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IPST WEEKLY CALENDAR - FALL 2005
Tuesday,
September 6th
2:30 PM - PHYS 1201
AMO SEMINAR
Refreshments @ 2:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Dan Gauthier
Duke University
Topic:
Using dissipative Spatial Structures to Achieve Ultra-Low-Light-Level
Optical Switching
Contact: Luis Orozco - lorozco@umd.edu
http://www.physics.umd.edu/~lorozco/AMOSeminars/Fall2005/Seminars_F05.htm
3:30 PM - MTH
3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Jian-Guo
Liu
Department of Mathematics and
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Novel Finite Element Navier-Stokes Solvers without Inf-Sup Conditions
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
INFORMAL STATISTICAL
PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Today
Wednesday,
September 7th
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC Bldg. #406
CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUATION AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM) SEMINAR
- SPECIAL SEMINAR
Refreshments @ 3:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Jing Zou
CSCAMM, UMCP
Topic:
Super Fast Fourier Transform
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/spring05/index.html
Note: If you would like to meet with Dr. Zou, please contact:
pa@cscamm.umd.edu
Thursday,
September 8th
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
12:15 pm - 1207 ERF
Speaker: James Hart
University of Maryland, College
Park
Topic:
Simullations of Time Domain Scattering from Chaotic Microwave Cavities
and
Speaker: To
be Announced
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
(Special Time:
Joint NA/PDE/APPLIED MATH SEMINAR)
3:30 - MTH 3206
Speaker: Prof. Christoph
Schwab
Seminar of Applied Mathematics,
ETHZ, Zurich
Topic:
Sparse Adaprtive FEM for Multiple Scale Problems
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
Monday, September
12th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Rudolf Podgornik
National Institute and Human Development, NIH
Title: The
Physics of DNA
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Refreshments @ 4:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Peter Biermann
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and
University of Bonn, Germany
Title: Overview
of Galactic Cosmic Rays: Status and Next Steps
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, September 13th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Michael E. Fisher
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: CRITICALITY
IN IONIC SYSTEMS: Recent Progress, Open Questions
2:30 PM - PHYS 1201
AMO SEMINAR
No Information
Contact: Luis Orozco - lorozco@umd.edu
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/seminars/weekinreview.htm
3:30 PM - MTH
3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Ohannes
Karakashian
Department of Mathematics,
University of Tennessee
Topic:
A Posteriori Error Estimates and Convergence of Adaptive Methods for a
Discontinuous Galerkin Method for
Elliptic Problems
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
Wednesday,
September 14th
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC Bldg. #406
CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUATION AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM) SEMINAR
- SPECIAL SEMINAR
Refreshments @ 3:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Tomoya Tatsuno
CSCAMM, UMCP
Topic:
Degenerate Continuous Spectra and Secular Behavior: Linear Dynamics
in Fluids and Plasmas with Sheared Flow
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/spring05/index.html
Note: If you would like to meet with Dr. Tatsuno, please contact:
pa@cscamm.umd.edu
Thursday,
September 15th
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
12:15 pm - 1207 ERF
Speaker: Woodrow Shew
Ecole Normal Superieur, Lyon
Topic:
Rising Bubbles and Wake Induced Path Instabilities
and
Speaker: Jennifer
Galanis
NIH
Title:
To be Announced
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Friday. September 16th
No Seminars
Monday, September
19th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Information
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Merav Opher
George Mason University
Title: Effect
of the Interstellar Magnetic Field on the Termination Shock:
Explaining the Voyager Results
http://space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, September 20th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Madhav Ranganathan
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Dynamics
of Spiral Steps on Crystalline Nanomounds
3:30 PM - MTH
3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Eberhard
Baensch
Department of Mathematics,
University of Erlangen, Germany
Topic:
Uniaxial, Extensional Flows in Liquid Bridges
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
Wednesday,
September 21st
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC Bldg. #406
CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUATION AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM) SEMINAR
- SPECIAL SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/spring05/index.html
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL
SCIENCES SEMINAR
3:00 PM - Seminar Room/Lower Level/LPS @ 8050 Greenmead Drive, College
Park
Speaker: Professor J.
