Center for Nonlinear Studies

Years:
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009

2014 Visitors

Tyler Summers, ZTH Zurich

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 22nd, 2014.
Dr. Summers will give a seminar and have discussions with the LANL grid science team.

Yoav Kallus, Santa Fe Institute

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 18th, 2014.
Dr. Kallus will give the postdoc seminar on Dec. 18.
Talks:

Amorphous regular lattices

Neng Fan, University of Arizona

Host: Russell Bent (DSA-4)
Visit Dates: Dec. 16th, 2014.
Dr. Fan will present his recent work on resilient energy systems at the Smart Grid seminar.
Talks:

Optimization for reliable and sustainable planning and operations of power systems

Cristopher Moore, Santa Fe Institute

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 15th, 2014.
Dr. Moore will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Prabir Barooah, University of Florida

Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 15th, 2014 to Dec. 17th, 2014.
Dr. Barooah will give a seminar and have collaborative discussions.

Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 15th, 2014 to Dec. 23rd, 2014.
Dr. Chernyak will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov and the grid science team.

Paolo Zanardi, University of Southern California

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-4)
Visit Dates: Dec. 10th, 2014 to Dec. 12th, 2014.
Dr. Zanardi will present the Quantum Lunch seminar on quantum information and quantum thermodynamics.
Talks:

Dissipation-assisted coherent quantum dynamics

Howard Carmichael, University of Auckland

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-4)
Visit Dates: Dec. 4th, 2014 to Dec. 9th, 2014.
Dr. Carmichael will present the Quantum Lunch seminar.
Talks:

Dissipative quantum phase transitions for photons

Burt Tilley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Host: Ivan Christov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Dec. 3rd, 2014 to Dec. 5th, 2014.
Dr. Tilley will present a seminar on interfacial instabilities in fluid mechanics.

Elad Gilboa, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-4)
Visit Dates: Dec. 2nd, 2014 to Dec. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Gilboa will be collaborating with Drs. Zlotnik and Chertkov and present the Smart Grid seminar.
Talks:

Probabilistic Modeling for Asset Management of Power Grid

Kevin Bedell, Boston College

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 24th, 2014 to Nov. 26th, 2014.
Dr. Bedell will present the CNLS colloquium and collaborate with Dr. Ecke.
Talks:

The Higgs (Amplitude) Mode in Ferromagnetic Metals

Andrew Comech, Texas A&M University

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
Visit Dates: Nov. 20th, 2014 to Nov. 21st, 2014.
Dr. Comech will present a seminar on the stability of nonlinear Dirac equation and collaborate with Dr. Kevrekidis.
Talks:

On stability of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation

Bei-Lok Hu, University of Maryland

Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 19th, 2014 to Nov. 21st, 2014.
Dr. Hu will present the Quantum Lunch seminar.
Talks:

Quantum entanglement at high temperatures?

Zoltan Toroczkai, University of Notre Dame

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 17th, 2014 to Nov. 18th, 2014.
Dr. Toroczkai will visit CNLS and present the colloquium.
Talks:

What Do Sudoku and Turbulence Have in Common?

Ross Baldick, University of Texas at Austin

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Nov. 13th, 2014.
Dr. Baldick will present the Grid Science seminar and explore future collaborations with the Grid Science group.
Talks:

The Curious Rise of Wind in Texas

Marco Veranda, CNR-RFX, Italy

Host: Luis Chacon (T-5)
Visit Dates: Nov. 10th, 2014 to Dec. 10th, 2014.
Dr. Veranda will visit LANL to interact with Dr. Luis Chacon on extended magnetohydrodynamics of Reversed Field Pinches (RFP).

Peter Coveney, University College London

Host: Josephine Olivas (NSEC)
Visit Dates: Nov. 10th, 2014.
Dr. Coveney will be the IS&T Seminar Speaker.
Talks:

Computational Biomedicine: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

Andrew Jordan, Rochester University

Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4)
Visit Dates: Nov. 6th, 2014 to Nov. 7th, 2014.
Dr. Jordan will present the Quantum lunch seminar.
Talks:

The Quantum Road Most Taken

James Hoxie, University of Pennsylvania

Host: Gnana Gnanakaran (T-6)
Visit Dates: Oct. 27th, 2014 to Oct. 28th, 2014.
Dr. Hoxie will present the q-bio seminar.
Talks:

Targeted disruptions in SIV pathogenesis: Lessons learned from pushing the viral envelope

Philippe Odier, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon

Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 27th, 2014 to Oct. 31st, 2014.
Dr. Odier will collaborate with Dr. Ecke on stratified shear turbulence.

