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2009 Visitors

Erwin Van Mier, Emory University

Host: Yi Jiang (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 21st, 2009 to Dec. 23rd, 2009.
Professor Van Meir will deliver a talk on brain tumor biology as part of the q-bio seminar series.

Elaine Bearer, University of New Mexico

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 15th, 2009.
Dr. Bearer will present the q-bio seminar on "Multiparameter Computational Modeling of Tumor Invasion."

Alexandre Bayen, University of California at Berkeley

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 8th, 2009 to Dec. 9th, 2009.
Dr. Bayen will present the Smart Grid seminar on December 8.
Talks:

Mobile Millennium: using smartphones as monitoring sensors in privacy aware environments

Igor Kolokolov, Landau Institute

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Dec. 7th, 2009 to Dec. 18th, 2009.
Professor Kolokolov will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov.

Gregor Neuert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Brian Munsky (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 7th, 2009 to Dec. 9th, 2009.
Dr. Neuert will present a q-bio seminar and meet with researchers to explore potential collaborations in quantitative biology in CNLS, CCS-3 and T-6. Continue in ongoing collaborations on quantitative biology with Brian Munsky.
Talks:

*Rescheduled for TODAY* Dynamic Information Processing in Individual Cells: A Single Molecule Aproach in Systems Biology

Eric Dufresne, Yale University

Host: Cristiano Nisoli (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 6th, 2009 to Dec. 9th, 2009.
Dr. Dufresne will present the CNLS colloquium.
Talks:

Imaging Stress in Soft Matter

Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton Unversity

Visit Dates: Dec. 2nd, 2009.
Dr. Kevrekidis will present the IS&T Seminar in the CNLS conference room on Dec. 2.

Feng Gai, University of Pennsylvania

Host: Gnana Gnanakaran (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 30th, 2009 to Dec. 2nd, 2009.
Dr. Gai will be presenting the q-bio Seminar on December 1, 2009.
Talks:

Kinetics of peptide folding in dehydrated and crowded environments

Jaemyeong Jung, Stanford University

Host: Peter Goodwin (MPA-CINT)
Visit Dates: Nov. 23rd, 2009 to Nov. 24th, 2009.
Dr. Jung is interviewing for a postdoctoral position. Subject areas of interest include single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, protein expression, purification and labeling.

Joerg Kliewer, New Mexico State University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 23rd, 2009 to Nov. 24th, 2009.
Professor Kliewer will present a seminar and collaborate with Dr. Chertkov on error-correction codes and information theory.
Talks:

On Trapping Sets for Repeat Multiple Accumulate Codes

Daniel Sheehan, University of California at San Diego

Host: Peter Milloni (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 19th, 2009 to Nov. 20th, 2009.
Dr. Sheehan will present the Quantum Lunch seminar on Casimir Chemistry and conduct discussions with LANL personnel in T-Division and CINT.

Andrew Kerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Gennady Berman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 18th, 2009 to Nov. 20th, 2009.
Dr. Kerman will present the Quantum Lunch seminar.

Mitra Joydeep, Michigan State University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 16th, 2009.
Professor Mitra will present the Smart Grid seminar on November 16.

David Papp, Rutgers

Host: Feng Pan (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 15th, 2009 to Nov. 18th, 2009.
Dr. Papp will give a talk in the area of optimization models in game theory and multivariate statistics. He will also collaborate with Dr. Pan on a robust network project.
Talks:

Modern Convex Optimization Models

Robert Young, Northern Arizona Unviersity

Host: Paul Fenimore (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 26th, 2009 to Oct. 30th, 2009.
Prof. Young will present the q-bio seminar.

Anton Zabrodin, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow

Host: Razvan Teodorescu (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 16th, 2009 to Sep. 30th, 2009.
Dr. Zabrodin will collaborate with M. Mineev on subjects related to the mathematical aspects of aggregation models in the complex plane.
Talks:

Logarithmic gases and Laplacian growth: Geometry and integrability

Alexandre Orlov, Institute of Oceanography, Moscow

Host: Razvan Teodorescu (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 16th, 2009 to Sep. 30th, 2009.
Dr. Orlov will collaborate with M. Chertkov on inference problems for graphical models, and with M. Mineev on integrable fluid dynamics in two dimensions.