Robert Anderson
Department of Physics,
UMCP
Topic:
Quantum Computing Based on Josephson-Junction Phase Qubits
Thursday,
September 22nd
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
12:15 pm - 1207 ERF
Speaker: Sejin Han
University of Maryland and
NIH
Topic:
Collagen Network Formation
and
Speaker: To Be Announced
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Monday, September 26th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Jooyoung
Lee
Korea Institue for Advanced
Studies
Topic:
Protein Structure Prediction and Global Optimization
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: George Simnett
University of Birmingham
Title: Observational
Insights into Solar Particle Acceleration to Relativistic Energies
and the Relevance to Flare Energetics
http://space.umd.edu/seminars\
Tuesday, September 27th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Robert Axtell
Center on Social and Economic Change, Brookings Institution
Title: Heavy-tailed
Fluctuations in Firm Sizes and the Central Limit Theorem
3:30 PM - MTH
3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Chensong Zhang
Department of Mathematics,
UMCP
Topic:
A Posteriori Error Analysis for Parabolic Variational Inequalities in
Finance
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
Wednesday,
September 28th
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC Bldg. #406
CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUATION AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM) SEMINAR
- SPECIAL SEMINAR
Speaker: Allen Tannenbaum
Department of Electrical
and Computer and Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute
of Technology
Topic:
Geometric Registration Methods in Medical Imaging
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/spring05/index.html
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL
SCIENCES SEMINAR
3:00 PM - Seminar Room/Lower Level/LPS @ 8050 Greenmead Drive, College
Park
No Information Provided
Thursday,
September 29th
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
12:15 pm - 1207 ERF
Speaker: Jennifer Galanis
NICHD/NIH
Topic:
Spontaneous Pattrening of Confined Granular Media
and
Speaker: Jeff Urbach
Georgetown University
Shaking and Shearing
in a Vibrated Granular Layer
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Friday. September 30th
No Information Provided
Monday, October
3rd
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Prof. Alenka
Luzar
Department of Chemistry,
Virginia Commonwealth University
Topic:
Dynamic Aspects of Non-Covalent Interactions
http://www.biophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Stephane
Coutu
Pennsylvania State
University
Title:
Highest Energy Physics with Auger
http://space.umd.edu/seminars\
Tuesday, October 4th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Denis Tsygankov
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title:
Spontaneous Synchronization: Josephson Junctions and FIber
Lasers
(For further information, contact: M. E. Fisher, Coordinator.)
3:30 PM - MTH
3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled - see Wednesday, October 5th
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars/nas/
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Zheng-Tian
Lu
Argonne National Laboratory
Topic:
Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Saharan Water
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia/
Wednesday,
October 5th
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC Bldg. #406
CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUATION AND MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM) SEMINAR
- JOINT WITH MATH
Speaker: Prof. Chi-Wang
Shu
Division of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University
Topic:
Anti-Diffusive High Order Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory Schemes
for
Sharpening Contact Discontinuities
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/spring05/index.html
Thursday,
October 6th
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
12:15 PM - 1207 ERF
Speaker: Michael Newey
IREAP, UMCP
Topic:
Segregation Transients in a Granular Tumbler Flow
and
Speaker: To be Announced
Topic:
To be Announced
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Friday. October 7th
12:00-1:30 PM - IPST 1116
BURGERS SEMINAR
Speaker: Serge Simoens
Burgers Visiting Associate Professor, UMCP and CNRS, Lyon
Topic:
Turbulent Mixing and Applicatoins
and
Speaker: Kenneth T. Kiger
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMCP
Topic:
Experimental Measurements in Multiphase Flows
Monday, October
10th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Helim Aranda-Espinoza
Department of Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering, UMCP
Topic:
Spreading and Motility of Leukocytes
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Columbus Day - No Seminars Scheduled
T uesday,
October 11th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Alan DeSilva
Institute for Research in Electronics
and Applied Physics, UMCP
Topic: Observations
of Electrical Conductivity in Metal Plasmas
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Alfred Schmidt
Zentrum fuer Technomathematik,
