ARIZONA/LOS ALAMOS DAYS '97
January 24-25, 1997
University of Arizona
Tuscon, AZ
Organizers: Jack Xin (UA), Moysey Brio (UA), and Eli Ben-Naim (LA)
Schedule
Friday, January 24 (Economics Room 200)
9:00
Coffee
9:25
Michael Tabor (UA)
Opening Remarks
9:30
Vadim Zharnitsky (LA)
Adiabatic Invariant in Hamiltonian
Systems Depending Singularly on Slow Time
10:00 David Cai (LA)
Soliton Dynamics of a Perturbed Albowitz-Ladik Equation
10:30 Jerry Moloney (UA)
Controlling Optical Turbulence
11:00 David Hochheiser (UA)
The Swift-Hohenberg and Maxwell Bloch Relationship
11:30 Ben Luce (LA)
Melnikov Analysis of Periodic Wavetrains of
Generalized Complex Landau-Ginzburg
Equations
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Dan Stein (UA)
Thermodynamics Chaos, Metastates, and the Structure of Spin Glasses
2:00 Eli Ben-Naim (LA)
Recent Surprises in the Nonequilibrium Ising Model
2:30 Stefan Boettcher (LA)
An Analytically Tractable Model of Self-Organized Criticality
3:00 David Moulton (LA)
Aspects of Multi-Scale Modelling from the Perspective of
Linear Diffusion
3:30 Break
4:00 Applied Math Colloquium - R.D. James (Minnesota)
Simple Dynamic Models of Evolution on Wiggly Landscapes
Arising in Phase
Transformations and Friction
Saturday, January 25 (Economics Room 200)
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Art Winfree (UA)
Optical Tomography Experiments in 3D Excitable Media
10:00 Igor Mitkov (LA)
Meandering Instability of Spiral Interface in
Excitable Reaction-Diffusion Equations
10:30 Break
11:00 Aric Hagberg (LA)
Breathing Spots in a Reaction-Diffusion System
11:30 Anita Rado (UA)
On the Meandering Pathways for Diffusion in the Olfactory System
12:00 Alain Goriely (UA)
A Model for the Spontaneous Looping of Rods
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Peter Vorobieff (LA)
Evolution of a Shock-Induced Instability in a Thin Gas Curtain
2:30 Grant Lythe (LA)
Stochastic PDEs and Noise-Controlled Dynamics
3:00 R.D. James (Minnesota)
Theory to Guide the Search for Magneto-Memory Materials
3:30 Ray Goldstein (UA)
Pinching and Pearling: Propagation of Rayleigh Instabilities
For additional information, please contact
ebn@cnls.lanl.gov