IPST Weekly
Calendar/Spring 2001
Monday - January 29th
Speaker: Dr. M. Collier
SEMI-ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND RELATED TOPICS
Monday - March 26th
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL IPST LECTURE
Speaker: Dr. Steven M. Girvin, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Indiana University
Title: Physics of "Which Layer?" Uncertainty
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday - January 30th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Melanie Becker
Department of Physics, UMCP
Title: String Theory, GCD, and Quantum Gravity
Wednesday - January 31st
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SPECIAL IPST/MATH LECTURE
Speaker: Dr. Eric Vanden-Eijnden
Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Title: Random Perturbation of Partial Differential Equations
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics
and Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
No Seminar
Thursday - February 1st
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor R. Bruce Kellogg
Department of Mathematics; Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Corner Singularities, Boundary Layers, and Interior Layers
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Friday - February 2nd
No Seminars
Monday - February 5th
3:15 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL IPST LECTURE
Speaker: Dr. James F. Drake
Department of Physics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Magnetic Reconnection: The Mechanism for Dissipating Magnetic Energy
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday - February 6th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. George H. Weiss
Mathematical and Statistical Computing Laboratory
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Title: Some Problems in the Interpretation of Data from Single-Molecule
Wednesday - February 7th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Paul Dagdigian
Johns Hopkins University
Title: Electronic Structure in Van der Waals Clusters
Thursday - February 8th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Ricardo H. Nochetto
Department of Mathematics; Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Positivity Preserving Finite Element Interpolation and
Applications to Variational Inequalities
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: David DeShazer
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Detecting Phase Synchronization in a Chaotic Laser Array
and
Speaker: Julio Friedmann
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Sediment Gravity Flows that Shape the Ocean Floor:
The Non-Linear Nature of Turbidity Currents
Friday - February 9th
Monday - February 12th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr.E. S. Seo
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Status of High Energy Cosmic Ray Composition Measurements
Tuesday - February 13th
2:00 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Jerome Magnin
Center for Stochastic Processes in Science and Engineering
and Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University, Blacksburg, VA
Title: Liesegang Patterns: A One-Century-Old, but Still Vivid Topic
in Pattern Formation
Wednesday - February 14th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL IPST LECTURE
Speaker: Professor Eitan Tadmor
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics and Department of Mathematics
University of California, Los Angeles
Title: High Resolution Recovery of Piecewise Smooth Data from its
Spectral Information
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: David Feder
Electron Optical Physics Division
National Institute of Science Technology
Title: Vorticies and Bose-Einstein Condensation
Thursday - February 15th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Edward Ott
Department of Electrical Engineering; Institute for Systems Research and
Department of Physics; UMCP
Title: Two-Dimensional Turbulence with Drag
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: David Egolf
Georgetown University
Title: Mechanisms of Extensive Chaos in Rayleigh-Benard Convection
and
Speaker: Brian Hunt
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Fractal Properties of Strange Nonchaotic Attractors
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE on the HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Speaker: David Cantor
DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Memorial Fellow in the History
of the Biomedical Sciences and Technology for 2000-2001
National Institutes of Health
Title: Radium, Cancer, and the Meanings of Hope in Mid-20th
Century American Medicine
Monday - February 19th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday - February 20th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
2:00 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL IPST LECTURE
Speaker: Dr. Gary P. Zank
Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware
Title: New Frontiers: Exploring the Edge of our Heliosphere and Beyond
Wednesday - February 21st
3:30 (- 6:30) PM - SYMONS HALL 0200
COMMITTEE on the HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Barnum Workshop (1st of two)
Speaker: Howard Barnum
Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
Title: From An Elementary Introduction to Quantum Computation and
Information Processing
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical
Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Sandra Greer
Department of Chemical Engineering, UMCP
Title: Polymerization of the Protein Actin
Thursday - February 22nd
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Omar Lakkis
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Title: An A Posteriori Error Estimate and Adaptivity
