Program-at-a-Glance
Please refer to the Important Notice to all Meeting Participants.
Saturday Evening, May 17
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Registration
Ballroom Lobby - Level B
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Welcoming Reception
Golden Cliff Room - Level B
Sunday Morning, May 18
7:30 AM-4:00 PM Registration
Ballroom Lobby - Level B
8:15 AM Welcome Remarks and Announcements
Mary Silber and Steven Strogatz
8:30 AM-9:30 AM
IP1 Lagrangian Transport in Mesoscale Ocean Structures
Christopher K. R. T. Jones, Brown University
Chair: Roberto Camassa, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
9:30 AM-10:00 AM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS1 Experiments on Spatio-Temporal Chaos
Organizer: Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell University
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS2 Dynamical System Methods for Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows (Part I of II)
Organizer: Roberto Camassa, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS3 Stochastic Resonance in Medicine and Biology
Organizer: James J. Collins, Boston University
Ballroom III - Level B
- MS4 Nonlinear Phenomena in Aeroengine Dynamics and Control
(This session has been cancelled)
Organizer: Mark R. Myers, United Technologies Research Center
Magpie A & B - Level B
- MS5 Communicating with Chaos
Organizer: Epaminondas Rosa, Jr., University of Maryland, College Park
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- CP1 Lasers
Chair: Peter A. Braza, University of North Florida
Maybird - Level C
- CP2 Perturbation Methods and ODEs
Chair: Ferdinand Verhulst, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Superior B - Level C
- CP3 Applied Mechanics
Chair: Marian Wiercigroch, University of Aberdeen, Kings College, United Kingdom
Superior A - Level C
Sunday Afternoon, May 18
12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
IP2 Intricate Interfaces and Modulated Membranes - Their Geometry and Nonlinear Dynamics
Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Arizona
Chair: Michael Tabor, University of Arizona
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
2:30 PM-3:00 PM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
3:00 PM-5:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS6 Spatio-Temporal Chaos: Characterization and Control
Organizer: Hermann Riecke, Northwestern University
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS7 Dynamical System Methods for Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows
(Part II of II)
Organizer: Roberto Camassa, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS8 Processing Signals from Noisy Chaotic Systems
Organizers: Mark Muldoon, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom; and Holger Kantz, Max Planck
Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
Magpie A & B - Level B
- MS9 Nonlinear Oscillators
Organizer: Richard H. Rand, Cornell University
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- MS10 Mathematics and Medicine: From the Laboratory to the
Clinic
Organizer: Michael C. Mackey, McGill University, Canada
Ballroom III - Level B
- CP4 Nonlinear Optics and Solitons I
Chair: Anne Niculae, Northwestern University
Superior B - Level C
- CP5 Unstable Periodic Orbits
Chair: Steven J. Schiff, Children's National Medical Center
Maybird - Level C
- CP6 Maps
Chair: Colin Sparrow, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Superior A - Level C
Sunday Evening, May 18
5:00 PM-7:00 PM Dinner (attendees will be on their own)
7:00 PM-9:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS11 Spiral-Wave Domains and Filaments: Experiments, Numerics, Theory
Organizer: Gregory Huber, University of Chicago
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS12 New Results for Stochastic PDES
Organizer: Charles R. Doering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS13 Interplay of Fluid Dynamics and Biology of Plankton
Population Models
Organizer: John Brindley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Ballroom III - Level B
- MS14 Ulam's Conjecture and the Approximation of Invariant Measures
(This session will run until 9:30 PM)
Organizer: Fern Y. Hunt, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Superior A - Level C
- CP7 Nonlinear Optics and Solitons II
Chair: William L. Kath, Northwestern University
Magpie A & B - Level B
- CP8 Hamiltonian Systems
Chair: M. C. Depassier, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Superior B - Level C
