IPST Weekly Calendar/Spring 2003
Friday,
January 3rd
CSS 2324
Sagdeev at 70 – A Celebration Symposium
on Science and Security Sagdeev’s Legacy
A G E N D A
Welcoming: William Kirwan, William Destler, Steve Halperin
Session I: 9:30 – 12:30 (Marshall Rosenbluth, Chair)
Daniel Goldin, Riccardo Giacconi, Samuel Ting, Thomas Graham, Jumber Lominadze
Lunch
Session II: 1:30 – 4:30 (Dennis Papadopoulos, Chair)
Richard Garwin, Charles Kennel, Frank Von Hippel, Bruno Coppi, Jordan Goodman,
Katepalli Sreenivasan
6:30 Reception - 7:30 Banquet
Chuan Liu, MC
The Inn and Conference Center, University Boulevard at Adelphi Road
Saturday, January 4th
Session III: 9:00 – 1:00
Patrick Diamond, Dmitri Ryutov, Boris Braizmann, Misha Malkov, Valentin
Shevchenko, Vitali Shapiro, George Zaslavsky,
Further information on the above seminars
is obtainable by sending questions to phys-chair@umail.umd.edu.
Thursday
- January 16th
1:15 PM (NOTE SPECIAL DAY!!)
IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: David R. Nelson
Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University
Topic: Localized
States and Biophysics
Tuesday
- January 21st
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar
Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM) Joint with
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Ian Sloan
University of New South Wales, Australia
Topic:
Good Approximations on the Sphere, with Applications to Geodesy and the
Scattering of Sound
Please visit:
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/New/seminars/AY2003/1-21-03%20seminar%20anncmnt.pdf
to view the abstract
CSCAMM is located in
the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and G2 parking
lot
Tuesday - January 28th
3:00 PM - AVWilliams Conference Room 2460 (ECE Department)
SPECIAL ELECTROPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: N. S. Kopeika
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Ben Gurion University, Beer
Sheva, ISRAEL
Topic:
Atmospheric Effects on Optical Wireless Communication
3:30PM - Colloquium
Room of the Mathematics Department - MTH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Georgios
Zouraris
University of the Aegean, Greece
Topic:
Finite element methods for elliptic PDEs with stochastic coefficients
Wednesday - January 29th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Pierre Gremaud
Topic:
Numerical and Mathematical Issues in Bulk Solid Handling
To view the Abstract, please visit
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/New/seminars/AY2003/1-29-03%20seminar%20anncmnt.pdf
Please contact dbanks@cscamm.umd.edu if you would like to meet with Dr. Gremaud
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams
Bldg and G2 parking lot
4:00
PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker: Akihiro Furube
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
Topic:
Ultrafast Stepwise Electron Injection From Ru-Complex Dye into the
Conduction Band of ZnO
Monday
- February 3rd
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS
SEMINAR
Speaker:
Chandan Dasgupta
Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, INDIA
Topic:
Mound Formation and Coarsening in Surface Growth
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Pedro Morin
Universidad Nacional del Litoral,
Aregentina
Topic:
Finite Element Methods for Surface Diffusion
Wednesday - February 5th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar
Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Next Seminar is February 19th
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the
new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and G2 parking lot
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND
PHYSICS
Speaker:
Andrei F. Kostko
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
Competition of Mesoscales in the Static and Dynamic Behavior of Polymer
Solutions
Thursday - February 6th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Two twenty-minute talks
Speaker:
Jim Yorke
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic
Learning about Reality from Observation
and
Speaker: Romulus Breban
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic
Scaling Properties of the Indeterminate Saddle-Node Bifurcation
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES
(CPaS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Speaker:
Andrew Elby
Physics Education. University
Topic:
What Science Education Researchers Talk about when They Talk about
"Epistemology":
An
Introduction to Students' Views of Knowledge
Friday - February 7th
3:00 P.M - MATH 3206
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker:
Katepalli Sreenivasan
Director,
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland,
College Park
Topic:
To be Announced
Monday
- February 10th Monday
- February 17th CSCAMM
is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and
G2 parking lot Friday
- February 21st
CSCAMM/IPST
Joint Workshop
9:00AM
- 5:30PM - CSIC 4122
"Singulalrities
in Eulerian Dynamics. Experiments, Theory and Numerics"
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/programs/sng03/
Monday
- February 24th
Monday
- March GIBBS
DOUBLE CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM Thursday
- March 6th
GIBBS
DOUBLE CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM and
Monday
– March 10th
Monday – March 17th
Wednesday
- March 26th (Note: Special Day)
Monday
- March
31st
Monday
- 14th April Monday – April 21st 4:00 PM - CHEM 0112 Monday – April 28th 3:30 PM - LPS - 8050 Greenmead Drive
(Seminar Room, Lower Level) Monday – May 5th Wednesday
- May 7th Friday,
May 9th Monday
– May 12th *************************
