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

1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

January 6
J Percus, New York University
The One-Dimensional World and Some Extensions

January 13
M Robbins, Johns Hopkins University
Where Does Friction Come From?

January 20
J Koplik, City College of New York
Wetting Flows at Molecular Scales

January 27
J Glazier, University of Notre Dame
Foams in Two and Three Dimensions

February 3
R Mainieri, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Pinball for Physicists

February 10
D Grier, University of Chicago
Interactions, Dynamics and Phase Transitions in
Colloidal Suspensions: When Like Charges Attract

February 16 (Tuesday, 2PM)
U Fricsh,Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice
Lagrangian method for multiple correlations of passive scalars

February 17
R Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lattice QCD, Renormalization, and the Hadron Spectrum

March 3
D Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scaling Slopes: The Structure of Eroding Landscapes

March 9 (Tuesday)
S Jin, Georgia Tech
Relaxation Approximations and Relaxation Schemes for PDEs

March 10 (Physics Auditorium, Distinguished Lecture Series)
P Anderson, Princeton University
RVB Revisited

March 17
V Zakharov, University of Arizona
Optic pulses in the Dispersed Managed fibers

April 14
W E, New York University
Stochastic PDEs in Turbulence Theory

April 21
F Graner, Universite Joseph Fourier, France

May 12
A Shreve, Los Alamos National Lab
Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies of Mixed-Valence Systems

May 19
L Winter, Los Alamos National Lab
Mean Flow in Composite Porous Media

May 26
M Weissman, University of Illinois
1/f Noise in Condensed Matter

June 2
B Marston, Brown University
The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming

June 9
R Desai, University of Toronto
Anisotropic Fluctuations and Stability in Block Copolymer Systems

June 18
R Zia, Virginia Tech
Population dynamics in Bit-String Models of Aging:
Fixed Points, Linear Stability, and the Emergence of "Eve"

July 7
V Yakhot, Boston University
Two-Dimensional Turbulence in the Inverse Cascade

July 21
P Wong, University of Massachusetts
Multilayer Adsorption on Fractal Surfaces in Porous Media

July 28
J Banavar, Penn State
Scaling in Hydrology and Biology

August 4
J L Lebowitz, Rutgers University
Statistical Mechanics: A Selective Overview

August 11
C Henley, Cornell University
Semiclassical Approach to Small Quantum Spin Systems

August 18
D Abraham, Oxford University
An Exactly Solvable, Statistical Mechanical Model of
Reconstruc-tive Phase Transitions in Crystal Surfaces

September 15
R Lovelace, Cornell University/LANL
Theory of Astrophysical Jets

September 22
D Sherrington, Oxford University
The Energy Landscape Paradigm: A Statistical Physics Perspective

October 27
H Brand, University of Bayreuth
Stable localized solutions and their interaction
for order parameter equations in 1 and 2 D

November 17
A Patashinski, Northwestern University
Understanding Melting

December 8
G Grest, Sandia National Laboratories
Relaxation of Entangled Polymer Melts and Crosslinked Networks

     

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