Fridays      224 Fine Hall      1:00 pm

Fall 2007 Collapse/Expand

Date: October 5
Speaker: Mir Abbas Jalali, IAS
Title: Perturbative Solutions of the Collisionless Boltzmann Equation for a Galactic Disk

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Date: October 12
Speaker: Samuel Walcott, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont
Title: Motor protein kinetics: How rate constants depend on load

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Date: October 19
Speaker: Kong-Fatt Wong, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Time-varying perturbations during perceptual decision-making

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Date: October 26
Speaker: Mathieu Coppey, Chemical Engineering and Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University
Title: Dynamics of maternal gradients in the Drosophila embryo

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Date: November 9
Speaker: Sidhartha Goyal, Physics, Princeton University
Title: Growth-Induced Instability in Metabolic Networks

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Date: November 16
Speaker: Katherine Bold, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Using "Equation-free" techniques to analyze network evolution and the collective motion of coupled oscillators

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Date: November 30
Speaker: David Hu, Courant Institute, New York University
Title: Snakes on a plane

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Date: December 7
Speaker: William Ryu, Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
Title: Thermosensation and motor response of E. coli and C. elegans

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Date: December 14
Speaker: Philip Eckhoff, PACM, Princeton University
Title: A Century of Malaria Modeling

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Spring 2008 Collapse/Expand

Date: February 8
Speaker: Manoj Srinivasan, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Mechanics of muscle contraction

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Date: February 15
Speaker: Haldun Komsuoglu, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Sprawled Posture in a Hexapod Robot, the LLS Model and "Preflex" Stability in Level Ground Running

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Date: February 29
Speaker: Jayant Kulkarni, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University
Title: Common-input models for multineural spike-train data

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Date: March 7
Speaker: Shugo Yasuda, Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University
Title: A Model for Hybrid Simulations of Molecular Dynamics and CFD

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Date: March 14
Speaker: Shai Revzen, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Title: "Phaser" -- Towards a general purpose algorithm of estimating phase from multidimensional experimental data

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Date: April 11
Speaker: Hyun Jae Pi, Physics, Brandeis University
Title: Synapse as a multistable system

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Date: April 18
Speaker: Gabor Domokos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Title: Geometry of turtles and pebbles, or, some mechanical aspects of shapes.

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Date: April 25
Speaker: Michael Raghib Moreno, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Title: Collective decision making: Lessons from Swarms

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Date: May 2
Speaker: Milos Ilak, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Model Reduction of Fluids Using Balanced Truncation

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2006-2007 Collapse/Expand

Date: September 15
Speaker: Robert Clewley, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
Title: Modelling neuromuscular control of finger motion

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Date: September 29
Speaker: Derek Paley, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Cooperative Control of Collective Motion with Limited Communication

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Date: October 6
Speaker: Gregory Stephens, CSBMB, Princeton University
Title: Learning the language of movement: Dimensionality and dynamics in the motor behavior of C. elegans

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Date: October 20
Speaker: Manoj Srinivasan, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Rocking soda-cans and infinite velocities

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Date: November 10
Speaker: Mark Hoefer, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Title: Dispersive Shock Waves and Their Interactions

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Date: December 1
Speaker: Steve Brunton, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Invariant Manifold Transport Tubes in Space Mission Design & Chemical Reaction Dynamics

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Date: December 8
Speaker: Madhusudhan Venkadesan, Cornell University
Title: Dexterous manipulation in humans: characterizing a noisy dynamical system

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Date: February 9
Speaker: Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: The chaotic scattering in wave interactions: From PDE's to ODE's to iterated maps

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Date: March 2
Speaker: Georgi Medvedev, Drexel University
Title: Discrete models of bursting

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Date: March 9
Speaker: Gabor Domokos, Budapest Univ. of Technology & Economics
Title: Discrete state models in chaotic population dynamics

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Date: March 16
Speaker: Steven Schiff, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Dynamics and Control of Pattern Formation in the Brain

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Date: March 30
Speaker: Juan Gao, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Oscillatory circuits underlying the retinal detection of temporal periodic pattern