Eric Mjolsness, University of California, Irvine

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6)
Visit Dates: Oct. 20th, 2014 to Oct. 24th, 2014.
Dr. Mjolsness will collaborate with Dr. Hlavacek on model reductions and simulation algorithm improvements for combinatorial stochastic signal transduction models.
Talks:

Mathematical Artificial Intelligence for Computational Science

Arash Ashourvan, University of California, San Diego

Host: Jerome Daligault (T-5)
Visit Dates: Oct. 9th, 2014 to Oct. 10th, 2014.
Dr. Ashourvan will be presenting a seminar at CNLS on basic plasma problems that arise in the context of nonneutral plasma experiments being performed at UCSD.
Talks:

Squeeze and nonlinear effects of plasma waves in a nonneutral plasma column

Barbara Baird, Cornell University

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6)
Visit Dates: Oct. 7th, 2014 to Oct. 8th, 2014.
Dr. Baird will present the q-bio Seminar.
Talks:

UPDATE: Zooming in on Receptor Mediated Cellular Signaling

Arjuna Flenner, Naval Air Weapons Center

Host: Cristina Garcia Cardona (CCS-3)
Visit Dates: Oct. 6th, 2014 to Oct. 8th, 2014.
Dr. Flener will collaborate with Dr. Garcia Cardona and present a seminar on topic modeling and sparse representation techniques.
Talks:

Learning Topic Representations for Navy Applications

Stephen Pankavich, Colorado School of Mines

Host: Ivan Christov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Oct. 6th, 2014 to Oct. 8th, 2014.
Dr. Pankavich will present the CNLS colloquium on multiscale modeling and simulation of viral dynamics.
Talks:

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Viral Dynamics

David Poulin, Sherbrooke University

Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
Visit Dates: Sep. 24th, 2014 to Sep. 26th, 2014.
Dr. Poulin will present the Quantum Lunch.
Talks:

Simulating quantum chemistry on a quantum computer

Pavel Etingov, PNNL

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Sep. 16th, 2014.
Dr. Etingov will present the Grid Science seminar and discuss possible LANL/PNNL collaborations.
Talks:

Overview of PNNL tools and projects in the area of power system stochastic operation and planning

Ketan Savla, University of Southern California

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Sep. 11th, 2014.
Dr. Savla will present the Grid Science seminar.
Talks:

Stability and Robustness of Dynamical Network Flows

Franz Mertens, University of Beyruth

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
Visit Dates: Sep. 10th, 2014 to Nov. 26th, 2014.
Dr. Mertens will collaborate with Drs. Bishop, Saxena, and Christov on magnetic and nonlinear phenomena.

Victor Zavala Tejeda, Argonne National Lab

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Sep. 9th, 2014.
Dr. Zavala Tejeda will present a seminar to the Grid Science group on gas-grid subjects.
Talks:

Structured Nonconvex Optimization of Large-Scale Energy Systems Using PIPS-NLP

Mijo Simunovic, University of Chicago

Host: Greg Voth (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 8th, 2014 to Sep. 19th, 2014.
Dr. Simunovic will continue his collaboration with Dr. Voth and CINT

Paul Julienne, NIST

Host: Chris Ticknor (T-1)
Visit Dates: Aug. 27th, 2014 to Aug. 29th, 2014.
Dr. Julienne will be presenting the Quantum Lunch seminar.

Justin Grana, American University

Host: Joshua Neil (ACS-PO)
Visit Dates: Aug. 27th, 2014.
Dr. Grana will present a seminar on game theory.
Talks:

Event Driven Game Theory and Cyber Security

Natarjan Sukumar, University of California, Davis

Host: Gianmarco Manzini (T-5)
Visit Dates: Aug. 26th, 2014 to Aug. 29th, 2014.
Dr. Sukumar will collaborate with Dr. Manzini on the development of discretization methods for elliptic problems, diffusion, and elasticity.

Xiao Li, University of Texas at Austin

Host: Wang-Kong Tse (T-4)
Visit Dates: Aug. 25th, 2014 to Aug. 26th, 2014.
Dr. Li will present a seminar on light-matter interaction in Dirac materials.
Talks:

Quantum Hall effects in monolayer MoS2

Sanjoy Mitter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Josephine Olivas (NSEC)
Visit Dates: Aug. 25th, 2014 to Aug. 26th, 2014.
Dr. Mitter will present the IS&T seminar.

Alexander Korotevich, University of New Mexico

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Aug. 18th, 2014 to Aug. 19th, 2014.
Dr. Korotevich will be at CNLS periodically to collaborate with the Grid Science team on developing a computational platform for simulating Transients in Gas Networks.

