| --ALL LECTURES Thursday, 11am in Conference Room N110
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
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| 08/18 |
First Day of Class |
| 08/21 |
None due to first week of classes
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| 08/28
| Mike Schatz, School of Physics, Georgia Tech
Optical Manipulation of Microscale Fluid Flow
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| 09/04
| Ted Hill, Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
Dynamical Systems and Benford's Law
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| 09/11 |
TBA
TBA
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| 09/18 |
Andrey Shilnikov, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Georgia State University
Saddle-node periodic orbits in two time scale
systems. The ghosting effect in neurobiology.
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| 09/24 |
Shmuel Fishman, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Physics Colloquium - 4:00 pm in lecture room 5
Nonlinear Quantum Resonances in Atom Optics
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| 09/25 |
Shmuel Fishman, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Quantum resonances and decoherence for kicked cold atoms
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| 10/02 |
Jane Wang, Cornell University, New York
Falling Paper, Flapping Flight, and a Virtual Insect
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| 10/07 |
Roman Grigoriev, Physics
Georgia Tech
Fluid Mechanics Seminar -
11:15 am Love, Room 210
Chaotic Mixing in Microdroplets
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| 10/09 |
Chris Jarzynski, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
New Mexico
Nonequilibrium behavior and canonical distributions in path space
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| 10/16 |
Robert J. Dorfman, Institute for Physical
Science and Technology, University of Maryland
The Random Lorentz Gas and it's Lyapunov Exponents, Classical and
Semi-Classical |
| 10/20 |
Sandro Graffi, Mathematical Physics, University of
Bologna
Comparison between quantum ergodicity and classical ewrgodicity: The case of infinite billiards
l |
| 10/23 |
Minami Yoda, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Nano-Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements of Electroosmotic Flow
in Rectangular Microchannels
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| 10/30 |
Divakar Viswanath, University of Michigan
Shuffling cards for Black-Jack and other card games
(joint work with Mark Conger)
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| 11/06 |
Stephan Koehler, School of Physics, Emory University
Research on the Cutting Edge
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| 11/13 |
Greg Huber, University of Mass. at Boston
"T. B. A."
(or Turbulently Bizarre Addition)
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11/14CDSNS Seminar, 4:30 - 5:30 Skiles,Rm 255 |
Turgay Uzer, Center for Nonlinear Science, School of Physics,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Direct Construction of Transition State
| 11/17 Please note different day |
Theo Geisel, Director, Max Planck Institute feur Stroemungsforschung
Pattern formation in the developing visual cortex
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| 11/20 |
Carl Dettmann, University of Bristol, England
Stochastic stabilization of cosmological chaos
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| 12/04 |
Robert Butera, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Weak coupling in neural oscillators: evidence for feasibility,
limitations for practicality
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| 12/05 |
Last Day of Class |
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