SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | GRANULAR MEDIA |
| Discussion Leader: Wolfgang Losert (U. Maryland) |
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Harry Swinney (U. Texas) "Patterns, Crater Formation and Shock Waves in Granular Media" |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Robert Behringer (Duke U.) "Dynamics of Granular Materials" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PATTERN FORMATION |
| Discussion Leader: Ken Showalter (West Va. U.) |
9:00 am - 9:50 am | Leonard Sander (U. Mich.) "Pattern Formation in the Growth of Highly Malignant Brain Tumors" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:20 am | Hugues Chaté (SPEC, CEA-Saclay) "Moving and Staying Together Without a Leader: Minimal Ingredients for Collective and Cohesive Motion" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Short Talk: Sima Setayeshgar (Indiana University)
"Twist and Buckle: Scroll Filament Buckling in Anisotropic Excitable Media" |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Short Talk: Mark Tinsley (West Virginia University) "Spatiotemporal Networks in Addressable Excitable Media" |
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Short Talk: Aric Hagberg (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Frequency Locking in Extended Systems: The Influence of a Turing Mode" |
12:30 pm | Photo / Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (for poster presenters whose surnames begin with the letters A to H) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ANIMAL GROUPING |
| Discussion Leader: Paul Rapp (Drexel Univ., College of Medicine) |
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Iain Couzin (Oxford U./Princeton U.) "Information Transfer, Decision-Making, and Leadership in Animal Groups" |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Chad Topaz (UCLA) "Modeling Social Biological Organisms: Aggregation Patterns and Dynamics" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | LIVING SYSTEMS |
| Discussion Leader: Steve Schiff (George Mason University) |
9:00 am - 9:50 am | Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel Aviv U.) "Functional Holography of Biological Network Activity: From Cultures to the Human Brain" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:20 am | Z. Jane Wang (Cornell U.) "Falling Paper, Flapping Flight, and Making a Virtual Insect" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Short Talk: Eric E. Monson (Duke Univ.) "Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Traumatized Neuron/Glial Cell Sub-Networks" |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Short Talk: Romulus Breban (UCLA) "Growing Networks and the Basic Reproduction Number in ODE Epidemic Models" |
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Short Talk: Nadav Shnerb (Bar-Ilan University)
"Reactive Glass, Turing Instability and Vegetation Patterns" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II (for poster presenters whose surnames begin with the letters I to O) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | FLUIDS |
| Discussion Leader: E. Peacock-Lopez (Williams College) |
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Tomas Bohr (Danish Tech. Univ.) "Singular Structures and Symmetry Breaking in Free-Surface Flows" |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Walter Goldberg (Univ. Pittsburgh)
"Global Fluctuations in Turbulent Energy Flux" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SYSTEMS AND SINGULARITIES |
| Discussion Leader: Alexander N. Pisarchik (Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Mex.) |
9:00 am - 9:50 am | Martin Hasler (Swiss Fed. Inst. of Tech. Lausanne) "Asymptotic Behavior of Blinking (Switched) Networks of Dynamical Systems" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:20 am | Shankar Venkataramani (U. Arizona) "Energy Concentration and Singularities in Thin Elastic Sheets" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Short Talk: Robert Deegan (Bristol University)
"Persistent Holes in Shear Thickened Fluids" |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Short Talk: Jonathan Ozik (Univ. of Maryland)
"Formation of Multifractal Population Patterns from Reproductive Growth and Local Resettlement" |
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Short Talk: Stefano Boccaletti (Instituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata) "Synchronization in Complex Networks with Age Ordering" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III (for poster presenters whose surnames begin with the letters P-Z) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | DYNAMICS WITH LASERS |
| Discussion Leader: Raj Roy (U. Maryland) |
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Nir Davidson (Weizmann Inst.) "Quantum Dynamics of Ultra-Cold Atoms Trapped in Chaotic Atom-Optics Billiards" |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Thomas Antonsen (U. Maryland) "Nonlinear Propagation of Ultra-Short, Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses in Plasmas" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | TURBULENCE |
| Discussion Leader: Mary Silber (Northwestern U.) |
9:00 am - 9:50 am | Itamar Procaccia (Weizmann Inst.) "Drag Reduction by Additives in Turbulent Wall-Bounded Flows" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:20 am | Anne Juel (Manchester U.) "Scaling of the Turbulence Transition in a Pipe" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Short Talk: Miguel Sanjuan (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos)
"Controlling Noisy Chaotic Transients: Yorke's Game of Survival" |
11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Short Talk: Thomas Peacock (MIT)
"A Dynamical Systems Approach to Separation" |
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Short Talk: Bruce Miller (Texas Christian University)
"Exactly Integrable Analogue of a One-Dimensional Gravitating System" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CHAOS |
| Discussion Leader: Lou Pecora (NRL) |
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Edward Lorenz (MIT) "Building Special Properties Into Simple Chaotic Systems" |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | James Yorke (U. Maryland) "A Weird Chaotic Saddle in a Fluid Flow" |
9:30 pm | Business Meeting |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |