

Ed Spiegel, Columbia University - 5/6/98
     Acoustic instabilities in astrophysics

Toshihiko Tajima, Toyama National College of Technology, Japan - 10/3/97
     Internal vortex structures and Lagrangian motions of steady baroclinic waves

Rong-Jia Tao, Southern Illinois University - 11/29/97
     Physics and applications of smart fluids

D.J. Tritton, University of Newscastle (retired) and Center for Nonlinear Dynamics,
     UT Austin - 1/30/98; 2/6, 13, 20, 27/98; 3/6, 13/98
     Short course - Turbulence and Oscillating boundary layers in a rotating fluid

Lev Tsimring, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego 
     - 11/15/97
     Pattern formation in colonies of microorganisms

Laurette Tuckerman, LIMSI, Orsay, France - 2/25/98
     Binary convection as a 2 x 2 matrix problem

Shankar Venkataramani, University of Chicago - 11/17/97
     Pattern formation with period doubling: Patterns in a vibrated sandbox

Eric Weeks, Thesis Defense, UT Austin - 11/10/97
     Experimental observations of Lévy flights, anomalous diffusion, and 
     atmospheric dynamics