Applied Dynamics Seminar   ( http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/)

The seminar is sponsored jointly by the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), the Math Dept, and the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP) and is organized by Wolfgang Losert and Brian Hunt. The format of the seminar includes lunch (we provide pizza and sodas on a first-come-first-served basis for $4 per person, or you may bring your own lunch) and two 20-minute talks that emphasize applicable dynamics. You can also join our mailing list, to receive seminar announcements via email.  This mailing list is administered by email to majordomo@glue.umd.edu.  To add your current email address type "subscribe appldynsem", or to remove it type "unsubscribe appldynsem", in the message body (not the subject line)..  

All seminars are Thursday at  12:15 pm in Room 1207, Energy Research Building (unless otherwise noted)

Upcoming Talks Spring  2003

Thursday, May 15, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)
Speaker: Paul So, George Mason University
Title: TBA
Host: Losert

Speaker: Mickey Moore, University of Texas Austin
Title: Fluctuations in Viscous Fingering
Host: Losert

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Next WEEK'S TALKS
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NOTE: Seminars will continue throughout the summer -
in general with pizza and ONE short talk.

May 22
TBA

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FUTURE TALKS:
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May 29
No seminar - SIAM meeting

June 5
Speaker: Nikolaj Nawri,Department of Meteorology, UMD
Title: BASIC INTERACTIONS OF VORTEX FORMATION

Past Talks This Semester

Thursday, February  6, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)

Jim Yorke, University of Maryland     Learning About Reality From Observation

Romulus Breban, University of Maryland    Dual synchronization of chaos in optical and electronic systems

Thursday, February 13, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)

Dan Lathrop, UMD Drips, Jets, Shears, and Vortices

Thursday, February 20, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)

Itai Cohen, Harvard University, The shear excitement of confined colloidal particles

Greg Bewley, Yale Univ and UMD, Rotating Grid Turbulence in Cryogenic Fluids

Thursday, February 27, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)

Justin Stambaugh, UMD Pattern formation in a monolayer of magnetic spheres 

Thursday, March 6, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)

Cevat Ustun, Dynamics and Genome Assembly

Helena E. Nusse Characterizing the basins with the most entangled boundaries

Thursday, March 13, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)

TBA

Jong-Won Kim, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden
Effects of Random Noise on a Simple Class of Growing Network Models

Thursday, March 20, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)

Fabien Rogister, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium Nonlinear Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers (Host: Roy)

Michael Newey, University of Maryland Pattern formation in a rotating drum of sand mixtures

Thursday, March 27, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)

SPRING BREAK

Thursday, April 3, 2003  (12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)

Speaker: Paul Melby, Georgetown University
Title: The depletion force in bidisperse granular media:  a new mechanism for segregation
Host: Losert

Speaker: J.T. Halbert, University of Maryland
Title: The Hyperbolic Dynamics of a Taffy-Pulling Machine: in search of a physical example of a Plykin Attractor.

Past talks