Universitaet Bremen , Germany
Topic: Adaptive
Finite Element Methods for Allen-Cahn and Phase Field Problems
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
SPECIAL DISTINGUISHED-SCHOLAR TEACHER LECTURE
Speaker: Thomas Cohen
Department of Physics,
UMCP
Topic:
How the Hedgehog was Harried and Other Fables From the Land of Pentaquarks
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
5:00 PM - CSIC 1115
ISR DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Speaker: Dr. Dimitris
Bertsimas
Boeing Professor of Operations
Research, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Topic:
Robust and Adaptive Optimization: A Tractable Approach to Optimization
under Uncertainty
Note:
Roundtable Discussion: 2:00 PM - AVW 2168
Wednesday,
October 12th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. Room 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: C. David Levermore
Director, AMSC, UMCP
Topic: Fluid
Approximations of Gyrokinetic Regimes http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
4:00 PM - Market
Seminar Room (Chem 0112)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker : Professor Sergei Savikhin
Department of Physics, Purdue University
Topic:
Photosystem I: Following the Path of Energy and Electron Transfer
Thursday,
October 13th
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy Research Building
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker 1: Harmut Erzgreaeber
Department of Physics, Vrije University, Amsterdam
Topic: Bifurcation Analysis
of a Semiconductor Laser with Filtered Optical Feedback
and
Speaker 2: Greg Bewley & Dan Lathrop
Department of Physics and IREAP, UMCP
Topic: Superfluid Vortices
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, October
14th
No Information Provided
Monday, October
17th
4:00PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Michael
Sheetz
Department of Biological Sciences,
Columbia University
Topic:
Understanding Complex, Robust Functions in Mammalian Cells
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor
James F. Drake
Department of Physics/IPST/IREAP,
University of Maryland
Topic:
A Fermi Mechanism for the Production of Energetic Electrons During Magnetic
Reconnection.
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 18th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Homer
Walker
Mathematical Sciences
Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Topic:
Globalization Techniques for Newton-Krylov Methods.
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Lathrop
Department of Physcs/IPST/IREAP,
UMCP
Topic:
Laboratory Models of Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence.
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday, October 19th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. Room 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael Brenner
Division of Engineering
and Applied Science, Harvard University
Topic:
Drying Mediated Self Assembly
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Jim
Weisshaar
Department of Chemistry, University
of Wisconsin.
Topic:
Protein Diffusion and Vesicle Fusion
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
October 20th
12:15 - 1207 Energy Research Building
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker 1: Shmuel Fishman
Topic:
Quantum Resonancs for Kicked Cold Atoms
and
Speaker 2: Kris Helmerson
Physics Laboratory, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Topic:
Quantum Transport of a Periodically Kicked Bose-Einsten Condensate
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, October
21st
No Information Provided
Monday, October
24th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Michael
Gilson
Biotechnology Institute, University
of Maryland
Topic:
Theory and Modeling of Molecular Recognition
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael F. A'Hearn
Department of Astronomy, UMCP
Topic:
Deep Impact: Excavating Comet Tempel 1
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
October 25th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Cornelia
Fermuller
Computer Vision Laboratory,
Center for Automation Research, Institute for Advanced
Computer Studies, UMCP
Topic:
Encounters of Vision with Scientific Computing
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Gregory Sullivan
Department of Physics, UMCPUniversity
of Maryland
Topic:
A New Window on the Universe: Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday,
October 26th
2:00 PM - 4122 CSIC BLDG. (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Giles A. Francfort
Universite Paris Nord
Topic:
Brittle Fracture Revisited
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room )
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Dana
Dlott
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois
Topic:
Vibrational Energy in Molecules and Molecular Nanostructures
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday, October 27th
11:00 AM - ENGR 2164
FLUID DYNAMICS REVIEWS
Speaker: Prof. Robert A. Dalrymple
Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore
Topic: Nautral
Flooding Diasters: Thailand and New Orleans
12:15 PM - 1207 ENERGY RESEARCH BLDG.
