NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINARS
1999-00 Academic Year


Chandrajit Bajaj, Computer Science Department, UT Austin - 1/31/00
     Display Intensive Visualization

Angela Belcher, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UT Austin - 2/21/00
     Lessons from Nature: Learning from and Using Protein
     Semiconductor Interactions

Chris Bizon, Colorado Research Associates - 11/15/99
     Linear and nonlinear instabilities in granular media

Sergio Ciliberto, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon - 4/5/00
     A statistical analysis of crack precursors

Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - 10/18/99 
     Avalanches, earthquakes, population biology, and disorder 
     induced critical behavior

Jay Fineberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - 10/26/99
     Spatial and temporal dynamics of interacting nonlinear waves
     in parametrically driven surface waves

Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois - 4/5/00
     Pattern formation and scaling far from equilibrium: crystal 
     growth, black holes, and turbulence

David Goldfarb, Department of Physics, Rutgers University - 3/6/00 
     Sedimentation, hysteresis, and packing in fluidized beds

Peter F. Green, Chemical Engineering Department, UT Austin - 2/7/00
     Instabilities in Thin Liquid Films

Alexander Groisman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel - 10/22/99 
     Elastic turbulence in a polymer solution flow

Gemunu Gunaratne, University of Houston - 11/1/99
     Characterizations of textured patterns

Aric Hagberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory - 10/11/99
     Pattern formation in forced reaction-diffusion systems

Avi Halperin, Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique, France - 3/27/00
     Polymeric elasticity: the effect of molecular architecture 
     and internal degrees of freedom

Dominic Holland, San Diego Supercomputer Center - 3/3/00 
     Big-Iron Computing 

Daniel Howell, Duke University - 9/29/99
     Stress structure and fluctuation in granular media

Patrick Jaillet, Department of Management Science & Information 
     Systems, UT Austin - 2/14/00
     Some Research Challenges in Mathematical/Computational Finance

Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago - 1/27/00
     Drips and Jets: Topology Changes and Scaling for Fluid Interfaces

Daniel P. Lathrop, University of Maryland - 9/15/99
     Liquid sodium laboratory models of the earth's outer core

Bernard Matkowsky, Northwestern University - 9/13/99
     Selection in Saffman-Taylor finger problems

Ehud Meron, Ben-Gurion University - 10/6/99
     A tutorial on amplitude equations

David Morse, University of Minnesota - 8/30/99
     Viscoelasticity of tightly-entangled solutions of semiflexible polymers
     
Tom Mullin, University of Manchester - 11/19/99
     Patterned particle segregation

Nathan Paldor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - 10/4/99
     The role of angular momentum in some classical geophysical flows

Nicholas Peffley, University of Maryland - 12/2/99 
     Magnetic field fluctuations in liquid metal flows below 
     transition to self-generation

Stephen H. Strogatz, Cornell University - 9/29/99
     Small-world networks

Toshihiko Tajima, Toyama (Japan) National College of Technology - 9/27/99 
     Rotating fluid annulus experiments 

Saleh Tanveer, Ohio State University - 5/1/00
     Surprises in viscous fingering

Michael I. Tribelsky, Fukui University, Japan - 9/20/99
     New type of turbulence, of how symmetry results in chaos

Alfons Weber, National Science Foundation - 2/28/00 
     Materials Research at the National Science Foundation 

Jack Xin, Department of Mathematics, UT Austin - 4/10/00
     A perception and PDE based nonlinear transformation for 
     phoneme processing


26 March 2001