for the Mean Curvature Flow of Graphs
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Istvan Szunyogh
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: To be announced
and
Speaker: James A. Yorke
Institute for Physical Science and Technology; Department of Mathematics; UMCP
Title: A Solid Foundation for Embedding Methods for Time Series
3:30 (- 6:30) PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Barnum Workshop (2nd of two)
Speaker: Howard Barnum
Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
Title: From Quantum Error Correction to Quantum Data Authentication:
Noise-Proofing and Spoof-Proofing Quantum States
Monday - February 26th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Barrett Rogers
Institute for Plasma Research, UMCP
Title: Physics of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
Tuesday - February 27th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday - February 28th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical
Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Angela Gronenborn
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health
Title: Magnetic Field Induced Alignment of Biological Macro-molecules:
Development and Characterization of Media for the Extraction of
Residual Dipolar Couplings
Thursday - March 1st
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Georg Dolzmann
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Title: Computation of Microstructure and Relaxation of Energies
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: James A. Yorke, Distinguished University Professor
Department of Mathematics ; Director, Institute for Physical science and Technology
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: A Solid Foundation for Embedding Methods for Time Series
and
Speaker: Wolfgang Losert
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Dynamics of Pattern Formation in Alloys and Polymer Blends
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Speaker: Paolo Mancosu
Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
Title: Mathematical Explanation: Problems and Prospects
Friday - March 2nd
11:00 AM (-Noon) - MATH Y3206
Sixth Monroe H. Martin Prize Lecture
First Speaker:
University of Toronto
Title: Exact Solutions to the Transportation Problem on the Line
2:45 (- 3:00) PM
Presentation of the Sixth Monroe H. Martin Prizes
3:00 (- 4:00) PM
Second Speaker: Yury Grabovsky
Temple University
Title: The General Theory of Exact Relations for Effective Moduli of Polycrystals
Monday - March 5th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday - March 6th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
SEVENTH ANNUAL SHIH-I PAI LECTURE IN FLUID DYNAMICS AND PLASMA DYNAMICS
3:15 (- 3:55) PM - PHYS 1204 (Toll Lounge)
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
Speaker: Professor Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Mason Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Title: Convection
Wednesday - March 7th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Keiji Morojuma
Department of Chemistry, Emory University
Title: The Multi-Layered MO + MM Method, ONIOM, and its Applications
Thursday - March 8th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Chen Wang
Institute for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics
and Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington
Title: Fast Solvers for the 3-D Primitive Equations of the Atmosphere and
Ocean Formulated in Mean Pressure Poisson Equation
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Joshua Socolar
Duke University, Durham, NC
Title: Stabilization (or not) of Plane Waves through Time-Delay Feedback
and
Speaker: Daniel Gauthier
Duke University, Durham, NC
Title: A Flexible Source of High-Speed Optical Chaos
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE on the HISTORY and PHILOSOPHY of SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Speaker: Alberto Cordero
Department of Philosophy, Queen's College, NY
Title: Classical Properties in a Quantum Mechanical World
Monday - March 12th
1:30 (–3:30) PM
IPST 1116 - SPECIAL IPST LECTURE
Speaker: Professor Christopher C. Davis
Associate Dean and Director of the Gemstone Program
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Optical Communications without Fibers: Theoretical and
Experimental Issues in Dealing with a Turbulent, Fading Channel
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Interplanetary Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Title: New Results from IMAGE/LENA
Tuesday - March 13th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday - March 14th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical Physics/
Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Thursday - March 15th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. William G. Szymczak
Physical Acoustics Branch (Code 7131)
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC
Title: Simulations of Violent Free Surface Dynamics
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-minute Talks
Speaker: Mason Porter
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Title: Quantum Chaos in Vibrating Billiard Systems
and
Speaker: Daniel Wojcik
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Dimension of Interaction
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
No Seminar
Saturday - March 17th
(8:15AM/begins)
Tuesday, March 20th (12:00 Noon/ends)
Room 3206
Scheduled Speakers, Titles, and Abstracts, as well as other details,
are located at: "http://www.math.umd.edu/~bhunt/01ws">www.math.umd.edu/~bhunt/01ws
This spring workshop is supported by the University of Maryland
(Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology)
and the National Science Foundation.
