IPST Weekly
Calendar/Fall 2002
Tuesday -
September 3
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jean-Rodolphe Roche
Universite de Nancy
Topic: Numerical
Methods in Shape Optimization and Applications
Monday
- September
9th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
IPST SPECIAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Debabrata Panja
Institute Lorentz, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Topic: A
Hitchhiker's View of Fluctuating Fronts
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: J. W. Bieber
Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware
Topic
Neutron Monitor Observations of Solar Energetic particles
Tuesday - September 10th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Victor Muñoz
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic:
Equilibrium and Kinetics in Protein Folding: Downhill Folding and
Hydrophobic Collapse
Thursday - September 12th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael Efroimsky
University of Minnesota
Topic:
Inelastic Dissipation in a Freely Precessing Rotator. Applications to
Interstellar-Dust
Astrophysics,
Tumbling Asteroids, Comets, Rotating Spacecraft, etc. ...
and
Speaker: Atsushi Uchida, Visiting Research
Associate
Institute for Research in Electronic & Applied Physics, UMCP
Topic: Dual
Synchronization of Chaos in Optical and Electronic Systems
Monday - September 16th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday - September 17th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Sankar Das Sarma
Department of
Physics, UMCP
Topic:
How to make Semiconductors Ferromagnetic:
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Valeria Simoncini
Universitá
di Bologna, ITALY
Topic:
The Null-Space Free Eigenvalue Problem and the Inexact
Shift-and-Invert Lanczos Method
Wednesday - September 18th
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker:
Jane Lipson
Dartmouth
University, Hanover, NH
Topic:
The Effect of Changing Pressure and Molecular Weight on
Polymer Blend
Miscibility
4:30 PM – GRAND BALLROOM/STAMP STUDENT UNION
Speaker:
Stephen Wolfram
Creator, Mathematica; Author of “A New Kind of Science”;
CEO, Wolfram Research, Inc.
Topic:
A New Kind of Science
Thursday - September 19th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Daniel Wojcik
Institute for
Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Diffusive-Ballistic Crossover in 1D Quantum
and
Speaker:
Aleksey Zimin
Institute for
Physical Science
and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Efficient Local Ensemble Data Assimilation Technique
Monday
- September 23rd
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: David M. Rust
The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
Topic: Twist'n from the Sun to the
Earth
Tuesday - September 24th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jean-Noël Aqua
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Classical and Quantal
Coulombic Fluids near a Wall
2:00 PM - SCIC 4122 (CSCAMM Seminar Room, Bldg. #406)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
&
the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC))
Speaker: Yannis G. Kevrekidis
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and
Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Topic: Equation-Free Multiscale
Computation: Enabling Microscopic Simulators to Perform System-Level Tasks
http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/cwg/eqfree.pdf)
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams
Bldg and G2 parking lot
Wednesday - September 25th
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker: David Sholl
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Topic: Can Metal Surfaces be
used to Separate Chiral Molecules?
Thursday - September 26th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Eugenia Kalnay
Department of Meteorology (Chair) and Institute for Physical Sciences and
Technology, UMCP
Topic: Are Bred Vectors and
Lyapunov Vectors the Same?
and
Speaker: Douglas N. Armstead
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, UMCP
Topic: Long Time Algebraic
Relaxation in Chaotic Billiards
Monday
- September 30th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Mei-Ching Fok
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Topic: Modeling Energetic Neutral
Atoms in the Ring Current
Tuesday - October 1st
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Amnon Aharony
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Topic: Adiabatic Quantum Pumping
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406
CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Semyon V. Tsynkov
Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University and Tel Aviv
University
Topic: Optimization of Acoustic Source
Strength in the Problems of Active Control of Sound
Wednesday - October 2nd
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
(NOTICE CHANGE TO IPST BLDG CONFERENCE ROOM!)
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker: Hacene Boukari
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Topic: Stability of Tubulin Dimers and
Drug-Induced Tubulin Polymers by
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Thursday - October 3rd
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jonathan Ozik
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, UMCP
Topic: Simulating Granular Coral Snake
Patterns in Long Rotating Cylinders
and
Speaker: Sang-Yoon Kim
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, UMCP
Topic: Strange Nonchaotic Attractors
in Quasi-periodically Forced Period-Doubling Systems
Monday - October 7th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: David Sibeck
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Topic: Energetic Particles in the
Foreshock Cavity
Tuesday - October 8th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Young C. Kim
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Screening in Electrolytes near
Criticality: What to Simulate and How?
