IPST Weekly Calendar/Fall 2004
Tuesday, September 7th
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ronald De Vore
CSCAMM and Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic: Estimators for Supervised Learning
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
4:00 PM (Note correction of Day/Date)
CHE 2110 (Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Building)
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Speaker: Jan Sengers, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Affiliated with
Department of Chemical Engineering, UMCP
Topic: Surprises in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Hydrodynamics of Fluids
Wednesday, September 8th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING
(CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Qiang Du
Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Topic: Vesicle Membranes under the Elastic Bending Energy: Models and Simulations
Thursday, September 9th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Benjamin Vigoda
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory and Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge
Topic: Analog Logic: How to Compute with Continuous-Time Analog Circuits
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday, September 13th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Seminar Canceled
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: John B. Sigwarth
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Topic: Global Auroral Imaging: Dynamic Pressure-Induced Auroral Brightenings and
Conjugate Auroral Observations. What Have We Learned from 200 EIT
Waves?
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, September 14th
1:15 PM - IPST 116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Richard E. Prange
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Resurgence in Quasiclassical Scattering
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Khamron Meckhay
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic: Convergence of Adaptive FEM for Second-Order Linear Elliptic PDE
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, September 15th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Nicos Martys
Materials and Structures, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: Study of a Dissipative Particle Dynamics Based Approach for Modeling
Suspensions
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS IN CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
Note: First seminar in this series is scheduled for September 29th.
Thursday, September 16th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Eugenia Kalnay
Department of Meteorology and Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
Topic: Data Assimilation as Synchronization between Truth and Model: Experiments
with the Lorenz 3-variable Model
and
Speaker: To be Announced
Topic: To be Announced
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
2:30 PM - PHYS 1201
ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL SEMINAR
Speaker: Jabez McClelland
Electronic and Optical Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: Nanotechnology with Atom Optics
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Doug English
Chemistry Department, UMCP
Topic: Measuring Molecular Interactions with Single-Molecule Spectroscopy:
Binding, Bending, Sticking
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: James F. Drake
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP) and
Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), UMCP
Topic: Production of Energetic Electrons during Magnetic Reconnection Events
Tuesday, September 21st
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Sumanta Tewari
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
(visiting from University of Oregon, Eugene)
Topic: Floating Phases in Josephson Junction Arrays
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Anthony J. Kearsley
Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic An Infeasible Point Method for Solving a Class of Multidimensional Scaling Problems
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, September 22nd
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Alexei Novikov
Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Topic: Advection-Diffusion for Cellular Flows at High Peclet Number
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
Note: The first seminar in this series is scheduled for September 29th.
Thursday, September 23rd
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Arvind Srinivasan
Computer Science, UMCP
Topic: Social Contact Networks and Disease-Spread
and
Speaker: Christopher Danforth
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic: Stalking: Aggressive Shadowing of a Noisy Trajectory
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday, September 27th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jeffrey Diamond
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda , MD
Topic: Maximizing the Dynamic Range of Synapses in the Mammalian Retina
4:00 PM - MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS GRADUATE MINICOURSE SERIES
Speaker: Dave Levermore
Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Mathematical Models II
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: Bonnard J. Teegarden
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt , MD
Topic: : INTEGRAL: A Space Observatory for Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Tuesday, 28th September
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael A. Coplan
Director, Chemical Physics Program, Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, UMCP
Topic: Electron Correlations in Atoms and Molecules
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Raul Tempone
Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM), Institute for Computational
and Engineering Sciences (ICES), University of Texas at Austin
Topic: Convergence Rates for an Adaptive Dual Weighted Residual Finite Element Algorithm
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, 28th September
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Ronald Devore
Department of Mathematics and Center for Scientific Computation and
Mathematical Modeling, UMCP
Topic: Image Compression via Wavelets
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
Speaker: Robin Selinger
Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Topic: Chirality and Chiral Symmetry-Breaking in Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Membranes
4:00 PM - ENERGY RES 1207 (Large Conference Room)
PLASMA PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Brian Hunt
Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, UMCP
Topic: Determining the Initial Conditions for a Forecast
Thursday, 30th September
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ira Schwartz
Head, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Section, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, DC
Topic: Modeling of Secondary Infection
and
Speaker: Leah Chock
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Topic: To be Announced
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday, October 4th
2:30 PM - PHYS 1201
Joint Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (AMO)/Quantum, Coherence, and Information (QCI) Seminar
Speaker: Daniel Greenberger
Physics, SCI, City College of New York
Topic: A Very General Bell's Theorem Without Inequali- Ties for Two Particles
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Yuri Chizmadzhev, A. N. Frumkin Institute of Elec- Trochemistry, Moscow, RUSSIA
Topic: Thermodynamics and Statistics of Rafts in Liquid Measures
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: Nat Gopalswamy
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Topic: Intensity Variation of Large Solar Energetic Par- ticle Events http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, October 5th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Shumel Fishman