Wednesday - May 21st
Friday - May 23rd
************************* Tuesday
- May 20th
1:15
PM - IPST 1116 Thursday
- May 22nd
12:15
PM - ENERGY RES 1207
4:30
PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: J. W. Gjerloev
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Topic:
On Relating Auroral Emissions and Ionospheric Electrodynamics
Tuesday - February 11th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Alsadair C. Steven
Laboratory of Structural Biology Research,
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and
Skin Disorders
(NIAMS), Bethesda, MD
Topic:
Phase Transitions in Prions and Viruses and their Functional Implications
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Andreas Veeser
University of Freiburg, Germany
Topic: A
Posteriori Error Estimates, Averaging, and Superconvergence
Wednesday - February 12th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room
4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING
(CSCAMM Seminar)
Next Seminar is February 19th
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new
CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and G2 parking lot
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND
PHYSICS
Speaker: Keith Schwab
Laboratory for Physical Sciences University of
Maryland, College Park
Topic:
Quantum Effects in Nano-Mechanical Devices
Thursday - February 13th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dan Lathrop
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
Singularities in Fluid Flow
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES (CPaS)
COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2002
Speaker: Carl Craver
Philosophy Department, Washington University, St.
Louis, MO
Topic:
Cognitive Neuroscience and the Dissociable Self
Friday - February 14th
12:00 NOON - Biol-Psych Building, Room 1208
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES (CPaS)COLLOQUIUM
SERIES 2002
With Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS)
Speaker: Carl Craver
Philosophy Department, Washington University, St.
Louis, MO
Topic:
Remembering Mechanisms: The
Long-Term Discovery of Long-Term Potentiation
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
No Seminar – Presidents’ Day
Tuesday - February 18th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Rogerio de Sousa
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic: Spin Echoes and Coherence for
Quantum Computation
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: J. Rappaz
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Topic: Modeling, Analysis and
Numerical Simulation of Motions of a Glacier
Wednesday - February 19th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Ramani
Duraiswami
UMIACS, UMCP
Topic: Creating Virtual Audio via
Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker: John
Fourkas
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Topic: Seeing and Shaping the
Microscopic World with Multiphoton Absorption
Thursday - February 20th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Itai Cohen
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Topic: The Shear Excitement of
Confined Colloidal Particles
and
Speaker: Greg
Bewley
Yale University, New Haven, CT and University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Rotating Grid Turbulence
in Cryogenic Fluids
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
JOINT PDE/APPLIED MATH AND WAVELET/HARMONIC ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Eitan Tadmor
CSCAMM, IPST and Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic: On a New Scale of
Regularity Spaces for Incompressible Euler Equations
4:30
PM CSS 2400
SPACE
AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Miriam A. Forman
State
University of New York at Stony Brook
Topic:
Introduction to Intermittent Turbulence with Solar Wind Velocity as an Example
Tuesday
- February 25th
1:15
PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL
STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Joanna Aizenberg
Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, NJ
Topic:
Biologically-formed Single Crystals: Architecture, Mechanics, Optics and
Biomimetics
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
E. Darrigrand
University
of Delaware
Topic:
Coupling of Fast Multipole Method and Microlocal Discretization For the Integral
Equations of Electromagnetism
Wednesday
- February 26th
2:00
PM CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC
COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Next CSCAMM Seminar is March 5, 2003
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM
is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and
G2 parking lot
3:30
PM - LPS (Seminar Room, Lower Level)
LABORATORY
FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park
For
more information please contact George Metze: metze@eng.umd.edu
Speaker:
Ellen D. Williams
Department
of Physics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures
4:00
PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR
IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker:
Will Hines
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Topic:
Characterizing Single Antibody-Antigen Interactions and Fluorescence Dynamics
with
a Combined Confocal and Atomic Force Microscope
Thursday
- February 27th
12:15
PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
To be Announced
Topic:
To be Announced
and
Speaker:
Justin Stambaugh
University
of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
Pattern Formation in a Monolayer of Magnetic Spheres
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: L. J.
