17 ^th Annual International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics

January 7-10, 1998
The Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC

Dynamics Days is an annual conference that brings together researchers interested in a wide variety of phenomena associated with nonlinear dynamical systems. This year session topics will include mathematical methods for solving nonlinear differential equations and modeling data, the structures that emerge in fluid, granular, biological, and ecological systems, the behavior of some specific dynamical systems, and control and synchronization of chaotic systems.

Note that the 1998 conference is now over.
If you weren't there, you missed all the fun.

Organizers

Oral Presentations Given at Dynamics Days '98

• Wednesday, January 7
  • Morning sessions
    • 8:30-8:45 -- Earl Dowell -- Opening remarks
    • 8:45-9:30 -- Preben Alstrom (Fractal Particle Trajectories in Capillary Waves)
    • 9:30-9:50 -- Lou Kondic (About Patterns in 2-D Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids)
    • 9:50-10:10 -- Peter Vorobieff (2D Turbulence in Soap Films?)
    • --- Poster setup / Coffee---
    • 11:00-11:45 -- Mark Newman (Statistical Models of Species Extinction)
    • 11:45-12:05 -- Francois Drolet (Bifurcations in Dynamical Systems with Multiplicative Noise)
  • Lunch break
  • Afternoon sessions
    • 1:30-2:15 -- Igor Aronson (Formation of Periodic and Localized Patterns in an Oscillating Granular Layer)
    • 2:15-2:35 -- Shankar Venkataramani (Pattern Formation with Period doubling : Squares, Stripes and Oscillons in a Vibrated Granular Layer)
    • 2:35-2:55 -- Tom Witelski (Dynamics and stability of self-similar pinch-off via surface diffusion)
    • --- Poster Session A / Coffee ---
    • 3:40-4:25 -- Stephane Roux (Emergence of Texture in Granular Material)
    • 4:25-4:45 -- Yuri Braiman (Nonlinearity in Friction and Stick-Slip Dynamics)
    • 4:45-5:05 -- Stefan Boettcher (Memory and Aging: Life and Times of an Avalanche)
  • Dinner break
  • Evening session
    • 7:30-8:15 -- Phil Nelson (Statics and Dynamics of Torsionally-stiff Macromolecules)
    • 8:15-9:00 -- Yuhai Tu (Dynamics of Flocking: How Birds Fly Together)
  
  
  
• Thursday, January 8
  • Morning sessions
    • 8:30-9:15 -- Nigel Goldenfeld (Renormalization Group Approach to Global Asymptotic Analysis)
    • 9:15-9:35 -- Jeff Hasty (Renormalization of a Directed Sandpile Model)
    • 9:35-9:55 -- Indu Satija (Stepon: A New Type of Excitation in Quasiperiodic, Chaotic or Random Systems)
    • --- Poster Session B / Coffee ---
    • 10:40-11:25 -- Laurette Tuckerman (Bifurcation analysis for time steppers)
    • 11:25-11:45 -- Scott Zoldi (Unstable Periodic Orbit Analysis of Histograms of Chaotic Systems)
    • 11:45-12:05 -- David Egolf (Spiral Defect Chaos: Defects, Lengthscales, and Invasion)
  • Lunch break
  • Afternoon sessions
    • 1:15-2:00 -- Jim Collins (Random Walking During Quiet Standing)
    • 2:00-2:20 -- Vince Billock (Nonlinear Dynamics of Human Color Vision)
    • 2:20-2:40 -- Bernie Matkowsky (Selection in the Saffman-Taylor Finger Problem and the Taylor-Saffman Bubble Problem Without Surface Tension)
    • --- Poster Session C / Coffee ---
    • 3:25-4:10 -- Roger Nisbet (Dynamic Energy Budget Models)
    • 4:10-4:30 -- Will Wilson (Stochasticity's Role in Predator-Prey Dynamics)
    • 4:30-5:15 -- Jim Crutchfield (Evolving Dynamical Systems: Analysis and Prospects)
  • Evening: Banquet
  
  
  
• Friday, January 9
  • Morning sessions
    • 8:30-9:15 -- Philip Holmes (Homoclinic Explosions and Implosions)
    • 9:15-9:35 -- Jose Salazar-Gonzalez (Attractors of Some Reaction-Difussion Systems)
    • 9:35-9:55 -- Weili Luo (Magnetically Induced Multiple Bifurcations in a Ferrofluid)
    • --- Poster Session D / Coffee ---
    • 10:40-11:25 -- Daniel Gauthier (Controlling Cardiac Electrodynamics Without Reference States)
    • 11:25-12:10 -- Steve Ellner (Why Is Chaos Rare in Biological Population Dynamics?)
  • Lunch break
  • Afternoon sessions
    • 1:30-2:15 -- Elisha Moses (Experimental Observation of a Fingering Instability in 2D Combustion)
    • 2:15-2:35 -- Antonio Palacios (A Karhunen-Loeve Decomposition Analysis of Low-Dimensional Dynamics of Patterns in Cellular Flames)
    • 2:35-2:55 -- Jeff Olafsen (Phase Transitions in a Granular Monolayer)
    • --- Poster Session E /Coffee ---
    • 3:50-4:10 -- Dwight Barkley (EZ-Scroll)
    • 4:10-4:30 -- Andrew Krystal (Spatiotemporal dynamics of multichannel EEG data recorded during generalized tonic-clonic seizures)
    • 4:30-4:50 -- Sharon Lubkin (Bacterial Chemotactic Pattern Formation)
  
  
  
• Saturday, January10
  • Morning sessions
    • 8:30-9:15 -- Reggie Brown (Determining Coupling That Guarantees Synchronization Between Identical Chaotic Systems)
    • 9:15-9:35 -- Epaminondas Rosa (The Transition to Phase Synchronization of Chaos)
    • 9:35-9:55 -- Nader Haghighipour (Resonance Trapping in the Solar System)
    • --- Poster removal / Coffee ---
    • 10:40-11:25 -- Bill Ditto (Controlling chaos in human hearts)
    • 11:25-11:45 -- Denis Gaidashev (Instability of Solitons in Liquid and Plasma Flows)
    • 11:45-12:05 -- Igor Mitkov (Dynamics and Instability of Vortex Filaments in Three-dimensional Excitable Media)