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2015 Visitors

Maciej Maska, University of Silesia

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 16th, 2015 to Dec. 18th, 2015.
Prof. Maska will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture.
Talks:

Effective approach to the boson-fermion model

Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Host: Ivan Christov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 14th, 2015 to Dec. 16th, 2015.
Prof. Ostoja-Starzewski will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Michel Louge, Cornell University

Host: Duan Zhang (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 7th, 2015 to Dec. 8th, 2015.
Prof. Louge will give the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Challenges in Unsaturated Porous Media

Genia Vogman, University of California, Berkeley

Host: Luis Chacon (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 7th, 2015 to Dec. 8th, 2015.
Ms. Vogman will give a seminar at the CNLS and meet with LANL staff and postdocs.

Alejandro Manjavacas, University of New Mexico

Host: Wilton de Melo Kort Kamp (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 3rd, 2015 to Dec. 4th, 2015.
Dr. Manjavacas will give a talk on Nanophotonics and have discussions in the field of metamaterials.
Talks:

New platforms for plasmonics

Robert Schwarz, Zuse Institute, Berlin

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 1st, 2015 to Dec. 3rd, 2015.
Prof. Schwarz will meet with the LANL Grid Science team.
Talks:

Mathematical Optimization for Gas Network Planning - The German Perspective

Patrick Panciatici, RTE-France

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 30th, 2015.
Dr. Panciatici will give the CNLS Colloquium and have discussions with the Grid Science team.
Talks:

Energy transition in Europe: Needs, challenges and possible solutions: an European TSO perspective

Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 30th, 2015 to Dec. 4th, 2015.
Prof. Chernyak will meet with the LANL Smart Grid team.

Vladimir Lebedev, Landau Institute

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 23rd, 2015 to Dec. 4th, 2015.
Prof. Lebedev will meet with the LANL Smart Grid group.

Taras Lakoba, University of Vermont

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 23rd, 2015 to Nov. 24th, 2015.
Prof. Lakoba will present the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Long-time numerical integration of the generalized nonlinear Schroedinger equation with time steps exceeding the instability threshold

Rudiger Urbanke, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Host: Marc Vuffray (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 23rd, 2015 to Nov. 25th, 2015.
Prof. Urbanke will give the IS&T Seminar.
Talks:

Teaching an old code a new trick

Alex Williams, Stanford University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 12th, 2015 to Nov. 13th, 2015.
Mr. Williams will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and postdocs.
Talks:

A mathematical model of microtubular transport reveals tradeoffs in speed and precision in complex neuronal morphologies

Matthew Davis, The University of Queensland

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 11th, 2015 to Nov. 13th, 2015.
Prof. Davis will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture.

Seyoung Yun, Microsoft Research, UK

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 4th, 2015 to Nov. 6th, 2015.
Dr. Yun will meet with Dr. Chertkov and present a seminar.

Jordan Horowitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 3rd, 2015 to Nov. 7th, 2015.
Dr. Horowitz will give the Quantum Lunch seminar.
Talks:

UPDATED TIME: Nonequilibrium potential and fluctuation theorems for quantum maps

Aldo Bischi, Politecnico di Milano

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 26th, 2015 to Oct. 30th, 2015.
Dr. Bischi will meet with the LANL Grid Science team.
Talks:

Combined cooling, heat and power systems operation planning: Mixed Integer Linear Programming-MILP model

Jesse Lopez, Oregon Health and Science University

Host: Mark Petersen (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 26th, 2015 to Oct. 27th, 2015.
Mr. Lopez will visit the CNLS to give a seminar.
Talks:

Insights into circulation and sediment dynamics of an energetic estuary using unstructured grid

Ian Dunn, Columbia University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 26th, 2015 to Oct. 27th, 2015.
Mr. Dunn will give a seminar and have discussions with various LANL staff and postdocs.