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Date: April 13
Speaker: Sophie Yuan Liu, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Decision Making: from Bayesian Updating to Drift Diffusion Process

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Date: April 27
Speaker: Patrick Simen, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Controlling decision making

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Date: May 4
Speaker: Peter Varkonyi, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Arrays of relaxation oscillators and the lamprey CPG

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2005-2006 Collapse/Expand

Date: September 23
Speaker: Derek Paley, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Oscillator Models and Collective Motion: Stabilization of Symmetric Patterns of Self-Propelled Particles

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Date: September 30
Speaker: Tyler McMillen and Phil Holmes PACM and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: An elastic rod model for angulliform swimming, or a rod with a mind of its own

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Date: October 7
Speaker: Gábor Domokos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Title: Bifurcations of optima in structural design

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Date: October 21
Speaker: Fumin Zhang, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Curve tracking for legged and wheeled robots

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Date: November 11
Speaker: Michael Raghib, PACM and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Title: Point processes, entropy and moment closure in spatial ecology

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Date: December 2
Speaker: Juan Gao, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Dynamics of Neuronal Synchronization

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Date: February 17
Speaker: Peter Varkonyi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Title: On the number of equilibria of convex, homogenous bodies

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Date: February 24
Speaker: Alistair Boettiger, Physics, Princeton University
Title: A Dynamical Model of Epithelial Sheet Migration

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Date: March 3
Speaker: Manoj Srinivasan, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Energetics of legged locomotion: Why humans walk and run, and how to build efficient robots

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Date: April 7
Speaker: Hartmut Geyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Gaining insights into legged locomotion by hierarchically exploiting compliant leg behavior

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Date: April 14
Speaker: Peter Eckhoff, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Variable Drift Rate Models for Decision Making in Monkeys

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Date: April 21
Speaker: Raghavendra Kukillaya, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Towards a hexapedal locomotion model with realistic legs

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Date: April 28
Speaker: Timothy Chung, Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Title: Distributed Sensing and Decision-making for Intelligent Robotic Systems

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Date: May 5
Speaker: Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute
Title: From forced NLS to surface waves - towards classifying the structure of chaotic solutions

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Date: June 2
Speaker: Sanjay Lall, Stanford University
Title: Error Bounds for Control and Model Reduction of Stochastic Systems

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2004-2005 Collapse/Expand

Date: September 24
Speaker: Katy Bold, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Differential Equations on a Network: from Dynamics to Structure

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Date: October 1
Speaker: Justin Seipel, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Models of Legged Locomotion

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Date: October 8
Speaker: Greg Reeves, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Patterning in Drosophila embryo: a model on a onedimensional cell lattice

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Date: October 15
Speaker: Tyler McMillen, Applied Mathematics, Princeton University
Title: The Dynamics of Choice

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Date: February 11
Speaker: Fumin Zhang, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Cooperative Control of Periodic Motion: Satellite Formations

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Date: February 25
Speaker: Greg Stephens, Physics, Princeton University
Title: A Selection of Problems in Computational Neuroscience

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Date: March 4
Speaker: Edgar Choueiri, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Ion Acceleration by Beating Electrostatic Waves: Theory, Experiments and Relevance to Spacecraft Propulsion

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Date: March 25
Speaker: Mikko Haataja, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Pattern formation in materials science: Continuum models for microstructure evolution in crystalline materials

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Date: April 1
Speaker: Manoj Srinivasan, Cornell University
Title: Why do humans walk and run?

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Date: April 7
Speaker: Irene Moroz, University of Oxford
Title: The Extended Malkus-Robbins dynamo as a perturbed Lorenz system

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Date: April 8
Speaker: Jan Skotheim, Harvard University
Title: How a Venus flytrap snaps: a design principle for hydraulically activated movement

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Date: April 22
Speaker: Robert Szalai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Bifurcations and chaos in high-speed milling

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2003-2004 Collapse/Expand

Date: September 19
Speaker: Tyler McMillen, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Perversions and Whips

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Date: September 26
Speaker: Phil Holmes, MAE & PACM, Princeton University
Title: Piecewise-holonomic mechanics, hybrid dynamical systems, and escaping cockroaches

