Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory - 1/20/99
     Dynamics of interfaces in vibrated granular layers

Kevin Bassler, University of Houston - 4/12/99
     Superconducting vortex avalanches and braided rivers

Ricardo Becerril, Thesis Defense, UT Austin - 12/98
     Influence of interface profile on the onset of long-wavelength Marangoni 
     convection

Chris Bizon, Thesis Defense, UT Austin - 11/6/98
     Simulations of driven granular media: Patterns and kinetic theory

Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell University - 11/2/98
     Wax tectonics

Don Boyer, Arizona State University - 10/26/98
     The generation of mean flows in rotating and stratified fluids

Boris Breizman, Institute of Fusion Studies, UT Austin - 2/8/99
     Nonlinear splitting of fast particle driven waves

Stephen Childress, New York University - 2/24/99
     The dynamics of flapping flight

Till Cramer, Max-Planck-Institute for Materials Science, Stuttgart - 12/7/98
     Crystallographic aspects of dynamics fracture in silicon

Robert Deegan, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, UT Austin - 1/25/99
     Pattern formation in drying drops

Andreas Engel, University of Magdeburg - 9/21/98
     Surface waves on ferrofluids

Jay Fineberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - 2/26/99, 3/1/99
     Confirming the continuum theory of dynamic brittle fracture for fast cracks and
     Nonlinear wave states in driven surface waves: Dissipative solitary
     waves, oscillons, and friends

Jerry Gollub, Haverford College and University of Pennsylvania - 3/8/99
     A new perspective on friction: granular media

Steve Gross, Princeton University - 9/28/98
     A biophysical approach to understanding active transport in drosophila embryos
 
Robin Gutell, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, UT Austin - 11/23/98
     RNA sequences, structures, and the web

Jens Hauch, Thesis Defense, UT Austin - 11/13/98
     Dynamics fracture in single crystal silicon
    
James Jenkins, Cornell University - 10/19/98
     Kinetic theories for inelastic, frictional particles

Eric Kostelich, Arizona State University - 9/14/98
     Bootstrap estimates of chaotic dynamics

Tom Lubensky, Physics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania - 9/2/98
     Topological defects, interactions, and chaining in nematic emulsions

John Marko, University of Illinois at Chicago - 4/19/99
     Biophysics of chromosomes of bugs and beasts

Robert Martinez, Department of Physics, UT Austin - 5/3/99
     The "colors" of single molecules: chemistry, biology and materials on the 
     nanometer scale 

Ehud Meron, Ben-Gurion University - 3/29/99
     Synchronization patterns in forced oscillatory media

Mark Mineev, Los Alamos National Laboratory - 10/5/98
     Selection of the Saffman-Taylor finger shape in the absence of surface tension: 
     an exact result

Mark Raizin, Department of Physics, UT Austin - 10/12/98
     Experimental study of decoherence and anomalous diffusion in quantum chaos

Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin - 2/1/99
     Optical Coherence Tomography for Early Detection of Cancer

Michael Ryan, Department of Zoology, UT Austin - 11/9/98
     Neural nets and the evolution of female breeding preferences

Ian Stewart, Physics Colloquium, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick - 2/17/99
     Symmetry and pattern formation in coupled cell networks

Wayne Tokaruk, University of Toronto - 2/15/99
     Patterns in two-layer Benard Marangoni convection

Paul Umbanhowar, Northwestern University - 11/16/98
     Spatial structures in multiphase flow

Eric Weeks, University of Pennsylvania - 4/5/99
     The physics of colloidal glasses

Gerhard Werner, Biomedical Engineering, UT Austin - 4/26/99
     Individuality, adaptation and communication in complex systems