Talks in Fall 1999

Date: Thursday, December 9, 1999
Time: 12:15 pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Building

Speakers:

• John Suppe
  Princeton University
  Critical Taper Mechanics of Mountain Belts and the Taiwan Earthquake
  
  
• James Stone
  UMCP
  MHD Turbulence and Chaos in Astrophysical Accretion Disks
  
  

Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999
Time: 12:15 pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Building

Speakers:

• Josh Tempkin
  UMCP
  Spurious Lyapunov Exponents Computed from Data
  
  
• Evelyn Boettcher
  UMCP
  Breaking Waves and Gas Exchange on Mechanically Driven Waves
  
  

Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999
Time: 12:15 pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Building

Speakers:

• Albert Saenz
  Naval Research Laboratory
  Nonintegrability of the Dragt-Finn model of magnetic containment: a Galoisian group approach
  
  
• Jian-Guo Liu
  UMCP
  Simulation of vortical dynamics in large Reynolds number incompressible flow
  
  

Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999
Time: 12:15 pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Building

Speakers:

• Coerte Voorhies
  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Steady Motional Induction of Geomagnetic Chaos (Revisited)
  
  
• Brian Hunt
  UMCP
  Optimal Orbits Revisited
  
  

Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999
Time: 12:15 pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Building

Speakers:

• Michael Fisher and Anatoly Kolomeisky
  UMCP
  The Force Excerted by a Molecular Motor
  
  
• Frederick Suppe
  UMCP
  Modelling HIV/AIDS
  
  

Date: Thursday, October 7, 1999
Time: 12:15 pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Building

Speakers:

• Harbir Lamba
  George Mason University
  Numerical ODE Solvers as Dynamical Systems
  
  
• Weijia Kuang
  UMBC/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Force Balance Approximations in Geodynamo Modeling
  
  

Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999
Time: 12:15 pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Building

Speakers:

• Debabrata Panja
  UMCP
  Conjugate Pairing Rule for Lyapunov Exponents of Thermostatted Field-Driven Systems
  
  
• David Sweet
  UMCP
  Optical Billiards
  
  

Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999
Time: 12:15 pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Building

Speakers:

• Shmuel Fishman
  Technion, Haifa, Israel
  Correlation in the Adiabatic Response of Chaotic Systems
  
  
• Beatrice Venturi
  University of Cagliari, Italy
  On the Existence of Chaos and Bifurcations in a Nonlinear Financial Model
  
  

Date: Thursday, September 9, 1999
Time: 12:00 pm
Place: Room 1207, Energy Research Building

Speakers:

• Rajarshi Roy
  UMCP
  Nonlinear Dynamics in an Optical Fiber
  
  
• Shankar Venkataramani
  University of Chicago
  Dynamics and Blowup of an Active Scalar
  
  

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