Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science
Year 2002-2003


Friday, September 20, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Stephane Genet, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie,   Paris
Title: Cellular basis for time computations in the cerebellum: multi- threshold model of electric activation in cerebellar Purkinje cell dendrites
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Friday, September 27, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Lee E. Miller,   Northwestern University
Title: Predicting limb EMG from neurons recorded in the central nervous system
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Friday, October 4, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Gadi Fibich,   Tel Aviv University
Title: Self Focusing of Circularly-polarized Beams
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Friday, October 11, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii,   Boston University
Title: Biophysics of the DNA molecule
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Thursday, October 17, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Luigi Lugiato,   Università dell'Insubria
Title: Cavity solitons in semiconductor microresonators
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Friday, October 25, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Alan Perelson,   Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Modeling Viral Infections in Humans
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Friday, November 1, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
John Tyson,   Virginia Tech
Title: CyberYeast: Computational Models of Cell Cycle Regulation
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Friday, November 8, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Alexander Grosberg,   University of Minnesota
Title: Toy Proteins Functioning Like a Machine
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Friday, November 15, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
M.L. Zeeman, University of Texas,   San Antonio
Title: Title: Modeling the LH surge in the human menstrual cycle.
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Friday, November 22, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Luis Amaral,   Northwestern
Title: Complex Networks in Nature
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Thursday, December 5, 2002

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Greg Forest,   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: Laminar flows of nematic polymers: molecular theory and averaged descriptions
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Friday, January 17, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Feodor Borodich,   Northwestern University
Title: Similarity and Fractals in Contact and Nano Mechanics
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Friday, January 24, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Leo Silbert,   University of Chicago
Title: Gravity-driven dense granular flows
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Friday, January 31, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Maximino Aldana,   University of Chicago
Title: BBoolean Dynamics in Complex Networks with Scale-Free Topology
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Friday, February 14, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy,   Technion
Title: Feedback Control of Morphological Instabilities
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Friday, February 21, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Stephen Hagen,   University of Florida
Title: Drool of lizard, heart of horse...what goes into fast protein folding?
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Friday, February 28, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Amy Shen, Washington University,   St. Louis
Title: Granular Fingering
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Friday, March 7, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dr. James Gilchrist,   UIUC
Title: Mixing and Segregation of Granular Materials in Spherical and Cubical Tumblers
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Friday, March 14, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Eric Weeks,   Emory University
Title: The physics of the colloidal glass
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Friday, April 4, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Wouter Rappel,   University of California-San Diego
Title: Cellular signaling networks in Dictyostelium discoideum:
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Friday, April 11, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Igor Aronson,   Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Driven Granular Media: Phase Transitions, Patterns and Vortices
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Friday, April 18, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Dave Benson,   Desert Research Institute
Title: Aquifers and Streams as Fractal Filters: Fractal Calculus in Your Backyard
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Friday, April 25, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Stephen Morris,   University of Toronto
Title: Traveling Waves in Axial Segregation: The Dynamics of Subsurface Core
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Abstract and details available


Friday, May 2, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Alan Hastings,   University of California-Davis
Title: Biocomplexity in the Design of Marine Reserves
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Friday, May 9, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
David Westwick,   University of Calgary
Title: Nonlinear system identification: A tool for modeling complex biosystems
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Friday, May 16, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Jack Dockery,   Montana State University
Title: Finger Formation in Biofilm Layers
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Friday, May 23, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Stephen Morris,   University of Toronto
Title: Traveling Waves in Axial Segregation: The Dynamics of Subsurface Core
Special Note: More current information may be available at Plan-it Purple
Abstract and details available


Friday, June 6, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Brad Werner,   Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Title: Self-organization and emergent behavior in natural systems: examples from permafrost terrain
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Thursday, June 26, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 11:00AM
Romulus Breban,   University of Maryland
Title: Competition in Phase Synchronization of Chaotic Attractors & Indeterminate Saddle-Node Bifurcation
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Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 2:00PM
Romulus Breban,   University of Maryland
Title: Competition in Phase Synchronization of Chaotic Attractors & Indeterminate Saddle-Node Bifurcation
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Friday, June 27, 2003

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science       Tech M416, 11:00AM
Zong-Hua Liu,   Arizona State U.
Title: Transition to chaos in continuous-time random dynamical systems
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