Freddy Bouchet, Institute NonLinear de Nice, CNRS

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 15th, 2009 to Jul. 29th, 2010.
Dr. Bouchet will collaborate with Dr. Nadiga and the COSIM team on development and application of statistical mechanical ideas to fluid mechanics and climate and ocean dynamics.
Talks:

Equilibrium and out of equilibrium phase transitions for two dimensionnal and geostrophic turbulence

Andrew Clayton, Ludwig Institute

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 31st, 2009 to Aug. 10th, 2009.
Dr. Clayton will present the q-bio seminar on August 4, 2009.

Michael Berry, University of Bristol

Host: Razvan Teodorescu (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 26th, 2009 to Aug. 2nd, 2009.
Dr. Berry will present the CNLS colloquium on July 27, 2009 and the P&T colloquium on July 28, 2009.
Talks:

Tsunami asymptotics

Greg Lemke, The Salk Institute

Host: Ilya Nemenman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 20th, 2009 to Jul. 22nd, 2009.
Dr. Lemke will be presenting the q-bio seminar at CNLS and the q-bio public lecture in Santa Fe on July 21, 2009.

Moses Chan, Penn State University

Host: Cristiano Nisoli (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 13th, 2009 to Jul. 16th, 2009.
Dr. Chan will present the CNLS colloquium on July 13, 2009.

Philippe Odier, Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon

Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 13th, 2009 to Aug. 28th, 2009.
Dr. Odier will collaborate with Michael Rivera and Bob Ecke on measurements of mixing in stably stratified shear layers.

Linus Schumacher, University of Cambridge

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 10th, 2009 to Jul. 17th, 2009.
Dr. Schumacher will present the q-bio seminar series talk on July 14, 2009.

Jun Chen, Purdue University

Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 8th, 2009 to Aug. 7th, 2009.
Dr. Chen will continue a collaboration with Drs. Ecke and Rivera on measurements of mixing in stably stratified shear layers.

Omar Saleh, University of California at Santa Barbara

Host: Kim Rasmussen (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 6th, 2009 to Jul. 8th, 2009.
Dr. Saleh will present the q-bio seminar on July 7, 2009 in the CNLS conference room.

Michael Samoilov, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Host: Ilya Nemenman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 22nd, 2009 to Jun. 24th, 2009.
Dr. Samoilov will present the q-bio seminar series talk on June 23, 2009 in the CNLS conference room.
Talks:

Quantitive Analysis of Constructive Stochastic Designs in Biological Systems

George Shaw, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Host: Ming Zhang (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 22nd, 2009 to Jun. 23rd, 2009.
Professor Shaw will be presenting the CNLS colloquium on Monday, June 22, 2009. He will also be discussing ongoing collaborations with Alan Perelson, Bette Korber, and Alan Lapedes of T-6 and Tanmoy Bhattacharya of T-2.
Talks:

Transmitted/founder viruses and their progeny in acute HIV-1 and SIV infection

Christopher Voigt, University of California at San Francisco

Host: Ilya Nemenman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 15th, 2009 to Jun. 17th, 2009.
Dr. Voigt will present the q-bio seminar on June 16, 2009 in the CNLS conference room.
Talks:

Programming Cells: Using a Synthetic Light Sensor as a Fast, High-Resolution Input to Signaling Networks

Rossen Dandoloff, Universite Cergy-Pontoise, France

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 1st, 2009 to Jun. 30th, 2009.
Dr. Dandoloff will collaborate with Dr. Saxena on the role of geometry and topology in biophysics problems.

Aaron Dinner, University of Chicago

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 1st, 2009 to Jun. 5th, 2009.
Dr. Dinner will present the q-bio seminar on June 2, 2009.

Andrew Sykes, University of Queensland

Host: David Roberts (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 26th, 2009 to Jul. 3rd, 2009.
Mr. Sykes will work on an ongoing collaboration with Dr. Roberts on drag forces in superfluids.
Talks:

When the vacuum is a drag: superfluidity 1D Bose condensates,

Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton Unversity

Host: Ilya Nemenman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 25th, 2009 to May. 27th, 2009.
Dr. Shaevitz will present the q-bio seminar on May 26, 2009.

Toshiyuki Gotoh, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 13th, 2009 to May. 15th, 2009.
Professor Gotoh will visit for three days, following the Kraichnan worshop, to give a talk and collaborate with Drs. Chertkov, Ecke and other CNLS affiliates and postdocs working in the field of Turbulence.