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Date: October 3
Speaker: Sung Joon Moon, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Pattern formation, instabilities, and kink-induced segregation in oscillated granular layers

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Date: October 17
Speaker: Yannis Kevrekidis, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Equation-Free Complex Systems Modeling: or how to make fine things coarse

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Date: November 14
Speaker: Jaime Cisternas, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Modeling of Influenza A Evolution: Coarse-grained computations with individual-based models

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Date: November 21
Speaker: Jeff Moehlis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: A low-dimensional model for shear flows

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Date: December 5
Speaker: Stan Shvartsman, Chemical Engineering & Genomics Institute, Princeton University
Title: Modeling and manipulating EGFR-mediated cell communication in development

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Date: February 6
Speaker: Sergey Kryazhimskiy, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Global Domain of Attraction of a Step-Like Contrast Structure

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Date: February 13
Speaker: Raffaele M. Ghigliazza, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Title: Bursting neurons: revised Hodgkin-Huxley formalism and an application to hexapedal locomotion

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Date: February 27
Speaker: Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Interaction of Sine-Gordon solitons with Defects

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Date: April 2
Speaker: Patrick Leenheer, Rutgers University
Title: Growth on 2 nutrients in the chemostat: an application of monotone systems theory

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Date: April 9
Speaker: Marius Usher, Birkbeck, University of London
Title: Neural dynamics of choice, active-maintenance and selection

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Date: April 23
Speaker: Patrick Simen, PACM and Psychology, Princeton University
Title: Neural mechanisms for control in complex cognition

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Date: April 30
Speaker: Eva Kanso, California Institute of Technology
Title: Swimming in an Ideal Fluid

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2002-2003 Collapse/Expand

Date: September 13
Speaker: Bruno Eckhardt, Marburg University
Title: Lagrangian chaos in oscillatory flows

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Date: September 20
Speaker: Jeff Moehlis, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Response of Neurons in the Brain Region Locus Coeruleus to Stimuli

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Date: October 4
Speaker: Joshua Plotkin, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Some deterministic and stochastic models of Influenza

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Date: October 18
Speaker: Steve Shkoller, University of California, Davis
Title: The anisotropic Lagrangian averaged Navier-Stokes equations

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Date: October 25
Speaker: Rodolphe Sepulchre, Univ of Liege (Belgium) and Princeton University
Title: Iterative computational algorithms viewed as dynamical systems: three examples

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Date: November 8
Speaker: Claudia Wulff, University of Surrey
Title: Stability of Hamiltonian relative equilibria and applications to underwater vehicles

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Date: December 6
Speaker: Kevin Mitchell, College of William and Mary
Title: Fractal Escape Times and the Chaotic Ionization of Hydrogen in Parallel Fields

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Date: December 13
Speaker: Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Model validation and reduction using spectral properties of Koopman operator

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Date: February 7
Speaker: Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley and University of Leeds
Title: Nearly Inviscid Faraday Waves

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Date: March 28
Speaker: Kevin Lynch, Northwestern University
Title: Motion Planning for Underactuated Mechanical Systems

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Date: April 4
Speaker: Michael Leyton, Rutgers University
Title: A Generative Theory of Shape

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Date: April 11
Speaker: Len Pismen, Technion (Israel)
Title: Pattern formation, reconstruction, and roughening on a catalytic surface

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Date: April 25
Speaker: Jonathan Mattingly, Institute for Advanced Study
Title: Long time computer simulations of stochastic differential equations

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Date: May 16
Speaker: Mathias Jungen, PACM, Princeton University
Title: On the modelling of cooling lava by nonlinear elasticity

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Date: May 23
Speaker: Geertje Hek, University of Amsterdam
Title: Stabilisation by slow diffusion in a real Ginzburg-Landau eqaution

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2001-2002 Collapse/Expand

Date: September 24
Speaker: Fei-Ran Tian, Ohio State University
Title: Lax-Levermore-Venakides Minimization Problem

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Date: October 12
Speaker: Petter Ogren, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and Princeton University
Title: A Control Lyapunov Function Approach to Multi-Agent Coordination

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Date: October 19
Speaker: MAE Research Day - NO SEMINAR
Title:

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Date: October 26
Speaker: Jeff Moehlis, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Canards (French Ducks): Examples from Chemistry and Biology

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Date: November 9
Speaker: Troy Smith, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Low Dimensional Models for Turbulent Plane Couette Flow Using the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

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Date: November 16
Speaker: Jaime Cisternas, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Buckling of thin plates produced by exothermical oxidation

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Date: February 8
Speaker: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Princeton University
Title: What does a single neuron compute?