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Dmitri Klimov
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Aggregation of A? 16-22 Amyloid
Peptides: A Molecular Dynamics Study
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Monique Dauge
Institut Mathématique de Rennes, Université de Rennes 1, FRANCE
Topic: Approximation of Maxwell
Singularities by Nodal Finite Elements
Wednesday - October 9th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116 (NOTICE CHANGE TO IPST BLDG CONFERENCE ROOM!)
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker: Wolfgang Losert
Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Understanding and Controlling
Pattern Formation on the Microscale
Thursday - October 10th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Joerg Schumacher
Philipps-Universitaet, Germany
Topic: Clustering of Lagrangian
Tracers on Free-surface flows
and
Speaker: Wayne Hayes
University of Toronto, Canada
Topic: Shadowing the Softened N-body
Problem
Monday - October 14th 3:30 PM - MATH 3206
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar - Columbus Day!
Tuesday - October 15th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM) SEMINAR
will be joint with NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR (See following item.)
JOINT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING
(CSCAMM)SEMINAR
Speaker: C. David Levermore
Department of Mathematics & Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: The Convergence of Numerical
Transfer Schemes in Diffusive Regimes
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas/
Wednesday - October 16th
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (NOTICE SEMINAR RETURNS TO MARKER ROOM!)
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker: Daniel Kivelson
University of California at Los Angeles
Topic: Envisaging the Physics of
Supercooled Liquids and Glasses
Thursday - October 17th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
3:30 PM - CSIC 2107 (NOTE: DIFFERENT
LOCATION)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Gene H. Golub
Stanford University, CA
Topic:
Solution of Non-Symmetric, Real Positive Linear Systems
Monday - October 21st Monday - November 11th Wednesday - November 13th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: L. Barbier
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Topic: Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Tuesday - October 22nd
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ted Einstein
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Terrace-Width Distributions on
Stepped Surfaces: From Mean Field to "Wigner Surmise"
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room
4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM) SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas/
Wednesday - October 23rd
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND
PHYSICS
Speaker: Gang Wu
Queen’s University, United Kingdom
Topic: Direct Detection of Alkali Metal Ions in Biological Structures by Solid-State NMR
Thursday - October 24th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Lou Pecora
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Topic: Synchronization of Oscillators in Small-World Networks
and
Speaker: To Be Announced
Topic: To be Announced
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES (CpaS)
COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Speaker: Michael D. Silberstein
Department of Philosophy, Wenger Center,
Elizabethtown, College, PA
Topic: Emergence vs. Fundamentalism in the Natural Sciences and Metaphysics
Monday - October 28th
4:00 PM - MATH 3206
THE ANNUAL AVRON DOUGLIS MEMORIAL LECTURE
Speaker: Professor Haim Brezis
Universite de Paris VI, Insitiut
Universitaire de France, and Rutgers University, NJ
Topic:
Topology and Sobolev Spaces
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: P. Sokolsky
High Energy Astrophysics Institute,
University of Utah
Topic:
The Sky Above, the Mud Below -
The Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum Controversy
Tuesday - October 29th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM
Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION AND MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM) SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Zhiming Chen
Institute of Computational Mathematics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Topic:
A Convergent Adaptive Finite
Element Algorithm with Reliable and Efficient Error Control
for Linear Parabolic Problems
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas/
Wednesday - October 30th
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY
AND PHYSICS
Speaker: Grant D. Smith
University of Utah
Topic:
Molecular Dynamics Simulation
and Experimental Studies of Structure, Thermodynamics and
Dynamics of Polyethylene oxide in Aqueous Solution
Thursday - October 31st
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Victor Yakhot
Boston University
Topic:
Hydro-Kinetic Equation for
Description and Simulation of Strongly Nonlinear Fluids
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday
- November 4th
4:30
PM - CSS 2400
SPACE
AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
B. Dennis
NASA/Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Topic:
First Results from the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar ectroscopic ager (RHESSI)
Tuesday
- November 5th
1:15
PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL
STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No
Seminar
2:00
PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC
COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker:
Dr. Yuri Godin
CeLight,
Inc., Silver Spring, MD
Topic:
Mathematical Modeling of Photonic Crystals
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
