Wednesday, September 23, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Gregory King,   University of Warwick, UK

Title: Recent results on the physics of chaotic advection in wavy Taylor vortex flow
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Friday, October 2, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. H.P. Grimm,   Northwestern U.

Title: Steps, Kinetic Anisotropy, and Long--Wave Instabilities in Directional Solidification
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Friday, October 9, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor J. Fineberg,   Hebrew U., Israel

Title: New Structures in a Shaking Fluid
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Friday, October 16, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       , 2:00pm

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Title: No seminar due to UC/NU workshop on October 14
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       , 2:00pm

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Title: No seminar due to UC/NU workshop on October 14
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Friday, October 23, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor N. Spruston,   Northwestern U.

Title: Cable properties of cortical neurons: theory and experiment
Special Note: http://www.nwu.edu/neurobiology/Spruston/
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Friday, November 6, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor H. Jaeger,   U. Chicago

Title: Compaction and Compression of Granular Matter
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Friday, November 13, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor J. Houk,   Northwestern U.

Title: Distributed Modular Networks for Controlling Movement and Cognition
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Friday, November 20, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor R. Freeman,   Northwestern U.

Title: Robust Nonlinear Control Systems: Theory and Design
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Wednesday, December 2, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professors L. Kramer,   U. Bayreuth, Germany

Title: Secondary instabilities in anisotropic convection
Special Note: Note unusual day!
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Thursday, December 3, 1998

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. M. van Hecke,   CATS, Copenhagen, Denmark

Title: Local Structures and Spatiotemporal Chaos
Special Note: Note unusal day!
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Friday, January 8, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M 416, 2:00pm

Professor V. Steinberg,   Weizmann Institute, Israel

Title: Elasticity and Turbulence in a polymeric flow
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 15, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech LR 3, 2:00pm

Professor A. Huebler,   U. Illinois, Urbana

Title: Harmonicity: Self-Adjusting Systems Avoid Chaos
Special Note: Note: unusual location
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Friday, January 22, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M 416, 2:00pm

Professor P. Voorhees,   Northwestern

Title: Morphological Evolution of Alloy Thin Films
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Friday, January 29, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. R. Grigoriev,   U. Chicago

Title: Symmetry in Chaos Control and Phase Space Reconstruction
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Friday, February 12, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. I. Aranson,   Argonne National Lab

Title: Dynamics of axial segregation in a long rotating drum
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Friday, February 19, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. K. Hill,   Northwestern U.

Title: Mixing, Segregation, and Signatures of Chaos in Tumbled Granular Materials
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 26, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor G. Gunaratne,   U. Houston

Title: Characterization of natural patterns
Abstract and details available

Friday, March 5, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor S.-J. Chang,   U Illinois Urbana

Title: Chaos in Quantum Map
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Friday, April 2, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. A. Tkachenko,   U. Chicago

Title: Sand Science: from Description to Understanding
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Friday, April 9, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Gregory Ryskin ,   Northwestern U.

Title: On Markov processes and invariance
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Friday, April 16, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor Gregory Luther,   Northwestern U.

Title: Understanding control strategies for resonant waves interactions using geometric techniques
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Friday, April 23, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor D. Ferster,   Northwestern U.

Title: Assembly of receptive fields in cat visual cortex
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Friday, April 30, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor C. Josserand,   U. Chicago

Title: Self-organisation in soliton wave turbulence
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Friday, May 7, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Dr. Chris Moore,   Santa Fe Institute

Title: Three- and Four-color Potts Models in the Plane: Vortices, Entropic Forces and Interfaces
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, May 12, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00pm

Professor C. Surko,   U. California, San Diego

Title: Phase Defect Description of Traveling-Wave Convection
Special Note: Note: unusual day!
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 28, 1999

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 3:00pm

Dr. H. Chate,   Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Title: Phase-Ordering, Interface Dynamics, and Persistence Exponents in Spatially-Extended Dynamical Systems
Special Note: Note unusual time
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