Week of January 10 - 14, 2005
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (1/12) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Paul Schechter (MIT): The Milli- and Micro-Lensing of Macro-Lensed Quasars.
Comp. Neuro. Informal Discussion -- Wednesday (1/12) 5:00 PM, 101L Bryan Res Bldg
V. Anne Smith (Jarvis Lab, Duke): Inferring Neural Information Flow Networks from Electrophysiology Data.
Week of January 17 - 21, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (1/18) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
J.C. Tsai (U of Penn): Ordering, shear banding, and transient response inside a quasi-statically driven granular packing.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (1/20) Noon, 054 Physics
Brian Tighe & Josh Socolar: Brief Highlights from Dynamics Days 2005.
Week of January 24 - 28, 2005
Synapse Club -- Monday (1/24) 6:00 PM, 101L Bryan Res Bldg
Karel Svoboda (Cold Spring Harbor): Geometric and Functional Organization of Cortical Synaptic Circuits.
Computational Neuroscience Seminar -- Wednesday (1/26) 4:30 PM, 101L Bryan Res Bldg
Carlos Brody (Cold Spring Harbor): Dynamical Systems in Biology: An integrated neural model of two-interval discrimination.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (1/27) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Week of January 31 - February 4, 2005
Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (1/31) 4:30 PM, 120 Physics
Xiaobai Sun (Duke Comp Sci): Sampling Expansions for Fast Transforms with Irregularly Spaced Data.
Neurobiology Seminar -- Tuesday (2/1) 4:00 PM, 103 Bryan Res Bldg
Venkatesh Murthy (Harvard): Studying long-term synaptic plasticity using single neuron perturbations.
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (2/2) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics
Peter Fisher (MIT): Bumps and Bangs: Looking for dark matter in our galactic neighborhood.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (2/3) Noon, 054 Physics
Lucas Illing (Gauthier Group): An Ultra-Low-Level All-Optical Switch.
Week of February 7 - 11, 2005
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (2/9) 4:00 PM, 114 Physics
Stephon Alexander (Stanford): Beyond Inflationary Cosmology.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (2/10) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Neurobiology Seminar -- Friday (2/11) Noon, 103 Bryan Res Bldg
Michael Sutton (Caltech): Local Protein Synthesis in Dendrites and the Control of Synaptic Function.
Week of February 14 - 18, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (2/15) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Lucus Illing (Gauthier Group): Ultra-low-level all-optical switching using a collective instability.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (2/17) Noon, 054 Physics
Shomeek Mukhopadhyay (Behringer Group): Starbursts and Wispy Drops in Surfactant Spreading on Gels.
Week of February 21 - 25, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- CANCELLED
Will Wilson (Duke Biology): An overview of empirical measures and models of ecological communities.
Physics Colloquium -- CANCELLED
Sally Dawson (Brookhaven Nat. Lab): Revolutions in Particle Physics.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (2/24) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Week of February 28 - March 4, 2005
Neurobiology Seminar -- Monday (2/28) Noon, 103 Bryan Res Bldg
Rafael Yuste (Columbia U): Imaging the spontaneous and evoked dynamics of cortical microcircuits.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (3/3) Noon, 054 Physics
Brad Marts (Lin Group): Effects of Inhomogeneities on Spiral Wave Dynamics in the Belousov-Zhabotinksky Chemical Reaction
Week of March 7 - 11, 2005
Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (3/7) 4:30 PM, 120 Physics
Daniel Gauthier (Duke Physics): Characterization and Control of Cardiac Dynamics.
Physics Colloquium -- Tuesday (3/8) 2:00 PM, CIEMAS Auditorium
Firouz Naderi (JPL): Six minutes of terror, a hole in one and a salty sea.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (3/10) Noon, 054 Physics
MengRu Li (Greenside Group): Stable Propagation of Bursts In a 1D Homogeneous Excitatory Synfire Chain
Week of March 14 - 18, 2005
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (3/17) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Spring Break.
Week of March 21 - 25, 2005
CNCS Seminar (tentative) -- Tuesday (3/22) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Chris Jones (UNC Math): TBA.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (3/24) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- March Meeting.
Week of March 28 - April 1, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (3/29) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Andrea Bertozzi: Processing Images with Nonlinear PDEs.
Comp Sci Seminar -- Tuesday (3/29) 4:30 PM, 113 Physics
Bruce Sherwood & Ruth Chabay (NCSU): Integrating Computational Physics into the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum.
