IPST Weekly
Calendar/Spring 2002
Monday - January 28th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday - January 29th
12:30 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC) &
the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
No Seminar Today - instead will be co-sponsoring Thursday's
Meteorology Seminar
(See Thursday's listings below.)
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Daniel Kessler
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Title: Numerical Analysis and Simulation of a Solutal
Phase-Field Model
Wednesday - January 30th
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 - January 31st
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Istvan Szunyosh
UMCP
Title: On the Relationship between the
Quality of Weather Forecasts
and the Resolution of the Forecast Models
and
Speaker: Nicholas Weber
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Title: Adaptation to the Edge of Chaos
via Low-Pass Filtered Feedback
3:30 PM - CSS 2400 (Auditorium on second floor, new wing)
METEOROLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Speakers: Drs. Jean-François Estrade and Joe Sela
Environmental Modeling Center/NCEP/NOAA
Title:
The NCEP Global Spectral Model: New Challenges in Parallelization
Friday - February 1st
No seminars
Monday - February 4th
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
(in collaboration with) MATHEMATICS STUDENT-FACULTY COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Stuart Antman
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics,
Institute for Physical Science and Technology and
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Title: Clifford Truesdell and His
Battles
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Matthew E. Hill
Department of Physics, UMCP
Title: Anomalous Cosmic Ray Transport
During the Solar Cycle 22
Recovery Phase
Tuesday - February 5th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC)
the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
Seminar will not occur at this time and location today. Instead CSCAMM
joins with the Numerical Analysis Seminar Series and the Physics
Colloquium Series for a SPECIAL SEMINAR.
(See Listing below for the SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM.)
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Seminar will not occur at this time and location today. Instead the
Numerical Analysis Seminar Series joins with CSCAMM Series and the
Physics Colloquium Series for a SPECIAL SEMINAR.
(See Listing below for the SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM.)
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
(Joint with Numerical Analysis and CSCAMM)
Speaker: James Stone
Astronomy Department, UMCP
Topic Numerical Models of Accretion
Flows Around Black Holes
Wednesday - February 6th
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: Susan Gregurick
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title: An Ab Initio Study of the Mode
Coupling in N-Methylacetamide,
a Model for the Peptide Group
Thursday - February 7th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Andrew Belmonte
Department of Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Title: Hydrodynamic Instabilities of
Wormlike Micellar Fluids
and
Speaker: Eugenia Kalnay, Chair
Meteorology Department, UMCP
Title: Are Bred Vectors the Same as
Lyapunov Vectors
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
Special Seminar
(This is a potential candidate for the Flagship Initiative joint IPST/MATH.)
Speaker: Dirk Hundertmark
California Institute of Technology
Title: Recent Results on Lieb-Thirring
Inequalities
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS)
COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Speaker: Dan Fivel
Department of Physics, UMCP
Title: Quantum Surveying:
How Generalized Bell States Act as
Measuring Rods on Manifolds of Coherent States
Friday - February 8th
No seminars
Monday - February 11th
11:00 AM - MATH 3206
SPECIAL SEMINAR
(This is a potential candidate for the Flagship Initiative joint IPST/MATH.)
Speaker: Kieth Promislow
Indiana University
Title: Pattern Formation in Optical
Parametric Processes
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: D. Biesecker
Emergent Technology, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Title: Kreutz Sungrazing Comets:
From Aristotle to SOHO
Tuesday - February 12th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC) &
the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
Speaker: Kunibert Siebert
Institut fuer Angewandte Mathematik, Universitaet Freiburg, GERMANY
(Visitor, University of Maryland, College Park, Spring 2002)
Title: ALBERT: Flexible and Efficient
Adaptive Finite Element Software
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Christoph Schwab
Seminar of Applied Mathematics, ETHZ, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Title: Two-scale Regularity and Sparse
Grids for Homogenization Problems
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Stuart Antman
Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, UMCP
Title: Nonlinear Continuum Physics
Wednesday - February 13th
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
Special Seminar
(This is a potential candidate for the Flagship Initiative joint IPST/MATH.)