Joseph Eberly, University of Rochester

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 21st, 2015 to Oct. 23rd, 2015.
Prof. Eberly will give a Quantum Lunch lecture.

Jason Bender, University of Minnesota

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 15th, 2015 to Oct. 16th, 2015.
Jason will give a talk on hypersonic flow, transport, and atmospheric chemistry.

David Gosset, Caltech

Host: Rolando Somma (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 14th, 2015 to Oct. 17th, 2015.
Dr. Gosset will give a Quantum Lunch lecture.
Talks:

Gapped and gapless phases of frustration-free spin-1/2 chains

Luis Orozco, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 7th, 2015 to Oct. 9th, 2015.
Prof. Orozco will give the Quantum Lunch lecture.

Greg Huber, KITP, University of California at Santa Barbara

Host: Eli Ben-Naim (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 5th, 2015.
Prof. Huber will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Subrahmanyam Duvvuri, Caltech

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 29th, 2015 to Sep. 30th, 2015.
Mr. Duvvuri will visit CNLS and give a seminar.
Talks:

NEW TIME: Scale interactions in a forced turbulent boundary layer

Lior Horesh, IBM Research

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 21st, 2015 to Sep. 23rd, 2015.
Dr. Horesh will meet with Dr. Chertkov.
Talks:

Thinking out of the Box: All models are wrong,.. can we make them more useful?

Alexander Rudkevich, Newton Energy Group

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 16th, 2015 to Sep. 18th, 2015.
Dr. Rudkevich will meet with the Grid Science team in the area of gas and gas-grid integration.

Markus Schlapfer, Santa Fe Institute

Host: Andrey Lokhov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 16th, 2015.
Prof. Schlapfer will visit CNLS and give a seminar.
Talks:

Quantifying the dynamics of cities with human activity data

Hendrik Hamann, IBM Watson

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 14th, 2015 to Sep. 15th, 2015.
Dr. Hamann will give the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Physical Analytics: Bringing big data together with physics

Vladmir Frolov, Skoltech, Moscow

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 8th, 2015 to Sep. 18th, 2015.
Mr. Frolov will meet with the Smart Grid team.

Richard Carter, DNVGL

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 8th, 2015 to Sep. 9th, 2015.
Dr. Carter will meet with the LANL Smart Grid team.

Lukasz Cincio, Perimeter Institute

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 2nd, 2015 to Sep. 3rd, 2015.
Dr. Cincio will give the Quantum Lunch lecture.
Talks:

Emergent anyons and explicit semion wave-function for the chiral spin liquid on the Kagome lattice

Franz Mertens, University of Bayreuth

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 1st, 2015.
Meeting with Alan Bishop, Avadh Saxena, and Ivan Christov on magnetic and nonlinear phenomena including solitons.

Baruch Meerson, Hebrew University

Host: Eli Ben-Naim (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 31st, 2015.
Prof. Meerson will meet with Dr. Ben-Naim and other CNLS and LANL staff and postdocs.
Talks:

Extinction of established populations: A physicist's view

Daniel Bienstock, Colubmia University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 24th, 2015 to Aug. 26th, 2015.
Prof. Bienstock will join the Smart Grid group for discussions.

Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 24th, 2015 to Aug. 26th, 2015.
Prof. Hiskens will join the Smart Grid group for discussions.

Steven Low, Caltech

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 24th, 2015 to Aug. 26th, 2015.
Prof. Low will join the Smart Grid group for discussions.

Delora Gaskins, Brandeis University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 19th, 2015 to Aug. 21st, 2015.
Ms. Gaskins will present experimental data from Brandeis Chemistry research group and discuss modeling and analysis of pattern formation in chemical systems with Dr. Hagberg.

