| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Reception |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Turbulence and Logic |
| Discussion Leader: Yves Couder (ENS, Paris) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Robert Ecke (LANL)
"Two Dimensional Turbulence: Coherent Structures, Eckman Damping and Enstrophy/Energy Transfer" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Neil Gershenfeld (MIT)
"Analog Logic" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Classical/Quantum Complex Systems |
| Discussion Leaders: Steven Schiff (George Mason University) & Juergen Kurths (University of Potsdam) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Susan Coppersmith (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Comparing Classical and Quantum Complex Systems" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Mark Raizen (University of Texas, Austin)
"Quantum Many-Body Dynamics in Billiards" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Herbert Levine (University of California, San Diego)
"Intracellular Calcium Dynamics: A Stochastic Excitable Medium" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Micro- and Macro- Flows |
| Discussion Leader: Jordi Garcia Ojalvo (Cornell University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Michael Schatz (Georgia Tech)
"Dynamics and Control of Microscale Flow Patterns" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Brian Hunt (University of Maryland)
"Using Low-Dimensional Dynamics to Improve Weather Forecasting" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:30 pm | Nonlinear Flows and Synchronization |
| Discussion Leaders: Stefano Boccaletti (INOA, Florence) & Alexander Pisarchik (Centro de Investigaciones en Optica) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Daniel Lathrop (University of Maryland)
"Highly Nonlinear Fluid Flows in Water, Glycerin and Sodium" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Arkady Pikovsky (University of Potsdam)
"Synchronization Phenomena in Complex Systems" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Short Talks: Hot Topics I |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Simon J. Fraser (University of Toronto)
"Bifurcations in Chemical Reaction Models" |
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Ram Ramaswamy (Jawaharlal University)
"The Importance of Being Strange and Nonchaotic: Critical Localization and Attractors in the Harper Map"
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| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Evgenii E. Narimanov (Princeton University)
"The Theory of Chaos-Assisted Tunneling in Hamiltonian Systems" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Short Talks: Hot Topics II |
| Discussion Leaders: F. Tito Arecchi (INOA) & Ram Ramaswamy (Jawaharlal University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Arjendu K. Pattanayak (Carleton College)
"Coherence and Decoherence in Nonlinear Hamiltonian Systems" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:10 pm | Wolfgang Losert (University of Maryland)
"Dynamics of Granular Shear Flows" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Marc R. Roussel (University of Lethbridge)
"Signal Transduction in Biochemical Networks" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Punit Parmanda (UAEM)
"Two Fold Effect of Noise in an Excitable Chemical System" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:10 pm | Oliver Steinbock (Florida State University)
"Excitation Waves in Reaction Diffusion Media With Nonmonotonic Dispersion Relations" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Harold Hastings (Hofstra University)
"Microscopic Fluctuations and Spatio-Temporal pattern Formation in a Supercritical Oscillatory Chemical System" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Sedimentation, Bacterial Growth and Propagating Waves |
| Discussion Leader: Ray Kapral (University of Toronto) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Michael Brenner (Harvard University)
"The Ongoing Saga Surrounding the Velocity Fluctuations in Sedimentation" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Anna Lin (Duke University)
"Localization and Extinction of Bacterial Populations under Inhomogeneous Growth Conditions" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Kenneth Showalter (West Virginia University)
"Feedback Stabilization and Control of Unstable Propagating Waves" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Micellar Interfaces, Self-Tuning Oscillators |
| Discussion Leader: Arkady Pikovsky (University of Potsdam) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Andrew Belmonte (Pennsylvania State University)
"Hydrodynamic Instabilities of Wormlike Micellar Interfaces" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Yves Couder (ENS, Paris)
"Self-Tuning Oscillators" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Networks and Spatio-Temporal Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Shlesinger (Office of Naval Research) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Steven Strogatz (Cornell University)
"Complex Networks: Some Juicy Questions for Nonlinear Dynamics" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Henry Greenside (Duke University)
"Identification of Odors by the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Louis Pecora (Naval Research Laboratory)
"Dynamics of Oscillators in Networks" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Short Talks: Hot Topics III and Business Meeting |
| Discussion Leader: Edward Ott (University of Maryland) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | L. Illing (Duke University)
"Control of Fast Chaos in a Time Delay System" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:10 pm | Inna Kozinsky (Caltech)
"The Effect of Nonlinearity on the Resonance Response of a Particle in a Penning Trap" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Riccardo Meucci (INOA)
"Synchronization of Homoclinic Chaos" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Changsong Zhou (University of Potsdam)
"Noise-Enhanced Coherence and Synchronization in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | BUSINESS MEETING - Very Important! Please attend. |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