- CP9 Synchronization I
Chair: Reggie Brown, College of William & Mary
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- CP10 Attractors, Fractals, and Dimensions
Chair: Brian Hunt, University of Maryland, College Park
Maybird - Level C
Monday Morning, May 19
7:30 AM-4:00 PM Registration
Ballroom Lobby - Level B
8:30 AM-9:30 AM
IP3 Teaching Dynamical Systems to Undergraduates
Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
Chair: Robert Borrelli, Harvey Mudd College
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
9:30 AM-10:00 AM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS15 Diffusion and Turbulence on Water Surfaces
Organizer: Preben Alstrom, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
Magpie A & B - Level B
- MS16 Phase Dynamics and Synchronization in Chaotic
Systems
Organizer: Jürgen Kurths, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS17 Dynamics of Cortical Neural Networks (Part I of II)
Organizers: Xiao-Jing Wang, Brandeis University; David Terman, Ohio State University, Columbus; and John Rinzel, National Institutes of Health
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS18 Pattern Formation and Singular Perturbations
Organizers: Arjen Doelman, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Tasso Kaper, Boston University; and Todd Kapitula, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Ballroom III - Level B
- MS19 Nonlinear Dynamics of Large Fluctuations
Organizer: Mark I. Dykman, Michigan State University
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- CP11 Nonlinear Waves
Chair: Manfred F. Goz, Princeton University
Maybird - Level C
- CP12 Invariant Measures and Ergodicity
Chair: Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri, Columbia
Superior A - Level C
- CP13 Applications in Physics
Chair: Adam S. Landsberg, Haverford College
Superior B - Level C
Monday Afternoon, May 19
12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
IP4 Scaling Exponents in Turbulence
Peter S. Constantin, University of Chicago
Chair: Peter Bates, Brigham Young University
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
IP5 Stochastic Resonance in Sensory Biology
Frank Moss, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Chair: John Rinzel, National Institutes of Health
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
3:30 PM-4:00 PM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
4:00 PM-6:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS20 Computing Invariant Manifolds
Organizer: John Guckenheimer, Cornell University
Magpie A & B - Level B
- MS21 Josephson Junction Arrays: Progress and Puzzles
Organizer: Kurt A. Wiesenfeld, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS22 Integrable Systems Methods for Curve Evolution
Organizers: Annalisa Calini, University of Charleston; and Thomas Ivey, Case
Western Reserve University
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- MS23 Dynamics of Cortical Neural Networks (Part II of II)
Organizers: Xiao-Jing Wang, Brandeis University; David Terman, Ohio State University, Columbus; and John Rinzel, National Institutes of Health
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS24 Teaching Differential Equations Dynamically
Organizer: Beverly H. West, Harvey Mudd College and Cornell University
Ballroom III - Level B
- CP14 Convection and Hexagonal Patterns
Chair: Anne C. Skeldon, City University, United Kingdom
Maybird - Level C
- CP15 Pattern Formation and Singular Perturbations II
Chair: Tasso Kaper, Boston University
Superior B - Level C
- CP16 Fluids I
Chair: Brian F. Farrell, Harvard University
Superior A - Level C
Monday Evening, May 19
6:00 PM-7:00 PM Business Meeting
SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems
Golden Cliff Room - Level B
Tuesday Morning, May 20
7:30 AM-4:00 PM Registration
Ballroom Lobby - Level B
8:30 AM-9:30 AM
IP6 Bucket Brigade Production Lines
Leonid A. Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chair: Kurt Wiesenfeld, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
9:30 AM-10:00 AM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS25 Dynamics of Curves and Filaments
Organizer: Isaac Klapper, Montana State University
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS26 Random Dynamical Systems
(This session will run until 12:30 PM)
Organizer: N. Sri Namachchivaya, University of Illinois, Urbana
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS27 Slow Evolution in Conservative Systems
Organizer: Norman R. Lebovitz, University of Chicago