Julian Sonner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
Visit Dates: Aug. 18th, 2014 to Sep. 5th, 2014.
Dr. Sonner will present the Quantum Lunch.

Douglas Abraham, Oxford University

Host: Cristiano Nisoli (T-4)
Visit Dates: Aug. 18th, 2014 to Sep. 12th, 2014.
Dr. Abraham will continue his collaboration with Drs. Saxena, Lookman, and Nisoli.

Niels Gronbech-Jensen, University of California, Davis

Host: Turab Lookman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Aug. 18th, 2014 to Aug. 21st, 2014.
Dr. Gronbech-Jensen will present the CNLS Colloquium.

Francisco Munoz, Sandia National Labs

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Aug. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Munoz will have discussions on smart grid and distribution system resilience.

Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia National Labs

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Aug. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Watson will have discussions on smart grid and distribution system resilience.

Cesar Augusto Silva Monroy, Sandia National Labs

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Aug. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Silva Monro will discuss smart grid and distribution system resilience.

Sucheta Soundarajan, Rutgers University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Soundarajan will present a seminar on community finding in complex networks.
Talks:

The Structure of Communities in Social Networks

Ruibin Liang, University of Chicago

Host: Greg Voth (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 11th, 2014 to Aug. 15th, 2014.
Dr. Liang will continue his collaboration with Dr. Voth and CINT.

Ehud Meron, Ben-Guiron University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 1st, 2014 to Aug. 29th, 2014.
Professor Meron will work with Dr. Hagberg on pattern formation research related to resonant forcing of periodic patterns, and the formation localized spatial structures.

Golan Bel, Ben-Gurion University

Host: Kim Rasmussen (T-5)
Visit Dates: Jul. 29th, 2014 to Aug. 28th, 2014.
Dr. Bel will collaborate with Drs. Alexandrov, Rasmussen, Gnanakran, and Hengartner on biochemical processed as well as propogation of diseases in human and agricultural subjects.

Jess Reidel, IBM Watson Research Center

Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jul. 24th, 2014 to Jul. 30th, 2014.
Dr. Reidel will present the Quantum Lunch seminar on Decoherence and the Quantum Detection.

Steven Low, California Institute of Technology

Host: Scott Backhaus (MPA-CMMS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 21st, 2014 to Jul. 25th, 2014.
Dr. Low will be collaborating with the Grid Science group.

Jinwoo Shin, KAIST

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jul. 21st, 2014 to Aug. 1st, 2014.
Dr. Shin will present a seminar to the Grid Science team.

Steve Tse, University of Chicago

Host: Greg Voth (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Tse will be collaborating with Dr. Voth.

Jacob Wagner, University of Chicago

Host: Greg Voth (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 14th, 2014 to Jul. 18th, 2014.
Dr. Wagner will collaborate with Dr. Voth on the problem of representability in coarse-grained modeling as well as the theory of inverse coarse-graining as it relates to the design of new materials.

Michael Roundtree, University of Chicago

Host: Greg Voth (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 14th, 2014 to Jul. 18th, 2014.
Dr. Roundtree with collaborate with Dr. Voth on the computer simulation of biomolecular complexes such as actin filaments.

Changhong Zhao, California Institute of Technology

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jul. 14th, 2014 to Jul. 25th, 2014.
Dr. Zhao will present a seminar to the Grid Science group.
Talks:

Decentralized Frequency Control in Power Networks

Darryl Holm, Imperial College London

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 14th, 2014 to Jul. 25th, 2014.
Dr. Holm will collaborate with Robert Ecke.
Talks:

Dynamics of Peakons, Jetlets and Strands

Marek Rams, Krakow University of Technology

Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jul. 9th, 2014 to Jul. 11th, 2014.
Dr. Rams will present the Quantum Lunch Seminar on his simulation of quantum critical systems using matrix-product state and tensor networks.
Talks:

On the Transfer Matrix of the Matrix Product State

Maria Vrakopolou, University of Michigan

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jul. 8th, 2014 to Jul. 9th, 2014.
Dr. Vrakopolou will present the Grid Science seminar and discuss possible collaborations.

Philippe Odier, Ecole Normale Superieure

Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 7th, 2014 to Aug. 15th, 2014.
Collaboration with Dr. Ecke

Rafah El-Khatib, EPFL/LTHC, Switzerland

Host: Marc Vuffray (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jul. 6th, 2014 to Jul. 27th, 2014.
Ms. El-Katib will present a seminar on spatialy coupled systems in the continuous limit and collaborate with the Grid Science group.
Talks:

Analysis of Coupled Scalar Systems by Displacement Convexity

Blair Sullivan, North Carolina State University

Host: Nathan Lemons (T-5)
Visit Dates: Jun. 25th, 2014 to Jun. 27th, 2014.
Dr. Sullivan will present her work on network science and explore collaborations with Drs. Swart, Lemons, and Hagberg.
Talks:

Generalized Notions of Sparsity: Random Graph Models and Algorithms

Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, University of Washington, Seattle

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jun. 23rd, 2014 to Aug. 1st, 2014.
Dr. Dvijotham will collaborate with Drs. Saxena and Backhaus on control theory, machine learning in application to energy grids.
Talks:

Universal Convexification via Risk Aversion

Andrey Lokhov, Universite Paris-Sud Orsay

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jun. 23rd, 2014 to Jun. 24th, 2014.
Dr. Lokhov will present a seminar and discuss collaborations with the Smart Grid Group.
Talks:

Dynamic message-passing equations and applications to inference of epidemic origin

Colm Connaughton, University of Warwick

Host: Balu Nadiga (CCS-2)
Visit Dates: Jun. 23rd, 2014 to Jul. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Connaughton will collaborate with Drs. Ecke, Nadiga, and Chertkov on geophysical fluid dynamics and climate.

Alexey Gorshkov, NIST

Host: Dibyendu Roy (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jun. 19th, 2014 to Jun. 20th, 2014.
Dr. Gorshkov will present the Quantum Lunch on the interface of quantum optics, atomic and molecular physics.
Talks:

Harnessing Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions

Paul Popelier, MIB, Manchester

Host: Matt Challacombe (T-1)
Visit Dates: Jun. 19th, 2014 to Jun. 20th, 2014.
Dr. Popelier will visit CNLS and present a seminar on water networks and collaborate with Drs. Voth, Williams, Chen.

Michael Robinson, American University

Host: Josephine Olivas (NSEC)
Visit Dates: Jun. 18th, 2014.
Dr. Robinson will be presenting the IS&T seminar
Talks:

A Unified Framework for Multi-INT Signal Processing

Alexander Nesterov, University of Guadalajara

Host: Gennady Berman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jun. 16th, 2014 to Jul. 6th, 2014.
Dr. Nesterov will be collaborating with Drs. Berman and Nisoli on the theory of electron transfer between donor-acceptor bands in the presence of noise.

Fernando Sols, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jun. 11th, 2014 to Jun. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Sols will present the Quantum Lunch on driven Bose-Einstein condensates out of equilibrium.
Talks:

Hawking radiation from sonic black holes in flowing atom condensates

Yuri Pershin, University of South Carolina

Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jun. 9th, 2014 to Jun. 21st, 2014.
Prof. Pershin will be collaborating with Dr. Sinitsyn on spin noise spectroscopy.

Cesana Pierluigi, Oxford University

Host: Turab Lookman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jun. 9th, 2014 to Jun. 27th, 2014.
Dr. Pierluigi will collaborate with Dr. Lookman and other members of T-3 and T-1 on ideas related to aspects of geometrical nonlinearity and finite deformation applied to materials.

William Klein, Boston University

Host: Turab Lookman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jun. 4th, 2014 to Jun. 30th, 2014.
Dr. Klein will be collaborating with Drs. Lookman, Ben-Naim, Barros, Reichhardt and others on issues related to nucleation and growth related to condensed matter and earthquake systems.

Rajat Bhatnagar, University of California, San Francisco

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6)
Visit Dates: Jun. 2nd, 2014 to Jun. 3rd, 2014.
Dr. Bhatnagar will present the Q-Bio Seminar.
Talks:

Sensitivity and Tradeoffs in Simplified Models of Adapting Biological Systems

Ishanu Chattopadhyay, Cornell University

Host: Marian Anghel (CCS-3)
Visit Dates: Jun. 2nd, 2014 to Jun. 6th, 2014.
Dr. Chattopadhyay will present a seminar on "Reverse Engineering History to Uncover Long-Range Global Seismicity."
Talks:

Jiri Plesek, Institute of Thermomechanics, AS CR

Host: Ondrej Certik (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 2nd, 2014 to Jun. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Plesek will present the CNLS colloquium on his latest advances in computational dynamics.
Talks:

Advances in Computational Dynamics

Zybnek Hruby, Institute of Thermomechanics, AS CR

Host: Ondrej Certik (T-1)
Visit Dates: Jun. 2nd, 2014 to Jun. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Hruby will be collaborating with Dr. Certik on finite elements in orbital free molecular dynamics.

