Week of January 9 - 13, 2006

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (1/10) 2:50 PM, 113 Physics

Ehud Maron (Ben-Gurion): Species diversity in dryland vegetation: A pattern formation approach.

Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (1/11) 3:30 PM, 114 Physics

James Eisenstein (Caltech): Bose Condensation, Superfluidity, and the Quantum Hall Effect.

Week of January 16 - 20, 2006

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (1/18) 12:45 PM, 090 Physics (old 054)

No Talk — Meet for lunch.

Mind, Brain & Behavior Lecture -- Thursday (1/19) 5:15 PM, 103 Bryan Res Bldg

William Bialek (Princeton Physics) Organization principles in neural coding and computation.

Week of January 23 - 27, 2006

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (1/23) 4:30 PM, 119 Physics

Garrett Mitchener (Duke Math) Why Language Learning Requires Miscalibration.

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (1/25) 12:45 PM, 090 Physics (old 054)

No Talk — Meet for lunch.

CNCS Seminar -- Thursday (1/26) 3:00 PM, Schiciano, CIEMAS

Panos Argyrakis (U Thessaloniki, Greece) Dynamic Processes in Complex Networks.

Neural Analysis Seminar -- Friday (1/27) 2:00 PM, 103 Bryan Res Bldg

John White (Boston Univ BME) Mechanisms and Consequences of Coherent Activity in the Hippocampal Formation.

Week of January 30 - February 3, 2006

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (1/30) -- CANCELLED?

Anne Catllá (Duke Math) TBA

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (1/31) 2:50 PM, 119 Physics

Jo Rae Wright (Duke Cell Biology): The Lung – A Gateway for Pathogens to Enter the Body.

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (2/1) 12:45, 090 Physics (old 054)

Zheng Gao (Lin Group): Growing Neuron/Glial Cells in Microfluidic Devices.

Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (2/1) 3:30 PM, 128 Physics (old 114)

Gail Glendinning (Lawrence Livermore Nat Labs): Experiments at Extreme States – X-Games Physics on the National Ignition Facility. (abstract)

Week of February 6 - 10, 2006

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (2/6) 4:30 PM, 119 Physics

Aaditya (Adi) Rangan (Courant Institute, NYU): [Something like] Computational methods for a large network of neurons in the primary visual cortex.

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (2/8)

No Meeting — Faculty Lunch Conflict.

Week of February 13 - 17, 2006

RENCI Convergence of Art & Science -- Monday (2/13) 4:00 PM, 121 Hanes Art Bldg

Donna J. Cox (U Illinois School of Art, NCSA): Relationship Between Technology, Visualization and Metaphoric Structure.

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (2/14) 2:50 PM, 119 Physics

Victor Hasselblad (Duke University): Nonlinear Models in Clinical Medicine.

Synapse Club -- Tuesday (2/14) 6:00 PM, 124 Taylor Hall, UNC

Sridhar Raghavachari (Duke Neurobiology): The synapse as a mosaic: Modeling quantal transmission in the hippocampus. (web site)

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (2/15) 12:45 PM, 090 Physics (old 054)

Björn Samuelsson (Socolar Group): TBA

Neural Analysis Seminar -- Friday (2/17) 2:00 PM, 103 Bryan Res Bldg

Garrett Stanley (Harvard): Mechanisms for Enhancing Neural Encoding in Sensory Pathways. (web site)

Week of February 20 - 24, 2006

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (2/20) 4:30 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Anne Catllá (Duke Math): Wave Patterns on the Surface of Impulsively-Shaken Fluids.

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (2/21) 2:50 PM, 119 Physics/Math

David Wu (Colorado School of Mines): Topological Character of Static and Dynamic Stress Propagation in Granular Systems.

Nonlinear Group Meeting -- Wednesday (2/22) 12:45 PM, 090 Physics (old 054)

No Talk — Meet for lunch.

Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (2/22) 3:30 PM, 128 Physics (old 114)

Pierre Sokolsky (U of Utah): Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays: Puzzles and Mysteries. (abstract)

Week of February 27 - March 3, 2006

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (2/27) 4:30 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Anne Catllá (Duke Math): Wave Patterns on the Surface of Impulsively-Shaken Fluids

Week of March 6 - 10, 2006

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (3/6) 4:30 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Peter Mucha (UNC-CH Math): TBA

Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (3/8) 3:30 PM, 128 Physics (old 114)

Jun Ye (U Colorado JILA): Precision measurement meets ultrafast science. (abstract)

Week of March 13 - 17, 2006

Spring Break

Week of March 20 - 24, 2006

Physics Colloquium -- Wednesday (3/22) 3:30 PM, 128 Physics (old 114)

Konstantin Matveev (Argonne): Charge and Spin Propagation Through Quantum Wires. (abstract)

CNCS Seminar -- Thursday (3/24) 2:50 PM, 130 Physics

Marty Golubitsky (Houston): Coupled Systems: Theory and Examples.