Danielle Tarraf, John Hopkins University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 19th, 2015.
Dr. Tarraf will give a seminar and have discussions with Drs. Alexander and Chertkov.
Talks:

New Paradigms for Control where Less is More

Jessica Conway, Pennsylvania State University

Host: Ruy Ribeiro (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2015 to Aug. 21st, 2015.
Dr. Conway will present a q-Bio seminar and have discussions with staff and postdocs.
Talks:

HIV Viral Rebound Times Following Therapy Suspension: Stochastic Model Predictions

Omer Tzuk, Ben-Gurion University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2015 to Sep. 15th, 2015.
Dr. Tzuk will perform independent research on biodiversity dynamics with spatial coupling. He will have discussions with Dr. Hagberg and vistor Meron.

Colm Connaughton, University of Warwick

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2015 to Sep. 12th, 2015.
Prof. Connaugton will visit CNLS and meet with Drs. Ecke and Chertkov.

Michael Herty, Aachen University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2015 to Aug. 21st, 2015.
Prof. Herty will meet with the LANL grid science team.

Gregory Voth, University of Chicago

Host: Gnana Gnanakaran (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2015 to Aug. 28th, 2015.
Dr. Voth will visit CNLS postdocs and LANL staff.

Wayne Saslow, Texas A&M University

Host: Fuxiang Li (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2015 to Aug. 21st, 2015.
Dr. Saslow will give a lecture at CNLS.

Ehud Meron, Ben-Gurion University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 15th, 2015 to Sep. 15th, 2015.
Dr. Meron will perform independent research on pattern formation in ecological systems with Dr. Hagberg.

Ralph Chamberlin, Arizona State University

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 12th, 2015 to Aug. 14th, 2015.
Prof. Chamberlin will give a quantum lunch seminar.

Jinwoo Shin, KAIST

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 10th, 2015 to Aug. 14th, 2015.
Prof. Shin will meet with Dr. Chertkov and CNLS postdocs.

Juan Pablo Paz, University of Buenos Aires

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 3rd, 2015 to Aug. 7th, 2015.
Prof. Paz will give a Quantum Lunch lecture and have discussions with staff and postdocs.
Talks:

Work measurement as a generalized quantum measurement

Sahar Sharifzadeh, Boston University

Host: Sergei Tretiak (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 3rd, 2015.
Dr. Sharifzadeh will give the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Understanding the Nature of Excitons in Organic Semiconductors from First Principles Theory

Barnes Arthur, Ozark Electric Design, LLC

Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 3rd, 2015.
Dr. Barnes will give a lecture at CNLS.

Kilian Singer, University of Mainz

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 20th, 2015 to Jul. 22nd, 2015.
Dr. Singer will present a special Quantum Lunch seminar.

Mahesh Bandi, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Host: Turab Lookman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 20th, 2015 to Jul. 24th, 2015.
Dr. Bandi will have discussions with various LANL staff.
Talks:

The Spectrum of Wind Power Fluctuations

James Bagrow, University of Vermont

Host: Thomas McAndrew (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 20th, 2015 to Jul. 22nd, 2015.
Prof. Bagrow will give the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Data-driven approaches to studying human dynamics

Shekhar Garde, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 16th, 2015.
Dr. Garde will visit with CNLS staff and postdocs.

John Wen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 16th, 2015.
Dr. Wen will visit with CNLS staff and postdocs.

William Newman, University of California at Los Angeles

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 13th, 2015 to Jul. 17th, 2015.
Prof. Newman will work with CNLS staff and affiliates.

Anthony Giacomoni, ISO-New England

Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 13th, 2015.
Dr. Giacomoni will give a Grid Science seminar on electric grid-natural gas coordination.
Talks:

New England Natural Gas Supply Uncertainty

Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester

Visit Dates: Jul. 6th, 2015 to Jul. 31st, 2015.

Ken Kamrin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 22nd, 2015 to Jun. 23rd, 2015.
Prof. Kamrin will give a CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Quantitatively Predictive Continuum Modeling of Granular Flows

Sandra Eksioglu, Clemson University

Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 19th, 2015.
Prof. Eksioglu will meet with LANL smart grid team and have discussions with Dr. Bent.

