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2013 Visitors
Kiyoshi Nakayama, University of California at Irvine
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Dec. 19th, 2013 to Dec. 20th, 2013.
  • Dr. Nakyakama will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov and present a seminar at CNLS.
  • Talks:

Cliff Joslyn, Pacific Northwest National Lab
Dmitry Budker, University of California at Berkeley
Ethan Rossi, University of Rochester
  • Host: Josephine Olivas (NSEC)
  • Visit Dates: Dec. 11th, 2013.
  • Dr. Rossi will present the IS&T seminar.

Harsha Nagarajan, Texas A&M University
Greg Beylkin, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Oct. 31st, 2013 to Nov. 1st, 2013.
  • Dr. Hiskens will collaborate with Drs. Chertkov and Backhaus on the Smart Grid project.

Steven Low, California Institute of Technology
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Oct. 31st, 2013 to Nov. 1st, 2013.
  • Dr. Low will be collaborating with the Smart Grid group.

Benjamin Althouse, Santa Fe Institute
  • Host: Terry Haut (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Oct. 31st, 2013.
  • Dr. Althouse will present a CNLS seminar.

Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Oct. 29th, 2013 to Oct. 31st, 2013.
  • Dr. Bienstock will be collaborating with Drs. Chertkov, Bent, and Backhaus on Grid Science.

Xiwen Guan, Australian National University
Julian Sonner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Host: Wojciech Zurek (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Oct. 28th, 2013 to Nov. 8th, 2013.
  • Dr. Sonner will present the Quantum Lunch and collaborate with Dr. Zurek.

Philippe Odier, ENS Lyon
  • Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Oct. 28th, 2013 to Nov. 1st, 2013.
  • Dr. Odier will be collaborating with Dr. Ecke on stratified flows.

Helmut Katzgraber, Texas A&M University
Vladimir Lebedev, Landau Insitutue of Theoretical Physics
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Oct. 21st, 2013 to Oct. 30th, 2013.
  • Dr. Lebedev will be collaborating with the Smart Grid group on power grids.

Andrea Cangiani, University of Leicester
  • Host: Gianmarco Manzini (T-5)
  • Visit Dates: Oct. 6th, 2013 to Oct. 19th, 2013.
  • Dr. Cangiani will collaborate with Drs. Shashkov and Manzini on the development of numerical methods that implement a coupling of diffusion processes with advection processes.

Brian Swingle, Harvard University
Jay Dep Sau, Harvard University
  • Host: Dibyendu Roy (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 25th, 2013 to Sep. 27th, 2013.
  • Dr. Sau will present the Quantum Lunch on topological quantum computation in cold atom systems.

Rina Dechter, University of California at Irvine
Benjamin Kroposki, National Renewable Energy Lab
  • Host: Scott Backhaus (MPA-CMMS)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 23rd, 2013 to Sep. 24th, 2013.
  • Dr. Kroposki will present the Smart Grid seminar.

David Masiello, University of Washington
  • Host: Charles Cherqui (T-1)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 22nd, 2013 to Sep. 24th, 2013.
  • Dr. Masiello will present the CNLS colloquium on nanoplasmonics.

Franz Mertens, Univeristy of Beyruth
  • Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 19th, 2013 to Dec. 11th, 2013.
  • Dr. Mertens will collaborate with Drs. Bishop and Saxena on nonlinear soliton bearing systems.

Ruyhei Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 19th, 2013 to Oct. 25th, 2013.
  • Dr. Mori will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov on graphical models and machine learning.

Conrado Borraz-Sanchez, Northwestern University
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 18th, 2013.
  • Dr. Borraz-Sanchez will present the Smart Grid seminar.

Masoud Ghandehari, NYU-Poly
  • Host: Josephine Olivas (NSEC)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 18th, 2013.
  • Dr. Ghandehari will be presenting the Smart Grid seminar.

Jennifer Dunne, Santa Fe Institute
  • Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 17th, 2013.
  • Dr. Dunne will visit CNLS and meet with Drs. Kuske, McDowell, Ecke and Sarrao to discuss collaborations in ecological modeling and simulation.
  • Talks:

Jinwoo Shin, KAIST
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 16th, 2013 to Sep. 20th, 2013.
  • Dr. Shin will be collaborating with Dr. Chertkov on graphical models, statistical physics, and machine learning.

Harold Baranger, Duke University
  • Host: Dibyendu Roy (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Sep. 16th, 2013 to Sep. 17th, 2013.
  • Dr. Baranger will present the CNLS colloquium.

Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois
Clio Andris, Santa Fe Institute
Stella Oggianu, United Technologies Research Center
Alison Gotkin, United Technologies Research Center
  • Host: Scott Backhaus (MPA-CMMS)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 29th, 2013 to Aug. 30th, 2013.
  • Dr. Gotkin will present the Smart Grid seminar.

Peter Kruger, University of Nottingham
Sergio Boixo, Google
  • Host: Rolando Somma (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 27th, 2013 to Aug. 28th, 2013.
  • Dr. Boixo will present the Quantum Lunch on quantum information theory and quantum computing.
  • Talks:

Laura Slivinski, Brown University
  • Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 26th, 2013 to Aug. 28th, 2013.
  • Dr. Slivinski will present a seminar about Lagrangian data assimilation and dynamical systems. She will also meet with Drs. Hagberg, Moulton, Swart, and Godinez to discuss future collaborations.
  • Talks:

Francesco Intravaia, University of Nottingham
  • Host: Diego Dalvit (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 26th, 2013 to Sep. 6th, 2013.
  • Dr. Intravaia will be visiting Dr. Dalvit and collaborating on the issues of quantum and thermal fluctuation-induced phenomena.

Sean Cornelius, Northwestern University
Renan Cabrera, Princeton University
  • Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 20th, 2013 to Aug. 24th, 2013.
  • Dr. Cabrera will present the Quantum Lunch.

Denys Bondar, Princeton University
  • Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 20th, 2013 to Aug. 24th, 2013.
  • Dr. Bondar will present the Quantum Lunch

Marco Olguin, Texas University
David Straub, McGill University
  • Host: Balu Nadiga (CCS-2)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2013 to Sep. 28th, 2013.
  • Dr. Straub will be collaborating with Dr. Nadiga on ocean dynamics.

Dennice Gayme, Johns Hopkins University
Tomasz Lipniacki, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 12th, 2013 to Aug. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Lipniacki will visit to initiate a study of bistability in the core regulatory circuit controlling autophagy.

Paulina Szymanska, University of Warsaw
  • Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 12th, 2013 to Sep. 6th, 2013.
  • Dr. Szymanska will be visiting to begin a collaboration with Dr. Hlavacek.

Petr Sulc, Oxford University
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 12th, 2013 to Sep. 11th, 2013.
  • Dr. Sulc will continue his collaboration with Drs. Chertkov and Backhaus on modeling distributed feeder with multiple PV systems in it.
  • Talks:

Matthew Peet, Arizona State University
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 12th, 2013 to Aug. 16th, 2013.
  • Dr. Peet will present a seminar on massively-parallel algorithms to design robust controllers for systems with uncertainty and nonlinearity with applications to tolerance and control in the immune system and the control of fusion energy.

Vladimir Frolov, Skolovotech
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 5th, 2013 to Aug. 16th, 2013.
  • Dr. Frolov will collaborate with Drs. Chertkov, Bent, and Backhaus on power system modeling.

Steven Low, California Institute of Technology
Jens Koch, Northwestern University
Benjamin Schumacher, Kenyon College
  • Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Aug. 4th, 2013 to Aug. 10th, 2013.
  • Dr. Schumacher will present the Quantum Lunch

Jeff Haack, University of Texas - Austin
Alfred Hubler, University of Illinois
Harsha Gangammanavar, Ohio State University
Michael Zwolak, Oregon State University
  • Host: Chih-Chun Chien (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Jul. 29th, 2013 to Aug. 16th, 2013.
  • Dr. Zwolak will present the Quantum Lunch on August 1. He will collaborate with Drs. Zurek, Velizhanin, and Chien on quantum information and transport phenomena

Dmitry Solenov, Naval Research Laboratory
Jean Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin
  • Host: Ido Regev (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Jul. 28th, 2013 to Jul. 31st, 2013.
  • Dr. Thiffeault will present the CNLS colloquium on topological entropy and mixing.
  • Talks:

Ehud Meron, Ben-Gurion University
  • Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Jul. 25th, 2013 to Aug. 25th, 2013.
  • Dr. Meron will collaborate with Dr. Hagberg on research in nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation with applications to chemical systems and ecology.

Golan Bel, Ben-Gurion University
  • Host: Kim Rasmussen (T-5)
  • Visit Dates: Jul. 25th, 2013 to Aug. 15th, 2013.
  • Dr. Bel will collaborate with Drs. Alexandrov, Welch, Rasmussen, Gnanakaran, and Hengartner on their understanding of biochemical processes and propagation of disease in human and agricultural subjects.

Philippe Odier, Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon
  • Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Jul. 22nd, 2013 to Aug. 16th, 2013.
  • Dr. Odier will collaborate with Dr. Ecke on turbulent stratified shear flow.

