Applied Dynamics Archives for Fall 2013 to Spring 2014
Dynamical Singularities in Online Learning and Adaptive Delayed-Feedback Control
When: Thu, September 13, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP - ERF 1207
Speaker: Prof. Asaki Saito (Future University Hakodate and JST PRESTO Department of Complex Systems and Astronomy) -
Abstract: (pizza & soft drinks available for purchase at 12:15 PM)
Information, maps, schedules and directions available on the Applied Dynamics Seminar website: http://www.photonics.umd.edu/applied-dynamics/
Synchronization and Spatial Dynamics in Optical Networks and Lattices
When: Thu, September 27, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: ERF 1207
Speaker: Prof. Tom Murphy (ECE/IREAP) - photonics.umd.edu
Revival-echoes and localization of interacting wave packets in anharmonic potentials
When: Thu, October 4, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Mark Herrera (UMD -Dept. of Physics) -
Non-ergodic dynamics of economic models
When: Fri, October 12, 2012 - 1:00pmWhere: ERF 1207, IREAP Large Conference Room
Speaker: Dr. Ole Peters (London Mathematical Laboratory) - http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~ole/
Identifying the Drivers of Cancer in Gene Regulatory Networks
When: Thu, October 18, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: ERF 1207, IREAP Large Conference Room
Speaker: John Platig (UMD - Dept. of Physics) -
Modeling and Measuring Signal Relay in Noisy Directed Migration of Cell Groups
When: Thu, November 1, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: ERF 1207, IREAP Large Conference Room
Speaker: Can Guven (UMD/IREAP) - https://sites.google.com/site/canguvenk5/
Soft Matter: From Grains to Cells
When: Thu, November 8, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Kerstin Nordstrom (UMD/IREAP) - http://www.ireap.umd.edu/losertlab/Granularlab.html#Dynamics_Granular
Contact Network Models for Immunizing Infectious Diseases
When: Thu, November 15, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Shweta Bansal (Georgetown University) - http://sbansal.com/
Quantifying collective migration in cell monolayers
When: Thu, November 29, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Rachel Lee (IREAP/Losert Lab) - https://sites.google.com/site/rachelmarylee/
Predictability and control of extreme events in complex systems
When: Thu, December 6, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Dan Gauthier (Duke University) - http://www.phy.duke.edu/~gauthier/
Unraveling the Physics of X-ray Triboluminescence
When: Tue, December 11, 2012 - 3:00pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Seth Putterman (UCLA) - http://www.physics.ucla.edu/research/putterman/
Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Spatiotemporally Driven Lattices: Directed Currents and Transport
When: Thu, December 13, 2012 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Benno Liebchen (University of Hamburg) - http://photon.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/en/grk/grk-students/associated-lexi-students/liebchen-benno/
Nonlinear Dynamics of Multipactor Discharge
When: Thu, January 31, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Rami Kishek (University of Maryland) - http://ebte.umd.edu/ramiak/
Migraine: A Dynamical Disease
When: Thu, February 14, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Markus Dahlem (Technical University, Berlin) - https://sites.google.com/site/markusadahlem/
A Novel Mechanism for Neuronal Bursting and Seizing
When: Thu, February 21, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: ERF 1207, IREAP Large Conference Room
Speaker: Ernie Barreto (George Mason University) - http://complex.gmu.edu/people/ernie/
Forcing it on: Actin dynamics during lymphocyte activation
When: Thu, February 28, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Arpita Upadhyaya (UMD) - http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~arpitau/
The Turing bifurcation on networks: Collective patterns and single differentiated nodes
When: Thu, March 7, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Matthias Wolfrum (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin) - http://www.wias-berlin.de/people/wolfrum/?lang=1
High-Energy Atmospheric Physics: Dark Lightning and Related Phenomena
When: Thu, March 14, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Joseph Dwyer (Florida Institute of Technology) - http://gpl.fit.edu/
Polyspatial agents: modeling dynamics of human movement from the bottom-up
When: Thu, March 28, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Paul Torrens (UMD) - http://www.geosimulation.org/
Non-finite Computation in Human Social Phenomena
When: Thu, April 4, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Simon DeDeo (Santa Fe Institute) - http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/
Abstract: Computational models of social and biological phenomena have often focused on the finite-state case. In this work, I present a mathematical result, the Probabilistic Pumping Lemma, that constrains the behavior of all finite state processes. I then present evidence for violation of this Lemma, and thus statistical evidence for the emergence of non-finitary computation, in cooperative phenomena associated with the collectively-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia. I distinguish between psychological, or individual-level, and collective aspects of this violation, and present evidence for the existence of separate Universality Classes for the two cases.
Random Coupling Model - a link of chaos and wave systems
When: Thu, April 11, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Ming-Jer Lee and Jen-Hao Yeh (UMD) -
Modeling the Washington Metro Housing Market Using Transactional Data
When: Thu, April 18, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Matt Hendrey (George Mason University) - http://www.css.gmu.edu/users/mhendrey/
Generating shortcuts to adiabaticity in quantum and classical dynamics
When: Thu, April 25, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: IREAP Large Conference Room, ERF 1207
Speaker: Chris Jarzynski (UMD) - http://www.chem.umd.edu/christopher-jarzynski/
Systems-level analysis of polarity establishment and gene regulation in yeast
When: Thu, May 2, 2013 - 12:30pmWhere: ERF 1207, IREAP Large Conference Room
Speaker: Tim Elston (UNC, Chapel Hill) - http://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/elstonlab/
Abstract: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast) represents an ideal model organism for studying many fundamental processes in cell biology at a systems level. Here we combine mathematical modeling with live cell imaging and other experimental approaches to investigate: 1) polarity establishment during cell budding and 2) gene regulation in response to mating pheromone. Our analysis of cell polarization demonstrates how negative feedback leads to oscillations of the polar patch and makes the system robust to variations in the abundance of pathway components. Next, we use microfluidics to expose cells to periodic pulses of mating pheromone of varying frequencies and monitor transcriptional induction using a short-lived fluorescent protein. We demonstrate how when combined with mathematical modeling, this frequency-response analysis can be used to investigate the feedback loops that regulate gene expression.