IPST Weekly
Calendar/Fall 2000
Monday - October 9th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday - October 10th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday - October 11th
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics
and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Geraldine
Richmond
Department of
Chemistry, University of Oregon
Title: Hydrogen bonding of water at hydrophobic surfaces: some surprises
Thursday - October 12th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Professor Bruce Kellogg
Institute for Physical
Science & Technology; Department of Mathematics; UMCP
Title:
n-widths
and a Singularly Perturbed Convection Diffusion Problem
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute
Speaker:
Tim
Burns
National Institute for
Standards and Technology
Title:
Regular
and Chaotic Material Flow During High-Speed Machining
Speaker: Dan Sisan,
Department of Physics, UMCP
Title:
The
Effect of Lorentz Forces on Turbulence in Liquid Sodium
No Seminars
Monday -October 16th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Shing F. Fung
Space
Physics Data Facility,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Title: Observations of Magnetospheric Plasmas by the
Plasma Imager (RPI) on
the IMAGE Satellite
Tuesday - October 17th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Dr. Gerassimos Orkoulas
Institute
for Physical Science & Technology, UMCP
Title:
Criticality in the Hard-Core Square-Well
Fluid
Wednesday - October 18th
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Victor Yakovenko
Department
of Physics, UMCP
Title:
Statistical Mechanics of Money
(and Income)
Thursday - October 19th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
4:00 PM PLANT SCIENCES 1119
CHPS COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2000
Speaker: Stefano Poggi
Chair,
Philosophy Department,
University
of Florence, Italy
Title:
Soul and Brain in German Romantic
Science: 1790-1830
Friday - October 20th
No Seminars
Monday - October 23rd
4:30 PM -
CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Stephen Kahler
Air
Force Research Laboratory,
Hanscom Air Force Base, MA
Title:
A Synoptic View of Particle Acceleration in
Coronal/Interplanetary Shocks
Tuesday - October 24th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Daniel M. Zuckerman
Department
of Physiology,
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Title:
Simulating Rare Events in Biomolecular
Models
Wednesday - October 25th
- Cancelled: Rescheduled for December 6, 2000
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical
Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Krishnan Raghavachari
Bell
Labs, Lucent Technologies, New Jersey
Title:
Electronic Structure Studies of
Silicon Surface Chemistry
Thursday - October 26th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Friday - October 27th
No Seminars
Monday - October 30th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Lika Guhathakurta
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Title: Coronal Magnetic Field Topology and Source Regions of Fast and
Slow Solar Wind: Spartan 201,
SOHO & Ulysses Observations
Tuesday - October 31st
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Sergei Sukharov
Department of Biology,
UMCP
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
Title:
Ion Channels Are Driven by
Tension
Wednesday - November 1st
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Robert Austin
Department of Physics, Princeton University, NJ
Title: Protein Folding: In Silico and In Silicon
Thursday
- November 2nd
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar - Applied Math Colloquium; see below
12:15 PM - ENERGY RESEARCH 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Tom Carroll
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Title: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of a Magnetostrictive Ribbon
and
Speaker: Dhanurjay Patil
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Identifying Growth
Due to Low Dimensional Instabilities in the Atmosphere
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Luc Tartar
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Title: Measures and Their Use in Partial Differential Equations
Friday - November 3rd
No Seminars
Monday - November 6th
3:00 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL IPST LECTURE
Speaker: Michael F. Shlesinger
Chief Scientist, Physical Sciences Division,
Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA
Title: Designing Proteins: A Study in Hydrophobic Eigenfunctions
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Lennard A. Fisk
University of Michigan
Title: The Behavior of the Open Magnetic Flux of the Sun
Tuesday - November 7th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Gregory Eyink
Department of Mathematics,
University of Arizona, Tucson
Title: A Dying Scent on a Turbulent Breeze: Scaling in Passive Decay
Wednesday - November 8th
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Ron Elber
Department of Computer Science,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Title: Detection of Protein Families by Threading: Successes and Failures
Thursday - November 9th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Weimin Han
Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Title: Error Analysis of a Meshfree Method
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Shu-Ming Sun
Virginia Tech.