Alain Brizard, Saint Michaels College
  • Host: Xianzhu Tang (T-5)
  • Visit Dates: Jul. 22nd, 2013 to Aug. 2nd, 2013.
  • Dr. Brizard will present a series of lectures on gyro-kinetic theory and collaborate with Dr. Tang.

Dmitry Kurochkin, Tulane University
Julian Sonner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-5)
  • Visit Dates: Jul. 17th, 2013 to Jul. 20th, 2013.
  • Dr. Sonner will present the Quantum Lunch on the connection between AdS-CFT duality and symmetry breaking.
  • Talks:

Marcus Hanwell, Kitware
Florian Dorfler, University of California at Santa Barbara
Anushya Chandran, Princeton University
Edward Dougherty, Texas A&M University
  • Host: Josephine Olivas (NSEC)
  • Visit Dates: Jul. 9th, 2013 to Jul. 10th, 2013.
  • Dr. Dougherty will present the IS&T Seminar.

Tanya Singh, University of Pennsylvania
  • Host: Alan Perelson (T-6)
  • Visit Dates: Jul. 2nd, 2013 to Aug. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Singh will be collaborating with Drs. Perelson and Gerrish on modeling the immune response to the HIV infection.

Gerhard Wellein, Universite Erlangen
  • Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Jun. 26th, 2013 to Jul. 10th, 2013.
  • Dr. Wellein will collaborate with Alan Bishop and Stuart Trugman on polaronic problems.

Holger Fehske, EMR University, Griefswald
  • Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Jun. 26th, 2013 to Jul. 10th, 2013.
  • Dr. Fehske will collaborate with Drs. Bishop and Trugman on polaronic problems.

Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University
Alexander Idesman, Texas Tech University
  • Host: K. Lipnikov (T-5)
  • Visit Dates: Jun. 25th, 2013 to Jun. 26th, 2013.
  • Dr. Idesman will present a talk on Accurate Numerical Solutions of Wave Propagation Problems Based on New Dispersion-Reduction Technique and New Two-Stage Time-Integration technique.

Jonathan Keeling, University of St. Andrews
Lyudmyla Adamska, University of South Florida
Wolfganag Losert, University of Maryland
  • Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Jun. 17th, 2013 to Jun. 18th, 2013.
  • Dr Losert will present the CNLS Colloquium on Collective Dynamics of Granular Materials and the q-bio Seminar on Physics of Cancer.

Fabio Luciani, University of New South Wales
Muthusamy Lakshmanan, Bharathidasan University
Cristina Garcia-Cardona, Claremont Graduate University
J. J. Peter Veerman, Portland State University
  • Host: Pieter Swart (T-5)
  • Visit Dates: Jun. 17th, 2013 to Jun. 21st, 2013.
  • Dr. Veerman will present two seminars and collaborate with members of T-5 on dynamics on networks and modeling transient dynamics.

William Klein, Boston University
Jinwoo Shin, KAIST
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Jun. 11th, 2013 to Jun. 14th, 2013.
  • Dr. Shin will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov on graphical models of matching.

Sebastian Deffner, University of Maryland
Gregory Voth, University of Chicago
  • Host: Josephine Olivas (NSEC)
  • Visit Dates: Jun. 6th, 2013 to Jun. 7th, 2013.
  • Dr. Voth will present the IS&T seminar on June 6.

Adam Stanier, University of Manchester
Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center
Kenley Pelzer, University of Chicago
Chenye Wu, Tsinghua University
John Gibbon, Imperial College London
  • Host: Beth Wingate (CCS-2)
  • Visit Dates: May. 26th, 2013 to Jun. 1st, 2013.
  • Dr. Gibbon will collaborate with Drs. Whitehead, Haut, and Wingate on rotating and stratified turbulence.

Pedram Roushan, University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Host: Armin Rahmani (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: May. 22nd, 2013 to May. 24th, 2013.
  • Dr. Roushan will present the Quantum Lunch seminar.

Niels Gronbech-Jensen, UC Davis
Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: May. 20th, 2013 to May. 24th, 2013.
  • Dr. Bienstock will be collaborating with Drs. Chertov, Backhaus, and Bent.

Blair Sullivan, Oak Ridge National Lab
Paul Rodriguez-Valderrama, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Del Peru
  • Host: Brendt Wohlbert (T-5)
  • Visit Dates: May. 6th, 2013 to May. 10th, 2013.
  • Dr. Rodriguez-Valderrama will continue his collaborations with Dr. Wohlberg.