Willemien Kets, Santa Fe Institute

Host: Milan Bradonjic (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 11th, 2009 to May. 24th, 2009.
Dr. Kets will present a seminar at CNLS entitled, "Inequality and Network Structure."
Talks:

Inequality and network structure

Wallace Marshall, University of California at San Francisco

Host: Ilya Nemenman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 11th, 2009 to May. 15th, 2009.
Dr. Marshall will present the q-bio seminar on May 12.
Talks:

The Flagellar Length Control System

Konstantin Khanin, University of Toronto

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 11th, 2009 to May. 15th, 2009.
Dr. Khanin will collaborate with Misha Chertkov and Bob Ecke.
Talks:

Directed Polymers and KPZ scalings

Adrienn Ruzsinsky, Tulane University

Host: Jianmin Tao (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 11th, 2009 to May. 15th, 2009.
Dr. Ruzsinsky will collaborate on Van der Waals-corrected density functional theory.

John Perdew, Tulane University

Host: Jianmin Tao (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 11th, 2009 to May. 15th, 2009.
Dr. Perdew will collaborate on a project regarding Van der Waals-corrected density functional theory. He will also present a CNLS colloquium.
Talks:

Local hybrid: Fourth rung on the ladder of density functional approximations

Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute

Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 10th, 2009 to May. 20th, 2009.
Dr. Falkovich will be continuing a collaboration with Dr. Ecke and will attend the CNLS conference on Robert Kraichnan.
Talks:

Floaters on the water and droplets in clouds: multifractals and caustics

Guido Boffetta, Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 8th, 2009 to May. 20th, 2009.
Dr. Boffetta will continue a collaboration with Dr. Ecke and attend the CNLS conference about Robert Kraichnan.

Jorge Kurchan, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 6th, 2009 to May. 12th, 2009.
Dr. Kurchan will be collaborating with the Physics of Algorithms group, presenting a CNLS seminar, and attending the CNLS conference on Robert Kraichnan.
Talks:

Fluctuation Theorem(s) and their experimental tests

Cristina Smolke, California Institute of Technology

Host: Ilya Nemenman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 4th, 2009 to May. 9th, 2009.
Dr. Smolke will present the q-bio seminar on May 5.

Avinash Khare, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 3rd, 2009 to May. 30th, 2009.
Dr. Khare will continue a collaboration with Drs. Saxena and Rasmussen on discrete models of Nonlinear Schroedinger equation (soliton-like solutions) with applications in optics, condensates as well as materials.

Clinton Smith, Arizona State University

Host: Mark Petersen (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 29th, 2009 to Apr. 30th, 2009.
Mr. Smith will be interviewing for a postdoctoral position with the Direct Numerical Simulation and Turbulence team.

Michael Deem, Rice University

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 24th, 2009 to May. 1st, 2009.
Dr. Deem will present the q-bio seminar on April 28, 2009.

Benjamin Jamroz, University of Colorado

Host: Mark Petersen (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 22nd, 2009.
Dr. Jamroz will be meeting with the compressible turbulence team and the COSIM team.

Arup Chakraborty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 20th, 2009 to Apr. 24th, 2009.
Dr. Chakraborty will visit LANL to give a talk in the q-bio seminar series. He will also give a talk in the q-bio public lecture series.

Daniel Stein, New York University

Host: Cristiano Nisoli (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 19th, 2009 to Apr. 21st, 2009.
Dr. Stein will present the CNLS colloquium on April 20, 2009.
Talks:

The Tipping Point: How Does A Little Noise Make a Big Difference?

Tobias Schaetz, Max Planck Institute

Host: Diego Dalvit (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2009 to Apr. 17th, 2009.
Dr. Schaetz will present the Quantum Lunch seminar on April 16, 2009.
Talks:

What's up spins? Simulating quantum systems in ion traps

Ian Dobson, University of Wisconsin

Host: Marian Anghel (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 15th, 2009.
Professor Dobson will present the Smart Grid Seminar Series talk in the CNLS Conference Room on April 15, 2009 at 1:30pm.
Talks:

Can we quantify the risk of cascading failure blackouts with branching processes?

Giovanni Bellesia, University of California at Santa Barbara

Host: Golan Bel (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 15th, 2009 to Apr. 19th, 2009.
Dr. Bellesia will presenting a postdoctoral interview seminar at CNLS.
Talks:

Protein folding, misfolding and aggregation: insights from fully atomistic and coarse-grained molecular simulations

Oded Maler, CNRS - Verimag

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 14th, 2009 to Apr. 24th, 2009.
Dr. Maler will be at CNLS to discuss opportunities for collaboration on the modeling of biochemical systems.

