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Nonlinear Science

Gordon Research Conference

June 28 - July 3, 2009
Chair
Vice Chair
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
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Conference Description

The 2009 Nonlinear Science Gordon Research Conference features a strongly multi-disciplinary array of invited talks on topics ranging from instabilities, pattern formation and turbulence in simple and complex fluids, to nonlinear dynamics in biological systems on scales from single molecules to whole organisms and ecosystems.

This meeting is designed for a broad group of researchers and advanced students with backgrounds in nonlinear science. The aim of the conference is to promote discussion and to inspire new research stimulated by the presentation of theoretical, experimental, observational, and computational studies of the most exciting topics of current interest in nonlinear science.

The meeting presentations will consist of invited lectures and poster sessions. Graduate students and postdocs are strongly encouraged to apply to attend the meeting, and may also apply for financial support for their attendence.

Conference Program

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY, I
Discussion Leader: Jerry Gollub (Haverford College and The University of Pennsylvania)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm Beate Schmittmann (Virginia Tech)
"From asymmetric exclusion processes to protein synthesis"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pmJoshua Socolar (Duke University)
"Dynamics of Random Networks and Boolean Models"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:45 amGroup Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm PHYSICAL SYSTEMS: FLUIDS, TURBULENCE, MIXING,... I
Discussion Leader: Robert Ecke (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
9:00 am - 9:40 am Edgar Knobloch (University of California, Berkeley)
"Spatially localized structures in fluid flows: their origin and properties"
9:40 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 amMichael Brenner (Harvard University)
"Adventures in self assembly"
11:10 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne)
"Roughness-induced criticality in pipe flow turbulence"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm COMPLEXITY IN CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR SYSTEMS
Discussion Leader: Joshua Socolar (Duke University)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm Troy Shinbrot (Rutgers University)
"Cellular Morphogenesis In Silico"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm Nikolai Sinitsyn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Coarse-graining stochastic biochemical networks"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY AND DYNAMICS, II
Discussion Leader: Thomas Peacock (MIT)
9:00 am - 9:40 am Jane Wang (Cornell University)
"Insects in Free Flight"
9:40 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am Jun Zhang (NYU, Courant Institute)
"Reversed flapping flight and inverted hydrodynamical drafting"
11:10 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Will Ryu (University of Toronto)
"Quantifying sensory and locomotory behavior of C. elegans"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY AND DYNAMICS, III - PLANT FOLDING
Discussion Leader: Troy Shinbrot (Rutgers University)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm Eran Sharon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Shaping via active deformation of synthetic and natural elastic sheets"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm Martine Ben Amar (ENS, Paris)
"Morphogenesis of soft growing tissue"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY AND DYNAMICS, IV - PROPULSION AND MOTILITY
Discussion Leader: Will Ryu (University of Toronto)
9:00 am - 9:40 amTom Peacock (MIT)
"Propulsion through diffusion"
9:40 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 amJerry Gollub (Haverford College and The University of Pennsylvania)
"Diffusion of Swimming Cells, Flagella as Coupled Oscillators, and Advective Mixing"
11:10 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pmLisa Fauci (Tulane University)
"Integrative models of motility: Successes and challenges"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PHYSICAL SYSTEMS: FLUIDS, TURBULENCE, MIXING..., II
Discussion Leader: Wendy Zhang (University of Chicago)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm Laurette Tuckerman (PMMH-ESPCI, France)
"Turbulent-laminar patterns"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pmTom Solomon (Bucknell College)
"The effects of chaotic mixing on the dynamics of chemical reactions"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm PHYSICAL SYSTEMS: FLUIDS, TURBULENCE, MIXING..., III
Discussion Leader: Lou Kondic (NJIT)
9:00 am - 9:40 am Tom Mullin (University of Manchester)
"Pattern Transformation Induced by an Elastic Instability"
9:40 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am Dan Lathrop (University of Maryland)
"Visualization and characterization of quantum turbulence"
11:10 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Tobias Schneider (Harvard University)
"Dynamical systems and the transition to turbulence"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting
(Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY AND DYNAMICS, V
Discussion Leader: Lisa Fauci (Tulane University)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pmBernd Blasius (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg)
"Coupled cell cycles in a phytoplankton chemostat: using synchronization theory to solve an experimental puzzle"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm Kalin Vetsigian (Harvard University)
"Genomic allotropy: evolutionary multistabilities underlie genome composition diversity"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture

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