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

1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

July 30
P Holmes, Cornell University
Wavelets and Local Models of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation

August 5
S Neuman, University of Arizona
Scaling of Subsurface Flow and Transport Variables

August 12
A L Barabasi, Notre Dame University
Beach Physics: Studies of Wetting and Drag Force in Granular Media

August 19
B Stojkovic, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mesoscale Charge-Ordering in Layered Transition Metal Oxides

September 2
S Aubry, SACLAY
Discrete Breathers in Nonlinear Lattices:
Recent Developments and Potential Applications

September 9
D Campbell, University of Illinois/LANL
Chaos and Symmetry Breaking in Semiconductor Superlattices

September 16
O Valls, University of Minnesota
Free Energy Landscape for a Glassy System

September 23
S Zoldi, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Escape-Time Weighting of Unstable Periodic Orbits

September 30
Robert E Ecke, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"A Soap Opera" - 2D hydrodynamics in soap films

October 7
B Huberman, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
The Laws of the Web

October 14
R Krasny, University of Michigan
Recent Computational Work on Vortex Sheet Roll-Up

October 21
S Habib, Los Alamos National Laboratory
The Cosmology Revolution

November 4
R J Adrian, University of Illinois
Large-scale Structures Created by Small-Scale Motions
in Wall Turbulence

November 10 (Tuesday)
J Socolar, Duke University
Force Distributions in Granular Materials

November 13 (Friday)
A Newel, Warwick University
Natural Patterns and their Defects

November 18
H Riecke, Northwestern University
Localized Structures in Pattern-Forming Systems:
Worms, Pulses, Oscillons

December 2
R Laflamme, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Quantum Computation

December 9
M W Tilden, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nervous Networks and the Architecture of Living Machines

     

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