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Date: February 15
Speaker: Luc Moreau, MAE, Princeton University
Title: A note on the geometry of nonlinear inductor capacitor circuits

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Date: February 22
Speaker: Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University & Princeton University
Title: Some theoretical questions in control and dynamics motivated by molecular biology

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Date: March 15
Speaker: Qiang Du, Penn State University
Title: Quantized vortices: from Ginzburg-Landau to Gross-Pitaevskii

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Date: April 12
Speaker: Robert M. Miura, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Analysis of Bursting Electrical Activity in Pancreatic Beta-Cells

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Date: April 19
Speaker: Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University & Princeton University
Title: The ISS philosophy as a unifying framework for stability-like behavior -- see below for location change

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Date: April 26
Speaker: Pini Gurfel, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Dynamics near a Unit Circle in the Two- and Three-Body Problems: From Horseshoe Orbits to Formation Flying

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Date: May 3
Speaker: Assyr Abdulle, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Large stiff systems and parabolic PDEs solved by ROCK methods

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Date: May 10
Speaker: Peter Mucha, Georgia Tech
Title: A unifying theory for velocity fluctuations in sedimentation

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2000-2001 Collapse/Expand

Date: September 25
Speaker: Heinz Hanßmann, Aachen and PACM, Princeton University
Title: On Perturbed Oscillators In 1-1-1 Resonance: The Case of Axially Symmetric Cubic Potentials

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Date: October 2
Speaker: Harm Hinrich Rotermund, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Title: Shedding Light on Surface Reactions: Imaging Pattern Formation from Ultra-High Vacuum up to High Pressures

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Date: October 16
Speaker: Jeff Moehlis, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Bursts: Excursions To (And Back From) Infinity

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Date: October 23
Speaker: Hsueh-Chia Chang, University of Notre Dame
Title: Fast-Igniting Catalytic Converters

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Date: October 30
Speaker: Janpeter Wolff, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
Title: CO Oxidation On Pt Under The Influence Of Local Heating

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Date: November 20
Speaker: Heinz Hanßmann, Aachen and PACM, Princeton University
Title: On the bifurcations in the $3D$ H\'enon--Heiles family

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Date: November 27
Speaker: Craig Woolsey, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Stabilizing Underwater Vehicles Using Internal Rotors

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Date: December 4
Speaker: Yannis Drossinos, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Title: Complex Dynamics of a Creep-Slip Model of Earthquake Faults

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Date: December 11
Speaker: Sima Setayeshgar, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Electrical Wave Propagation in the Heart: Dynamics of Scroll Waves in Anisotropic Excitable Media

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Date: December 18
Speaker: Thanasis Papathanasiou, Fritz-Haber Institut der MPG, Berlin
Title: Mechanisms of Magneto-Hydrostatic Instabilities: Experiments and Computational Analysis

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Date: February 12
Speaker: Chris Jones, Brown University
Title: Creating Stability from Instability

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Date: February 19
Speaker: Michael D. Graham, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Nonlinear coherent structures in viscoelastic shear flows

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Date: February 26
Speaker: Heinz Hanssmann, PACM, Princeton University
Title: On the global dynamics of Kirchhoff's equations : Rigid body models for underwater vehicles

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Date: March 5
Speaker: Jeff Moehlis, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Bifurcations With Symmetry: An Overview

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Date: March 12
Speaker: Eric Brown, PACM, Princeton University
Title: Stability, synchrony, and symmetry in coupled rotator oscillators

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Date: March 19
Speaker: Gabor Domokos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Title: Ghost solutions in BVPs