Department of Physics, UMCP (Visiting from Physics Department, The Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Topic: Eigenmodes and Thermodynamics of a Coulomb Chain
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Andreas Veeser
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita degli Studi di Milano , Italy
Topic: Convergent Adaptive Finite Elements for the Elliptic obstacle problem
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, October 6th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Thomas Strohmer
Department of Mathematics, University of California at Davis
Topic: Pseudodifferential Operators, Time-Frequency Analysis, and Mobile Communications
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
4:00 PM - IPST 0116 INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
Speaker: Zachariah Levin
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: Electron Microscopy for Thick Samples
Thursday, October 7th
12:15 PM - ENERGY
RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday, October
11th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, October 12th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Walter I. Goldburg
Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Topic: Fluctuating Energy Dissipation in the Steady State
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Eitan Tadmor
CSCAMM, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science
and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Twenty Examples of Entropy Stable Schemes
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, October 13th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
Speaker: Jack Tossell
Department of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry, UMCP
Topic: Mo Oxides and Sulfides in Aqueous Solutions
Thursday, October 14th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jonathan Ozik
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Fractal Population Distributions Resulting from Reproduction and
Local Resettlement of Offsprings
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday, October 18th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ruxandra Dima
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Conformational Conversion in Prions: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: Stephen M. White
Department of Astronomy, UMCP
Topic: Solar Radio Astronomy and the Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) Project
Tuesday, October 19th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Wolfgang Losert
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP),
Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), and
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: The Memory of a Sandpile
3:00 PM (Note - seminar is one-half hour earlier today.)
MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Edward J. Garboczi
Materials and Construction Research Division),
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Topic: Computing the Linear Elastic Properties of Random Materials
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR-TEACHER LECTURE
Speaker: Michael A. Coplan, Director
Chemical Physicis Graduate Program (CHPH),
Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences, UMCP
Topic: University Interdisciplinary Studies, A Short History with Examples
Wednesday, October 20th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: George Zaslavsky
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Physics, New York Univerity
Topic: Fractional Kinetics and its Application to the Anomalous Transport
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
Speaker: Charles Tarrio
Electron and Optical Physics Division, National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: EUV for Next-Generation Lithography
Thursday, October 21st
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Bruno Eckhardt
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
and Fachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universit¨at Marburg, Germany
Topic: Reversibility and chaotic advection
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday, October 25th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael E. Paulaitis
Department of Chemical/Biomolecular Engineering and Biophysics,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Topic: Effect of Pressure on Protein Unfolding Studied by Small-Angle Neutron
Scattering and Molecular Simulation
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: Joseph Giacalone
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson
Topic: Diffusive Shock Acceleration in the Heliosphere
Tuesday, October 26th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: J. Robert Dorfman
Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) and
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: The Memory of a Sandpile
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Benjamin Shapiro
Aerospace Engineering, UMCP
Topic: Results and Challenges in Control of Micro Fluridic Systems
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
IPST SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
(Jointly with the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemical and Biochemistry)
Speaker: Arup K. Chakraborty
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry,
University of California at Berkeley
Topic: Intercellular Communication in the Adaptive Immune System
Wednesday, October 27th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Warren Wiscombe
Senior Scientist, Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA/Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Topic: Review on the Subject of the Evolution of Cloud Radiative Transfer
from 1D to 3D (from the 1970s)
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg & G2 parking lot.
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Joshua Bienfang
Electron and Optical Physics Division, National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: Quantum Cryptography
Thursday, October 28th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
(The format for this seminar includes lunch and talk(s) that emphasize applied dynamics.)
Speaker: Ned J. Corron
U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM)
Topic: Beam Steering and Oscillator Design for RF Chaos Arrays
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday, October 25th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael E. Paulaitis
Department of Chemical/Biomolecular Engineering and Biophysics,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Topic: Effect of Pressure on Protein Unfolding Studied by Small-Angle Neutron
Scattering and Molecular Simulation
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: Joseph Giacalone
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson
Topic: Diffusive Shock Acceleration in the Heliosphere
Tuesday, October 26th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: J. Robert Dorfman
Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) and
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: The Memory of a Sandpile
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Benjamin Shapiro
Aerospace Engineering, UMCP
Topic: Results and Challenges in Control of Micro Fluridic Systems
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
IPST SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
(Jointly with the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemical and Biochemistry)
Speaker: Arup K. Chakraborty
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry,
University of California at Berkeley
Topic: Intercellular Communication in the Adaptive Immune System
Wednesday, October 27th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Warren Wiscombe
Senior Scientist, Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA/Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Topic: Review on the Subject of the Evolution of Cloud Radiative Transfer
from 1D to 3D (from the 1970s)
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg & G2 parking lot.