Scott Mason, Clemson University

Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 19th, 2015.
Prof. Mason will visit the LANL smart grid team and have discussions with Dr. Bent.

Herman Batelaan, University of Nebraska

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 17th, 2015 to Jun. 19th, 2015.
Prof. Batelaan will give a quantum lunch seminar.
Talks:

Controlled double slit electron diffraction

Tsampikos Kottos, Wesleyan University

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 11th, 2015 to Jun. 12th, 2015.
Prof. Kottos will give the Quantum Lunch lecture.
Talks:

Designing novel materials with Parity-Time symmetries: Examples from integrated photonics and electronics

Vakhtang Putkaradze, University of Alberta

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 11th, 2015.
Dr. Putkaradze will give a seminar at CNLS.

Glen Otero, Harvard School of Public Health

Host: Alan Perelson (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 10th, 2015 to Jun. 11th, 2015.
Dr. Otero will visit CNLS and T-6.

Marios Tsatsos, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 3rd, 2015 to Jun. 13th, 2015.
Dr. Tsatsos will visit Dr. Kevrekidis and attend the Nonlinear Complexity Workshop.

William Klein, Boston University

Host: Turab Lookman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 1st, 2015 to Jun. 26th, 2015.
Dr. Klein will continue collaborations with various staff.

Joseph Schoonover, Florida State University

Host: Wilbert Weijer (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 27th, 2015 to May. 28th, 2015.
Dr. Schoonover will present a seminar.
Talks:

North Atlantic Vorticity Budget and the Gulf Stream Separation

Aminur Rahman, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Host: Ivan Christov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 21st, 2015 to May. 22nd, 2015.
Mr. Rahman will give a seminar and visit with Dr. Christov. The seminar will be in the Collaboration Space.

Na Li, Harvard University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 18th, 2015 to May. 19th, 2015.
Prof. Li will give the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Connecting Distributed Control and Distributed Optimization in the Power Grid and General Network Systems

Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Host: Ivan Christov (T-4)
Visit Dates: May. 11th, 2015 to May. 13th, 2015.
Dr. Ostoja-Starzewski will be presenting the CNLS colloquium on continuum mechanics of fractal media.

Dominque Escande, University of Marseille

Host: Gianluca Delzanno (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 11th, 2015 to May. 22nd, 2015.
Prof. Escande will give a series of talks at CNLS.

Marcos Rigol, Penn State University

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-4)
Visit Dates: May. 6th, 2015 to May. 8th, 2015.
Dr. Rigol will present the Quantum Lunch seminar.
Talks:

From unitary dynamics to statistical mechanics in isolated quantum systems

Antonio Conejo Navarro, Ohio State University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 6th, 2015 to May. 8th, 2015.
Prof. Conejo Navarro will give a seminar and have discussion with LANL Staff and postdocs.
Talks:

Pricing non-convexities in an electricity pool: A non-orthodox primal-dual approach

Vyacheslav Lukin, National Science Foundation

Host: Cihan Akcay (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 6th, 2015 to May. 7th, 2015.
Dr. Lukin will meet with Drs. Akcay and Daughton.

Phil Morrison, University of Texas

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2015 to May. 2nd, 2015.
Dr. Morrison will be a member of the CNLS External Advisory Committee.

Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2015 to May. 2nd, 2015.
Dr. Jarzynski will be a member of the CNLS External Advisory Committee.

William Young, University of California, San Diego

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2015 to May. 2nd, 2015.
Dr. Young will be a member of the CNLS External Advisory Committee.

Thomas Witten, University of Chicago

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2015 to May. 2nd, 2015.
Dr. Witten will be a member of the CNLS External Advisory Committee.

David Campbell, Boston University

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2015 to May. 2nd, 2015.
Dr. Campbell will be a member of the CNLS External Advisory Committee.

Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2015 to May. 2nd, 2015.
Dr. Coppersmith will be a member of the CNLS External Advisory Committee.

Daniele Funaro, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Host: Gianmarco Manzini (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 30th, 2015 to May. 1st, 2015.
Prof. Funaro will give a talk at CNLS.

John Bush, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Ivan Christov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 27th, 2015 to Apr. 29th, 2015.
Professor Bush will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Munik Shrestha, UNM Physics

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 23rd, 2015.
Mr. Shrestha will give a seminar and meet with Dr. Hagberg and the Grid Science team.
Talks:

Statistics of epidemic dynamics in networks by passing messages

Stephen Jordan, NIST

Host: Rolando Somma (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 22nd, 2015 to Apr. 25th, 2015.
Dr. Jordan will visit LANL and give the Quantum Lunch lecture.

Mehran Kardar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 20th, 2015 to Apr. 24th, 2015.
Dr. Kardar will present the Kac Lecture Series at CNLS.
Talks:

Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego

Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-4)
Visit Dates: Apr. 12th, 2015 to Apr. 14th, 2015.
Dr. Krstic will present the CNLS Colloquium on control of PDEs and dynamic flows on networks.
Talks:

Control of Nonlinear Delay Systems and PDEs with Fluid Applications

Riccardo Messina, Universite of Montpellier, France

Host: Diego Dalvit (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 12th, 2015 to Apr. 24th, 2015.
Prof. Messina will give a seminar and have discussions with various staff and postdocs.

Thomasz Lipniacki, Polish Academy of Science

Host: William Hlavacek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 6th, 2015 to Apr. 10th, 2015.
Dr. Lipniacki will visit with Dr. Hlavacek.

Craig Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University

Host: Turab Lookman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 6th, 2015 to Apr. 7th, 2015.
Professor Maloney will give the CNLS Colloquium.

James Rondinelli, Northwestern University

Host: Turab Lookman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 23rd, 2015 to Mar. 25th, 2015.
Dr. Randonelli will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Igor Aleiner, Columbia University

Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 19th, 2015 to Mar. 20th, 2015.
Professor Aleiner will give the Quantum Lunch lecture and discuss his research work.
Talks:

The internal structure of a vortex in a two-dimensional superfluid with long healing length

Raymond Kapral, University of Toronto

Host: Alexander White (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 17th, 2015 to Mar. 18th, 2015.
Prof. Kapral will visit CNLS to give a seminar and meet with various members of T-1 and T-4.
Talks:

Quantum Dynamics in Open Quantum-Classical Systems

Boris Shraiman, KITP-University of California at Santa Barbara

Host: Misha Chertkov/Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 16th, 2015 to Mar. 17th, 2015.
Dr. Shraiman will give a CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Emergent simplicity of evolutionary dynamics and the possibility of predicting evolutionary future

Yue Lu, Harvard University

Host: Misa Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 16th, 2015 to Mar. 17th, 2015.
Professor Lu will give the a CNLS Seminar.
Talks:

Detecting dynamics hidden in noise: Understanding phase transitions via statistical physics

Mary Silber, Northwestern University

Host: Ivan Christov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Mar. 9th, 2015 to Mar. 11th, 2015.
Dr. Silber will present the CNLS Colloquium on bifurcations in climate models.
Talks:

Pattern Formation in the Drylands: Self Organization in Semi-Arid Ecosystems

Charles Lieou, University of California at Santa Barbara

Host: Robert Ecke and Paul Johnson (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 9th, 2015.
Mr. Lieou will give a seminar in 03-107-JRO1 in the Research Library Collaboration Space.
Talks:

Modeling acoustic effects in dense granular flow: a nonequilibrium thermodynamics approach and implications of grain-scale processes on dynamic friction

Mariia Sorokina, Aston University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 2nd, 2015 to Mar. 13th, 2015.
Dr. Sorokina will be meeting with the Smart Grid team.