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. P. Evenson
Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware
Title: Origin and Modulation of Low Energy Cosmic Ray Electrons
Tuesday - March 27th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday - March 28th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics
and Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Josef Zwanziger
Department of Chemistry, Indiana University
Title: Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials for Optics
and Electrochemistry
Thursday - March 29th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Al Schatz
Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Title: New Asymptotic Error Expansions in the Finite Element Method
and Richardson Extrapolation
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Martin Greiner
Duke University, Durham, NC
Title: From Synthetic towards Real Fully Developed Turbulence —
Learning from Phenomenology
and
Speaker: Jong-Won Kim
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Front Propagation of Spatio-Temporalc Chaos
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Speaker: Arthur I. Miller
Department of Science & Technology Studies
University College, London, UK
Title: Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
Monday - April 2nd
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. J. T. Hoeksema
NASA/HQ, Washington, DC and Stanford University, CA
Title: The Structure of the Heliospheric Magnetic Field in Solar Cycle 23
Tuesday - April 3rd
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Krzysztof Goral
Center for Theoretical Physics and College of Science
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Title: Multi-Mode Dynamics of Ultracold Bose Gases
Wednesday - April 4th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
SPECIAL IPST/CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
Speaker: Mikhail A. Anisimov
Institute for Physical Science and Technology; Dpartment of Chemical Engineering;
UMCP
Title: Finding Simplicity in Complexity: Complex Fluids Near Critical Points
Thursday - April 5th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Peter Monk
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark
Title: Analysis of a Finite Element Method for Electromagnetic Scattering
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Doug Armstead
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Anomalous Diffusion in Billiard Systems
and
Speaker: Aleksey Zimin
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Bifurcation Scenarios for the Bubbling Transition
Monday - April 9th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. T. T. von Rosenvinge
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Title: Recent Results from the Advanced Composition Explorer
Tuesday - April 10th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Weinan E.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University and Princeton University, NJ
Title: Thermally Activated Switching of Ferro-magnetic Thin Films
Wednesday - April 11th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Tony Heinz
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York
Title: Detection and Control of Electric Fields on Femtosecond Time Scales
4:00 PM - ARMORY BLDG 0120
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
(CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Speaker: Huw Price
Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia
Title: Boltzmann's Time Bomb
Thursday - April 12th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Rajarshi Roy
Institute for Plasma Research; Department of Physics; and
Institute for Physical Science and Technology; UMCP
Title: Multiple Wave Interactions in Nonlinear Optical Fibers:
Experiments and Models
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Jim Warren
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Title: Phase Field Modeling of Crystal Grainsand
and
Speaker: Didier Depireux
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Title: The Dynamics of Neural Responses in Primary Auditory Cortex
Monday - April 16th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. S. M. Krimigis
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD
Title: Observations in Jupiter's Vicinity with the Magnetospheric
Imaging Instrument during Cassini/Huygens Flyby
(October 2000--March 2001)
Tuesday - April 17th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday - April 18th
9:30 AM
PROCESS MEASUREMENTS DIVISION SEMINAR
NIST Admin Fluid Science, A Symposium in Honor of Mike Moldover's 60th Birthday
Martin Trusler (Imperial College); JAN SENGERS (UMCP and NIST); MICHAEL FISHER (UMCP)
Jim Mehl (U. Delaware); John Cahn (NIST); Walter Goldberg (U. Pittsburgh);
Moses Chan (Penn State); Bobby Berg (NIST) will discuss research that reflects Mike's
broad interests and areas of research (NIST Contact: Bobby Berg, 301-975-2466, robert.berg@nist.gov)
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
No Seminar
Thursday - April 19th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Jack Douglas
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Title: Non-Equilibrium Pattern Formation in the Crystallization
of Polymer Blend Films
and
Speaker: Vasily Dronov
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Stalagtite Basin Structure of Dynamical Systems with
Transient Chaos in an Invariant Manifold
Monday - April 23rd
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
SPECIAL MATH COLLOQUIUM: AZIZ LECTURE
Speaker: Professor Franco Brezzi
Istituto di Analisi Numerica del CNR Dipartimento di Matematica
Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Title: Recent Approaches in the Treatment of Subgrid Scales
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. O. C. St. Cyr
The Catholic University of America and
The Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC and
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Title: White Light Coronagraphs and CMEs
Tuesday - April 24th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Ania Wyczalkowska
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Impurity Effects on the Heat Capacities of Near-Critical Fluids
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
APPLIED MATH COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Professor Franco Brezzi
Istituto di Analisi Numerica del CNR Dipartimento di Matematica
Universita di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Title: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Elliptic Problems:
A General Framework
Wednesday - April 25th
2:00 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Eugenia Kalnay
Chair, Department of Meteorology
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Ensemble Weather Forecasting
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Andrian Parsegian
Laboratory of Structural Biology
National Institutes of Health
Title: Single Ion Counting
Thursday - April 26th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Henry Abarbanel
University of California, San Diego
Title: Small Networks of Biological and Electronic Neurons
4:00 PM - IPST 1119
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Speaker: Lucia Dacome
Max Planck Institute for History of Science
Title: The Medical Statics of Everyday Life:
Weight-watching, Personal Narrative
and Health in the Eighteenth Century
Monday - April 30th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. N. R. Sheeley, Jr.