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Joshua Bienfang
Electron and Optical Physics Division, National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: Quantum Cryptography
Thursday, October 28th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ned J. Corron
U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM)
Topic: Beam Steering and Oscillator Design for RF Chaos Arrays
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday, November 1st
4:00 PM - IPST 1116 BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Mathias Loesche
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and
Cold Neutrons for Biology and Technology (CNBT), Center for Neutron Research,
National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: Membranes, Proteins, and Interfaces--X-ray and Neutron Scattering Studies
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400 SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: Hoseok Ahn
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCPark
Topic: The Energy Spectra of Protons and Helium Measured with the Advanced Thin Ionization
Calorimeter (ATIC) Experiment
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, November 2nd
1:15 PM - IPST 1116 INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ted Jacobson
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: What Thermodynamics Do Black Holes Have? And Why?
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Albert Cohen
Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Topic: Adaptive Multiscale Methods for Transport Equa- tions--Theory and Algorithms
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, November 3rd
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122) SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Wolfgang Dahmen
Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Topic: The Dual Weighted Residual Method from a Wavelet Perspective
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg & G2 parking lot.
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars.)
Speaker: Daniel Kosov
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: Resistance of a Molecule
Thursday, November 4th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207 APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Matt Paoletti
Department of Physics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Topic: Front Propagation and Mode-Locking in an Advec- tion-Reaction-Diffusion System
and
Speaker: Tom Solomon
Department of Physics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Topic: Chaotic Mixing and Chemical Pattern Formation in a Blinking Vortex Flow
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Friday, November 5th
3:00 PM - Math 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM-- DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS LECTURE SERIES
Speaker: John D. Weeks
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: Screening, Structure and Simulation of Ionic Fluids: The Long and Short of It
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/colloquium/
Monday, November 8th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dorothy Beckett
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic Kinetic Control of a Protein Functional Switch
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speake : David Ruffolo
Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Topic: Precision Modeling of Solar Energetic Particle Transport
Tuesday, November 9th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Schedulted
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dianne P. O'Leary
Computer Science Department and UMIACS, UMCP
Topic: The Linear Algebra of Quantum Computing
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, November 10th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: John Shadid
Computational Sciences Department, Sandia National Laboratories,
Topic: Stabilized Finite Element (FE) Simulations of Transport/Reaction Systems:
Algorithms and Applications
3:30 PM - Seminar Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive (off Metzerott Road)
College Park, MD 20740
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
Speaker: Rajarshi Roy
Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), and
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Nonlinear Dynamics of Lasers with Feedback
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
Speaker: Gerald Miller
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic: Ammonium Nitrate: A Simple Compound with Five Crystals Structures
Thursday, November 11th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dimtry Dolgopyat
Department of Mathematics, and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Dynamics of Adiabatic Invariants for Systems with Resonances
and
Speaker: Charles Reichard
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
Topic: Jamming in Granular Matter
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
2:00 PM - MTH 1311
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dmitry Dolgopyat
Department of Mathematics, and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: Randomness in Near-Integrable Systems
4:00 PM - MTH 1311
JOINT WAVELET-HARMONIC ANALYSIS/SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELINGCSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Jared Tanner
Department of Statistics, Stanford University, La Jolla, CA
Topic: High Resolution Algorithms through Localized Fourier Analysis
Monday, November 15th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Stanley Osher
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Topic: An Iterative Regularization Method and Inverse Scale Space for Image Restoration
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Hays S. Rye
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, NJ
Topic: Expansion and Compaction of a Protein Folding Intermediate by GroEL
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: Douglas C. Hamilton
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: First Results from Cassini on the Ion Composition in Saturn's Magnetosphere
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, November 16th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
2:00 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (IPST) COLLOQUIUM
"ELLIOTT W. MONTROLL: A RETROSPECTIVE"
Presented by: Michael Shlesinger
Chief Scientist, Non-Linear Science, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
JOINT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM)SEMINAR
Speaker: Weizhu Bao
Department of Computational Science, National University of Singapore
Topic: Efficient and Stable Numerical Methods for the Generalized and Vector Zakharov System
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, November 17th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Corey O'Hern
Mechanical Engineering and Physics, Yale University
Topic: Topological Classification of Jammed States
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars.)