Rene Marek, Institute of Thermomechanics, AS CR

Host: Ondrej Certik (T-1)
Visit Dates: Jun. 2nd, 2014 to Jun. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Marek will be collaborating with Dr. Certik on finite elements in orbital free molecular dynamics.

Slavomir Parma, Institute of Thermomechanics, AS CR

Host: Ondrej Certik (T-1)
Visit Dates: Jun. 2nd, 2014 to Jun. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Parma will be collaborating with Dr. Certik on finite elements in orbital free molecular dynamics.

Kazimierz Rzazewski, Polish Academy of Sciences

Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
Visit Dates: May. 29th, 2014 to May. 30th, 2014.
Dr. Rzazewski will present the Quantum Lunch on the dynamics of soliton formation in finite-temperature Bose-Einstein condensates.
Talks:

Classical fields and quantum measurement for Bose-Einstein condensate

Scott Moura, University of California at Berkeley

Host: Scott Backhaus (MPA-CMMS)
Visit Dates: May. 27th, 2014 to May. 28th, 2014.
Dr. Moura will present the Smart Grid seminar.
Talks:

Demand-Side Management of Flexible Load Populations: Modeling, Estimation, and Control with PDEs

Alessandro Vespignani, Northeatern University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 22nd, 2014 to May. 23rd, 2014.
Dr. Vespignani will present a seminar on network science theory and applications.
Talks:

Modeling and forecast of network-driven contagion processes

Tzu-Chieh Wei, Stony Brook

Host: Rolando Somma (T-4)
Visit Dates: May. 21st, 2014 to May. 23rd, 2014.
Dr. Wei will present the Quantum Lunch on quantum information and many body physics.
Talks:

Quantum computational universality of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki states on two-dimensional lattices

Richard Lueptow, Northwestern University

Host: Ivan Christov (T-4)
Visit Dates: May. 19th, 2014 to May. 20th, 2014.
Dr. Lueptow will present the CNLS colloquium on mixing and segregation of granular materials in industrial processes.
Talks:

Modeling segregation of bidisperse granular materials

Torsten Karzig, California Institute of Technology

Host: Armin Rahmani (T-4)
Visit Dates: May. 15th, 2014 to May. 16th, 2014.
Dr. Karzig will present the Quantum Lunch seminar
Talks:

Topological Polaritons

Jakob Stoustrup, Pacific Northwest National Lab

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: May. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Stoustrup will present a seminar to the Grid Science group.
Talks:

From Big Data to Big Control

Francesco Borrelli, University of California at Berkeley

Host: Annarita Giani (DSA-4)
Visit Dates: May. 9th, 2014.
Dr. Borrelli will present a seminar on Energy Efficient Building Control Systems to the grid science team.

Andrew Gamalski, Intel Corporation

Host: Neil Henson (T-1)
Visit Dates: May. 5th, 2014.
Dr. Gamalski will discuss collaborations with Drs. Henson and Hollingsowrth on nanotube growth.
Talks:

Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Gold Catalyzed Silicon and Germanium Nanowire Growth

Chee-Wooi Ten, Michigan Tech

Host: Scott Backhaus (MPA-CMMS)
Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2014 to May. 2nd, 2014.
Dr. Ten will present a Smart Grid seminar.

Johanna Mathieu, University of Michigan

Host: Scott Backhaus (MAP-CMMS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 30th, 2014 to May. 1st, 2014.
Dr. Mathieu will present the smart grid seminar and collaborate with the grid science team.

Antonios Gonis, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Host: John Wills (T-1)
Visit Dates: Apr. 30th, 2014 to May. 1st, 2014.
Dr. Gonis will collaborate with Dr. Wills on a new method for obtaining a self-interaction-free exchange energy in electronic structure calculations.

Xuedong Liu, University of Colorado

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6)
Visit Dates: Apr. 28th, 2014 to Apr. 29th, 2014.
Dr. Liu will present the q-bio seminar.
Talks:

Systems Analysis of TGF-beta Signaling and Cell Migration

Pascal van Hentenryck, NICTA

Host: Russell Bent (DSA-4)
Visit Dates: Apr. 28th, 2014 to May. 2nd, 2014.
Dr. van Hentenryck will discuss his collaboration with the Grid Science team and present a seminar.
Talks:

Efficient Convex Relaxations of Power Flow Equations

Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 24th, 2014 to Apr. 29th, 2014.
Dr. Coppersmith will present the Kac Lectures.
Talks:

Boris Malomed, Tel Aviv University

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
Visit Dates: Apr. 21st, 2014 to Apr. 24th, 2014.
Dr. Malomed will present the CNLS Colloquium on multidimensional solitons and vortices.
Talks:

One- and multidimensional bright solitons and vortices supported by spatially modulated self-defocusing

John Grime, University of Chicago

Host: Greg Voth (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 21st, 2014 to Apr. 25th, 2014.
John Grime will be collaborating with Dr. Greg Voth.

