NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS WORKSHOP 2009
In memory of George Zaslavsky


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

April 24-25, 2009



Sponsored by the Courant Institute, New York University
Organized by H. Weitzner and L.-S. Young


PROGRAM

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 (morning) - Warren Weaver Hall 1302
08:55 - 09:00 Opening
09:00 - 09:30 S. Childress (Courant Institute)
Inertial swimming as a singular perturbation
09:30 - 10:00 V. Rom-Kedar (Weizmann Institute)
Conjecture: the smoothed Boltzmann gas is not ergodic
10:00 - 10:30 N. Laskin (TopQuark Inc.)
Fractional Poisson probability distribution theory and applications
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 M. Gromov (Courant Institute and IHES)
TBA
11:30 - 12:00 M. Shlesinger (ONR and Navel Academy)
Levy Flights in Physics
12:00 - 12:30 G. Ben Arous (Courant Institute)
Fractional Kinetics: a general feature of disordered dynamics
Lunch Break

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 (afternoon) - Warren Weaver Hall 1302
03:15 - 03:45 A. Majda (Courant Institute)
New Algorithms for Climate Change based on the Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem
03:45 - 04:15 V. Afraimovich (San Luis Potosi, Mexico)
Modeling of sequential dynamics in networks of active elements
04:15 - 04:45 Coffee Break
04:45 - 05:15 L.-S. Young (Courant Institute)
Nonequilibrium steady states for some Hamiltonian models
05:15 - 05:45 X. Leoncini (CNRS-Provence)
Self-organized integrability in systems with long range interactions
06:00 Hors d'oeuvres (13th Floor Lounge, Warren Weaver Hall)
All workshop participants are invited


SATURDAY, APRIL 25 (morning) - Warren Weaver Hall 102
09:00 - 09:30 K. Khanin (Toronto)
On dynamics on the shock manifolds
09:30 - 10:00 Ya. G. Sinai (Princeton University)
Decay of Fourier coefficients of solutions of 2-dim Navier-Stokes system
10:00 - 10:30 Ya. Pesin (Penn State)
Dynamics of a Discrete Brusselator Model
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 P. Chaikin (NYU Physics)
TBA
11:30 - 12:00 J. Lowenstein (NYU Physics)
Pseudochaotic kicked oscillators
12:00 - 12:30 L. Bunimovich (Georgia Tech)
Stickiness and non-stickiness near the KAM-islands
Scientific part of workshop ends

SATURDAY, APRIL 25 (afternoon) - Warren Weaver Hall 109
02:30 Special session to celebrate the life of George Zaslavsky
Wine and cheese reception following memorial session (13th Floor Lounge, WWH)