Speaker: Mark Tuckerman
Department of Chemistry, New York University, Washington Square Park,
Greenwich Village
Topic: Molecular Dynamics from Semiconductor Surfaces to Proteins: The Present and (Near)
Future of Condensed Phase Structures
Thursday, November 18th
BURGERS SYMPOSIUM
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
JOINT NUMERICAL ANALYSIS-PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION
(PDE)/APPLIED MATHEMATICS (AMSC) SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael Vogelius
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Topic: Non-Linear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems Related to Corrosion Modeling
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Friday, November 19th
2:00 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
(The format for today's seminar is one talk that emphasizes applied dynamics.)
Speaker: Sascha Hilgenfeldt
Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathemathics, Mechanical Engineering Department,
Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL
Topic: Bubble Shapes in
Foams: The Importance of Being Isotropic
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
3:00 PM - MTH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM--AZIZ LECTURE
Speaker: Michael Vogelius
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Topic: Electromagnetic Imaging for Small Inhomogeneities
Monday, November 22nd
2:30 PM - PHYS 1201
ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, AND OPTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Colin McCormick
Physics Division, National Institute of Science and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Topic:
From Laboratory to Legislation: Opportunities
in Science Policy
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Julio M. Fernandez
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York
Topic: Monitoring the Folding Pathway of Proteins with Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Therese A. Kucera
Laboratory for Astronomy & Solar Physics, NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center,
Greenbelt, MM
Topic: Solar Prominences Observed at Ultraviolet Wavelengths
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, November 23rd
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Charles W. Clark
Chief, Electron and Optical Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: Superfluid and Laser Analogies with Coherent Matter Waves
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled - Thanksgiving Week
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, November 24th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
No Seminar Schedule - Thanksgiving Week
http/www.cscamm.umd.edu/
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
No Seminar Schedule - Thanksgiving Week
Monday, November 29th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Stephen M. White
Department of Astronomy, UMCP
Topic: Solar Radio Astronomy and the Frequency Agile
Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) Project
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, November 30th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Charanbir Kaur
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic: A Molecular Field Theory for Charged Walls and Counterions
3:30 PM - MATH 3206 (Colloquium Room)
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Long Chen
Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Topic: Optimal Anisotropic Error Estimates and Applications to Convection
Dominated Problems
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
Wednesday, December 1st
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Peter Markovich
Institute for Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria
Topic: On Highly Oscillatory Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
4:00 PM - IPST 0116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS
Speaker: Garth Simpson
Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Topic: Exploring Polarization in Nonlinear Optical Measurements of Biological Interfaces
Thursday, December 2nd
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Hans-Georg Purwins
Institute of Applied Physics, University of Muenster, Germany
Title: Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Plasma Discharges
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Friday, December 3rd
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM SECOND IN THE SERIES "MATHEMATICS AND BIOLOGY"
Speaker: Stephen Altschul
Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation (MATH, IPST, & CSCAMM),
UMCP and National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD
Topic: Scoring Systems for Protein Sequence Alignment
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/colloquium/
Monday, December 6th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Seminar Canceled
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Luke Dones
Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO
Topic:
Cassini: Imaging Results
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, December 7th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Peter Vekilov
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Houston, TX
Topic:
Phase Transitions in Protein Solutions
2:30 PM - PHYSICS 1201
JOINT QUANTUM COHERENCE AND INFORMATION
AND AMO SEMINAR
Speaker: Eite Tiesinga
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD
Topic: Ultracold
Atomic Gases
Wednesday, December 8th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Dongho Chae
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, and
Department of Mathematics, Sungkyunkwan
University, Seoul, South Korea
Topic: The
Role of Direction Fields in the Regularity for Some Fluid Equations
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
Thursday, December 9th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Nandi Leslie
Applied and Computational Mathe matics, Princeton University, NJ
Topic:
Spatially Explicit Models for Tropical Deforestation
and
Speaker: Juan G. Restrepo
Institute for Research in Elec
tronics & Applied Physics, UMCP
Topic:
The Onset of Synchronization in Large Networks of Coupled Oscillators
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Tuesday, December 14th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Konstantin (Kostya) Khanin
Mathematics Department, School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
Topic: Burgers Turbulance and KFZ
(Kardar-Paris-Zhang) Scaling
2:30 PM - PHYS 1201
JOINT ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, AND OPTICAL (AMO) PHYSCIS and QUANTUM COHERENCE
AND INFORMATION SEMINAR
Speaker: Paul Lett
Physics Laboratory, Atomic Physics Division, National Institute of Standards
and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Topic: A (Proposed) Experiment
to Determine the Correct Stress-Energy Tensor, or:
What is the Momentum of a Photon in a Dielectric?
http://www.physics.umd.edu/qcoh/abs041214.html
Thursday, December 16th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Roald Sagdeev
Director, East West Space Science Center, Institute for Physical Science and Tech nology and
Department of Physics,
UMCP
Topic: Cosmic Ray Shock as a Non-Linear
Plasma Problem
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Updated 12/21/04