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker 1: Samuel Zambrano
URJC, Spain
Topic:
Chaotic Resonance: A "Stochastic Resonance" Phenomenon induced by a Chaotic
Signal
and
Speaker 2: To be Announced
Topic:
To be Announced
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
4:15 PM - PHYS 1412
2005: THE WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS/SCIENCE AND MUSIC
(presented by Department of Physics and French Embassy, Washington, DC)
Speaker: Professor Richard
E. Berg
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic:
The Physics of Sound: What Makes Musical Tones Different?
(A deomnstration lecture)
http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/yopsound.htm
Friday, October
28th
4:30 PM-6:00 PM @ FRENCH EMBASSY, Washington, DC
7:30 - Lecture/Concert
2005: THE WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS/SCIENCE AND MUSIC
(presented by Department of Physics and French Embassy, Washington, DC)
Topic: SOUND
SCIENCE: Lectures by international acoustics experts discussing
the human voice, auditory perception,
and stringed instruments
RSVP: elise.yakuboff@cnrs-usa.org
- Event is Free!!
No Other
Seminar Information Provided.
Monday, October
31st
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, November 1st
11:00 AM - 2460 AVW
SPECIAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Kameshwar Poolla
Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Topic: Metrology,
Modeling, and Control for Semiconductor Manufacturing
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Zdenek Strakos
Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic.
Topic: Estimating
the A-norm of the Error in (Preconditioned) CG
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Professor Howard Milchberg
Institute for Physical Scinece and
Technology, UMCP
Topic: Big
Science (In a Small Room) with Extremely Intense Lasers
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday, November 2nd
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. Room 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Thierry Goudon
CNRS-Universite des Sciences et Technologies
de Lille.
Topic: Modeling
of Fluid/Particles Interactions
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Mary Shultz
Department of Chemistry, Tufts University
Topic: Water, Water
Everywhere...Using Small Molecules to Probe the Surface Chemistry of TiO2
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday, November 3rd
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy Research Building
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Hernan Makse
Levitch Institute, CCNY
Topic: Self-Similarity
of Complex Networks (one-long talk)
3:30 PM - JMP 1202
(Ground floor, JM Patterson Bldg.)
Speaker: Gianluca Iaccarino
Center for Turbulence Research, Stnaford University
Sopic: LES
on Cartesian Grids with Anisotropic Refinement
Contact: James Baeder (x5-1107)
or baeder@eng.umd.edu
Friday, November 4th
12:00 Noon - IPST 1116
BURGERS SEMINAR
Speaker 1: Professor Sasa Kenjeres
Burgers Visiting Associate
Professor, UMCP and J.M. Burgerscentrum, Delft
Topic:
Numerical Simulations of Turbulence Subjected to the Combined Effects
of Thermal Buoyancy
and Magnetic Fields
and
Speaker 2: Dimitry Chalikov
Earth System Science
Interdisciplinary Center, UMCP
Topic:
Numerical Simulation of Coupled Wind-Wave Dynamics
Monday, November
7th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Harmen
Bussemaker
Department of Biological
Sciences, Columbia University
Topic:
Condition-Specific Regulation of mRNA Stability in Yeast
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ramin Sina
Institute for Physical
Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Cosmic-Ray Antiprotons in the Galaxy
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, November 8th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Jeng-da
Chai ( Dissertation Defense)
Topic:
Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory of Atoms, Molecules and
Solids
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME: 1:30 PM
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor
Jerry Prince
Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Topic:
Cortical Surface Alignment Using Optical Flow in an Eulerian Framework
http://www.math.umd.edu.research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: David Cory
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Topic:
Quantum Information Processing with Spins
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday, November 9th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Chen Greif