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- MS28 Biological Microswimming
Organizers: Richard W. Montgomery, University of California, Santa Cruz; and Jair Koiller, Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Brazil
Ballroom III - Level B
- MS29 Bifurcation Theory and Systems of Nonlinear Conservation
Laws
Organizer: Stephen Schecter, North Carolina State University
Maybird - Level C
- CP17 Teaching Dynamics
Chair: James A. Walsh, Oberlin College
Superior A- Level C
- CP18 Neural and Excitable Systems I
Chair: Tomas Gedeon, Montana State University
Superior B - Level C
- CP19 Controlling Chaos
Chair: Elbert E. N. Macau, University of Maryland, College Park
Magpie A & B - Level B
Tuesday Afternoon, May 20
12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
IP7 Biomolecular Motors
Charles S. Peskin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York
University
Chair: Charles R. Doering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
2:30 PM-3:00 PM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
3:00 PM-5:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS30 Low-Frequency Variability in the Double-Gyre
Circulation
Organizers: Balu T. Nadiga and Darryl D. Holm, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Magpie A & B - Level B
- MS31 Model Reduction, Analysis, and Control of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics Using KL Methods
Organizer: Ira B. Schwartz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS32 Continuum Models of Biological Macromolecules
Organizer: John H. Maddocks, University of Maryland, College Park
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- MS33 Periodically and Randomly Driven Dynamics in Nonlinear Optical Fibers
Organizers: J. Nathan Kutz, Princeton University; and William L. Kath, Northwestern University
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS34 Topology in Dynamics
Organizer: James Yorke, University of Maryland, College Park
Ballroom III - Level B
- CP20 Neural and Excitable Systems II
Chair: Amitabha Bose, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Superior B - Level C
- CP21 Synchronization II
Chair: Peter Smereka, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Maybird - Level C
- CP22 Melnikov Theory
Chair: Timothy Whalen, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Superior A - Level C
Tuesday Evening, May 20
5:30 PM-7:00 PM Dinner (attendees are on their own)
6:30 PM-7:30 PM Poster setup
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
7:30 PM-9:30 PM Poster Session
Dessert and Coffee will be served
Poster Session I
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
Wednesday Morning, May 21
7:30 AM-4:00 PM Registration
Ballroom Lobby - Level B
8:30 AM-9:30 AM
IP8 Small Electronics and Quantum Chaos
Charles M. Marcus, Stanford University
Chair: Boris L. Altshuler, NEC Research, Inc.
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
9:30 AM-10:00 AM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS35 Molecular Motors
Organizer: George F. Oster, University of California, Berkeley
Magpie A & B - Level B
- MS36 Transport in Hamiltonian Systems
Organizer: Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS37 Fundamental Nonlinear Dynamics of Diode Lasers
Organizer: Bernd Krauskopf, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS38 Applications of Synchronized Chaos and Hyperchaos
Organizer: Louis M. Pecora, Naval Research Laboratory
Ballroom III - Level B
- MS39 Spatially Discrete Dynamical Systems -- Theory and Applications
Organizers: John Mallet-Paret, Brown University; and Shui-Nee Chow, Georgia Institute of Technology
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- CP23 Bursting and Biochemical Oscillations
Chair: William R. Derrick, University of Montana
Superior A - Level C
- CP24 Waves and Ginzburg-Landau Equations
Chair: Rebecca Hoyle, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Superior B - Level C
- CP25 Stochastic Resonance
Chair: Bruce J. Gluckman, Naval Surface Warfare Center and the Children's
Research Institute of George Washington University
Maybird - Level C
Wednesday Afternoon, May 21
12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
IP9 Nonlinear Control of Lagrangian Systems
Richard M. Murray, California Institute of Technology
Chair: Jerrold E. Marsden, California Institute of Technology
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
2:30 PM-3:00 PM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
