Dynamics Days 2006 Schedule

  Dynamics Days 2006  - Schedule
Tuesday (Jan. 3)
  5:30pm 8:30pm   Registration Registration Desk open - posters may be set up
             
Wednesday (Jan. 4)
  7:30 AM 6:00 PM Registration Registration Desk open  
             
  8:15 AM 8:30 AM Welcome                
  8:30 AM 9:10 AM Invited Strogatz Steve Crowd synchrony on the Millennium Bridge
  9:10 AM 9:30 AM Contributed Wiesenfeld Kurt Reducing Symmetry to Produce Stable Synchronization
9:30 AM 9:50 AM Contributed Moon Sung Joon Coarse-grained dynamics of alignment in animal group models
9:50 AM 10:30 AM Invited Bertozzi Andrea Swarming by Nature and by Design
             
  10:30 AM 11:00 AM Break Break    
             
11:00 AM 11:40 AM Invited Goldburg Walter Turbulence and Statistical Mechanics  at a Free Surface
11:40 AM 12:00 PM Contributed Gollub Jerry Using Stretching Fields to predict the Progress of Chemical Reactions in the presence of stirring by Chaotic Advection
12:00 PM 12:20 PM Contributed McCoy Jonathan Localized Resonances in Spatially Forced Pattern Formation
             
  12:20 PM 2:00 PM Lunch Lunch    
             
2:00 PM 2:40 PM Invited Tang Chao The Yeast Cell Cycle Network as a Dynamic System
2:40 PM 3:00 PM Contributed Willeboordse Frederick Dynamical Advantages of Scale-free Networks
3:00 PM 3:20 PM Contributed Porter Mason A Network Analysis of Committees in the United States House of Representatives
             
  3:20 PM 3:50 PM Break Break    
             
3:50 PM 4:30 PM Invited Karma Alain Patterns of Voltage and Calcium Signaling in Cardiac Cells and Tissue
4:30 PM 4:50 PM Contributed Gurel Fatma Effects of electrical and chemical coupling in a network of coupled oscillators
4:50 PM 5:10 PM Contributed Restrepo Juan G. The onset of synchronization in large networks of coupled oscillators
             
  8:00 AM 10:00 PM   Poster room open  
  8:30 PM 10:00 PM   Evening poster session with desserts
             
Thursday (Jan. 5)
  8:00 AM 4:00 PM Registration Registration Desk open  
             
  8:30 AM 9:10 AM Invited Carlson Jean Friction from Atomic to Tectonic Scales
  9:10 AM 9:30 AM Contributed Landsberg Adam A Renormalization Approach to Combinatorial Games:  The Geometry of Chomp
9:30 AM 9:50 AM Contributed Alben Silas Designing elastic sheets to self-assemble in a viscous environment
9:50 AM 10:30 AM Invited Misteli Tom Dynamics of the cell nucleus and of genes
             
  10:30 AM 11:00 AM Break Break    
             
11:00 AM 11:40 AM Invited Meron Ehud Species diversity in dryland vegetation: A pattern formation approach
11:40 AM 12:00 PM Contributed Tsang Yue-Kin Planktonic Population in a Spatially Variable Environment
12:00 PM 12:20 PM Contributed Weiss Howie The dynamics of density dependent Leslie population models
             
  12:20 PM 2:00 PM Lunch Lunch    
             
2:00 PM 2:40 PM Invited Smith Jeff Multi-State Dynamics and Instability of a Neural Network Oscillator
2:40 PM 3:00 PM Contributed Plentz Dietmar Functional Topology and Architecture of Cortical Networks in the Critical State
3:00 PM 3:20 PM Contributed Schiff Steven Spatiotemporal Organization of Cortical Dynamics
             
  3:20 PM 5:00 PM Break poster session with refreshments
             
5:00 PM 5:20 PM Contributed Wambaugh John Square Amplitude Granular Waves
5:20 PM 5:40 PM Contributed Galanis Jennifer Spontaneous Patterning of Confined Granular Rods
5:40 PM 6:00 PM Contributed Finney Charles Hydrodynamics of conical spouted beds
6:00 PM 6:20 PM Pine David Chaos and threshold for irreversibility in sheared suspensions
             
  until 10:00 PM Poster Session with icecream Poster room open  
             
Friday 6-Jan
             
  8:00 AM 4:00 PM Registration Registration Desk open  
             
  8:30 AM 9:10 AM Invited Theriot Julie Protein polymer and fluid dynamics in cell motility
  9:10 AM 9:30 AM Contributed Khain Evgeniy Physics of secondary tumor formation: effects of cell-cell adhesion
9:30 AM 9:50 AM Contributed Rericha Erin How does Dicty Find its Way?
9:50 AM 10:30 AM Invited Schwarz Jen The Fysics of Filopodia (or The Physics of Philopodia)
             
  10:30 AM 11:00 AM Break Break    
             
11:00 AM 11:40 AM Invited Zhang Wendy Hump-to-Spout Transition in Selective Withdrawal
11:40 AM 12:00 PM Contributed Blanchette Francois Multiple coalescence at liquid interfaces
12:00 PM 12:20 PM Contributed Shew Woodrow Path instability and wake of a rising bubble.
             
  12:20 PM 2:00 PM Lunch Lunch    
             
2:00 PM 2:40 PM Invited Gauthier Dan Using dissipative spatial structures to achieve ultra-low-light-level optical switching
2:40 PM 3:00 PM Contributed Carr Thomas Delayed-mutual coupling dynamics of lasers: scaling laws and resonances
3:00 PM 3:20 PM Contributed Ray Will Identification of Recurrent Dynamics in a Semiconductor Laser with Time-delayed Optical Feedback
3:20 PM 3:40 PM Contributed Egolf David Revealing the building blocks of spatiotemporal chaos: Deviations from extensivity
             
  3:40 PM 5:20 PM Break Poster Session with refreshments
             
  until 10:00 PM Poster Session with icecream Poster room open  
Saturday January 7th  
  8:30 AM noon Desk Registration desk open  
             
  9:00 AM 9:40 AM Invited Herrmann Hans Pattern Formation of Dunes
9:40 AM 10:00 AM Contributed Tighe Brian Force distributions in a triangular lattice of rigid bars
10:00 AM 10:20 AM Contributed Urbach Jeffrey Shear flow in a vertically vibrated granular layer
             
  10:20 AM 10:50 AM Break Break - posters need to be removed
             
10:50 AM 11:10 AM Contributed Bradley Elizabeth Adaptive Nonlinear Resource Distribution Control
11:10 AM 11:30 AM Contributed Nishikawa Takashi Synchronizability of Complex Networks
11:30 AM 12:10 PM Invited Campbell David Intrinsic Localized Modes
  1:30 PM 4:00 PM       (For  those staying later, a tour of the University of Maryland nonlinear dynamics laboratories will be offered, including transportation from and to the hotel.  Please sign up with Janet Wolfsheimer at the registration desk by Fri morning.)