The University of British
Columbia
Topic:
Preconditioners for the Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations in Mixed
Form
http://www/cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Semianr Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor
Stephen White
Department of Physiology
and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine
Topic
Translocons, Membranes and the Folding of Membrane Proteins
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday,
November 10th
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy Research Building
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker 1: Kaveri Josh
University of Maryland
Topic:
Turbulent Thermal Convection in Liquid Sodium
and
Speaker 2: Santiago Tirana
University of Maryland
Topic:
Laboratory Experiments on Liquid Metal Spherical-Couette Flows
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: Paul Horn
Senior Vice President and Director of Research, IBM
Topic:
The Changing Nature of Innovation
Friday, November 11th
No Seminars Provided
Monday, November
14th
4:00PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Mark
Goulian
Department of Physics, University
of Pennsylvania
Topic:
Perturbing, Modeling, Imaging, and Evolving Cell Signaling Circuits in
Bacteria
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Adam Szabo
Goddard Space Flight
Center
Topic:
Is There Still Something We Do Not Know about Interplanetary Shocks?
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, November 15th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor C.
David Levermore
IPST and Department of Mathematic,
UMCP.
Topic:
Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics: Entropy-Based Closures
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Marco
Verani
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Topic:
A Finite Element Formulation for a Shape Optimization Problem
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Gianni Fiorentini
University of Ferrara
Topic:
Geo-Neutrinos: A New Probe of the Earth's Interior
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
5:00 PM - CSIC 1115
FALL 2005 DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
Speaker: Dr. H. Vincent
Poor
George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering, Department of Engineering,
Princeton
Topic:
Signal Processing and Wireless Networks
Wednesday,
November 16th
10:00 AM - AVW 2168
FALL 2005 DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
Roundtable Discussion
Speaker: Dr. H. Vincent
Poor
George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering, Department of Engineering,
Princeton
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg.
Room 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: I. Michael Navon
C.S.I.T., and Department of Mathematics,
Florida State University
Topic:
On Adjoint Error Correction and Bounding Using Largange Form of Truncation
Term
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Yung-Ya
Lin
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UCLA
Topic:
Shake, Rattle and Roll: Measuring Isomerization Rates by Rotational Spectroscopy
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday, November 17th
12:15 PM - 1207 ERB
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Lai Sang Young
New York University
Topic:
Nonequilibrium Steady States for Some Hamiltonian and Stochastic Models
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM - University College Inn and Conference Center - RM
1105
SECOND ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE BURGERS PROGRAM FOR FLUID DYNAMICS
Friday, November 18th
No Seminar Information
Monday, November
21st
9:00 AM - 4:30PM
BIOMOLECULAR SCIENCE BLDG.
FALL 2005 BIOPHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speakers: Professor George Lorimer(UMCP)
George Stan (NIH/UMCP)
Martin Karplus (Harvard University)
Amnon Horovitz (Weizman Institute of Science)
Mark Fisher (University of Kansas)
Dev Thirumalai (UMCP)
Topic: The GroE
Chaeronin Machine
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Peter H.
Yoon
Institute for Physical
Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Self-Consistent Generation of Suprathermal Electrons (Kappa distribution)
by Beam-Plasma Interaction.
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday,
November 22nd
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Martin
Linden
KTH-Shockholm and Institute
for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Bacterial Motility via Pilus Retraction: Modeling a Powerful Molecular
Motor.
