Time: Wednesday 3:00PM
Place: CNLS seminar room

1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

January 12
M Mineev-Weinstein, Los Alamos National Lab
Integrable Structure of Interface Dynamics

January 18 (Tuesday)
B Mueller, Duke University
Colored Chaos

January 25 (Tuesday)
A Pumir, Nice University
Interaction of an electric field with cardiac muscle

January 26
B Matkowsky, Northwestern University
Selection in Saffman-Taylor Finger Problems

February 2
W Young, University of California, San Diego
Disturbing Vortices

February 9
W Klein, Boston University
A Physicist's View of Earthquakes

March 15
D Hennig, Free University of Berlin
Wave Transmission and Localized Excitations
in Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation

March 16 (Thursday, 11AM) CNLS/UNM Distinguished Lecture Series
P Constantin, University of Chicago
Singularities and Statistics

March 17 (Friday, 2PM) CNLS/UNM Distinguished Lecture Series
P Constantin, University of Chicago
Bounds for Turbulent Transport

March 22
J Leahy, University of Oregon
Control of Quantum Systems

March 29
V Korepin, SUNY, Stony Brook
Charge and Spin Separation in 1D Hubbard Model

April 19
S Istrail, Sandia National Laboratory
Statistical Mechanics, Three-Dimensionality and NP-Completeness

April 26
P Goldbart, University of Illinois
Seeking Simplicity in Complex Media: A Physicist's View
of Vulcanized Matter, Glasses, and other Random Solids

May 4 (Thursday, 3PM)
M Vergassola, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice
Statistical Geometry in Scalar Turbulence

June 21
T Tel, Eotvos University, Budapest
Chemical Reactions with Chaotic Hydrodynamics

June 28
M Dennin, University of California, Irvine
Probing Spatiotemporal Chaos: Why Temporal Modulation is a Good Thing

July 5
T Bhattacharya, Los Alamos National Lab
Tracing the origins of HIV

July 12
H Rose, Los Alamos National Lab
A Turbulence Phase Transition in Laser-Plasma Interactions

July 17, (Monday 1:30PM)
R Donnelly, University of Oregon
Experiments on Superfluid Turbulence

August 2
P C Hammel, Los Alamos National Lab
High Resolution Scanned Probe Magnetic Resonance Microscopy

August 9
A Steinberg, University of Toronto
Nonlinear Physics for Reductionists: When Two Photons Are Enough

August 16
S Boettcher, Emory University
Extremal Optimization of Combinatorial and Spin-Glass Problems

August 23
T Powers, Brown University
Twist, drag, and kinks: Viscous dynamics of rotating filaments

September 13
G Dash, University of Washington
America's War of Independence, Thunderstorms and the Physics of Ice Collisions

September 20
H Li, Los Alamos National Lab
Origin of Angular Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks

September 27 Postponed
S Erramilli, Boston University
Scanning Near-field Infrared Microscope Based on a Free Electron Laser

October 4
J Gunton, Lehigh University
Direct Transitions to Spatiotemporal Chaos

October 18
T Newman, University of Virginia
From Directed Polymers to Marginal Populations

October 25
B Meerson, Hebrew University
Normal and anomalous scaling in fractal coarsening, or how a fractal gets smooth

November 1
B Swendsen, Carnegie Mellon University
How to compute critical properties from a series expansion. How Bayesian analysis can help you use what you know

November 8
B Schmittmann, Virginia Tech
American Football, Barber Poles and Clouds: Physics Far from Thermal Equilibrium

November 15
J Rundle, University of Colorado

November 22
GL Vasconcelos, University Federal Pernambuc, Brazil

December 6
A Ramm, Kansas State University
Dynamical Systems Approach for Solving Linear and Nonlinear Ill-Posed Problems

December 13
P Dietlevsen, Niels Bohr Institute
Dynamics of Climate observed in ice-core record

December 20
M Vishik, University of Texas
Incompressible flows of an ideal fluid:do they exist?      

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