Lanzerotti
Lucent Technologies, NJ
Topic:
A Decadal Survey in Solar & Space Physics
Tuesday - March 4th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS
SEMINAR
NO TUESDAY INFORMAL SEMINAR - SEE
GIBBS DOUBLE SYMPOSIUM BELOW
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Alfio
Quarteroni
Topic:
To be Announced
Wednesday - March 5th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar
Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Dr. Ramani
Duraiswami
UMIACS, UMCP
Topic:
Creating virtual audio via Scientific Computing and Mathematical
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the
new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and G2 parking lot
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND
PHYSICS
Next Seminar March 12th
Wednesday
- March 5th
4:00-6:00 PM - PHYS 1410
Speaker: Professor Ole Knudsen
Department of History, Aarhus University, Denmark
Speaker: Professor Robert W. Batterman
Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University
For further information please contact:
Michael E. Fisher (301)405-4819
Web site: www.ipst.umd.edu/gibbs.pdf
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
(The format for this seminar includes
lunch and one talk that emphasizea applicable dynamics.)
Speaker: To be Announced
Topic:
To e Announced
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Thursday, March 6th
4:00-6:00 PM - PHYS 1410
Speaker: Dr. Johanna Levelt Sengers
NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
Speaker: Professor C. David Levermore
Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
UMCP
For further information please contact:
Michael E. Fisher (301)405-4819
Web site: www.ipst.umd.edu/gibbs.pdf
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. D. K.
Haggerty
JHU/APL, MD
Topic:
Solar Electrons
Tuesday – March 11th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS
SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. David
Fushman
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMCP
Topic:
Conformation and Dynamics of Polyubiquitin Chains
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Alan Demlow
Cornell University
Topic:
Properties of Mixed Finite Element Methods
for Elliptic Problems
Wednesday - March 12th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar
Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Dr. Xiangdong
Ji
Dept. of Physics, UMCP
Topic:
Lattice QCD for Pedestrians
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the
new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and G2 parking lot
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND
PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. Oleg
Lavrentovich
Kent State
Topic:
Three-Dimensional Non-destructive Imaging of Orientational Order in Soft Matter
by
Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy
Thursday - March 13th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Jong-Won
Kim
Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems,
Dresden
Topic:
Effects of Random Noise on a Simple Class of Growing Network Models
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
2:00-3:30 PM - PHYSICS 1201
CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. James W.
