Week of August 30 - September 3, 2004
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (9/2) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Math Graduate/Faculty Seminar -- Friday (9/3) 4:30 PM, 120 Physics
Tom Witelski (Duke): The Mathematics of Nonlinear Diffusion Problems.
Week of September 6 - 10, 2004
Applied Math and Analysis Seminar -- Monday (9/6) 4:30 PM, 120 Physics
Sandra Wieland (Duke): Surfactant Laden Thin Film Flows: Nonnegative Solutions of a Coupled System. (More details)
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (9/8) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
T. James Symons (LBNL): Nature's Recipe for Nuclear Matter.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (9/9) Noon, 054 Physics
David Marks (Behringer Group): Searching for an Edwards Entropy Equilibrium.
Visualization Friday Forum -- Friday (9/10) Noon, D106 LSRC
Casey Alt (Duke): Re-Envisioning the Humanities: Information Visualization and Colaborative Academic Research. (More details on series) -- (Schedule & abstract)
Graduate Student Seminar -- Friday (9/10) 1:00 PM, 234 Physics
Bob Cook-Deegan: Careers in Science Policy.
Mind, Brain & Behavior Series -- Friday (9/10) 5:15 PM, LSRC Love Auditorium
C. R. Gallistel (Rutgers): An Information Processing Perspective on Conditioning. (More details)
Week of September 13 - 17, 2004
Computational Neuroscience Seminar -- Tuesday (9/14) 1:30 PM, 101L BRB
Henry D. I. Abarbanel (UCSD): Dynamical Model of Birdsong Maintanance and Control.
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (9/14) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Anael Lemaitre (UC Santa Barbara): Sum Rules for the Viso-Elastic Response of Disordered Solids at Zero Temperature.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (9/16) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience -- Thursday (9/16) 4:00 PM, CCN Conf Rm (B243) LSRC
George Augustine (Duke): Neuronal Mechanisms of Memory: Long-time synaptic depression.
Week of September 20 - 24, 2004
Fitzpatrick Center Photonics Seminar -- Tuesday (9/21) 4:15-5:15 PM, CIEMAS Auditorium B
Joseph N. Mait (US Army Research Lab): A New Vision of Imaging. Abstract
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (9/22) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Marlan Scully (Texas A&M): Quantum Erasers in Physics and Chemistry.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (9/23) Noon, 054 Physics
Brad Marts (Lin Group): Front Velocity and Phase Winding in a Belousov-Zhabotinsky Chemical Reaction.
Week of September 27 - October 1, 2004
Visiting Scientist Lecture Series -- Tuesday (9/28) Noon, 103 BRB
Gina Turrigiano (Brandeis): Homeostatic Plasticity in Developing Cortical Networks. (Proffesor Turrigiano's web page)
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (9/29) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Robert P. Behringer (Duke): The Scientist in the Sandbox: Inventing a New Statistical Mechanics.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (9/30) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Week of October 4 - 8, 2004
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (10/5) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Tom Witelski (Duke): The Coarsening Dynamics of Dewetting Fluid Films. (abstract)
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (10/7) Noon, 054 Physics
Jean-Philippe Matas (Behringer Group): Surface Instabilities in Vibrated Granular Media.
Pratt Engineering Seminar -- Friday (10/8) 10 AM-Noon, CIEMAS Auditorium A
Miles Padgett (Phys & Astron, U. Glasgow): Manipulating the Small things in Life: Optical Tweezers. (abstract)
Week of October 11 - 15, 2004
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (10/14) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Fitzpatrick Center Seminar — Friday (10/15) Noon–1 PM, D106 LSRC
Dr. Sha Xin Wei (Georgia Tech): Topological Media. (abstract)
Week of October 18 - 22, 2004
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (10/19) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Charles Doering (U of MI): High Rayleigh Number Convection in a Fluid Saturated Porous Layer. (abstract)
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (10/20) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Kurt Gibble (Penn State): Atomic Clocks.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (10/21) Noon, 054 Physics
Lucas Illing (Gauthier group): "Hopf bifurcations in time-delay systems with band-limited feedback"
Week of October 25 - 29, 2004
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (10/26) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Greg Forest (UNC Math): Hydrodynamics and the Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition: Consequences for Nano-Composite Material Properties. (abstract)
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (10/28) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Week of November 1 - 5, 2004
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (11/2) 2:45 PM, 113 Physics
Yohannes Shiferaw (UCLA): Subcellular Turing Instability Mediated by Voltage and Calcium Diffusion in Cardiac Cells. (abstract)
Fitzpatrick Center Seminar — Tuesday (11/2) 4:15–5:15 PM, CIEMAS Auditorium B
Sir John Pendry (Imperial College, London): The Perfect Lens: Resolution Beyond the Limits of Wavelength.