Week of March 27 - 31, 2006

London Lecture -- Tuesday (3/28) 8:00 PM, Gross Chem Aud

Frank Wilczek (MIT): The Universe is a Strange Place. (abstract)

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Thursday (3/30) 4:30 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Anna-Karin Tornberg (Courant Inst Math Sci): TBA

Week of April 3 - 7, 2006

Physics-FIP Colloquium -- Monday (4/3) 4:00 PM, 128 Physics

Lukas Novotny (Inst of Optics, U Rochester): Light for the World of Nano. (abstract)

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar -- Monday (4/3) 4:30 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Thomas Wanner (George Mason U Math Sci): Complex Transient Patterns and their Homology.

CNCS Seminar -- Tuesday (4/4) 2:50 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Dale Purves (Duke Neurobiology): Perception as Probability: Challenges for Modeling Vision.

Week of April 10 - 14, 2006

Physics Colloquium — Monday (4/10) 4:00 PM, 128 Physics

Igor Smolyaninov (U Maryland): Plasmonics: Optics at the Nanoscale. (abstract)

Society of Duke Fellows Seminar — Monday (4/10) 6:00 PM, CIEMAS Auditorium Side A

Marc Lange (UNC-CH Philosophy) & Ronen Plesser (Duke Physics): Is Physics bunk? Haven't all the hard problems in physics been solved already? What more is there to learn?.

CNCS Seminar — Tuesday (4/11) 2:50 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Nick Hayman (Duke), Peter Malin (Duke), & Karen Daniels (NC State): Faults and Earthquakes as Granular Phenomena.

TNT-Physics Colloquium — Wednesday (4/12) 3:30 PM, 128 Physics

Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos Natl Lab): Energy Security in the 21st Century: The need for bold and novel thinking. (abstract)

Week of April 17 - 21, 2006

Physics Colloquium — Monday (4/17) 4:00 PM, 128 Physics

Alexander Finkelstein (Weizmann Inst): Spintronics Without Magnets: "Spin-Optics". (abstract)

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar — Monday (4/17) 4:30 PM, 119 Physics/Math

George Biros (U Penn Mech Eng & App Mech): Fast solvers for elliptic PDEs in complex geometrie.

CNCS Seminar — Tuesday (4/18) 2:50 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Juli Morgan (Rice U): Models of Fault Gouge.

Physics Colloquium — Wednesday (4/19) 3:30 PM, 128 Physics

Juhao Wu (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center): Coherent X-Ray Production by Free Electron Lasers. (abstract)

Week of April 24 - 28, 2006

Physics Colloquium — Monday (4/24) 3:30 PM, 128 Physics

Karyn Le Hur (U Sherbrooke & CIAR): Revival of the Kondo effect in the Nano-World. (abstract)

Applied Math & Analysis Seminar — Monday (4/24) 4:30 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Jane Wang (Cornell Theor & App Math): TBA

CNCS Seminar — Tuesday (4/25) 2:50 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Terry Hwa: Quantitative Analysis of Gene Regulation.

Fitzpatrick Center Seminar — Tuesday (4/25) 4:00 PM, 130 A North Bldg

Stephen Boppart (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Imaging Cell Structure and Function using Optical Coherence Tomography. (abstract)

Physics Colloquium — Wednesday (4/26) 3:30 PM, 128 Physics

Nick Giordano (Purdue): The Physics of the Piano. (abstract)

Week of May 1 - 5, 2006

CNCS Seminar — Tuesday (5/2) 2:50 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Dave Schaeffer (Duke Math): Alternans in Cardiac Tissue: A Period-Doubling Bifurcation of Border-Collision Type.

Week of May 8 - 12, 2006

Week of May 15 - 19, 2006

CNCS Seminar — Tuesday (5/16) 2:50 PM, 119 Physics/Math

Rob Carpick (U Wisconsin): Friction: A Big Problem at Small Scales.