Davenport
Center for Data Intensive Computing,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Topic:
Surface Magnetism
IPST COLLOQUIUM
1:00 PM - IPST Building, Room 1116
Speaker: David Sherrington
Oxford University
Topic: Magnets, Microchips, Memories and Markets; Statistical Physics of Complex Systems
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. A. Harding
NASA/GSFC
Topic: Gamma-Ray Bursts
Tuesday - March 18th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Martin Greiner
Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
Topic: Complex Wireless Communication Networks-An Applied Statistical Physics View
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: Andreas Prohl
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Topic: Numerical Analysis of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Wednesday - March 19th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
No Seminar
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and G2 parking lot
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker: Dr. John Gillaspy
NIST
Topic: From EUV Lithography to the Quantum Vacuum: The Physics and Applications of Highly Charged Ions
Thursday - March 20th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Michael Newey
Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, UMCP
Topic: Pattern Formation in a Rotating Drum of Sand Mixtures
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Friday - March 21st
IPST COLLOQUIUM
3:00 PM - IPST Building, Room 1116
Speaker: Charles Doering
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Topic: Bounds on Turbulent Transport
1:15 PM - IPST 1116INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS
SEMINAR
Speaker: Professor Vijay S. Pande
Departments of Chemistry and Structural Biology, Stanford University
Topic: FOLDING@HOME: Using Equilibrium
and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and 100,000 CPUs
to Tackle Difficult Problems in Computational Biophysics"
4:30
PM - CSS 2400
SPACE
AND COSMIC-RAY PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Dr. M. Swisdak
Institute
for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, UMCP
Topic:
Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere
Tuesday
- April 1st
1:15
PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL
STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Rogerio de Sousa
Department
of Physics, UMCP
Topic:
Spin Echoes and Coherence for Quantum Computation
3:30
PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker:
C. T. Kelley
Department
of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
Topic:
Design of Groundwater Remediation Systems with Sampling Method
Wednesday
- April 2
2:00
PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC
COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker:
Dr. Shi Jin
Department
of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Topic:
Computations of Multivalued Solutions of Nonlinear PDEs
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM
is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and
G2 parking lot
4:00
PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR
IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker:
Professor Bob Eisenberg
Department
of Molecular Biophysics, Rush University, Chicago, IL
Topic:
Ion Channels as Natural Nanotubes Electrostatics of Crowded Charge
Implies Biological Selectivity
and Permeation
Thursday
- April 3rd
12:15
PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED
DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Paul Melby
Department
of Physics, Georgetown University
Topic:
The Depletion Force in Bidisperse Granular Media:
A New Mechanism for Segregation
and
Speaker:
J. T. Halbert
University
of Maryland
Topic:
The Hyperbolic Dynamics of a Taffy-Pulling Machine:
In search of a physical example of a Plykin Attractor
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Friday
- April 4th
11:00
AM - Computer Science Instructional Center
CSIC
Bldg. #406 - Room 3117
Speaker:
Benjamin Schumacher
Department
of Physics, Kenyon College, Ohio
Topic:
What is Information?
Monday – April 7th
CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM)SPECIAL WORKSHOP
April
7-11, 2003
"Perspectives
on incompressible flows. Comparison
of different computational strategies".
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday – April 8th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS
SEMINAR
Professor Libchaber's lecture had to be
cancelled; a replacement lecture is being sought.
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday – April 9th
2:00 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Dr. Christopher Jarzynski
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Topic:
Targeting Schemes for Free Energy Computation
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar
Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL
MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
See Monday Above – Special Workshop -
April 7-11
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the
new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and G2 parking lot
4:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 Room 1115
8th Annual Robert Fischell Lecture
Speaker:
Dr. Robert Fischell
Topic:
Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the Treatment of
Epilepsy, Heart Attacks
and Migraine Headaches"
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND
PHYSICS
Speaker:
Professor Jeff Saven
Department of Chemistry, University of
Pennsylvania
Topic:
Stacking the Deck in Games with Proteins:
Toward a statistical theory of sequence ensembles
and combinatorial protein design
Thursday – April 10th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Professor Jim Drake
Department of Physics, UMCP
Topic:
Magnetic Reconnection
and
Speaker:
To be Announced
Topic:
To be Announced
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
4:00 PM -
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES
(CPaS)
Speaker: Don
Howard
Philosophy Department, Notre Dame
University
Topic:
Who Invented the Copenhagen Interpretation? A Study in Mythology
1:00 pm - IPST 1116
IPST COLLOQUIUM
Speaker:
Alan Newell
University of Arizona
Topic:
Wave Turbulence and Intermittency
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY
SEMINAR
Speaker:
A. Smith
University of Maryland,
College Park
Topic:
Searching for Gamma-Ray Bursts with MILAGRO
Tuesday - 15th April
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL
PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Eve D. Ostriker
Department
of Astronomy, UMCP
Topic:
Star Formation: The Big
Picture
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
SEMINAR
No Seminar
Wednesday - 16th
April
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg.