Ilya Safro, Clemson University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 17th, 2014 to Apr. 18th, 2014.
Dr. Safro will present a seminar on multiscale methods.
Talks:

Multiscale Methods for Networks

Thomas Catanach, California Institute of Technology

Host: Russell Bent (DSA-4)
Visit Dates: Apr. 17th, 2014.
Mr. Catanach will discuss his upcoming summer student collaboration with Drs. Bent, Chertkov, and Backhaus.

Josh Taylor, University of Toronto

Host: Scott Backhaus (MPA-CMMS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2014 to Apr. 17th, 2014.
Dr. Taylor will present a seminar on Grid Science.
Talks:

Load-based power system regulation - algorithms and economics

Douglas Allaire, Texas A&M University

Host: Josephine Olivas (NSEC)
Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2014.
Dr. Allaire will present the IS&T Seminar.
Talks:

A Composition-based Approach to Uncertainty Quantification with Connections to Multi- information Source Optimization

Santiago Schnell, University of Michigan

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6)
Visit Dates: Apr. 14th, 2014 to Apr. 16th, 2014.
Dr. Schnell will present the q-bio seminar.
Talks:

Modeling Protein Interactions that Influence the Pathogenesis of Protein Folding Diseases

Jeremie Guedj, INSERM

Host: Alan Perelson (T-6)
Visit Dates: Apr. 14th, 2014 to Apr. 22nd, 2014.
Dr. Guedj will be collaborating with Dr. Perelson on viral dynamic modeling. He will present a seminar at CNLS.

Riccardo Messina, Universite de Montpellier

Host: Diego Dalvit (T-4)
Visit Dates: Apr. 13th, 2014 to Apr. 27th, 2014.
Dr. Messina will be collaborating with Drs. Dalvit and Chen on issues of light-matter interactions in meso-photonic systems and present the Quantum Lunch.

Vassilios Kapaklis, Uppsala University

Host: Cristiano Nisoli (T-4)
Visit Dates: Apr. 8th, 2014 to Apr. 11th, 2014.
Dr. Kapaklis will present a seminar on his recent scientific work on artificial spin ice structures.
Talks:

Thermal fluctuations in artificial spin ice

Remo Rohs, University of Southern California

Host: Boian Alexandrov (T-5)
Visit Dates: Apr. 7th, 2014 to Apr. 8th, 2014.
Dr. Rohs will present the CNLS colloquium.
Talks:

Quantitative modeling of transcription factor binding specificities using DNA shape

Panayotis Kevrekidis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
Visit Dates: Apr. 7th, 2014 to Apr. 8th, 2014.
Dr. Kevrekidis will present a seminar on PT symmetric nonlinear systems and discuss future collaborations with CNLS
Talks:

Existence, Stability and Dynamics of Solitary Waves and Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates: From Theory to Experiments

Haopeng Zhang, Texas Tech University

Host: Feng Pan (DSA-4)
Visit Dates: Apr. 2nd, 2014 to Apr. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Zhang will present his research in coorinated and multi-agent distributed control in large scale network systems.
Talks:

Coordinated Resource Allocation and Load Balancing for Network Systems Using Semistability Tools and Multiagent Coordination Optimization

Chang-Yu Hou, CalTech

Host: Armin Rahmani (T-4)
Visit Dates: Mar. 31st, 2014 to Apr. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Hou will present the Quantum Lunch.

Roseanna Zia, Cornell University

Host: Ivan Christov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Mar. 31st, 2014 to Apr. 1st, 2014.
Dr. Zia will present the CNLS Colloquim on colloidal hydrodynamics with applications to biological systems
Talks:

Evolution and age-coarsening in colloidal gels: Micro-mechanics and rheology

Miles Lubin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Russell Bent (D-4)
Visit Dates: Mar. 27th, 2014.
Mr. Lubin will be coming to kick-off an internship with CNLS and Russell Bent.
Talks:

Computing in Optimization using Julia

David Feder, University of Calgary

Host: Chris Ticknor (T-1)
Visit Dates: Mar. 27th, 2014.
Dr. Feder will present the Quantum Lunch seminar.
Talks:

Is fermionic antisymmetry a resource for quantum computation?