Ed Stites, Washington University in St. Louis
Seth Lloyd, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Apr. 30th, 2013 to May. 2nd, 2013.
  • Dr. Lloyd will present the Quantum Lunch seminar on quantum metrology, precision sensing, and quantum speed limits.

Dmitry Podolsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Apr. 29th, 2013 to Apr. 30th, 2013.
  • Dr. Podolsky will present the Smart Grid seminar and discuss possible future collaborations with Dr. Chertkov.

Petr Vorobev, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
John Abraham, University of California at Los Angeles
Jonathan Selinger, Kent State University
  • Host: Lena Lopatina, T-1 (T-1)
  • Visit Dates: Apr. 28th, 2013 to May. 1st, 2013.
  • Dr. Selinger will be presenting the CNLS colloquium on the theory of liquid crystals.

Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory
Thomas Halsey, Exxon Mobil
Allen Boozer, Columbia Universite
Marco Merkli, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Host: Gennady Berman (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Apr. 17th, 2013 to May. 17th, 2013.
  • Dr. Merkli will collaborate with Drs. Berman, Sayre and Bishop on coherent quantum effects in photosynthetic bio-complexes.

Joe Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insititute
Vladimir Frolov, SkolkovoTech Institute of Technology
Karen Willcox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Thorpe, Arizona State University
  • Host: Lena Lopatina, T-1 (T-1)
  • Visit Dates: Apr. 14th, 2013 to Apr. 18th, 2013.
  • Dr. Thorpe will present the CNLS colloquium on rigidity and jamming.

Carlos Lopez, Vanderbilt University
Soumya Kundu, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Mark Raizen, UT Austin
  • Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Apr. 1st, 2013 to Apr. 3rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Raizen will present the CNLS Colloquium about complete replacement of laser cooling techniques.

Amy Wesolowski, Carnegie Mellon University
Oscar Viyuela, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Lily Chylek, Cornell University
  • Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6)
  • Visit Dates: Mar. 20th, 2013 to Mar. 26th, 2013.
  • Ms. Chylek will be collaborating with Dr. Hlavacek on a publication for WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine.

Pascal van Hentenryck, University of Melbourne
David Hill, Australian National University
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Mar. 18th, 2013 to Mar. 22nd, 2013.
  • Dr. Hill will be collaborating with Drs. Chertkov, Backhaus, and Bent on power systems.
  • Talks:

Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mitra Aditi, New York University
  • Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Mar. 13th, 2013.
  • Dr. Aditi will present the Quantum Lunch Seminar and collaborate with Drs. Batista, Del Campo, Rahmani, Sinitsyn and Zurek.

Diane Oyen, University of New Mexico
Hossein Sadeghpour, Harvard-Smithsonian ITAMP
  • Host: Ryan Behunin (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Mar. 6th, 2013 to Mar. 8th, 2013.
  • Dr. Sadeghpour will present the Quantum Lunch on ion trap heating.

Charles Bouman, Purdue University
  • Host: Josephine Olivas (INST)
  • Visit Dates: Mar. 6th, 2013.
  • Dr. Bouman will present the IS&T Seminar

Russell Bisset, University of Otago
  • Host: Christ Ticknor (T-1)
  • Visit Dates: Mar. 4th, 2013 to Mar. 8th, 2013.
  • Dr. Bisset will be discussing possible collaborations on the ECR project with Dr. Ticknor.

Dean Astumian, University of Maine
Ricardo Decca, IUPUI
Brandon Peden, Western Washington University
  • Host: Chris Ticknor (T-1)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 25th, 2013 to Feb. 26th, 2013.
  • Dr. Peden will discuss potential collaborations with Dr. Ticknor and CNLS in the field of quantum optics and ultracold quantum gasses.

Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin
  • Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2013 to Feb. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Coppersmith will be a reviewer of the Information Science and Technology project for the CNLS 2013 External Advisory Committee meeting.

David Weitz, Harvard University
  • Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2013 to Feb. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Weitz will be a reviewer of the Bioscience project for the CNLS 2013 External Advisory Committee meeting.

Jonathan Yedidia, Disney Research
  • Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2013 to Feb. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Yedidia will be a reviewer of the Information Science and Technology project for the CNLS 2013 External Advisory Committee meeting.

Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico
  • Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2013 to Feb. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Forrest will be a reviewer of the Information Science and Technology project for the CNLS 2013 External Advisory Committee meeting.

Peter Wolynes, Rice University
  • Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2013 to Feb. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Wolynes will be a reviewer of the Bioscience project for the CNLS 2013 External Advisory Committee meeting.

Angel Garcia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2013 to Feb. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Garcia will be a reviewer of the Bioscience project for the CNLS 2013 External Advisory Committee meeting.