Speaker: Jens Eggers
University of Essen, GERMANY
Title: Scaling Theory of Singularities
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical
Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
(Tea & Coffee at 3:45 PM)
Speaker: Rob Dickson
Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Harnessing Single Molecule
Dynamics for New Nanotechnologies
Thursday - February 14th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Arshad Kudrolli
Clark University
Title: Vortices in Vibrated Granular
Rods
and
Speaker: To be Announced
Title: To be Announced
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS)
COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
No Seminar
Friday - February 15th
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM [Distinguished University Professor Lecture Series]
(Tea follows Colloquium in MATH 3201)
Speaker: Jim Yorke
Departments of Mathematics and Physics, and Institute for Physical Science
and Technology, UMCP
Title: Determining the Genome of the
Human and Other Animals
Monday - February 18th
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
Speaker: David Levermore
Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, UMCP
Title: Mathematics for Fun and Profit: An
Introduction to Portfolio Theory
Tea follows across the hall
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday - February 19th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Peter Blair Blakie
Electron and Optical Physics Division
National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Title: Bose-Einstein Condensates in
Optical Lattices
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC) &
the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
Speaker: Charles C. Goodrich
Department of Astronomy, UMCP
Title: Modeling Space Weather
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Pingwen Zhang
Department of Scientific and Engineering Computing
Peking University (visiting Princeton University)
Title: Moving Mesh Methods Based on
Harmonic Maps
Wednesday - February 20th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and
Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Tea & Coffee at 3:45 PM
Speaker: Josh Halpern
Howard University, Washington, DC
Title: Vinyl Radical Spectroscopy and
What It Tells Us about Dynamics
Thursday - February 21st
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
One-Hour Talk
Speaker: Katepalli Sreenivasan
Director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: An Informal Discussion of
Atmospheric Predictability
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS)
COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Speaker: Stephen Brush
Department of History and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Cautious Revolutionaries: Maxwell, Planck, Hubble
Friday - February 22nd
No Seminars
Monday - February 25th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Tea & Cookies @ 4:00 PM
Speaker: M. L. Goldstein
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt
Title: Recent Results from the Cluster
Mission
Tuesday - February 26th
1:00 PM (Note Time!)
IPST 1116 - SPECIAL CONDENSED MATTER/STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Kedar Damle
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Title: The Curious World of Quantum
Spin Chains: Quantum Fluctuations, Interactions, and Disorder in "Lineland"
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar Today
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC) & the
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
Speaker: James Warren
Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Title: Theoretical and Computational
Materials Science: Challenges and Opportunities
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Victoria E. Howle
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
Title: Solving 3D Incompressible
Navier-Stokes via Parallel Block Preconditioning
Wednesday - February 27th
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical
Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
(Tea & Coffee at 3:45 PM)
Speaker: Edward Castner
Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, New Jersey
Title: Dynamics in Aqueous Polymers:
From Hydrogen Bonds to Drug Delivery
Thursday - February 28th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
One-Hour Talk
Speaker: Horst Meyer
Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC
Title: Heat Transfer and Convection
Onset in a Compressible Fluid: ^3He Near the Critical Point
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
No Colloquium Today
Friday - March 1st
No Seminars
Monday - March 4th
March 23-26 (Saturday-Tuesday)
Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland, College Park
Spring 2002 Meeting of the Maryland-Penn State Workshop on Dynamical Systems and
Related Topics
http://www.math.umd.edu/~mmb/md02/
(One of the speakers will be Jim Yorke)
SPRING BREAK - NO OTHER
SEMINARS THIS WEEK
Institute for Physial Science and Technology, UMCP
Title:
A Reaction-Diffusion Model for Experimentally Altered Visual Function in Xenopus
Frogs
and
Speaker: Dhanurjay
Patil
Institute for Physical Science and Technolgy, UMCP
in the Atmosphere
Monday - April 1st
12:00 NOON - BIO/PSYCH 1208
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS)
COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002 (in collaboration with) THE PROGRAM IN BEHAVIOR, EVOLUTION,
ECOLOGY, AND SYSTEMATICS (BEES)
Speaker: Werner Callebaut
Limburgs Universitait Centrum, BELGIUM, and University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Title:
Evo-Devo: A Viennese Perspective
3:00 PM - PHYS 1201
Seventh Annual Fischell Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Andrew DePristo
President, GeneData AC (USA)
Title:
Traveling from Physics to Chemistry to Biology by Computer
For more info, see the Dean's website at: http://www.cmps.umd.edu/fischell-2002.htm
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: J. R. Jokipii
University of Tucson, AZ
Title:
A New Look at the Diffusive Acceleration of Cosmic Rays
Tuesday - April 2nd
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Robert J. Rubin
National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Title:
Statistical Dynamics of Coupled Harmonic Oscillators. What's new?
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC) & the
Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM))
Speaker: Shiyi Chen
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Title:
New Insights into Fluid Turbulence Using High-Resolution Numerical Simulations
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Tobias von Petersdorff
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Title:
Boundary Element Methods for Maxwell Equations in Lipschitz Domains
(This is joint work with A. Buffa, R. Hiptmair, C. Schwab.)