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (3/30) 4:00 PM, 114 Physics
Jim Allen (UCSB): Terahertz Dynamics in Semiconductors Quantum Structure and the UCSB Free Electron Lasers.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (3/31) Noon, 054 Physics
John Wambaugh (Behringer Group): Progress Summary -- Experimental Observations of Secondary Circulation in Slow Granular Flows.
Week of April 4 - 8, 2005
UNC Cell and Molecular Physiology Seminar -- Monday (4/4) Noon, UNC Medical Center
Marla Feller (UC San Diego): The How and Why of Retinal Waves.
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (4/5) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Will Wilson (Duke Biology): An Overview of Empirical Measures and Models of Ecological Communities.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (4/7) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Neurobiology Grad Student Seminar -- Thursday (4/7) Noon, 101L Bryan Res Bldg
Wei Wu (Reid group) Zooming in on cortical maps: Functional imaging with cellular resolution reveals precise micro-architecture in visual cortex
Fluid Dynamics Meeting -- Thursday (4/7) 1:00 PM, 054 Physics
Joural Article Discussion: Principles of Microfluidic Actuation by Modulation of Surface Stresses, Anton A. Darhuber & Sandra M. Troian, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 37: 425-455 (Jan 2005), (doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.36.050802.122052)
Physics Colloquium (London Lecture) -- Thursday (4/7) 8:00 PM, Gross Chem Auditorium
Charles Lieber (Harvard): Nanotechnology: Emerging Opportunities in Electronics, Biology and Much More!
Week of April 11 - 15, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (4/12) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Earl Dowell (Duke Engineering): Nonlinear Aeroelasticity: Modeling of Transonic Fluid-Structure Interaction.
Engineering Seminar -- Tuesday (4/12) 4:00 PM, CIEMAS Auditorium
Vadim Backman (Northwestern): Understanding Early Events in Colon Carcinogenesis by Means of Coherent Backscattering Spectroscopy.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (4/14) Noon, 054 Physics
Eric Monson (Lin Group): Quantification of Experimental Neuron/Glial Cell Dynamics.
FEL Seminar -- Friday (4/15) 12:30 – 1:30 PM, DFELL Conference Room
Rob Phillips (Caltech): A Feeling for Mechanosensation: The Gating of Mechanosensitive Channels.
Week of April 18 - 22, 2005
Fitzpatrick Center Seminar -- Monday (4/18) 4:00 PM, CIEMAS B
Bahaa Saleh (Boston University): Quantum Imaging.
Thesis Defense -- Tuesday (4/19) 12:00 PM, 103 Bryan Res Bldg
April Horton (Duke Neurobiology): Identification of a Novel Polarized Organization of the Neuronal Secretory Pathway and its Role in Dendritic Morphogenesis.
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (4/19) -- CANCELLED
Dave Schaeffer (Duke Math):
Fitzpatrick Center Seminar -- Tuesday (4/19) 4:00 PM, CIEMAS A
Yong-qing Li (Eastern Carolina University): Raman-Tweezers Spectroscopy.
Materials Science Seminar -- Wednesday (4/20) 12:00 PM, 2201 Hudson Annex
Noel Perkins (Mech Eng, U of MI): Describing Long-Length Scale Mechanics of DNA Using a Computational Rod Theory.
Physics Grad/Undergrad Poster Session -- Wednesday (4/20) 4:00 PM, 157 Physics
Munchies Provided (Plus Sigma Pi induction ceremony)
Computational Neuroscience Seminar -- Wednesday (4/20) 4:30 PM, 103 Bryan Res Bldg
Jim Bower (U Texas-San Antonio): Reconsidering the Physiological, Computational and Functional Structure of Cerebellar Cortex: 100+ Years Later.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (4/21) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Week of April 25 - 29, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (4/26) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Jonathan Mattingly (Duke Math): Simple Solvable Models of Energy Transport and Inviscid Limits.
Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (4/27) 4:00 PM, 114 Physics
David Spergel (Princeton): WMAP and beyond.
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (4/28) Noon, 054 Physics
Karen Daniels (Behringer Group): What's the Deal With All That Noise?: Measuring a Temperature Using the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
Week of May 2 - 6, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (5/3) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Chris Jones (UNC Math): Do Forcing and Viscosity Drive Chaotic Advection?
Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Thursday (5/5) Noon, 054 Physics
No Talk -- Meet for Lunch.
Week of May 9 - 13, 2005
CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (5/10) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics
Glenn Edwards & Dan Kiehart (Duke Physics): TBA.
Week of May 16 - 20, 2005
Computational Neuroscience Seminar -- Wednesday (5/18) 4:30 PM, 103 Bryan Res Bldg
Michael Hausser (University College London): TBA.