Dynamics Seminar, Spring 2010

Friday 2:15, Malott 253



To return to the Cornell Department of Mathematics, click here .

If you have questions or would like to give a talk, please contact Philipp Meerkamp at pmeerkamp@math.cornell.edu.

Schedule of talks:
Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell University
Crowd dynamics: the role of anisotropy

January 29:
Organizational meeting

February 5:
no talk

February 12:
no talk

February 19:
Andy Ruina, Cornell University
Rotation with zero angular momentum: Demonstrations of the falling cat phenomenon go sour.
February 26:
Henrik van Lengerich, Cornell University
Stability and Dynamics of a Network of Drops

March 5:
John Smillie, Cornell University
Parabolic flows, renormalization and octagonal billiards
March 12:
Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
When the noise is the signal: Stochastic synchronization in neurons

March 19:
day before spring break

March 26:
spring break

April 2:
Drew LaMar, College of William and Mary
Dynamics of oscillators on random networks
April 9:
Dmitri Vainchtein, Temple University
Resonance phenomena in (Micro)Fluids and (Huge)Plasma

April 16:
Charles Peskin, New York University
Synchrony vs Asynchrony in Discrete-State Stochastic Neuronal Networks

April 23:
Mary-Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College and Cornell University
Elementary climate models, Milankovich forcing and glacial cycles

April 30:
May 7:
slope day


Fall08 schedule click here .
Spring09 schedule click here .
Fall09 schedule click here .