Physics 213 Announcements
Fall, 2003

Sunday, December 3, 2003

• Mon, Dec 1:
  1. Carolyn Berger, Chaos in a Healthy Heart.     nonlinekg.ppt (.4 MB) or nonlinekg.sxi (.3 MB).
  2. David Blocher, Rethinking Length.     rethinkinglength.ppt (3 MB) .
  3. Andy Dawes, 1/f Noise in Music.     pink_noise_final.ppt (.2 MB)
     Music files that go with the talk: majorBrown.mid, majorOnef.mid, majorWhite.mid.
  4. Ethan Eade, Scale-free Networks.     scalefree.ppt (.6 MB) or scalefree.sxi (.7 MB).

• Wed, Dec 3:
  1. David Foster, Shadowing Theory: Assessing the Validity of Numerical Simulations.     shadowing-theory.ppt (.9 MB).
  2. Rami Guirguis, Comparison of the Fitzhugh-Nagumo and Hodgkin-Huxley Models.     pres-rami.ppt (2.6 MB)
     Supplementary files:
     • http://www.msbsnotes.com/pics/phy213/movie-fitz-a-0-nostim.mpg
     • http://www.msbsnotes.com/pics/phy213/movie-fitz-longstim.mpg
     • http://www.msbsnotes.com/pics/phy213/movie-nullclines-0.0.mpg
     • http://www.msbsnotes.com/pics/phy213/movie-nullclines-0.5.mpg
     • http://www.msbsnotes.com/pics/phy213/movie-nullclines-1.0.mpg
     • http://www.msbsnotes.com/pics/phy213/movie-nullclines-1.9.mpg
  3. Birte Hausschildt, Fractal Dimension of Clouds.     Phy213clouds.ppt (.5 MB).
  4. Joseph Hepp, Chaos Control of the Brain.     Chaos-Control.ppt (1.7 MB).
  5. Dean Hidas, Self Organized Criticality and Fun     dhidas.ppt
     Associated files: 200x200_line.mpg and 200x200_random.mpg.

• Thu, Dec 4:
  1. Chikashi Kimura, Chaos in two dimensional Fluid Mixing.     Chaos-in-Two-Dimensional-Fluid- Mixing.ppt (1.2 MB)
     Associated file: tobacco-smoke.mpg (2.9 MB).
  2. Karl Martinez     KMartinez_213.ppt (12 MB).
     Associated files: 3209913.mpeg, 3269935.mpeg, 3269935.mpeg, 8119915.mpeg.
  3. Jenny Niedermeyer, Chaos in the Brain     chaos-w-small-pics.ppt (4.6 MB)
  4. Erik Plauschinn, Quantum Chaos.     quantum-chaos.ppt (2.3MB).

• Fri, Dec 5:
  1. Friedemann Queisser, DLA - Diffusion Limited Aggregration     DLA.ppt (2.6 MB).
  2. Sophia Santillan, The Dynamics of HIV Infection In Vivo.     Dynamics-HIV-Infection-In-Vivo.ppt (2.4 MB),
  3. Jordan Slott, Chaos and Computational Irreducibility.     wolfram.ppt (1.1 MB) or wolfram.sxi (1.1 MB).
  4. Peidong Yu, Universal Chaotic Electronical System---Chua's Circuit.     chua-circuit.ppt (.9 MB).

If you have a conflict with your assigned time, see if you can arrange an exchange with a classmate and let me know as soon as possible. Because of the extra time available to prepare the talks, there is only a 10% bonus now for those who give their talks on the first day.

When giving your talk, strive for interest and clarity. It is better to take your time and discuss a little bit well rather than rush through a lot of information that won't be understood. You should try to face the class most of the time and make eye contact, this helps to get people involved with your presentation. Make sure that your concluding slide is easily available so that you can jump to that slide if you find yourself running out of time.

If you will be using PowerPoint or OpenOffice (under Linux) to give your presentation, I would recommend that you email me your file at least 24 hours before you give your talk so that I can download the file to my laptop and make sure that everything works. This will save the need for you to bring your own laptop to class and the time of switching laptops between presentations. If you have any other needs for your presentation, please let me know well in advance so I can try to help you.

The papers that go with your talks should be handed in to me by 5 pm on December 5. If I am away from my office when you come by, please slide your paper under my office door (Physics 047).