Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Workshop 2006


Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University, 251 Mercer St., NY

October 6-8, 2006



Sponsored by ONR and the Courant Institute, NYU
Organized by L.-S. Young and G.M. Zaslavsky


PROGRAM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 (morning) - Warren Weaver Hall 109
08:30 - 09:05 Breakfast and Registration (WWH Lobby)
09:05 - 09:15 Opening
09:15 - 09:55 I. Couder (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
Experiments on the dynamical properties of a wave/particle association at a macroscopic scale
10:00 - 10:40 M. Shelley (Courant Institute)
Transport in Viscoelastic Flows
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:55 Yu. Ilyashenko (Cornell University and Moscow State University)
Non-removable zero Lyapunov exponents
12:00 - 12:40 A. Bulsara (SPAWAR Systems Center)
Coupling Nonlinear Dynamic Elements for Fun and Profit
12:45 - 03:00 Lunch Break

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 (afternoon) - Warren Weaver Hall 109
03:00 - 03:40 A. Majda (Courant Institute)
Distinct Metastable Atmospheric Regimes Despite Nearly Gaussian Statistics: A Paradigm Model
03:45 - 04:25 V. Kaloshin (CalTech and Penn State)
Nonlocal instabilities for the planar 3 body problem
04:30 - 05:00 Coffee Break
05:00 - 05:40 D. Cai (Courant Institute)
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Primary Visual Cortex
05:45 - 06:25 Ya. Sinai (Princeton University)
Singularities of the solution of Navier-Stokes equation
07:00 Reception and Dinner Party (13th floor, Warren Weaver Hall)
All Workshop participants are invited


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 (morning) - Warren Weaver Hall 102
08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (WWH Lobby)
09:00 - 09:40 L. Kadanoff (University of Chicago)
Computer Simulation and Prediction -- The Good the Bad and the Awful
09:45 - 10:25 D. Pine (Department of Physics, NYU)
Chaos and onset of irreversibility in sheared non-Brownian suspensions
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 S. Leibler (Rockefeller University)
Fluctuations, information, and survival: some lessons from bacteria
11:45 - 12:25 L. Bunimovich (Georgia Tech)
Long Range Action in Networks of Interacting Dynamical Systems
12:30 - 03:00 Lunch Break

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 (afternoon) - Warren Weaver Hall 102
03:00 - 03:40 P. Chaikin (Department of Physics, NYU)
Experimental Geometry: Ellipsoids beat Spheres
03:45 - 04:25 C. Radin (University of Texas)
The symmetry of dense packings of spheres
04:30 - 05:00 Coffee Break
05:00 - 05:40 L.-S. Young (Courant Institute)
Strange attractors in periodically forced systems
05:45 - 06:25 M. Spano (Carderock Laboratory)
Experimental Dynamics of Sparsely-Coupled Oscillator Arrays
06:30 Wine and Cheese Reception (13th Floor, WWH)


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 (morning) - Warren Weaver Hall 102
08:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (WWH Lobby)
09:00 - 09:40 D. Ruelle (IHES, France)
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of infinite systems, and entropy production
09:45 - 10:25 K. Khanin (University of Toronto, Canada)
Directed Polymers and KPZ-type Scalings
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:25 S. Gunturk (Courant Institute)
Piecewise Maps for Analog-to-Digital Conversion: Dynamics and Approximation Theory of One-Bit Quantization
11:30 - 12:10 G. Zaslavsky (Department of Physics, NYU and Courant Institute)
Long range interaction and fractional dynamics





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