Hana El-Samad, University of California at San Francisco

Host: Ilya Nemenman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 13th, 2009 to Apr. 18th, 2009.
Dr. El-Samad will present the q-bio seminar "Stochastic Biological Circuits: Noise as a Phenotype" on April 14. She will be collaborating with Drs. Nemenman and Munsky.
Talks:

Stochastic Biological Circuits: Noise as a Phenotype

Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School

Host: Boian Alexandrov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 13th, 2009 to Apr. 15th, 2009.
Dr. Kohane will present the CNLS colloquium on April 13, 2009 and discuss possible collaborations.

Rajan Krishna, Iowa State University

Host: Turab Lookman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Apr. 8th, 2009 to Apr. 9th, 2009.
Dr. Krishna will present a seminar on information science methods for guided materials design. He will be collaborating with Dr. Lookman.

Luis Orozco, University of Maryland

Host: Diego Dalvit (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 8th, 2009 to Apr. 10th, 2009.
Dr. Orozco will present the Quantum Lunch talk on April 9, 2009.
Talks:

From photon bursts to quantum beats. Experiments in cavity QED

Harmen Bussemaker, Columbia University

Host: Ilya Nemenman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 6th, 2009 to Apr. 10th, 2009.
Dr. Bussemaker will present the q-bio seminar "Learning mechanistic models of gene expression regulation from natural sequence variation" on April 7.
Talks:

Learning mechanistic models of gene expression regulation from natural sequence variation

Pei Wang, Temple University, China

Host: Razvan Teodorescu (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 6th, 2009 to Apr. 10th, 2009.
Dr. Wang will present the CNLS colloquium, "A Logical Model of Intelligence" on April 6 in the CNLS conference room.
Talks:

A Logical Model of Intelligence

Jacek Dziarmaga, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Host: Malcolm Boshier (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 6th, 2009 to Apr. 24th, 2009.
Dr. Dziarmaga will collaborate with members of LANL Quantum Initiative and CNLS on the dynamics of quantum phase transitions and other aspects of quantum many-body physics.
Talks:

Multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) in 2D

Sergei Chumakov, Stanford University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 6th, 2009 to Apr. 9th, 2009.
Dr. Chumakov will work on a continuing collaboration with Drs. Chertkov and Vladimirova on Reactive RT Turbulence.

Florent Krzakala, ESPCI Paris

Host: Lenka Zdeborova (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 30th, 2009 to Apr. 24th, 2009.
Dr. Krzakala will be continuing a collaboration with Drs. Zdeborova and Chertkov.
Talks:

Jamming Versus The Glass Transition

Michael Leyton, Rutgers University

Host: Marko Rodriguez (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 25th, 2009 to Mar. 27th, 2009.
Dr. Leyton will present a talk on Generative Theory of Shapes in the CNLS Conference Room on Thursday, March 26 at 12:30pm.

Xylar Asay-Davis, University of California at Berkeley

Host: Mark Petersen (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 23rd, 2009 to Mar. 27th, 2009.
Dr. Asay-Davis will present a postdoctoral interview seminar in the CNLS Conference Room on Thursday, March 26 at 2:00pm.
Talks:

A New Method for Extracting High Precision Velocities from Spacecraft Images of Jupiter

Chaouki Abdallah, University of New Mexico

Host: Rajan Gupta (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 17th, 2009.
Dr. Abdallah will present the Smart Grid Seminar in the CNLS conference room on March 17, 2009

Ramiro Jordan, University of New Mexico

Host: Rajan Gupta (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 17th, 2009.
Dr. Jordan will participate in the Smart Grid seminar series.

Alexander Vasiliev, University of Bergen

Host: Mark Mineev (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 9th, 2009 to Apr. 30th, 2009.
Dr. Vasiliev will be collaborating with Dr. Mineev.
Talks:

Conserved quantities of planar contour dynamics

Michael Dinitz, Carnegie Mellon University

Host: Feng Pan (D-6)
Visit Dates: Feb. 1st, 2009 to Feb. 4th, 2009.
Dr. Dinitz will present a talk on algorithms for wireless networks and/or some results on a new network design problem called Constrained Connectivity.