#406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION
and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker:
Wei Cai
University of North
Carolina
Topic:
Numerical Methods for Maxwell's Equations in Inhomogeneous Media
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in
the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and G2 parking
lot
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN
INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker:
George Shields
Hamilton College,
Clinton, NY
Topic:
Overview of Chemical Physics Research at Hamilton:
Accurate pKA Calcuations in Aqueous
Solution, Progress and
Challenges
Thursday - 17th
April
APPLIED DYNAMICS
SEMINAR
Speaker:
C. David
Levermore
Department of
Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Entropy-Based Closures of Stochastic Dynamics
and
Speaker:
Ian Frommer
University of Maryland
Topic:
A Simple Model of Computer Network Flow
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
COMMITTEE FOR
PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES (CPaS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2003
Speaker:
Nancy Hall
Department of
Philosophy, UMCP
Topic:
R. A. Fisher and Randomized Experimental
Design
4:00 PM - CHEM 1407
BIOPHYSICS GROUP SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Carlos Bustamante
University of California, Berkeley
Topic: Unfolding of a Single RNA Molecule by Force
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: D. Mitchell
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD
Topic: Recent
Results from the IMAGE Spacecraft
Tuesday – April 22nd
11:00 AM - CHEM 0112
BIOPHYSICS GROUP SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Carlos Bustamante
University of California, Berkeley
Topic: Grabbing the Cat by the Tail:
Studies of the Packaging of DNA by Single Phi29 Bacteriophage
Particles Using Optical Tweezers
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Corey S.
O’Hern
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
Topic: Effective
Temperatures in Systems near Jamming
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Speaker: David Silvester
University of Manchester
Topic: Error
Estimation and Adaptivity of Eliptic PDEs
BIOPHYSICS GROUP SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr. Carlos Bustamante
University of California, Berkeley
Topic: Measuring the Torsional
Rigidity of DNA: An old problem with a new twist
Wednesday – April 23rd
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Woclech Czaja
Department of Mathematics, UMCP
Topic:
Singularity Detection in Images Using Dual Local Autocovariance
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams
Bldg and G2 parking lot
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker: Roger Van
Boeyen
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic: Measuring
the Correlated Motion of Atomic Electrons
Thursday - April 24th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Colin Denniston
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Topic:
Signatures of Jamming in Granular Flows
and
Speaker: Juliana Oprea
Colorado State University
Topic: Transition
from Kinematic to Dynamic Regime in an Intermediate Convective Dynamo Model
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
12:00 NOON - Biology/Psychology 1208
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES (CPaS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2003
(Co-sponsored with BEES)
Speaker: Michael R. Dietrich
Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, NH
Topic:
Keeping Time: Probability, Mechanisms, and the Molecular Clock
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
No Seminar
Tuesday – April 29th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Alan Finkelstein
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
Topic:
Protein Translocation Associated with Channel Gating
2:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR (joint with PDE and Applied Math Seminar)
Speaker:
Daniel Kessler
University of Maryland, College Park
Topic:
Phase-field Models: A Parameter Hell
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
4:00 PM* - PHYS 1410
NINTH ANNUAL SHIH-I. PAI LECTURE IN FLUID DYNAMICS AND PLASMA DYNAMICS
Speaker: David Ruelle
Institut des Hautes, Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
Topic:
Statistical Mechanics far from Equilibrium:
Towards a General Theory
Wednesday – April 30th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Robert Pego
Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and
Topic:
Domain Coarsening - Modeling Analysis and a Bit of Computation
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams
Bldg and G2 parking lot.