David Alderson, Naval Postgraduate School

Host: Feng Pan (D-4)
Visit Dates: Mar. 25th, 2014 to Mar. 27th, 2014.
Dr. Alderson will present a seminar related to infrastructure resilience and cyberphysical systems.
Talks:

Assessing and Improving Operational Resilience for Critical Infrastructures

Daniel Cox, University of California at Davis

Host: Lena Lopatina (T-1)
Visit Dates: Mar. 24th, 2014 to Mar. 25th, 2014.
Dr. Cox will present the CNLS Colloquium on biophysics.
Talks:

A Black Hole of Memory: Cytoskeletal Collapse in Late Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease?

Pedro Jordan, US Naval Research Lab

Host: Ivan Christov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Mar. 24th, 2014 to Mar. 27th, 2014.
Dr. Jordan will collaborate with Drs. Christov and Margolin and present a seminar on "Beyond Euler and Navier-Stokes: New Theories of Compressible Flow."
Talks:

Beyond Euler and Navier--Stokes: New Theories of Compressible Flow

Edo Kussell, New York University

Host: Gnana Gnanakaran (T-6)
Visit Dates: Mar. 24th, 2014 to Mar. 26th, 2014.
Dr. Kussell will present the q-bio Seminar.
Talks:

Bacterial growth in fluctuating environments

Paul Rodriguez Valderrama, Pontifica Universidad Catolica Del Peru

Host: Brendt Wohlberg (T-5)
Visit Dates: Mar. 24th, 2014 to Mar. 28th, 2014.
Dr. Rodriguez Valderrama will continue his collaboration on optimization algorithms with applications in image processing with T-5 staff members.

Peter Vorobieff, University of New Mexico

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 12th, 2014 to Mar. 13th, 2014.
Dr. Vorobieff will present a seminar on hydrodynamics and turbulence and collaborate with Dr. Ecke.
Talks:

Particle-lag instability and other oddities in shock-driven multiphase flow

Gabrielle Ferrari, Universita di Trento

Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4)
Visit Dates: Mar. 10th, 2014 to Mar. 12th, 2014.
Dr. Ferrari will present the Quantum Lunch.

Mark Ablowitz, University of Colorado, Boulder

Host: Terry Haut (CCS-2)
Visit Dates: Mar. 10th, 2014 to Mar. 11th, 2014.
Present CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Nonlinear waves from beaches to photonics

David Sherrington, Oxford University

Host: Turab Lookman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Mar. 9th, 2014 to Apr. 12th, 2014.
Dr. Sherrington will collaborate with Dr. Lookman on glasses, ferroelectrics as well as complexity theory.

Anatoly Zlotnik, Washington University in St. Louis

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 27th, 2014.
Dr. Zlotnik will present a seminar and explore collaborations with Dr. Saxena.
Talks:

Optimal synchronization and control of ensembles

Mahesh Bandi, Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology

Host: Turab Lookman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 24th, 2014 to Feb. 28th, 2014.
Dr. Bandi will initiate new collaborations and give a talk on his research in granular media and nonequilibrium experiments.
Talks:

Two dimensional particulate systems with competing interactions

Paul Hess, Harvard University

Host: Michael Di Rosa (C-PCS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 20th, 2014 to Feb. 21st, 2014.
Dr. Hess will present the Quantum Lunch.
Talks:

How round is the electron? An improved limit on the electron's electric dipole moment

Dwight Viehland, Virginia Tech

Host: Turab Lookman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 19th, 2014 to Feb. 26th, 2014.
Dr. Viehland will present the CNLS colloquium and discuss materials design and functional materials.
Talks:

Functional Materials with High Twin Wall Densities

Dinshaw Balsara, University of Notre Dame

Host: Mikhail Shaskov (T-5)
Visit Dates: Feb. 18th, 2014 to Feb. 20th, 2014.
Dr. Balsara will collaborate with Dr. Shashkov and present the Numerical Analysis Seminar and the LA-Astro seminar.
Talks:

Divergence-free Magnetohydrodynamics at High Orders with Multidimensional Riemann Solvers

William Phillips, NIST

Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 17th, 2014 to Feb. 22nd, 2014.
Dr. Phillips will present the Quantum Distinguished Lectures.
Talks:

Marta Certikova, Czech Technical University, Prague

Host: Ondrej Certik (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 10th, 2014 to Feb. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Certikova will collaborate with Dr. Certik.

Dmitri Maslov, University of Florida

Host: Cristian Batista (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 10th, 2014 to Feb. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Maslov will present the CNLS colloquim.