3:00 PM-5:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS40 Periodic Orbits in Chaotic Systems
Organizers: Ernest Barreto and Edward Ott, University of Maryland, College Park
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS41 Applications of the Geometric Phase
Organizers: Jerrold E. Marsden, California Institute of Technology; and Paul K. Newton,
University of Southern California
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS42 Dynamical and Statistical Modeling of Biological
Systems
Organizer: Yuhai Tu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Ballroom III - Level B
- MS43 Quantum Chaos and Mesoscopic Physics
Organizer: Charles M. Marcus, Stanford University
Magpie A & B- Level B
- CP26 Reaction-Diffusion Equations
Chair: Jack Dockery, Montana State University
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- CP27 Spatio-Temporal Chaos
Chair: David Peak, Utah State University
Maybird - Level C
- CP28 Numerical Methods
Chair: Robert L. Warnock, Stanford University
Superior A - Level C
- CP29 Fluids II
Chair: Robert Ghrist, University of Texas, Austin
Superior B- Level C
Wednesday Evening, May 21
5:30 PM-7:00 PM Dinner (attendees are on their own)
6:30 PM-7:30 PM Poster setup starts
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
7:30 PM-9:30 PM Poster Session opens
Dessert and Coffee will be served
Poster Session II
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
Thursday Morning, May 22
7:30 AM-10:00 AM Registration
Ballroom Lobby - Level B
8:30 AM-9:30 AM
IP10 Universal Spatio-Temporal Chaos in Large Assemblies of
Simple Dynamical Units
Yoshiki Kuramoto, Kyoto University, Japan
Chair: Rajarshi Roy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
9:30 AM-10:00 AM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS44 Dynamical Systems Theory and Nonequilibrium
Statistical Mechanics
Organizer: Robert Dorfman, University of Maryland, College Park
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS45 Dynamics of Laser Arrays: Coherence, Chaos and
Control
Organizer: Rajarshi Roy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS46 Energy Transfer in Nonlinear Partial Differential
Equations
Organizer: Michael I. Weinstein, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Magpie A & B - Level B
- MS47 Control and Shadowing
Organizer: Eric J. Kostelich, Arizona State University
Ballroom III - Level B
- CP30 Biology
Chair: Sharon R. Lubkin, University of Washington
Superior B - Level C
- CP31 Karhunen-Loeve Methods
Chair: Thomas W. Carr, Southern Methodist University
Superior A - Level C
- CP32 Chaotic Advection, Turbulence, and Transport I
Chair: Patrick D. Miller, Brown University
Wasatch A & B - Level C
- CP33 Bifurcation and Symmetry
Chair: Sue Ann Campbell, University of Waterloo, Canada
Maybird - Level C
Thursday Afternoon, May 22
12:00 PM-1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
IP11 Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equations as Perturbations of Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
C. David Levermore, University of Arizona
Chair: Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Ballroom I, II, III - Level B
2:30 PM-3:00 PM Coffee
Ballroom Lobby - Level B and Mezzanine Lobby - Level C
3:00 PM-5:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
- MS48 Noise and Heteroclinic Phenomena
Organizers: Vivien Kirk, University of Auckland, New Zealand; and Emily Stone,
Utah State University
Ballroom I - Level B
- MS49 Melnikov Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Organizers: Constance M. Schober, Old Dominion University; and Gregor Kovacic,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ballroom II - Level B
- MS50 Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation in Combustion
Organizer: Vladimir A. Volpert, Northwestern University
Magpie A & B - Level B
- MS51 Riddling in Chaotic Systems
Organizer: Ying-Cheng Lai, University of Kansas
Ballroom III - Level B
- CP34 Time Series and Signal Processing
Chair: Michael E. Davies, University College London, United Kingdom
Maybird - Level C
- CP35 Chaotic Advection, Turbulence, and Transport II
Chair: Diego del Castillo-Negrete, University of California, San Diego
Wasatch A & B- Level C
- CP36 Partial Differential Equations
Chair: Jinqiao Duan, Clemson University
Superior B - Level C
- CP37 Engineering and Control
Chair: Hans True, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Superior A - Level C
5:20 Conference adjourns
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