Friday, January 26, 2001

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

Stephen Quake,   Caltech

Title: Single Molecule Biophysics: FemtoNewton Force Spectroscopy, Microfluidics, and Nanophotonics
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Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech L211, 4:30PM

John J. Hopfield,   Princeton University

Title: Collective Dynamics for Brain Decisions
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Friday, February 2, 2001

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

Suzanna Becker,   McMaster University

Title: A neural model of hippocampal-parietal interactions in spatial memory
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Monday, February 5, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. D. Egolf,   Georgetown University

Title: A sampling of nonlinear dynamics: from low-dimensional systems to extensive chaos
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Tuesday, February 6, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       MLS 2058, 4:30PM

Dr. Matteo Carandini,   University of Zurich

Title: Mechanisms of Gain Control in the Primary Visual Cortex
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Wednesday, February 7, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. D. Egolf,   Georgetown University

Title: Toward a Predictive Theory of Far-from-equilibrium, Spatially Extended, Chaotic Systems
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Friday, February 9, 2001

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

Gene Wayne,   Boston University

Title: Counter-propagating waves on fluid surfaces and the continuum limit of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M345, 4:00PM

Professor Timothy W. Secomb , University of Arizona,   Dept. Physiology

Title: Mechanics of Red Blood cell motion in capillaries
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Ward 5-315, Chicago Campus, 12:00PM

Roger N. Lemon,   University College of London

Title: Pathways for Cortical Commands in Primates
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Friday, February 16, 2001

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

Carson C. Chow,   University of Pittsburgh

Title: Collective dynamics of coupled neurons
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Friday, February 23, 2001

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

Alexandre Pouget,   University of Rochester

Title: Efficient computation and cue integration with noisy population codes
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech Institute - Room M345, 4:00PM

john Kessler,   University of Arizona

Title: Dynamics of swimming bacteria and their fluid habitat
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Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Lunt 105, 4:00PM

M. Golubitsky,   University of Houston

Title: Oscillations in coupled systems and animal gaits
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Thursday, March 1, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 4:00PM

Joshua Socolar,   Duke University

Title: Stabilization (or not) of periodic orbits via time-delay feedback
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Monday, March 5, 2001

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

Bard Ermentrout,   University of Pittsburgh

Title: From Bowers House to our House: Simplifying neural networks.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2001

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

E. Bodenschatz,   Cornell University

Title: Why would a mosquito care about turbulence?
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Wednesday, March 7, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 4:00PM

Bard Ermentrout,   University of Pittsburgh

Title: Coupled oscillator arrays
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Friday, March 9, 2001

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

Bard Ermentrout,   University of Pittsburgh

Title: The excited cortex: phosphenes and other visual confections
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Monday, March 12, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 4:00PM

Prof. A. Karma,   Northwestern University

Title: Wave dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias
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Friday, April 6, 2001

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

Larry Abbott,   Brandeis University

Title: The effects of noisy synaptic input on neuronal responses
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Friday, April 20, 2001

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

Boris Shraiman,   Bell Labs

Title: Model Genetic Networks and Principles of Robust Transcription Control
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Friday, April 27, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech Institute - room 345, 12:00PM

Dr. Chris Wiggins, Courant Institute of Math. Sci,   NYU

Title: Biophysical Modes of Polymer Dynamics
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM

Sidney Nagel,   University of Chicago

Title: Jamming
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Friday, May 4, 2001

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

Eberhard Fetz,   University of Washington

Title: Neural computation in dynamic recurrent networks
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Friday, May 11, 2001

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

Tony Zador,   Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Title: Synaptic mechanisms underlying computation in the auditory cortex in vivo: The cocktail party problem
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Saturday, May 12, 2001

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Norris Center Michigan Room, 12:00pm

Professors Bodenschatz, Lynch, Lee, Ferster, Balkovsky, Ottino,  

Title: 2001 U Chicago Northwestern U. Nonlinear Workshop
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Friday, May 18, 2001

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

Javier Movellan,   UCSD

Title: The Morton-Massaro Law of Information Integration: Implications for Models of Perception
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Friday, May 25, 2001

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

Karim Shariff,   NASA Ames Research Center

Title: Non-linear Lessons from Axisymmetric Vortex Rings
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Friday, June 1, 2001

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

Tobin Driscoll,   University of Delaware

Title: Fast simulation of semilinear time-dependent PDEs
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Friday, October 12, 2001

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

Cristian Huepe-Minoletti,   University of Chicago

Title: Finite-time blowup dynamics: A study on a "simple" system
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Friday, October 19, 2001

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

Edward Spiegel,   Columbia University

Title: Macroscopic Equations for Rarified Gas Dynamics
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Friday, October 26, 2001

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

Ralf Wittenberg,   University of Michigan

Title: Characterizing spatiotemporal chaos in the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky and related equations
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Tuesday, November 6, 2001

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

Prof. David Ruelle, IHES,   France

Title: Positivity of Entropy Production for Quantum Spin Systems
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Friday, November 16, 2001

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

Stefanella Boatto , Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Institute Henri Poincare,   Paris

Title: Dynamics of point vortices in the plane and on the sphere: the non- linear stability of relative equilibria
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Friday, November 30, 2001

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

Henry Abarbanel, University of California,   San Diego

Title: Biological and Electronic Neurons: Experiments and Theory
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Friday, December 7, 2001

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

James A. Glazier,   University of Notre Dame

Title: Foams in Two and Three Dimensions
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