Week of February 2-6, 2004

Physics Colloquium -- Monday (2/2) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics

Jordan Gerton (Caltech): Playing With Lightning: Tip-Enhanced Fluorescence Microscopy at 10 nm Resolution.

Applied Math Seminar -- Monday (2/2) 4 PM, 120 Physics

Michael Reed (Duke): Mathematics and Cell Metabolism.

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (2/3) 2:15 PM, 113 Physics

Michael Marder (U Texas): How Things Break.

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (2/5) Noon, 234 Physics

Anand Jayaraman: Spatiotemporal Chaos in the Rayleigh Benard Convection System.

Week of February 9-13, 2004

Physics Colloquium -- Monday (2/9) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics

Guillaume Gervais (Columbia & NHMFL): NMR in Flatland and With Too Few Spins.

Applied Math Seminar -- Monday (2/9) 4 PM, 120 Physics

Kristian Jenssen (NC State): Compressible and heat conductive flows with large data and symmetry.

Fitzpatrick Center Photonics Seminar -- Tuesday (2/10) 4:00-5:30 PM, 130 A North Building

Charles M. Falco (U Arizona): The Science of Optics: The History of Art. Abstract

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (2/12) Noon, 054 Physics

No talk -- Meet for lunch

Week of February 16-20, 2004

Applied Math Seminar -- Monday (2/16) 4 PM, 120 Physics

J. Thomas Beale (Duke): Computing with Singular and Nearly Singular Integrals.

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (2/19) Noon, 054 Physics

Josh Socolar (Duke): Penrose tiling and my linux screensaver citation.

NeuroBio: Visiting Scientist Series -- Thursday (2/19) 4 PM, 103 BRB

Astrid Prinz (Brandeis): Using model databases to study complex systems - A brute force approach to neurons and circuits.

NeuroBio: Frontiers in Neuroscience Series -- Friday (2/20) Noon, 103 BRB

Mike Ehlers (Duke): Secretory organelles, mRNA splicing, and trafficking mechanisms to the synapse.

Week of February 23-27, 2004

Physics Colloquium -- Monday (2/23) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics

Min Ouyang (UCSB): Coherent Spin Memory and Transfer in Chemically Synthesized Semiconductor Quantum Dots. Abstract

Fitzpatrick Center Photonics Seminar -- Tuesday (2/24) 4:00 PM, 130 A North Building

Ashutosh Chilkoti (Duke BME): Nanoscale Optical Biosensors. Abstract

Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (2/25) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics

Shailesh Chandrasekharan (Duke): Quantum Field Theories on a Computer. Abstract

Condensed Matter Seminar -- Thursday (2/26) 11:00 AM, 234 Physics

Martina Hentschel (Duke) The Mesoscopic X-ray Edge Problem. Abstract

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (2/26) Noon, 054 Physics

No talk -- Meet for lunch

Special Engineering Seminar -- Thursday (2/26) 4:00 PM, Love Auditorium (LSRC)

Bob Richardson (Duke grad & Nobel Laureate): Innovative Science -- Charlatans and Geniuses

Computational Neurobiology Seminar -- Friday (2/27) 4:00 PM, 103 BRB

James Bower (U Texas, San Antonio): Does the olfactory system detect chemicals or odors?

Week of March 1-5, 2004

Applied Math Seminar -- Monday (3/1) 4:00 PM, 120 Physics

Michael Shearer (NC State): Wave structures in the flow of driven thin liquid films: Kinetics and nucleation in scalar conservation laws.

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (3/2) 2:15 PM, 113 Physics

Andrew Belmonte (Penn State): Learning by Dropping: Motion in Self-Assembling Elastic Fluids

Computational Neurobiology Seminar -- Wednesday (3/3) 2:00 PM, 103 BRB

Larry Abbott (Brandeis): Scale-Invariant Dynamics in Neural Systems

Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (3/3) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics

Arlie Petters (Duke & MIT): Violation of the Magnification Theorem in Gravitational Lensing.

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (3/4) Noon, 234 Physics

CANCELLED

Physics Colloquium (nanophysics) -- Thursday (3/4) 4:00 PM, 114 Physics

Henry Everitt (ARO & Duke): Phonons and Plasmons and Excitons - Taming the beasts that roam the nano-landscape.

Week of March 8-12, 2004

Spring Break -- No Seminars

Week of March 15-19, 2004

Special CNCS Seminar -- Monday (3/15) 2:00 PM, 054 Physics

Denis Fenistein (University of Leiden): Wide and universal shear zones in granular materials.