JHFC Wednesday Seminar -- Wednesday (11/3) Noon–1 PM, 240 Franklin Center
Scott Lindroth & Anya Belkina (Duke): Keynotes, Keyframes, Keystrokes, and Keyboards: Visual/Musical Media and Computer Based Technologies. (Lunch available starting at 11:45 AM.)
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (11/4) Noon, 054 Physics
Hana Dobrovolny (Gauthier Group): Action Potential and Conduction Velocity Restitution in Cardiac Tissue.
Week of November 8 - 12, 2004
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (11/9) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Mike Shearer (NCSU): Particle Size Segregation in Granular Avalanches. (abstract)
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (11/10) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Tony Thomas (Jefferson Lab): Hadronic Physics: From JLAB to the Early Universe and Beyond the Standard Model.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (11/11) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Computational Neuroscience Seminar -- Thursday (11/11) 5:00 PM, 101L Bryan Res. Bldg.
Craig Henriquez (Duke BME): From spikes to EEG: modeling the extracellular potential in clusters of neurons.
Anna Lin (Duke Physics): Quantifying signaling patterns in nerve and glia networks.
Week of November 15 - 19, 2004
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (11/16) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Martin Bazant (MIT): Cooperative Diffusion in Dense Granular Flow. (abstract)
Fitzpatrick Center Seminar — Tuesday (11/16) 4:00–5:00 PM, Room 203 Teer
Dr. Emil Wolf (of Born & Wolf—U. Rochester & Central Florida): YoungÕs Interference Experiment Two Hundred Years Later.
Fitzpatrick Center Seminar — Wednesday (11/17) 4:15–5:15 PM, CIEMAS B
Dr. Emil Wolf (of Born & Wolf—U. Rochester & Central Florida): Scientists Who Created the World of Optics.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (11/18) Noon, 054 Physics
Matthias Sperl (Behringer Group): Rainbows, Coffee Mugs and Glass Transition Singularities.
Fitzpatrick Center Seminar — Thursday (11/18) 1:30–2:30 PM, Location TBA
Dr. Aloyse Degiron (Université Louis Pasteur): Enhanced Optical Transmission Through Subwavelength Apertures.
Society of Duke Fellows Presents — Friday (11/19) 6:00 PM, Bryan Center, Griffith Theater
Arnold Schoenberg: Celebrating Life and Art of the Great Composer with Nuria Schoenberg Nono, Stefan Litwin, Borromeo String Quartet. (Admission Free)
Week of November 22 - 26, 2004
Computational Neuroscience Informal Discussion — CANCELLED, may reschedule...
Nick Bentley (Salinas Lab, Wake Forest): Gain modulation as a feature of neural network computation.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (11/25) Noon, 054 Physics
No Meeting -- Cancelled for Thanksgiving.
Week of November 29 - December 3, 2004
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (11/30) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Matthias Sperl (Duke): Glass Transitions in Colloidal Systems. (abstract)
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (12/1) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Neil deGrasse Tyson (Director, Hayden Planetarium): America's Future in Space.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (12/2) Noon, 054 Physics
Peidong Yu (Behringer Group): TBA.
Week of December 6 - December 10, 2004
Physics Holiday Party -- Monday (12/6) 12–2:00 PM
Von Canon Rooms -- Bryan Center sub-ground level. Buffet Lunch & Entertainment.
Condensed Matter Seminar -- Thursday (12/9) 11:00 AM, 234 Physics
Mansour Shayegan (Princeton): Electrons in Unusual Flatlands. (abstract)
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (12/9) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.