Wednesday - April 3rd
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 Coker
Boston University
Title:
Understanding Excited State Relaxation in Solution Quantum Treatment
Thursday - April 4th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Paulo Arratia
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Title: Spontaneous
Chaos in non-Newtonian Fluids
and
Speaker: Justin Lacombe
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Title: To be Announced
Friday - April 5th
Distinguished University Professor Lecture Series
Speaker: Sergei Novikov
Institute for Physical Science and Technology; Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Title:
Integable Systems in Modern Mathematics
Monday - April 8th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: George Sisco
Department of Astronomy, Boston University, MA
Title: The Global
Magnetosphere under Storm-Time Conditions
Tuesday - April 9th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Lydia L. Sohn
Department of Physics, Princeton University, NJ
Title: Nanoelectronic
Sensing: From Single Cells to Single Molecules
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC) &
the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM))
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speakers: Nail A. Gumerov and Ramani Duraiswami
Perceptual Interfaces and Reality Laboratory, UMIACS, UMCP
Title: Fast
Multipole Methods for the Helmholtz Equation: New Fast-Translation Operators
Wednesday - April 10th
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: Dr. Jeremy Broughton
Title: Science,
Statistics, Management and Finance: Is This a Career Path for Chemists and
Physicists?
Thursday - April 11th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Wayne Hayes
University of Toronto
Title: Shadowing the
gravitational N-body Problem
and
Speaker: Julio Friedman
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Sandstone
Injectites: A Geological Record of Granular Fluidization, Dynamic Crack
Propogation,
and Seismic Shaking
Monday - April 15th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Opher Ganel
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: The
"CREAM" Calorimeter Design
Tuesday - April 16th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Adrian Dragulescu
Department of Physics, UMCP
Title: Stock-market
Fluctuations: Theory versus Data
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC) &
the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM))
No Seminar
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: John Osborn
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Title: On Principles for
the Selection of Shape Functions for the Generalized Finite Element Method
Wednesday - April 17th
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: Lisa Lapidus
Laboratory for Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Title: Dynamics of
Elementary Structures in Protein Folding
Thursday - April 18th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Crystal Cooper
Title: Using Large
Member Ensembles to Study Regions of Local Low Dimensionality
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. T. J.
Bogdan
HAO, Colorado
Title:
High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research &
National Science Foundation
Tuesday - April 23rd
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ruxandra Dima
Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, UMCP
Title:
Surprising Instabilities in Proteins Related to Mad Cow Disease
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and
Scientific Program (AMSC) &
the Center for Scientific Computation and
Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
Speaker: Max Suarez
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD
Title:
Seasonal Climate Prediction at Goddard
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Cheng Wang
Department of Mathematics, Indiana
University
Title:
A Fourth-Order Numerical Solver for the Plane Geostrophic Equations Using
Staggered Grid
PHYS 1204 (Tool Lounge)
ANNUAL SHIH-I. PAI LECTURE
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410 (Physics Lecture Hall)
THE EIGHTH ANNUAL SHIH-I. PAI LECTURE IN
FLUID DYNAMICS AND PLASMA DYNAMICS
Speaker: Gregory
Barenblatt
University of California at Berkeley and
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title:
Turbulence: The Last Problem of Classical Physics, New Approach and Perspectives
Wednesday - April 24th
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: Ian Smith
University of Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM
Title: Chemistry among the
Stars: Reaction Kinetics at a New Frontier
Thursday - April 25th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Special IPST Seminar
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Allen Hunt
CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: Why Percolation
Theory is Necessary to Understand Water Retention, Unsaturated Flow, and
Solute Diffusion in Porous Media
and
Speaker: To be Announced
Title: To be Announced
Monday
- April 29th
11:00 AM - IPST 1116
Special IPST Seminar
INTERDISCIPLINARY
PROBLEMS in CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS
Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona
Friday - May 10th No
Seminars 1:30 PM - IPST 1116
Friday - May 24th
Tuesday - May 28th
(This series combines the former Statistical Physics and Chemical
Physics/Physical Chemistry Seminars)
Speaker: Murthy Gudipati
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Collisional Energy
Transfer Involving Atoms and Molecules en route Photochemically
Induced Energy Transfer
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. D. N. Baker
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: CLUSTER
Measurements of Space Plasmas in the Context of GlobalMultispacecraft
Observations:
The Telescope-Microscope Combination
Tuesday - April 30th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Herman Z. Cummins
Department of Physics, City College of New York
Title: Light-Scattering
Study of the Glass Transition in Salol: Effects of Translation-Rotation
Coupling
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC) &
the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM))
Speaker: Joan Centrella