3:00 PM - MATH 3206
SPECIAL MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: David Ruelle
Institut des Hautes, Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
Topic:
First- and Second-Order Perturbation: Calculations in Smooth Ergodic
Theory
LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR
Speaker: Wendell T. Hill
Institute for Physical Science and Technology (affilliated with the Department
of Physics), UMCP
Topic: Neutral Atom Hollow Light
Guides
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Speaker:
X. Sunney Xie
Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Topic:
Probing Single Enzyme Molecules at Work
Thursday – May 1st
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Gijs Ooms
Director, Burgers Center, The Netherlands
Topic:
Effect of Particle Inertia on the Turbulence in a Suspension
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Friday – May 2nd thru Sunday – May 4th
The American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD
"New Directions in the Foundations of Physics: A Memorial Conference
for Rob Clifton (1964-2002)
Speakers include:
Jeffrey Bub, Michael Dickson, Hans Halverson, Lucien Hardy, Adrian Kent,
David Malament, Itamar Pitowsky, Laura Ruetsche, Rob Spekkers, and Jos Uffink
Sponsored by the COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES (CPaS), Foundations
of Physics Group, University of Maryland, the Department of History and
Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy
of Science (for further information contact Jeffrey Bub at:
jbub@carnap.umd.edu)
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker:
G. Denolfo
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD
Topic
:Recent Results from the ACE/CRIS Experiment
Tuesday – May 6th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS
SEMINAR
Speaker:
Jan V. Sengers
Institute for Physical Science and
Technology, UMCP
Topic:
Thermal Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Fluid Layers below the Rayleigh-Benard
Convective Instability
3:00 PM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL IPST COLLOQUIUM
Speaker:
Bruce Margon
Space Telescope Science Institute,
Baltimore, MD
Topic:
The Universe in Ten Terabytes: Initial
Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
(joint with PDE and Applied Math Seminar)
Speaker:
Daniel B. Szyld
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Topic:
Convergence of Inexact Krylov Subspace Methods
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
2:00PM - CSIC 406, Room 4122
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker: Dr. Tai-Ping
Liu
Stanford University
Topic: Gas Flows with Shocks
4:00 PM* - IPST 1116
SEMINAR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY AND
PHYSICS
Speaker:
Mostafa El-Sayed
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Topic:
Small is Different; Some Interesting Properties of Material Confined to the
Nanometer Scale of Different Shapes
Thursday – May 8th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
Sergey M. Bezrukov
NICHD, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD
Topic:
Stochastic Resonance as a Consequence of Improved Statistics
and
Speaker:
Eric Kostelich
Topic:
To be Annunced
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
4:00 PM - IPST 1116
COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES
(CPaS) COLLOQUIUM SERIES 2003
Speaker:
Laura Perini
Department of Philosophy, Virginia
Institute of Technology
Topic:
The Truth in Pictures
For an abstract of the talk, see:
http://carnap.umd.edu/cpas/events.html
IPST Colloquium
1:00–2:00 PM – IPST 1116
Speaker: Alian Bensoussan
University Paris-Dauphine
Topic: Linear Random Functionals
and Applications to Stochastic Partial Differential Equation
4:30 PM - CSS 2400
SPACE AND COSMIC-RAY SEMINAR
Speaker: J. Klimchuk
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Topic
Heating of Coronal Loops
Tuesday - May 13th
1:15 PM - IPST 1116
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Sergey Leiken
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of
Health, Bethesda
Topic:
Biophysics of Brittle Bones and Hypertensive Joints:
New Lessons from Collagen Studies
3:30 PM - MATH 3206
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR
(joint with PDE and Applied Math Seminar)
Speaker:
Mario Ohlberger
University of Freiburg, GERMANY
Topic:
Robust a posteriroi error estimates for Convection Dominated Weakly
Coupled Parabolic Systems
http://www.math.umd.edu/dept/seminars/nas
Wednesday - May 14th