E. O. Hulbert Center for Space Research
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Title: New Evidence for Magnetic Field Line Reconnection in the Corona
Tuesday - May 1st
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Dmitri Klimov
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Stretching Proteins
Wednesday - May 2nd
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Lori Goldner
Optical Technology Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD
Title: Single Molecule Spectroscopy
Thursday - May 3rd
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Matthias Gobbert
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title: Mathematical Modeling of Deposition Processes in
Semiconductor Manufacturing
12:15 PM - ERF 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Tom Solomon
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Title: Effects of Lagrangian Chaos on Droplet Stretching and Breakup
and
Speaker: Ernest Barreto
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Title: Breakdown of Shadowing in Coupled Chaotic Systems
3:30–6:30 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Mini-Symposium on Philosophy of Physics
3:30 PM
Speaker: Frank Arntzenius
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Title: Time Reversal Operations and the Direction of Time
and
5:15 PM
Speaker: Antony Valentini
Theoretical Physics, Blackett Laboratory
Imperial College, London, England, UK
Title: Signal-locality in Hidden-Variables Theories
Friday, May 4th
2:00 PM - CSS 2400
Speaker: M. Malkov
University of California, San Diego
Title: Nonlinear Phenomena in Diffusive Shock Acceleration and Limitation of Maximum Energy
Monday - May 7th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. D. A. Roberts
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Title: Spectra and Field Lines in the Nonlinear Heliosphere
Tuesday - May 8th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday - May 9th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Richard A. Register
Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, NJ
Title: Crystallization in Block Polymers
Thursday - May 10th
9:30 AM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Charles Misner
Department of Physics, UMCP
Title: Bits of Numerical Relativity:
(1) Spherical Harmonic Decomposition on a Cubic Grid
and
(2) Some Current Progress in Numerical Relativity at the
Alfred Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Bruce Gluckman
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Title: Experimental Control of Seizures in Live Hippocampal Networks
and
Speaker: Vasily Dronov
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Communicating with a Chaotic Traveling Wave Tube Microwave Generator
IPST 1116 - 4:00 PM
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2001
Speaker: Joseph Berkovitz
Department of Philosophy
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title: Causal Loops in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Monday - May 14th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. R. MacDowell
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Title: Magnetic Holes: A Consistent Source of Plasma Waves in the Solar Wind
Tuesday - May 15th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor D. Thirumalai
Institute for Physical Science and Technology; Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UMCP
Title:
Chaperonin-Mediated Protein Folding
Thursday - May 17th
12:15 PM - ERB 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Yuri Braiman
Title: Friction at the Atomic Scale: Dynamics and Control
Tuesday, May 22nd
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
CEA, Saclay, France
Title: Financial Risks: A Physicist's Perspective
Tuesday, June 5th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Johannes Hager
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Logarithmic Corrections Near Tricritical Points
Tuesday, June 12th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Marcia C. Barbosa
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Title: A Soluble Model for Hydrogen Bonded Liquids