Graduate School in Nonlinear Science
MIDIT OFD CATS
Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics Optics and Fluid Dynamics Chaos and Turbulence Studies
and Irreversible Thermodynamics Risø National Laboratory Niels Bohr Institute and
Technical University of Denmark Building 128 Department of Chemistry
Building 321 P.O. Box 49 University of Copenhagen
DK-2800 Lyngby DK-4000 Roskilde DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark Denmark Denmark
CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 2001
Conferences, Workshops, and Ph.D. Courses:
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Workshop on the generation of shear
flows and shear flow stabilization in plasmas and fluids
Date: 13.00-16.00, October 31, 2001
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
Organizers: Jens Juul Rasmussen, OFD, Risø
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Workshop on Nonlinear Photonic Crystals
Date: October 25-26, 2001
Venue: Dept. of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling (IMM),
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Organizer: Ole Bang, IMM, DTU
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9th European Fusion
Theory Conference (9 EFTC)
Date: October 17-19, 2001
Venue: Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark
Organizers: P.K. Michelsen, J.P. Lynov, A.H. Nielsen, V. Naulin,
and J.J.Rasmussen, OFD, Risø
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Workshop on
Object-Oriented Numerical Dynamical Systems
Date:
October 15-19, 2001
Venue: Tune Landboskole
Organizers: Carsten Knudsen (FYS) and Per Grove Thomsen (IMM)
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Ph.D. Course on "Nonlinear
Waves, Coherent Structures and Stochastic Dynamics"
Date: October 9-12, November 6-9, and December 7, 2001
Venue: Dept. of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling (IMM)
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Organizers: Peter L. Christiansen and Ole Bang, IMM, DTU
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Summer School
in Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) Theorey and Applications
Date: June 18 - 26, 2001
Venue: Department of Mathematics, building 303,
Technical University of Denmark
Organizers: Morten Brøns and Bodil Branner
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Nonlinear Science Festival III
Date: June 12-15, 2001
Venue: Technical University of Denmark, building 306.
Organizers: Carsten Knudsen, Dept. of Physics, DTU, Ole Bang,
Dept. of Mathematical Modelling, DTU, Morten Brøns Dept. of
Mathematics, DTU, and Jens Juul Rasmussen, Optics and Fluid Dynamics
Department, Risø National Laboratory
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PhD-Day
Date: March 14, 2001
Venue: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Organizer: Anders V. Bisgaard, Dept. of Chemistry, University
of Copenhagen, E-mail: anders@osc.kiku.dk
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Phyllotaxis and Biological
Oscillations
Date: January 24 - 27, 2001
Venue: Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark
Organizers: Erik Mosekilde and Francesco d'Ovidio, FYS, DTU
Lectures and Lecture Series
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"Convective transport and sheared mean
flows"
Speaker: Odd Erik Garcia, Auroral Observatory,
University of Tromsø, Norway
Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Measurements of anomalous particle
and energy fluxes in a magnetized plasma"
Speaker: Svetlana Ratynskaia, Auroral Observatory,
University of Tromsø, Norway
Date: Thursday, December 13, 2001, 10.30 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Collapse in hydrodynamics and
Kolmogorov spectrum"
Speaker: E.A. Kuznetsov, Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics,
Moscow, Russia
Date: Friday, November 30, 2001, 15.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Theory of photoinduced
deformation of molecular films"
Speaker: Yu.B. Gaididei, Bogolyubov Institute for
Theoretical Physics,
Kiev, Ukraine
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 11.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Solitary waves at solid surfaces"
Speaker: Andreas Mayer, University of Regensburg, Germany
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 15.00 h
Venue: IMM, DTU, Building 305, Room 053
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"Nonlinear physics in Cameroon (Africa)"
Speaker: P. Woafo, Lab. of Mechanics, Faculty of Science,
Univerity of Yaounde I, Cameroon
Date: Friay, November 23, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, DTU, Building 305, Room 053
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"Nonlinear system identification in
Fluid-Elastic Dynamics"
Speaker: Francis C. Moon, Cornell University, USA
Date: Friday, November 16, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, DTU, Building 305, Room 053
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"Lecture Series: Geometrical
methods in Classical Mechanics"
Speaker: M. Deriabine, MAT, DTU
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 14.00 h
Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2001, 14.00 h
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, DTU, Building 305, Room 018
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"Nonlinearity-induced conformational
instability and dynamics of biopolymers"
After this lecture MIDIT will celebrate its
quincentenary lecture with a glass of champagne
Speaker: Sergei Mingaleev, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 15.00 h
Venue: IMM, DTU, Building 305, Room 018
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"Dark breather"
Speaker: Juan AR Archilla, Departamento de Fisica Aplicada I,
ETS de Ingenieria Informatica, Sevilla, Spain
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, DTU, Building 305, Room 018
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"Leaves, Feathers, and Flower Stems:
Twisting in the Wind Without Bending Very Much"
Speaker: Steven Vogel, Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina, USA
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: Fluid Mechanics, Building 403, Room 017, DTU
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"Physical Constrainsts on the Design of
Circulatory Systems"
Speaker: Steven Vogel, Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina, USA
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 13.30 h
Venue: Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Aud. A
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"Drift-wave in presence of
vortex-flow in magnetized plasmas"
Speaker: Nikhil Chakrabarti, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Calcutta, India
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 10:00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"What Nature Doesn't: Devices Known
Only as Human Technology"
Speaker: Steven Vogel, Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina, USA
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 11.00 h
Venue: IMM, Physics Department, Building 306, Aud. 033, DTU
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"Predator-prey encounters in turbulent