Anton Andreev, University of Washington

Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 26th, 2015 to Feb. 27th, 2015.
Professor Andreev will give the Quantum Lunch seminar.
Talks:

Hydrodynamic description of electron transport in high mobility semiconductor nanostructures

Carl Bender, Washington University, St. Louis

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 23rd, 2015 to Feb. 25th, 2015.
Professor Bender will give a seminar and meet with Drs. Cooper and Keverkidis.
Talks:

Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and PT-symmetric quantum theory

William Newman, UCLA

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 23rd, 2015 to Feb. 24th, 2015.
Professor Newman will give a seminar and have discussions with CNLS staff and postdocs.

Vassilis Kekatos, University of Minnesota

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 18th, 2015.
Dr. Kekatos will give a Smart Grid Seminar.
Talks:

Management and learning for future power systems

Vladimir Lebedev, Landau Institute

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 17th, 2015 to Feb. 27th, 2015.
Dr. Lebedev will be collaborating with the Grid Science group.
Talks:

Tamoghna Das, Okawa Institute of Science and Technology

Host: Turab Lookman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 17th, 2015 to Feb. 27th, 2015.
Dr. Das will give a seminar and have discussions with both T-Division staff and CNLS postdocs.

Raymond Laflamme, University of Waterloo

Host: Wojciech Zurek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 17th, 2015 to Feb. 19th, 2015.
Dr. Laflamme will be giving the Quantum Lunch lecture.
Talks:

Experimental quantum error correction

Leonid Glazman, Yale University

Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 12th, 2015 to Feb. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Glazman will present the Quantum Lunch seminar.

Leonid Glazman, Yale University

Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 12th, 2015 to Feb. 14th, 2015.
Professor Glazman will give the Quantum Lunch lecture.
Talks:

Quantum dynamics of a Fluxonium Device

Giacomo Como, Lund University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 9th, 2015 to Feb. 11th, 2015.
Professor Como will be giving the CNLS Colloquium on February 9.
Talks:

Distributed Control of Dynamical Flow Networks

Xiaobo Yin, University of Colorado, Boulder

Host: Diego Dalvit (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 2nd, 2015 to Feb. 3rd, 2015.
Dr. Yin will collaborate with Drs. Salvit, Sinitsyn, Trugman, and Tse and present a seminar on his recent experimental work on the photonic spin Hall effect in metasurfaces.
Talks:

When Structured Light Meets Structured Matter at the Nanoscale

Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 26th, 2015 to Jan. 28th, 2015.
Dr. Pelinovsky will present a special CNLS colloquium.
Talks:

Stability of Dirac solitons

Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton University

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 26th, 2015 to Jan. 30th, 2015.
Dr. Kevrekidis will visit CNLS to give a seminar and meet with staff members.
Talks:

Coarse-graining the dynamics of (and on) complex networks: an equation free/variable free approach

Michael Roukes, Caltech

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 23rd, 2015 to Jan. 24th, 2015.
Professor Roukes will visit LANL and give both the CNLS Colloquium and the Directors Colloquium.

Peter Kruger, University of Nottingham, UK

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 21st, 2015 to Jan. 26th, 2015.
Professor Kruger will be collaborating with Ulam Scholar Kevrekidis on BEC condensates and will give a seminar.

William Wooters, Williams College

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 20th, 2015 to Jan. 22nd, 2015.
Dr. Wooters will present the Quantum Lunch seminar.

Jiadong Zang, Johns Hopkins University

Host: Shi-Zeng Lin (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 15th, 2015 to Jan. 16th, 2015.
Dr. Zang will present the Quantum Lunch on skyrmion physics.
Talks:

Skyrmions in Helimagnets

Joe Goddard, University of California, San Diego

Host: Ivan Christov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 12th, 2015 to Jan. 14th, 2015.
Dr. Goddard will present the CNLS Colloquium on continuum models of granular mechanics.
Talks:

Playing in Sand for Science, Engineering and Fun ("Life without kT")