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Date: March 26
Speaker: Eddie Fiorelli, MAE, Princeton University
Title: Virtual Leaders, Artificial Potentials and Coordinated Control of Gruops

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Date: April 2
Speaker: Edriss Titi, University of California, Irvine
Title: On the Connection Between the Viscous Camassa-Holm Equations (Navier-Stokes-alpha model) and Turbulence Theory

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Date: April 9
Speaker: Edriss Titi, University of California, Irvine
Title: Postprocessing Galerkin Methods

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Date: April 16
Speaker: H. Scott Dumas, University of Cincinnati
Title: Dynamical Theories of Particle Channeling in Crystals

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Date: April 23
Speaker: Henry Mwambi, PEI, Princeton University
Title: Ticks and tick-borne diseases in Africa: a vector host interaction model of a three host tick

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Date: April 30
Speaker: Cyrill Muratov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Title: Testing a Hypothesis in Developmental Biology: Modeling and Computational Analysis of Autocrine Loops in Drosophila Oogenesis

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1999-2000 Collapse/Expand

Date: September 24
Speaker: Phil Holmes, MAE/PACM
Title: Introductory lecture about the Hodgkin-Huxley model of a neuron (the giant axon of Loligo - a squid)

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Date: October 1
Speaker: John Schmitt, MAE
Title: Mechanical Models for Insect Locomotion

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Date: October 8
Speaker: Phil Holmes, MAE/PACM and Georgiy Medvedev, PACM/IAS
Title: Hodgkin-Huxley Eqns #2

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Date: October 15
Speaker: Ed Belbruno, IOD
Title: Orbit design for cheap spaceflight

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Date: October 22
Speaker: Georgiy Medvedev, PACM/IAS
Title: Hodgkin-Huxley Eqns #3

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Date: October 29
Speaker: Leonid Kontorovich, Math
Title: Problems in Semitic NLP: Hebrew Vocalization Using Hidden Markov Models.

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Date: November 12
Speaker: J.B. Pomet, INRIA
Title: Topological Equivalence and Qualitative Behaviour of Control Systems

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Date: November 19
Speaker: Georgiy Medvedev, PACM/IAS and Eric Brown, PACM
Title: Hodgkin-Huxley Eqns #4

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Date: December 3
Speaker: Phil Holmes, MAE/PACM
Title: Reduced oscillator models of exctable and bursting neurons

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Date: December 17
Speaker: Oliver Downs, PACM and Gayle Wittenberg, Hopfield Lab
Title: Neural Networks

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Date: February 11
Speaker: Dima Rinberg, NEC Research Institute, Inc.
Title: The Cockroach Escape Reflex and Fluid Dynamics

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Date: February 18
Speaker: Oliver Downs, PACM
Title: Learning Models For Continuous Nonnegative Data

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Date: February 25
Speaker: Natalia Komarova, Institute for Advanced Study
Title: Patterns Under Water

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Date: March 3
Speaker: Clancy Rowley, CDS CalTech and MAE
Title: The Karhunen-Loeve Expansion for Systems with Symmetry and Low-Order Models of an Oscillating Cavity Flow

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Date: March 31
Speaker: Michael Shefter, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
Title: Nonlinear Instability of Elementary Stratified Flows at Large Richardson Number

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Date: April 7
Speaker: David Pinto, Boston and Brown Universities
Title: The Fine Structure of Propagating Activity in Neocortex: Analysis and Biology

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Date: April 14
Speaker: John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
Title: Rhythms and Waves in a "Sleeping" Thalamic Slice Model

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Date: April 17
Speaker: Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Global Spatial Patterning Through Distance and Delay

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Date: April 18
Speaker: Jeff Moehlis, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Wrinkled Tori and Bursts due to Resonant Temporal Forcing

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Date: April 21
Speaker: Joshua Plotkin, PACM
Title: Spatial Patterns of Diversity in Tropical Forests

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Date: April 28
Speaker: Roy Goodman, PACM
Title: Coupled Mode Equations for Nonlinear Fiber Optics

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Date: May 5
Speaker: Yannis Kevrekidis, PACM & Chemical Engineering
Title: Coarse Bifurcation Analysis

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