F. Seydou
UMIACS,
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
An Inverse Problem for Anisotropic Objects
Wednesday
- November 6th
4:00
PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
SEMINAR
IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker:
John Morris
Virginia
Tech
Topic:
The dynamics of Gas-Surface Collisions on Functionalized Organic Thin
Films
Thursday
- November 7th
12:15
PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Naval
Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Topic:
Regions of Period Doubling in the Diode Resonator
and
Speaker:
Moustafa Fofana
Mechanical
Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Topic:
Hopf Interactions in Machining Operations
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar—Veteran's Day
Tuesday - November 12th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
John D. Weeks
Institute for Physical
Science and Technology, and Department of Chemistry, UMCP
Topic:
Gaussian Fluctuations and Molecular Fields:
A Simple Theory of Nonuniform Fluids
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar
Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
www.cscamm.umd.edu
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Guowei Wei
Michigan State University
Topic:
A Local Spectral Method for Scientific Computing
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker: Wendell Hill
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Imaging, Correlation and Molecular Coulomb Explosion: A Graphical Interface for Isolating
Pre-Explosion Geometries and Molecular Alignment
Thursday - November 14th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: To be Announced
Topic:
To be Announced
and
Speaker: To be Announced
Topic:
To be Announced
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES
(CPaS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Speaker:
Richard Manning
Carlton, Ottawa, CANADA
Topic:
Naturalism and Improper Functions
Monday - November 18th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
S. Kanekal
The Catholic University of
America, Washington, DC
Topic:
Relativisitic Electron Dynamics in the Earth's Radiation Belts:
SAMPEX and POLAR Measurements
Tuesday - November 19th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Nicos S. Martys
National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic:
Mesoscopic Modeling of Complex Fluid Flow: Theory and Validation
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar
Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker:
Richard Tsai
Mathematics Department, Princeton
University, NJ
Topic:
Visibility in an Implicit Framework
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/Seminars/
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Zhiming Chen
Institute of Computational Mathematics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Topic:
A Convergent Adaptive Finite Element Algo
rithm with Reliable and Efficient Error Control for Linear
Parabolic Problems
Wednesday - November 20th
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND
PHYSICS
Speaker:
Ralph Nossal
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
MD
Topic:
Physical Aspects of Clathrin Mediated Endocytosis:
How Cells Suck It Up
Thursday - November 21st
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Cristel Chandre
Georgia Tech
Topic:
Time-Frequency Analysis of Chaotic Systems
and
Speaker:
Guocheng Yuan
Brown University
Topic:
Cross-Jet Transport and Mixing in a Meandering Jet
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES
(CP&S) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Speaker: Janneke van
Lith
Philosophy Department, University of Utrecht
Topic:
Entropy and Levels of Description
Friday - November 22nd
Special Seminar (NOTE DAY)
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Detlef Lohse
Univeristy of Twente
Topic:
Rayleigh-Benard Convection
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
(Third in The International Congress of
Mathematicians (ICM) Lecture Series)
Speaker:
Eitan Tadmor
The Center for Computational and
Mathematical Modeling and
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
High Resolution Methods for Time Dependent Problems with Piecewise Smooth
Solutions
Monday - November 25th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
E. Mobius
University of New Hampshire
Topic:
Particle Acceleration in Co-rotating Interaction Regions
Tuesday - November 26th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL
STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Steven J. Schiff
Krasnow Professor of Neurobiology and Professor of Psychology,
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Topic:
Relating Bad Brains, Rocks, and Gases:
Are Seizures Phase Transitions?
2:00
PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC
COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING
Speaker:
William Dorland
Department of Physics, IREAP/CSCAMM, UMCP
Topic:
Astrophysical Gyrokinetics: Turbulent Heating, Fluctuation Signatures and
more
Visit
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/Seminars/
3:30
PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Ming-Jun Lai
University of Georgia
Topic:
Multivariate Spline Method for Numerical Solution of PDE
SPECIAL
SEMINAR/Note Day & Time
Wednesday
- November 27th
APPLIED
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
2:00
PM - ENERGY RES 1207
(The
format for this seminar emphasizes applicable dynamics.)
Speaker:
Tomas Bohr
Technical University of Denmark
Topic:
Structure Formation in Laminar Fluid Flow:
The Creation of Corners, Cusps and Needles
4:00
PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
SEMINAR
IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
No Seminar
November 28th/29th
THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAYS!