Applied Math Seminar -- Monday (3/15) 4 PM, 120 Physics

Arthur J. Krener (UC Davis): Control Bifurcations

Plain old vanilla CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (3/16) 2:15 PM, 113 Physics

Oliver Steinbock (Florida State): Spatio-temporal dynamics of corrosion and precipitation systems.

Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (3/17) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics

Stephen Quake (Caltech): Logic, Topology and Pattern Formatioin in Complex Fluids.

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (3/18) Noon, 054 Physics

Journal Article Discussion: Emergence of scaling in random networks, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Reka Albert, Science 286, 509-512 (1999). Download Paper

Week of March 22-26, 2004

Applied Math Seminar -- Monday (3/22) 4 PM, 120 Physics

John Trangenstein (Duke): Viscous Fingering in Porous Flow. Abstract

Week of March 29-April 2, 2004

Applied Math Seminar -- Monday (3/29) 4 PM, 120 Physics

Sandra Wieland (Duke): TBA

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (3/30) 2:15 PM, 113 Physics

Elena Tolkacheva (Duke): The Effect of Memory on Cartidac Dynamics.

Fitzpatrick Center Photonics Seminar -- Tuesday (3/30) 4:00 PM, 130 A North Bldg.

Joseph O'Sullivan (Washington U., St. Louis): Information Geometry with Applications in Componenets Analysis and X-Ray CT Imaging. Abstract

London Lecture -- Tuesday (3/30) 8 PM, Gross Chem Auditorium

Myriam Sarachik (City College of NY): Metal-Insulator Transitions. Abstract

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (4/1) Noon, 054 Physics

Peidong Yu: Granular Friction.

Special Colloquium -- Friday (4/2) 3:30pm, Carpenter Board Room - Perkins Library

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Notre Dame): The Architecture of Complexity: From the Structure of the WWW to the Topology of the Metabolic Network. Personal Web Site

Week of April 5-9, 2004

Applied Math Seminar -- Monday (4/5) 4 PM, 120 Physics

Meredith Betterton (U Colorado, Boulder): Motor proteins that open DNA. Web Site

Week of April 12-16, 2004

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (4/13) 2:15 PM, 113 Physics

Eckehard Schoell (Technical U of Berlin): Controlling noise-induced motion by time-delayed feedback.

Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (4/14) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics

William Zajc (Columbia): Has a New State of Matter been discovered at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider?

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (4/15) Noon, 054 Physics

Ilan Harrington: Controlling the chaotic driven-damped-nonlinear pendulum.

Week of April 19-23, 2004

Applied Math Seminar -- Monday (4/19) 4 PM, 120 Physics

Eliot Fried (Washington U, St. Louis): Disclinations in nematic elastomers.

Tentative Condensed Matter Seminar -- Thursday (4/22) 11:00 AM, 234 Physics

Alexey Zhukov (Duke): Temperature dependence of the surface impedance of the superconductors.

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (4/22) Noon, 054 Physics

No talk -- Meet for lunch

Week of April 26-30, 2004

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (4/27) 2:15 PM, 054 Physics

Nicola Scafetta (Duke): The anthropogenic factor in the Gamma-Pareto distributions of wealth.

Computational Neurobiology Seminar -- Wednesday (4/28) 2:00 PM, 103 BRB

Joseph McIntyre (CNRS): Space and Time in Visuo-Motor Coordination

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (4/29) Noon, 054 Physics

Brian Utter: Energy and Force Measurements in Granular Shear.

Computational Neurobiology Seminar -- Thursday (4/29) 4:00 PM, 103 BRB

Tony Zabor (Cold Spring Harbor): The Cocktail Party Problem: Computation in the Auditory Cortex

Week of May 3-7, 2004

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (5/6) Noon, 054 Physics

No talk -- Meet for lunch

Week of May 10-14, 2004

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (5/13) Noon, 054 Physics

Karen Daniels: Shearing, Vibration, and Order in Granular Flow.

Week of May 17-21, 2004

Graduate Student Seminar -- Friday (5/21) Noon, 234 Physics

Eric Monson: Quantification of Experimental Neuron/Glial Cell Dynamics.

Week of June 7-11, 2004

Physics Colloquium

Wilma Bootstrap (Michigan): Surviving frozen Quarks.

Nonlinear Group Meeting

Kareem Windy (Oklahoma U): Dusty, my pet mule, and how he runs experiments for me on weekends.