Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Scientific Computing

The Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara, April 7-9, 1999.

                Organizer: Bjorn Birnir, The Center for Nonlinear Science at UCSB.

   Wedensday, April 7th.    Thursday, April 8th. Friday, April 9th.

Opening remarks,      8:30 Vice Chancellor, France Cordova

                Fluids and Patterns            Quantum Systems              Numerical Analysis

                                      9:00        Bassam Bamieh , UCSB.
Uncertainity in Transition to Turbulence
          Mark Sherwin, UCSB.
Optical Spectroscopy of Quantum
      Wells in Strong THz Fields

           Xu-Dong Liu, UCSB.
A New Boundary Condition Capturing Method for Elliptic Interface Problems

                                    10:00
          Paul Newton, USC.
   Integrable Vortex Motion on a Sphere
           James Allen, UCSB.
   Transport in Quantum Structures
        in the Presence of Intense
              Terahertz Fields
           Ronald Fedkiw, UCLA.
The Ghost Fluid Method for Numerical
   Treatment of Discontinuities and
                        Interfaces

                                     11:00
         Gunter Ahlers, UCSB.
Pattern Formation in Rayleigh-Benard Convection at Small Prandtl Numbers and with Rotation about a Vertical Axis

        Mark Srednicki, UCSB
       Quantum Chaos in Hamiltonian
Systems with Many Degrees of Freedom

               Linda Petzold, UCSB.
Algorithms and Software for Dynamic
     Optimization with Application to
Chemically Reacting Stagnation Flows

                 lunch                   lunch                         lunch

               Scalings and Dynamics            Control Theory            Materials and Turbulence

                                      2:00
            Kim Sneppen, Nordita.
Emergence of Scaling in Large Systems

           Miroslav Krstic, UCSD.
     Examples of Boundary Control of
Nonlinear PDE's: Kuramoto-Sivashinsky
        and 2D Navier-Stokes
             Weinan E, Courant.
   Stochastic PDEs in Turbulence theory

                                      3:00          Terry Smith, UCSB.
Eroding landsurfaces: the Emergence
   and Evolution of Organized Patterns
      of Drainage and their Scaling
           Jerrold E. Marsden, Caltech.
Geometry, Analysis and Numerics
of the Averaged Euler and Navier-Stokes
                  Equations

        Glen Fredrickson, UCSB.
     Mesoscale Polymer Modeling:
       Successes and Challenges

                                      4:00          Dieter Armbruster, ASU.
   Pattern Formation Due to Parametric
                    Resonance
           Bjorn Birnir, UCSB.
The Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of
                   Jet Engine Flow

             Felix Otto, UCSB.
        Domain Walls in Thin Film
   Ferromagnets under an Applied Field

                                      5:00            Poster Session

Poster Session
April 8th, 5-7pm, ITP Conference Room, Kohn Hall.
The Reception and Poster Session

Banquet
April 8th, 7:30pm, ITP Front Patio, Kohn Hall.

All Lectures will be held in the seminar room of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kohn
Hall. Ask the guard for a map as you enter campus.

South Coast Inn: Close to UCSB.
5620 Calle Real, Goleta; 805-967-3200; about 4 minutes from UCSB, about $85 single. Book it now,
you may get a better price if you mention mention the Nonlinear Dynamics Meeting first - they have some rooms
blocked with you in mind, and the price is cheaper.
El Prado Inn : Upper State Street, near the action, economical.
1601 State Street, 805-966-0807 about 10 minutes from UCSB, $55 Queen, $60 King, $65 two queens.
Eagle Inn: 2 blocks from the touristic beaches, charming.
232 Natoma, Santa Barabara, 805-965-3586; about 12 minutes from UCSB. $90, a bargain for the location .

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