Andrew Comech, Texas A&M University
  • Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 21st, 2013 to Feb. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Comech will present the Quantum Lunch on the Nonlinear Dirac Equation: Solitons and Stability.

Florian Dorfler, University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 21st, 2013 to Feb. 23rd, 2013.
  • Mr. Dorfler will participate in the CNLS External Advisory Committee Review.

Tony Leggett, University of Illinois
  • Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 13th, 2013 to Feb. 15th, 2013.
  • Dr. Leggett will present the Distinguished Quantum Lectures.

Joseph Bradley, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Host: Josephine Olivas (INST)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 13th, 2013.
  • Dr. Bradley will be presenting the IS&T Seminar.

Ivan Christov, Princeton Unversity
Ken Chambers, University of Hawaii
  • Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 11th, 2013.
  • Dr. Chambers will present the CNLS Colloquium on the Pan-STARRS Sky System.
  • Talks:

Douglas Abraham, Oxford University
  • Host: Cristiano Nisoli (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 10th, 2013 to Mar. 1st, 2013.
  • Dr. Abraham will be collaborating with Dr. Nisoli on thermal casimir effect.

Richard Cleve, Institute for Quantum Computing
Pavel Vachal, Czech Technical University
  • Host: Misha Shashkov (T-5)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 4th, 2013 to Mar. 1st, 2013.
  • Dr. Vachal will collaborate with Drs. Garimella, Wendroff, and Shashkov on prototype algorithms for artificial viscosity for hydrocodes in rz coordinates.

Nils Bertschinger, Max Planck Institute
  • Host: David Wolpert (CCS-3)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 4th, 2013 to Feb. 15th, 2013.
  • Dr. Bertschinger will collaborate with Dr. Wolpert on information theory and game theory.
  • Talks:

Echekhard Olbrich, Max Planck Institute
  • Host: David Wolpert (CCS-2)
  • Visit Dates: Feb. 4th, 2013 to Feb. 15th, 2013.
  • Dr. Olbrich will collaborate with Dr. Wolpert on information theory and game theory.

Kevin Wright, Dartmouth College
Lei Zhao, University of California at San Diego
Marija Vucelja, Courant Institute
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Jan. 23rd, 2013.
  • Dr. Vucelja will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov and present a seminar

Edward Rosten, Computer Vision Consulting
Vladimir Lebedev, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Jan. 14th, 2013 to Jan. 25th, 2013.
  • Dr. Lebedev will collaborate with Drs. Chertkov and Ecke on subjects related to the interface of machine learning, control theory, power systems, and statistical physics.

Igor Kolokolov, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
  • Visit Dates: Jan. 14th, 2013 to Jan. 25th, 2013.
  • Dr. Kolokolov will collaborate with Drs. Chertkov and Ecke on subjects related to the interface of machine learning, control theory, power systems, and statistical physics

Natarajan Gautam, Texas A&M University
  • Host: Scott Backhaus (MPA-CMMS)
  • Visit Dates: Jan. 14th, 2013 to Jan. 15th, 2013.
  • Dr. Gautam will be presenting the Smart Grid seminar on power management in data centers.

Warren Powell, Princeton Unversity
  • Host: Josephine Olivas (INST)
  • Visit Dates: Jan. 9th, 2013.
  • Dr. Powell will present the IS&T Seminar.

Peter Frazier, Princeton Unversity
  • Host: Josephine Olivas (INST)
  • Visit Dates: Jan. 9th, 2013.
  • Dr. Frazier will be participating in the IS&T Seminar.

David Love, University of Arizona
Guzin Bayraksan, University of Arizona
  • Visit Dates: Jan. 9th, 2013 to Jan. 10th, 2013.
  • Professor Bayraksan will visit LANL to discuss her research on robust optimization with respect to water systems.

Andrew Cole, Columbia University
  • Host: John Finn (T-5)
  • Visit Dates: Jan. 7th, 2013 to Jan. 18th, 2013.
  • Dr. Cole will collaborate with Dr. Finn on turbulent momentum transport by a spectrum of tearing modes in reversed field pinches (RFPs) and in tokamaks.

Dirk-Peter Herten, University of Heidelberg
Joe Niemela, ICTP Trieste
Yair Mau, Ben-Gurion University
Aaron Schild, Princeton Unversity
  • Host: Feng Pan (D-6)
  • Visit Dates: Jan. 5th, 2013 to Jan. 11th, 2013.
  • Mr. Schild will collaborate with Dr. Pan on problems in graph matching and graph interdiction, continuing efforts from this past summer.
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