2:00 PM - CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING (CSCAMM Seminar)
Speaker:
Hailiang Liu
Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
Topic:
KdV Dynamics in the Plasma-Sheath Transition
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the new CSIC
Thursday - May 15th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Paul So
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Topic:
To be Announced
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Friday - May 16th
11:00 AM - IPST 1116
SPECIAL STATISTICAL MECHANICS SEMINAR
Speaker:
M. H. Ernst
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
Topic:
Anomalous Stationary Solutions of the Nonlinear Boltzmann Equation for
Inelastic Systems:
Stretched and Compressed Gaussians
Monday-Friday - May 19th-23rd
CSIC Bldg. #406 (CSCAMM Seminar Room 4122)
SCIENTIFIC
COMPUTATION and MATHEMATICAL MODELING
A Workshop on "Analysis
and Numerics for Modeling Semiconductor Devices and Biological Channels”
Registration limited:
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/programs/smc03/rsvp.htm
Directions: www.cscamm.umd.edu/directions
Additional Info at:
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/programs/smc03
See attachment below:
http://www.ipst.umd.edu/AnalNum4ModlgSemiconDevAndBio.pdf
Monday - May 19th
9:55 Eitan
Tadmor - Welcome Remarks
10:00-10:45
Carl Gardner (Arizona State)
"Recent Results for (1) The Smooth
Quantum Hydrodynamic Model for Semiconductor Devices, &
(2)
An Electro-diffusion Model of the Biological Channel"
11:00-11:45 Dave
Levermore (Maryland)
"Transition Regime Models for
Semiconductor Devices"
2:00-2:45 Igor
Zutic (Maryland)
"Semiconductor
Spintronics"
3:00-3:45 Jian-Guo
Liu (Maryland)
"Ground State of Nonlinear
Schrodinger Equation as a Limit of a Gradient Flow"
4:15-5:00
Irene Gamba (Texas at Austin)
"Quantum charged transport
and the boundary value problem"
Tuesday
– May 20th
10:00-10:45
Robert Eisenberg (Rush Medical Center, Chicago)
"Ion
Channels, Devices of Molecular Biology"
11:00-11:45
Wolfgang Nonner (Miami)
"Current
in ion channels described as drift-diffusion of charged hard spheres"
2:00-2:45
Giovanni Russo (Universita di Catania)
"Hydrodynamical
models for semiconductor device simulation"
3:00-3:45
Hailiang Liu (Iowa State)
"Critical
Thresholds in Euler-Poisson Equations and Related Models"
4:15-5:00
Discussion: "Hydrodynamic
versus kinetic theory approaches to semiconductor device modeling"
Moderators: Carl Gardner and Dave
Levermore
10:00-10:45
Marco Saraniti (Illinois Institute of Technology)
"Particle-Based
Simulation of Ionic Charge Transport through Biological Ion Channels:
Numerical Issues"
11:00-11:20
Sergei Sukharev (Maryland)
"Mechanosensitive channels: a
multidimensional approach"
11:30-12:00
Yasmin Dolak (Vienna University of Technology)
"A Kinetic Theory Approach
to Resolving the Chemotactic Wave Paradox"
2:00-5:00
Open for Discussion
Thursday - May 22nd
10:00-10:45 Lorenzo
Pareschi (Universita di Ferrara)
"Numerical
methods in quantum kinetic theory"
11:00-11:45
Hailiang Li (Osaka University)
"Quantum hydrodynamical model for semiconductors"
2:00-2:45
Ingenuin Gasser (Universitat Hamburg)
"On
the Relation between Different Macroscopic Semiconductor Models"
3:00-3:45
Matthias Gobbert (Maryland, Baltimore County)
"Numerical
Simulations of the Boltzmann Transport Equation for Applications in
Microelectronics
Manufacturing"
4:15-5:00
Open for Discussion
10:00-10:45
Umberto Ravaioli (Illinois)
"Adaptation
of Computational Electronics approaches for Transport Simulation of Ionic
Channels"
11:00-11:45
Fabio Chalub (University of Vienna)
"Kinetic
models for Chemotaxis"
11:45 Closing Remarks
http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/
CSCAMM is located in the 4th floor of the
new CSIC Bldg., between A V Williams Bldg and G2 parking lot
INFORMAL STATISTICAL PHYSICS/BIOPHYSICS
SEMINAR
Speaker:
Albert J. Libchaber
Laboratory for Experimental Condensed
Matter, Rockefeller University, New York
Topic:
Some Physics Techniques for Biology
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: James
Yorke
Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Departments of Mathematics and
Physics, UMCP
Topic:
To be Announced
and
Speaker: Brian Hunt
Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Mathematics,
UMCP
Topic:
To be Announced
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/talks/
Thursday
- June 5th
12:15 PM - ENERGY RES 1207
APPLIED DYNAMICS SEMINAR
Speaker: Nikolaj Nawri
Department of Meteorology, UMCP
Title:
Basic Interactions of Vortex Formation