waters"
Speaker: Hans L. Pécseli, University of Oslo, Physics
Department, Oslo, Norway
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001, 10:00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Modelling and experiments of Raman
assisted ultra-long-haul terrestrial transmission over 7500km"
Speaker: Carl Balslev Clausen, TerraWorx, Inc, Shrewsbury,
New Jersey, USA
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Form and width of spectral line of
Josephson Flux-Flow oscillator"
Speaker: Andrey L. Pankratov, Institute for Physics of
Microstructures of RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"C-axis Josephson Plasma Resonance
in Tl-2212 measured using THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy"
Speaker: Verner K. Thorsmolle, Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor Josephson pi-Junctions and
Intrinsically Frustrated Superconducting Networks. Possible Applications
for Digital and Quantum Logics"
Speaker: V. V. Ryazanov, Institute of Solid State Physics,
Russian Academy of Science, Chernogolovka, Russia
Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Propagation and ephaptic coupling in
myelinated nerve fibers"
Speaker: Stephane Binczak, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Date: Thursday, July 5, 2001, 15.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Curve Geometry and Soliton Theory"
Speaker: Annalisa Calini, Department of Mathematics,
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA
Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2001, 15.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Multi-focusing and sustained
dissipation in a nonlinear Schödinger equation with nonlinear
dissipation"
Speaker: Brenton leMesurier, Department of Mathematics,
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA
Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Spin and electromagnetic solitons in
Heisenberg Ferromagnetic systems"
Speaker: M. Daniel, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics,
Bharathidasan University, India
Date: Friday, June 29, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"High-Order/Spectral Unstructured
Grid Methods for Conservation Laws"
Speaker: Jan S. Hesthaven, Division of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University, Providence, USA
Date: Thursday, June 28, 2001, 15.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"An Overview of Collective Coordinate
Ideas and Techniques for Nonlinear Coherent Excitations"
Speaker: Angel Sanchez, Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas
Complicados (GISC), Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Carlos
III de Madrid, Spain
Date: Friday, June 8, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"The 2D Sine-Gordon Model for Surface
Growth: Effects of Disorder"
Speaker: Angel Sanchez, Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas
Complicados (GISC), Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Carlos
III de Madrid, Spain
Date: Friday, June 8, 2001, 13.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"On the Necessity of Flows in
Toroidal MHD Steady Flows"
Speaker: David Montgomery, Dartmouth (USA) and Eindhoven
University of Technology, Netherlands
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Superconducting gap and pair
breaking in CeRu2studied by point contacts"
Speaker: Andriy Moskalenko, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Kharkov, Ukraine
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Study of superconducting microwave
devices by Low-Temperature Laser Scanning Microscopy: technical and
fundamental aspects Systems"
Speaker: Professor Alexander Zhuravel, National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"The Instability of an Internal Shear Layer
in a Rotating Fluid and Resulting Vortex Flows"
Speaker: Wolf-Gerrit Früh, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Computing at High Reynolds numbers
in a Disk"
Speaker: E.A. Coutsias, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Amide Modes
of Peptides and Model Systems"
Speaker: Dr. Peter Hamm, Max Born Institut, Berlin, Germany
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Solitons and Radiating Quasisolitons of
Higher Order NLS Models"
Speaker: V.I. Karpman, Racah Institute of Physics,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Date: Friday, May 4, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 053, DTU
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"Physics of Zonal Flows in Drift Wave
Turbulence in Tokamak Geometry"
Speaker: Bruce Scott, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik,
Garching, Germany
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2001, 14.30 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Self-Organized Turbulense in
the Earth's Magnetotail: Critical Current Systems and
Magnetospheric Substorm Onset"
Speaker: Alexander V. Milovanov, Space Research Institute,
Moscow, Russia
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2001, 13.30 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Testing the Kibble-Zurek Causality
Bounds with Annular Josephson Tunnel Junctions."
Speaker: Dr. Roberto Monaco, University of Salerno, Italy
Date: Thursday, April 5, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Three-dimensional elastic Compatibility
and twinning textures in Martensites"
Speaker: Kim Rasmussen, Theoretical Division, T-11, MS-B262,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001, 15.00 h
CANCELLED!!!
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Growth and domain structure of the
YBCO thin films on the NdGaO3 substrates with surface normal inclined
to [110]."
Speaker: Peter B. Mozhaev, Institute of Radio Engineering and
Electronics, Moscow, Russia
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: FYS, Building 309, Room 245, DTU
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"Fractal Geometry of Percolation
at Criticality and the Alexander-Orbach Conjecture"
Speaker: Alexander V. Milovanov, Space Research Institute,
Moscow, Russia
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Physics basis of the Columbia
Non-neutral Torus Experiment"
Speaker: Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Columbia University
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø
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"Masters work"
Speaker: Nikola Nikolov, Dept. of Informatics and Mathematical
Modelling, the Technical University of Denmark
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2001, 13.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Heart rate statistics by multipole
analysis"
Speaker: Dr. Meir Lewkowicz, Dept. of Physics, College of Judea
and Samaria, Israel
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2001, 14.00 h
Venue: IMM, Building 305, Room 018, DTU
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"Photonic Crystals: Linear and Nonlinear
Aspects"
Speaker: Ole Bang, Dept. of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling,
the Technical University of Denmark
Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2001, 13.00 h
Venue: OFD Meeting Room, Building 130, Risø