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor
L. Ridgway Scott
Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science, University of Chicago
Topic:
The FEniCS Project to Automate Computational Mathematical Modeling
http://www/math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: J. C. Seamus
Davis
Cornell University
Topic:
Atomic-Resolution "Mottness Mapping" in Lightly Hole-Doped Cuprates
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquium
Wednesday, November 23rd
No Seminars Scheduled - Thanksgiving Holiday
Thursday, November 24th
THANKSGIVING
Friday, November
25th
No Seminars Scheduled - Thanksgiving Holiday
Monday, November
28th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Margaret Cheung
Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Life in a Crowd: Macromolecular Crowding and Confinement Effects
on Protein Interactions in Living Systems.
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Robert B. Decker
Johns Hopkins University, Applied
Physics Laboratory
Topic: The
Voyager Spacecraft at the Termination Shock
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, November 29th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Alex Kiselev
University of Wisconsin, Department
of Mathematics
Topic:
Diffusion and Mixing in Fluid Flow
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Michael Naughton
Boston College
Topic:
Physics of Molecular Organic Conductors
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday, November 30th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Leila De Floriani
Department of Computer Science, UMCP
Topic: Modeling
Non-Manifold Multi-Dimensional Shapes
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
3:00 PM - LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Seminar Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 - (301)935-6400
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Yu
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Topic:
The Development Effort of Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) Laser
Transmitter
for the NASA ICESat Mission
Note:
For guests attending the LPS seminar, please use the phone on the left
hand side of the front door
to call the receptionist for
entry.
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday, December 1st
12:15PM - 1207 ERB
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Will
Ray
University of Maryland
Topic:
Crisis in a Semiconductor Laser with Optical Feedback
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Vadim Kaloshin
Topic:
Nonlocal Arnold Diffusion for the Restricted Planar Circular 3 Body Problem
7:00 PM - CHEM 1407
S PECIAL SEMINAR IN CELEBRATION OF UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY
Speaker: Professor Paul Crutzen,
1995 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Topic: Atmospheric Chemistry
and Climate in the "Anthropocene"
Friday, December 2nd
12:00 NOON - IPST 1116
BURGERS SEMINAR
Speaker 1: Andre Marshall
Fire Protection Engineering, UMCP
Topic:
Fluid Flows in Combustion
and
Speaker 2: Xiabobo Yao
Topic:
Characterizing Fire Induced Flow Transport Along Ceilings Using Salt-Water
Modeling
Monday, December
5th
4:00PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Anatoly Kolomeisky
Department of Chemistry, Rice University
Topic: Coupling
of Two Motor Proteins: A New Motor Can Move Faster
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled / AGU Meeting
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, December 6th
1:15PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Bei-lok Hu
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: What's
Statistical Physics to Quantum Gravity
3:30PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Note: Special
NA-PDE/Appl. Math Seminar
Speaker: Professor Chun Liu
Department of Mathematics, Penn State
University
Topic:
Macro-Micro Models in Viscoelastic Materials: An Energetic Variational
Approach
http://www.math.umd.edu/research.seminars
4:00PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Ian Shipsey
Purdue University
Topic: Cochlear
Implants: A Technical and Personal Account
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday, December 7th
2:00PM - CSIC 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Doron Levy
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Topic:
Post-Transplantation Dynamics of the Immune Responses to Chronic Myelogenous
Leukemia
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
3:00PM - Seminar Room, Lower Level, LPS
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740
(301)935-6400
Speaker: Professor Lawrence
Bennett
George Washington University, Institute for Magnetics Research
Topic:
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Nanomaterials
4:00PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Speaker: Professor Jacob Petrich
Department of Chemistry, Iowa State
University
Topic: Fundamental
and Applied Uses of Light: From Antiviral Agents to Solvation Dynamics
to Food Safety
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday, December 8th
12:15PM - 1207 ERB
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker 1: Erin Rericha
University of Maryland
Topic:
How Does Dicty Find Its Way?
