Date: Thursday, January 29, 2004
Time: 12:15pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Facility
Speaker: Ildar Gabitov, University of Arizona
Title: Communications in disordered optical media
Host: Roy
Feb 5
Speaker: Priya Ranjan, UMD
Title: Greed Considered Harmful
Speaker:
Title:
Feb 12
Speaker: Paul Brumer, University of Toronto
Title: Coherent Control of The Quantum Kicked Rotor:
From Controlled Chaotic Diffusion to Rachet Accelerators
Host: Roy
Date: TUESDAY February 17, 2004
Speaker: Raymond Goldstein, Physics Dept., University of Arizona
Title: Individual and Collective Dynamics of Bacteria
February 26
Speaker: Peter Frick, Lab. of Physical Hydrodynamics, Perm, Russia
Title: "Sodium experiments in a torus -- spin-down dynamos"
Host: Lathrop
Mar 4
Speaker: Steve Anlage, UMCP
Title: Wave chaos: Experimental Tests of the Random Coupling Model
Speaker2: TBA
Mar 11
Speaker: Josh Socolar, Duke University
Title: TBA
Host: Losert
March 18
Speaker: Stefano Boccaletti, INOA, Florence, Italy
Title: TBA
Host: Roy
March 25
Spring Break
April 1
Speaker: Patrick Richard, Univ of Rennes
Title: TBA
Speaker2: TBA
April 8
Speaker: Sandra Chapman, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard
Title: complexity in intermittent solar system plasmas
Speaker: Nick Watkins, Space & Astrophysics Group, Warwick Univ.
Title: The Challenge of Detecting Long Range Correlation
in Space Plasmas
April 15
Speaker: TBA
April 22
Speaker: Mark Raizen, UT Austin
Title: TBA
April 29
Speaker: TBA
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Past Seminars
Fall 2003 semester
Thursday, Sept 11, 2003
(12.15 pm; Room 1207 Energy Research Building)
Speaker: Shmuel Fishman, Technion
Title: Trapping of particles by lasers: the quantum Kapitza pendulum
Speaker: TBA
Title:
Oct 2
Speaker: Julio Friedmann, UMD
Title: Complex phenomena in collosal granular flows: Observations
and physics of modern and recent rock avalanches
Speaker: Justin Stambaugh, UMD
Title: Patterns and Segregation in a Vibrated Monolayer of
Magnetic Spheres
October 9
Speaker: Kyuyong Lee, UMD
Title: Dynamics of grain boundaries
-- one short talk
October 16
Speaker: Michael Schatz, Georgia Tech
Title: Optical Manipulation of Flow Dynamics in Thermal Convection
Experiments
---One long talk
Host: Brian Hunt
October 23
Speaker: Vernon L. Towle, Ph.D. The University of Chicago
Title: Organized Patterns of Electrophysiologic Coherence Across the Human Cortex
---One long talk
Host: Wolfgang Losert
October 30
Speaker: James Yorke
Title: Wheather Forecasting
Speaker: Yongsun Hwang, ECE, UMCP
Title:
Communication Secrecy via a Class of Chaotic Spread Spectrum Systems
November 6
Speaker: Yue-kin Tsang, UMD
Title: Intermittency in Two-dimensional Turbulence with Drag
Speaker: Michael Oczkowski, Dept Meteorology, UMD
Title: "Atmospheric Low Dimensionality and Targeted
Observations"
November 13
Speaker: Brian Hunt, UMCP
Title: Using an ensemble to determine which trajectory
best fits the data
- one talk only -
Nov 20
Speaker: Masahiro Toiya, UMD
Title: Oscillatory granular shear flow
Speaker: Daniel Lanterman, UMD
Title: Effects of long chain polymers on dissipation
scale turbulence statistics
Nov 27
- THANKSGIVING -
Dec 4
Speaker: Tom Carr, Southern Methodist University
Title: Exploring Pulsating Lasers with Maps
Speaker: Juan G. Restrepo, UMD
Title: Desynchronization bursts in networks of coupled oscillators
Dec 11
Speaker: Atsushi Uchida, Univ of Maryland
Title: Consistency of dynamics in a microchip laser