Understanding Complex Systems

Schedule

Tuesday, May 20, 2003


8:30am Continental Breakfast and Poster Setup, Loomis Lobby


Opening Session I in 141 Loomis chaired by Duane Johnson 
9:15am Opening Remarks byDuane D. Johnson slides
9:30amBill Greenough We all know that the brain is a complex system.
                       What is new is complexity at a "meta" level.
                       Regulation of the composition of the brain by experience
10:15am Duane D. Johnson Bi-Metallic Nanoassemblies on Graphite: simplicity out of complexity
11:00am Erik Luijten Simulation of Complex Fluids by means of a Geometric Cluster Algorithm
11:25am Frank Moss Random Walks with a Zooplankton
11:50 end of opening session


12:00 Lunch in the Ballroom of the Illini Union


Session II in 141 Loomis chaired by Bob Clegg
1:00pm Pierre Wiltzius Complex Materials and Microphotonics
1:45pm Pascal Bellon Nanoscale patterning in alloy systems under driving forces
2:10pm John Rogers Soft Materials and Patterning Techniques for Optoelectronics 
2:35pm Kumara Sastry Genetic Programming for Multiscale Modeling


3:00pm Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby


Session III in 151 Loomis chaired by Karin Dahmen
3:10pm Elaine Chandler Plastic deformation of metals?a problem in pattern dynamics
3:55pm Moonsub Shim Photo-induced conductivity changes in carbon nanotube films and transistors
4:20pm Bulbul Chakraborty Large-scale Spatial Structures in Gravity-Driven Granular Flows
4:45pm Sahraoui Chaieb Crumpling and Wrinkling: The Mechanics of a Crackling Sheet of Paper
5:05pm John Toner  Strained, dirty, disordered, and skewed: The Smectic A to C
transition in anisotropic disordered media


5:30pm  Poster Session with Refreshments, Loomis Lobby chaired by Benny Brown
Vassil N Antonov, Arshad Saleem Bhatti Diffusion-Limited Cluster-Cluster Aggregation on Surfaces of Desorbing Rare Gas Solids
Benny Brown Scaling in the Transfer Function of Digital Wires
John Carpenter Super-diffusive Bacterial Growth in Highly Advective Random Environments 
Peter Fleck Towards Self-Adjusting Neural Nets
Glenn Foster Resonances of Dynamical Systems
Austin Gerig Irregular Dynamics of Open One-Dimensional Mechanical Systems
Peter Groves Modeling Materials Properties Using Hyperspectral Data
Navot Israeli Coarse-Graining of Cellular Automata and the Predictability of Complex Physical Systems
Joseph Jun Chain Formation and Network Self-Organization in an Open Dissipative Electromechanical System
Elizabeth Partridge, SmartArt: Art in Public Places
Kumara Sastry Genetic Programming for Multi-Timescale Modeling
Alex Scheeline Adaptation to the Edge of Chaos: a Simple Biochemical Example
Davit Sivil Emergent Structures in Dissipative Wave-Particle Systems
Christopher Strelioff Medium Term Prediction of Chaotic Dynamics
Predrag Tosic On Modifying the Definition of  Box-Counting Dimension 
  for Scale-Invariant Geometric Objects
Tim Wotherspoon Thermal supression of Electrically Induced Dentrites
Guangjun Xu Dynamics, equilibrium morphologies, and Monte Carlo modeling of Cl-Si(100)-(2x1)
Jian Xu Enhanced diffraction pattern from Fibonacci chain
Lihua Zou An Evolution Model of Intracellular Signaling Network


7:00pm End of Poster Session


Appreciation Dinner for Invited Speakers at Timpones Restaurant
7:30pm Dinner (small number of tickets for sale at $40/person)
8:30pm After-Dinner Presentation chaired by Jeremiah Sullivan, Department Head, Physics
         Susan Kieffer Old Faithful Geyser and Mount St. Helens as Nonlinear, Complex Systems
       






Wednesday, May 21, 2003


7:30am Continental Breakfast, Loomis Lobby


Session IV in 141 Loomis chaired by Glenn Foster
8:30am Josh Socolar Force Chains and Stresses in Granular Materials
9:15am Alex Travesset Disclinations, Dislocations, Packing and Encapsulation 
9:40am Ian Robertson Dislocation Dynamics and Mechanical Behavior: experiment, simulation and modeling approach


10:05am Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby


Session V in 141 Loomis chaired by Duane Johnson
10:15am John Toner Can you beat the Second Law of Thermodynamics if you're too
                  dumb to know which way is up? A Theory of Nematic Flocks
10:40am Mark Robbins Cracks and Crazes: From Atomic Interactions to Macroscopic Adhesion
11:05am Mark Goulian Continuous Control in a Simple Bacterial Signaling Circuit
11:30am Philip Phillips The Elusive Bose Metal

11:55am End of Morning Sessions


12:00 Lunch in the Ballroom of the Illini Union


Session VI in 141 Loomis chaired by Karin Dahmen
1:00pm David Campbell Organic Electronic Materials: Competing Phases and Spatial Orders 
1:45pm Thomas Angelini
2:10pm Mike Weissman Noise and Aging of Relaxor Ferroelectrics
2:35pm Don Wuebbles Downscaling Climate Change to the Regional Scale

Session VII in 151 Loomis chaired by Joseph Jun
1:45pm Paul Melby The depletion force in bidisperse granular media: a new mechanism for segregation
2:10pm James F. Gilchrist Mixing and Segregation in a Spherical Granular Tumbler
2:35pm Wayne Davis  A new paradigm for distributed coordination


3:00pm Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby


Session VIII in 141 Loomis chaired by Bob Clegg
3:15pm Paul Kwiat Lost in Hilbert Space
3:40pm Anzhong Wang Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse
4:05pm Walter Goldburg Global fluctuations in a strongly-driven system 
4:30pm Barbara Kitchell Cancer and Aging - Bad Brakes and Cellular Immaturity

Session IX in 151 Loomis chaired by Christopher Strelioff
3:15pm Karin Dahmen Crackling Noise, Demagnetization Curves, and 
History Induced Critical Behavior in disordered systems
3:40pm Waltraud M. Kriven The Usefulness of  "Traffic Jams" in the Production of Complex Ceramic Microstructures
4:05pm Jiawei Han Mining Data Streams in Multi-Dimensional Space 
4:30pm Robert White Thermal Effect on Crackling Noise 


4:55pm Pizza - Veggie Break, Loomis Lobby


Session X in 141 Loomis chaired by Austin Gerig
5:15pm Joe Brewer Regarding the Estimation of Fractal Dimension 
5:30pm Predrag Tosic On Modifying the Definition of Box-Counting Dimension for Scale-Invariant Geometric Objects
5:45pm Nikolai Zarkevich First-principles prediction of thermodynamics and ordering in complex alloys
6:00pm Anupama Mahajan Remote Control System for Integrated Control of Displays andApplications,
6:15pm Ioannis Tziligakis Simulating the Bandwagon Effect Using the RIC Model 



Session XI in 151 Loomis chaired by Benny Brown
5:15pm Sang-Chul Lee Understanding structural material properties by fusing data from multiple advanced sensors
5:30pm Tansu Alpcan Randomized Algorithms for Stability Analysis of Large-Scale Communication Networks
5:45pm Dmitri Pushkin Power-law spectra generated by scale-free cascade processes 
6:00pm Amit Mehta Universal Moment Rate Shape and Statistics of Earthquakes





6:30pm End of Symposium