Jakub Sistek, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Host: Ondrej Certik (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 10th, 2014 to Feb. 14th, 2014.
Dr. Sistek will present a seminar at CNLS.
Talks:

Parallel Adaptive-Multilevel BDDC

Sriram Chellappan, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Host: Josephine Olivas (NSEC)
Visit Dates: Feb. 5th, 2014.
Dr. Chellappan will be presenting the IS&T seminar.
Talks:

Assessing Human Behavior from Internet Usage with Applications to Cyber Security

Cory Ahrens, Colorado School of Mines

Host: Terry Haut (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 5th, 2014 to Feb. 7th, 2014.
Dr. Ahrens will be collaborating with Dr. Haut.

Svetlana Poroseva, University of New Mexico

Host: Ivan Christov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 3rd, 2014 to Feb. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Poroseva will present the CNLS Colloquium on network survivability.
Talks:

Topological Survivability of Networks with Heterogeneous Nodes

David Kessler, Bar Ilan University

Host: Eli Ben-Naim (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 3rd, 2014 to Feb. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Kessler will present a seminar at CNLS and collaborate with Dr. Ben-Naim on statistical physics and non-linear dynamics.
Talks:

Anomalous Diffusion of Cold Atoms: Bessel Excursions and Levy Walks

Douglas Abraham, Oxford University

Host: Cristiano Nisoli (T-4)
Visit Dates: Feb. 2nd, 2014 to Mar. 4th, 2014.
Dr. Abraham will collaborate with Drs. Nisoli and Saxena.
Talks:

Q1DS in: action at a distance

Christopher Laumann, Harvard University

Host: Cristian Batista (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 29th, 2014 to Jan. 31st, 2014.
Dr. Laumann will present the Quantum Lunch.

Steven Low, California Institute of Technology

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 29th, 2014.
Dr. Low will continue his collaboration with the grid science group.

Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 27th, 2014 to Jan. 28th, 2014.
Dr. Magnasco will present the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

A Single-celled Brain: The Lives and Thoughts of Physarum Polycephalum

Riccardo Rota, University of Trento

Host: Eddy Timmermans (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 27th, 2014 to Feb. 9th, 2014.
Dr. Rota will present the Quantum Lunch seminar.
Talks:

Dynamic properties of hard-sphere Bose systems: from ultracold gases to superfluid helium

Goran Andersson, ETH, Zurich

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 27th, 2014 to Jan. 31st, 2014.
Dr. Anderson will be collaborating with Drs. Chertkov and Backhaus on graphical models and machine learning.

Joel Miller, Penn State University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 16th, 2014 to Jan. 17th, 2014.
Dr. Miller will present a seminar at CNLS on epidemic models.
Talks:

Spread of Contagions in Random Networks

Janusz Bialek, Durham University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 15th, 2014 to Jan. 16th, 2014.
Dr. Bialek will collaborate with the Grid Science group.
Talks:

Changing the Paradigm of Power System Operation and Control

Nicolas Macris, EPFL

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 13th, 2014 to Jan. 17th, 2014.
Dr. Macris will be collaborating with Dr. Chertkov on graphical models and machine learning.
Talks:

New bounds on thresholds of constraint satisfaction problems from spatial coupling

Georgios Tsironis, University of Crete

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 13th, 2014 to Jan. 17th, 2014.
Dr. Tsironis will be presenting the CNLS Colloquium

Vladimir Frolov, Skolkovo Inst. of Technology

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 13th, 2014 to Jan. 31st, 2014.
Dr. Frolov will be collaborating with Drs. Chertkov and Backhaus on graphical models and machine learning.

Dmitry Semchenko, Skolkovo Inst. of Tehcnology

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 13th, 2014 to Jan. 31st, 2014.
Dr. Semchenko will be collaborating with Drs. Chertkov and Backhaus on graphical models and machine learning.

Anna Arestova, Novosibirsk State Technical University

Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 13th, 2014 to Jan. 31st, 2014.
Dr. Arestova will be collaborating with Drs. Chertkov and Backhaus on graphical models and machine learning.

Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology

Host: Turab Lookman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 12th, 2014 to Jan. 15th, 2014.
Dr. Bhattacharya will present the CNLS colloquium
Talks:

Density Functional Theory Calculations of Defects in Crystals

Ekhard Salje, University of Cambridge

Host: Turab Lookman (T-4)
Visit Dates: Jan. 6th, 2014 to Feb. 25th, 2014.
Dr. Salje will continue his collaboration with CNLS and LANL. He will present colloquia on the topic of avalanches and self-induced criticality in various systems.

Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania

Host: Lena Lopatina (T-1)
Visit Dates: Jan. 6th, 2014 to Jan. 7th, 2014.
Dr. Yodh will present the CNLS Colloquium on Colloids, Coffee Rings, and Phonons.
Talks:

Colloids, Coffee Rings, and Phonons