Monday - December 2nd
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND
COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: A. Stephens
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Topic:
Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Anti-Protons
Tuesday - December 3rd
1:15
PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL
STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
See
Special Seminar on Friday December 6th
2:00 PM & 4:00 PM
CSIC
Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC
COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker:
Weinan E
Princeton Institute for Computational Sciences and Engineering, NJ
Topic:
Heterogeneous Multiscale Methods
and
Speaker:
Li-Tien Cheng
Princeton Institute for Computational Sciences and Engineering, NJ
Topic:
The Level-Set Method and Schrödinger's Equation
3:30
PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
See Thursday, December 5th
Wednesday - December 4th
4:00
PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
SEMINAR
IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker:
William Steel
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
Probing Solvent Polarity at Liquid Interfaces Using Molecular Rulers
Thursday - December 5th
12:15
PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Romulus Breban
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
Scaling Properties of the Indeterminate Saddle-Node Bifurcation
and
Speaker:
To be Announced
Topic:
To be Announced
3:30
PM - MATH 3206
APPLIED
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker:
John Ball
Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK
Topic:
Varying Volume Fractions
4:00
PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE
FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES (CPaS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Speaker:
Andrew Elby
Physics Education Research Group, Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic:
What Science Education Researchers Talk About When They Talk about
"Epistemology":
An Introduction to Students' Views of Knowledge
Friday - December 6th
4:00
PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL
STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
David Sherrington
Department of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, and Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton University, NJ
Topic:
Glassy Behaviour due to Constrained Dynamics
Monday
- December 9th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE
AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No
Seminar - Fall AGU Meeting
Tuesday - December 10th
1:15
PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL
STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Yng-gwei Chen
Institute
for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Different Thermodynamic Pathways to the Solvation Free Energy
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM
Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC
COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker:
C. William Gear
NEC
Laboratories
Topic:
Macro Scale Numerical Analysis from Microscopic Simulators
Visit
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/12-10%20seminar%20anncmnt.pdf
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Susan Minkoff
University
of Maryland, Baltimore County
Topic:
Coupled Flow and Mechanics for Time-Lapse Seismic Modeling
Wednesday - December 11th
11:00
AM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
Joint
Physical Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar
Speaker:
Ad Bax
Leading
expert in NMR, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and
Topic:
Weak Alignment Provides New Opportunities in the NMR Study of
Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker
Room)
SEMINAR
IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker:
Peter Rossky
University
of Texas at Austin
Topic:
Chemistry in Supercritical Fluids
Thursday - December 12th
12:15
PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Bob Behringer
Duke University,
NC
Title:
Fluctuations,
Rate-Dependence, and Jamming in Dense Granular Materials
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES (CPaS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Speaker:
Ilya Farber
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Topic:
Peirce and Scientific Realism
Tuesday
- December 17th Friday,
January 3rd
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL UMD BIOPHYSICS STUDY
GROUP MEETING
(alternating, in this time slot,
with the Informal Statistical Physics Seminars)
Continuing overview of the
current Biophysics research at the University of Maryland.
This week's informal
presentations will be by:
Speaker:
John Weeks
Institute for Physical Science
and Technology and Department of Chemistry and
and
Speaker:
David Fushman
Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, UMCP
The aim of the biophysics study
group meetings is to discuss
current research and research opportunities
in biophysics or a closely
related field.
All faculty interested in
biophysics, their collaborators on and off campus, and interested postdocs and
graduate students are invited to
attend.
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Daniel Kessler
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic:
A Posteriori Error Estimates for the Allen-Cahn Problem:
Is It Possible to Survive Gronwall's Inequality?
CSS 2324
Sagdeev
at 70 – A Celebration Symposium on Science and Security Sagdeev’s Legacy
A
G E N D A
Welcoming: William Kirwan, William Destler, Steve Halperin
Session I: 9:30 – 12:30 (Marshall Rosenbluth, Chair)
Daniel Goldin, Riccardo Giacconi, Samuel Ting, Thomas Graham, Jumber Lominadze
Lunch
Session II: 1:30 – 4:30 (Dennis Papadopoulos, Chair)
Richard Garwin, Charles Kennel, Frank Von Hippel, Bruno Coppi, Jordan Goodman,
Katepalli Sreenivasan
6:30 Reception - 7:30 Banquet
Chuan Liu, MC
The Inn and Conference Center, University Boulevard at Adelphi Road
Saturday, January 4th
Session III: 9:00 – 1:00
Patrick Diamond, Dmitri Ryutov, Boris Braizmann, Misha Malkov, Valentin
Shevchenko, Vitali Shapiro, George Zaslavsky,
Further information on the above
seminars is obtainable by sending questions to phys-chair@umail.umd.edu.
ON-CAMPUS:
Special accommodations for individuals with disabilities can be made by calling
in advance: 301-405-4874.
It would be appreciated if we could be notified at least one
week in advance.
For your convenience there is a map on the web:
"guide to visitor parking".
It can be accessed at:
http://www.ipst.umd.edu/IpstMap.jpg