Week of August 29 - September 2, 2005
Too early -- No Seminars
Week of September 5 - 9, 2005
Fitzpatrick Center Seminar -- Tuesday (9/6) 4:00 PM, CIEMAS Auditorium A
John Simon (Duke): Investigation of Human Pigments Using FEL-PEEM: Applications to Hair, Brain and Eye. (abstract)
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (9/7) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk — Meet for lunch.
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (9/7) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Michael Fayer (Stanford): Dynamics of Molecular Complexes Probed with Ultrafast Infrared Nonlinear Experiments. (abstract)
Week of September 12 - 16, 2005
Fitzpatrick Center Seminar -- Tuesday (9/13) 4:00 PM, CIEMAS Auditorium A
Steven Jacques (Oregon Health & Science University): Mechanisms of Contrast for Optical Imaging in Medicine and Biology. (abstract)
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (9/14) Noon, 054 Physics
John Wambaugh (Behringer Group): Graph Percolation as an Analog to Granular Force Networks.
Week of September 19 - 23, 2005
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (9/21) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk — Meet for lunch.
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (9/21) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
John Rigden (Washington University): Einstein: The Standard of Greatness. (abstract)
Week of September 26 - 30, 2005
Neurobiology Invited Seminar -- Tuesday (9/27) Noon, 103 Bryan Research Bldg.
Lonnie Wollmuth (Stony Brook): Dynamics of synaptic transmission in layers 2/3 of the visual cortex. (Wollmuth web site)
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (9/27) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis): Jamming as a Critical Phenomenon: A Field Theory of Zero-Temperature Grain Packings.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (9/28) Noon, 054 Physics
Brian Tighe (Socolar Group): TBA
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (9/28) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Sally Dawson (Brookhaven Nat. Lab): Quantum Phase Transitions. (abstract)
Week of October 3 - 7, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (10/4) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Andrea Liu (Penn): CANCELLED
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (10/5) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk — Meet for lunch.
Week of October 10 - 14, 2005
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (10/12) Noon, 054 Physics
Brad Marts (Lin Group): TBA
Week of October 17 - 21, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (10/18) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
P.D. Wiedman (Colorado): On the Terminal Motion of Sliding Spinning Disks with Coulomb Friction.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (10/19) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk — Meet for lunch.
Nicholas School of Engineering Seminar -- Wednesday (10/19), Schiciano Aud., Side B
P.D. Wiedman (Colorado): Model Equations for the Eiffel Tower profile: Historical perspective and new results.
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (10/19) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Subir Sachdev (Harvard): Detecting Quantum Duality in Experiments: How Superfluids Become Solids in Two Dimensions. (abstract)
Week of October 24 - 28, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (10/25) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
R. Gilmore (Cornell): Control (or a lack thereof) of Electrical Alternans in Cardiac Tissue.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (10/26) Noon, 054 Physics
Matthias Sperl (Behringer Group): Glass Transition Singularities in Granular Systems.
Week of October 31 - November 4, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (11/1) == POSTPONED
Henry Greenside (Duke): How Do Songbirds Sing Those Blues? A Synfire Chain Model of Sparse Precise Bursting in Songbird Nucleus HVC.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (11/2) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk — Meet for lunch.
Special CNCS Seminar -- Thursday (11/3) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Annette Zippelius (University of Goettingen): Dynamics of Gelation.
Physics Colloquium -- SATURDAY (11/5) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Brian Foster (Cambridge): Physics and Violins. (abstract)
Week of November 7 - 11, 2005
Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (11/7) 4:30 PM, 120 Physics
Mauro Maggioni (Yale): Diffusion Wavelets for multiscale analysis on manifolds and graphs: constructions and applications. (math seminars site)
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (11/8) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Lingchong You (Duke): Synthetic Biology: Re-wiring a Bug's Life.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (11/9) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk — Meet for lunch.
Week of November 14 - 18, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (11/15) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Alex Oron (Technion): Longwave Marangoni Instability in Binary Liquids with the Soret Effect.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (11/16) Noon, 054 Physics
Carolyn Berger (Gauthier group): The Rip-Roarin' World of Cardiac Cells.
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (11/16) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Sol Gruner (Cornell): Lessons from biomolecules under pressure: How proteins react to being squeezed. (abstract)
Week of November 21 - 25, 2005
Thanksgiving Break
Week of November 28 - December 2, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (11/29) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Anna Lin (Duke): Spatial and Temporal Signaling Patterns in Isolated Neuron-Glia Networks.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (11/30) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk — Meet for lunch.
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (11/30) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Jack Sandweiss (Yale): Strangelets. (abstract)
Week of December 5 - 9, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (12/6) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Tom Kepler (Duke): Fluid organs and Phase Transitions in Immunity.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (12/7) Noon, 054 Physics
Eric Monson (Lin Group): Neuron/Glial Simulations
Week of December 12 - 16, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (12/13) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Ron Weiss (Princeton): Programming Collaborative Behavior and Pattern Formation in Synthetic Multicellular Systems
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (12/14) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk — Meet for lunch.