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD
Title: Adaptive Mesh
Refinement in Numerical Relativity: An Enabling Technology for
Gravitational Wave Source Modeling
Wednesday - May 1st
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: Thomas Cundari
University of Memphis, TN
Title Adventures in
Modeling Transition Metals: Challenges, Solutions and Applications
Thursday - May 2nd
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Special IPST Seminar
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: Robert Leheny
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Title: Memory in an Aging
Structural Glass
and
Speaker: Kyuyong Lee
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Cell-Dendrite
transition
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
SPECIAL JOINT APPLIED MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
Speaker: Randolph E. Bank
Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Title: A New Paradigm for
Parallel Adaptive Meshing Algorithms
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (CHPS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Rescheduled; will be presented in the Conference "New Directions in
the Foundations of Physics",
May 3-5, at the American Institute of Physics in College Park. For the program
and other details, see
http://carnap.umd.edu/philphysics/calendar.html
Speaker: Orly Shenker
Philosophy, London School of Economics, UK
Title: Logic and Entropy
Friday - May 3rd
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM "AZIZ LECTURE"
Speaker: Randolph E. Bank
Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, La
Jolla, CA
Title: Multigrid: From
Fourier to Gauss
OFF-CAMPUS
Friday-Sunday - May 3rd - 5th
American Institute of Physics, College Park
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
(Co-sponsored by The Foundations of Physics Group affiliated with the
newly formed Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPaS)
For the program, abstracts of papers, and other information see
http://carnap.umd.edu/philphysics/calendar.html
Monday - May 6th
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: J. A. Slavin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Title:
Space Technology 5: Enabling Future Constellation Missions
Tuesday - May 7th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Boris Shraiman
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Title:
Statistical Mechanics and Transcription Control Networks
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
COMBINED: SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and
Scientific Program (AMSC) &
the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM))
and
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Phillip Colella
Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title:
Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Multiphysics Problems
Wednesday - May 8th
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: Jeanne Pemberton
Title:
New Approaches to Laboratory Studies of Heterogeneous Atmospheric Processes
Thursday - May 9th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
4:00 PM - PHYS 1410
DISTINGUISHED AMO THEORY LECTURE
Speaker: Keith Burnett
Department of Physics, Oxford University, UK
Title:
Industrial Strength Quantum Field Theory ("Entanglement in Evolving Bose-Einstein
Condensates")
Monday - May 13th
11:00 AM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL IPST SEMINAR
Speaker: Partha Mitra
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
Title: How Does the Zebra
Finch Learn to Sing?
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE and COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Tea & Cookies @ 4:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. K. McCracken
Visitor, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Cosmic Ray
Modulation in the Heliosphere During the Past 10,000 Years
Tuesday - May 14th
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Sheryl H. Erhman
Department of Chemical Engineering, UMCP
Title: "Nanobots Will
Kill Us All!" Big Questions about Small Particles
2:00 PM - MATH 3206
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR
(Sponsored by the Applied Mathematics and Scientific Program (AMSC) &
the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM))
Speaker: Klaus Schulten
Title: Physics of the
Kidney: How It Filters a Bathtub of Water a Day Without Letting a Proton Pass
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Kunibert Siebert
Institut fuer Angewandte Mathematik, Universitaet Freiburg, GERMANY (visiting
UMCP)
Title: Fully Localized A
Posteriori Error Estimators and Barrier Sets for Contact Problems
Thursday - May 16th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Special IPST Seminar
Two Twenty-Minute Talks
Speaker: David DeShazer
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: To be Announced
and
Speaker: Matt Ferguson
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Fluctuation Theorem
SPECIAL INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: William E. Eaton
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Title: Probing the Free
Energy Surface for Protein Folding with Single Molecule Fluorescence
Spectroscopy
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112 (MARKER ROOM)
Special Seminar (Sponsored by the
Center for Biological Structure and Organization)
Speaker: Helen
Saibil
Department of Crystallography, Birbeck
College, London, UK
Title:
Cryoelectron Microscopic Studies of the Allosteric Mechanism of Groel
10:00 AM - IPST 1116
Special IPST Seminar
Speaker: Chris Jarzynski
Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
Title: Microscopic
Response of a System Driven Far from Equilibrium
1:30 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Henk van Beijeren
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Title: The Uphill Turtle
Race: On the Short-Time Behavior of Nucleation Probabilities
Thursday, May 30th - Friday, May 31st
8:00 AM-4:30 PM - PHYS 1410
A Symposium in Honor of Bob Dorfman's 65th Birthday
"From Molecular Chaos in Dynamical Chaos"
Tuesday - June 4th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Katepalli Sreenivasan
Institute for Physical, Science and Technology, UMCP
Title: Effects of
Anisotropy on Scaling Turbulence