Title: Non-Existence of Truly Solitary Waves in Water with Small Surface Tension
4:00 PM - PLANT SCIENCES 1119
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2000
Speaker: Rob Rynasiewicz
Philosophy Department, Johns Hopkins University
Title: To Be Announced
Friday - November 10th
No Seminars
Saturday – November 11th
NOVIKOV – MINI-SEMINAR
11:00 AM – CSS 4307
Speakers: Lev Rozansky and Alexander Varchenko
Title: Quantum Invariants of 3-Manifolds
Monday - November 13th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Allan J. Tylka
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Title: Energy Spectra in Very Large Gradual Solar Particle Events
Tuesday - November 14th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday - November 15th
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Eitan Tadmor
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: High Resolution Methods with Unresolved Small Scales
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Roberto Car
Department of Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University
Title: Modeling Materials with First-Principles Molecular Dynamics
Thursday - November 16th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Tim Schulze
Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee
Title: Convection in Dendritic Layers of a Solidifying Alloy
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Greg Baker
Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, Pennsylvania
Title: One Plus One Equals One: a Synchronization Machine
and
Speaker: Stephen Morris
University of Toronto
Title: Sand Waves: The Curious Dynamics of Segregation Patterns
4:00 PM - PLANT SCIENCES 1119
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2000
Speaker: Chris Cosans
Department of Philosophy, George Washington University
Title: Did Aristotle Do Experiments?
Monday - November 20th
3:00 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL IPST LECTURE
Speaker: William Ian Axford
Director, Max Planck Institute for Aeronomie
Title: The Origin of the Solar Wind
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Spiro K. Antiochos
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Title: The Magnetic Origins of Coronal Mass Ejections
Tuesday - November 21st
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday - November 22nd
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and
PHYSICS FORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Thursday - November 23rd
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS
No Seminars
Friday - November 24th
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS
No Seminars
Monday - November 27th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Kobus le Roux
Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware
Title: Self-Consistent Injection and Acceleration of Pickup Ions
at the Solar Wind Termination Shock
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Wójcik
Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Warsaw, Poland and
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Evolution of Quantum Fractals
Wednesday - November 29th
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical
Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Ken Eisenthal
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York
Title: Probing Liquid Interfaces of Microscopic Particles from
Semiconductor Colloids to Liposomes
Thursday - November 30th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Richard Braun
Department of Mathematics, University of Delaware
Title: Insoluble Surfactant Models for a Vertical Draining Free Film
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
2:00 PM - MATH 1313
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: James Yorke
Institute for Physical Science and Technology; Department of Mathematics; UMCP
Title: Smooth Embedding of Non-Smooth Sets
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR
Speaker: Georgios Kostakis
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Electromagnetic Scattering by a Homogeneous Chiral
4:00 PM - PLANT SCIENCES 1119
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2000
Speaker: Paul Forman
Smithsonian Institution, Museum of American History
Title: The Future of Science; or, The Past as Premonition
Monday - December 4th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Thomas H. Zurbuchen
University of Michigan
Title: Overview of Interplanetary Coronal
Mass Ejections
Observed by SWICS-ACE
Tuesday - December 5th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Wednesday - December 6th
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics
and Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Krishnan Raghavachari
Bell Labs, Lucent Technology, NJ
Title: Electronic Structure Studies of Silicon Surface Chemistry
Thursday - December 7th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Pedro Morin
Title: A Convergent Adaptive Finite Element Method for the Stokes Equations.
Can Adaptivity Compensate for the Absence of the inf-sup Condition?
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: John D. Weeks, Distinguished Professor
Institute for Physical Science and Technology; Department of Chemistry, UMCPark
Title: Current Induced Step Dynamics and Pattern Formation on
4:00 PM - PLANT SCIENCES 1119
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2000
Speaker: George Philander
Chair, Department of Geophysics, Princeton University
Title: Why Global Warming is Controversial
Monday - December 11th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday - December 12th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Francis W. Starr
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Title: Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids: Water as a Model Liquid
Wednesday - December 13th
4:00 PM - CHEM 1325
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical
Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
No Seminar - End of Semester
Thursday - December 14th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar - End of Semester
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - End of Semester
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
4:00 PM - PLANT SCIENCES 1119
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2000
No Seminar - End of Semester
Tuesday - January 9th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Erik Luijten
Institute for Physical Science & Technology, UMCP
Title: Phase Separation in Polymer-Polymer-Solvent Mixtures
Thursday - January 11th
3:30 PM - MATH 3106
APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Professor Lance Leslie
Centre for Environmental Modelling and Prediction,
University of New South Wales
Title: Theory and Applications of a New Coupled Atmospheric Model
Thursday - January 18th
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Steve White
University of California, Irvine
Title: The Density Matrix Renormalization Group
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Eberhard Baensch
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
Title: Finite Element Discretization for "Nonstandard" Boundary Conditions
for the Navier-Stokes Equations