and
Speaker 2: Amy Finkbiner, University of Maryland
Topic:
A Dynamical Approach to a Self-Adapting Peer-to-Peer System
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
3:30PM - MTH 3206
APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Professor Willi Jaeger
Institut fr Angewandte Mathematik,
Im Neuenheimer Feld 294, D-69120,
Heidelberg, Germany
Topic
Reactive Flow Through Porous Medi a
5:00 PM - J. H. KIM
ENGRG. BLDG 1110 (Lecture Hall)
FALL 2005 WHITING-TURNER BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL LECTURE SERIES;
presented by
A. James Clark School of Engineering
Reception @ 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Robert Metcalfe
3Com Founder, Ethernet Inventor and Venture Capitalist
Topic: Ethernet
and Entrepreneurship
For more information: http://www.eng.umd.edu/whitingturner/
Friday, December
9th
3:30PM - MTH 3206
AZIZ LECTURE
Speaker: Professor Willi Jaeger
Institut fr Angewandte Mathematik,
Im Neuenheimer Feld 294, D-69120
Heidelberg, Germany
Topic:
Multi-Scale Modeling in Biosciences-Ion Transport Through Membranes
Monday, December
12th
3:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR (note special day/time)
Speaker Professor Sergiu Klainerman
Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
Topic: A Break-Down
Criterion for the Einstein Equations
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor John Nagle
Professor of Physics and Biological
Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Topic:
Structure of Biomembranes: Challenges for Experiment and Theory
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
End of Semester - No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, December 13th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Alberto Pimpinelli
Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont-2, and UMCP
Topic: Crystal
Surfaces Out of Equilibrium: Instabilities, Multiscaling and Nonlocality
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Alexi Novikov
Department of Mathematics, Penn State University
Topic: A Homogenization
Approach to Large-Eddy Simulation of Incompressible Fluids
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
No Seminar Scheduled
Wednesday, December 14th
2:00 PM - CSIC 4122 (#406)
CSCAMM SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Sergiu Klainerman
Princeton University, Department of Mathematics
Topic:
A Break-Down Criterion for the Einstein Equations
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/seminars/fall05/index.htm
3:00 PM - Seminar Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Professor Richard Berg
Director, Physics Lecture-Demonstration
Facility, Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic:
The Physics IQ Test
4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 (Marker Seminar Room)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday, December 15th
12:15 PM - 1207 ERB
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, December 16th
No Seminars Scheduled
Monday,
December 19th
2:00 PM - PHYS 0360 (CSR Conference Room)
SPECIAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Thomas Seligman
Centro de Ciencias Fisicas, University of Mexico, Cuernavaca
Topic:
Fidelity Decay: Theory and Experiments
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.marylandbiophysics.umd.edu
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.space.umd.edu/seminars
Tuesday, December 20th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY STAT. MECH. MEETING
3:30 PM - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.math.umd.edu/research/seminars
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/colloquia
Wednesday, December 21st
3:00 PM - Seminar Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)-935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES duled
No Seminar Scheduled
4:00 PM - Marker Seminar Room (Chem 0112)
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL PHYSICS
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.chemicalphysics.umd.edu
Thursday, December 22nd
12:15 PM - 1207 Energy Research Building
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Scheduled
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/talks
Friday, December 23rd
No Seminars Scheduled
Monday,
December 26th - Monday, January 2, 2006
HOLIDAY BREAK - End of Semester
No Seminars Scheduled
IPST Weekly Calendar/WINTER BREAK 2006
Wednesday,
January 11, 2006
3:00PM - Seminar Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Speaker: Drs. Robert
J. Runser and Matthew S. Goodman
Telecordia Technologies
and Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences
Topic:
Quantum Cryptography in Reconfigurable Fiber Optic Networks
Wednesday,
January 18, 2006
3:00 PM - Seminar Room, Lower Level, LPS
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740 (301)935-6400
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES (*Refreshments served at 2:30PM)
Speaker: Dr. David
A. Salstein
NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center and University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
and Atmospheric and Environmental
Research, Inc., Lexington, MA
Topic:
Atmospheric angular momentum and related excitation of Earth rotation/polar
motion
from meteorological analyses
and models
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3/7/06
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