MSRI Dynamical Systems Schedule

Thursday, January 18
9:00-10:00	Modelling the spatio-temporal dynamics of nuclear proteins	Gerda de Vries (University of Alberta)
10:00-10:30	Coffee
10:30-11:00	Stability results for elastic rods with electrostatic self-repulsion	Kathleen Hoffman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
11:00-11:30	Symmetric homoclinic bifurcation	Alice Jukes (Imperial College)
11:30-12:00	The Relative Growth of Information in Two-Dimensional Partitions	Aimee Johnson (Swarthmore)
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:30	Chainlet theory and dynamics	Jenny Harrison (UC Berkeley)
2:30-3:00	Coupled cell networks: ODE-equivalence, minimality and quotients	Ana Dias (University of Porto)
3:00-3:45	Tea
3:45-5:15	Posters
5:30-6:30	One is One and All Alone: Solo Music by Bach (concert)	Tanya Tomkins, cellist
7:30-9:00	Workshop dinner
Friday, January 19
9:00-10:00	Controlling pattern formation	Mary Silber (Northwestern)
10:00-10:30	Coffee
10:30-11:00	Controlling travelling waves of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with spatial feedback	Claire Postlethwaite (Northwestern)
11:00-11:30	Traveling waves in porous media combustion: uniqueness of waves for small thermal diffusivity	Anna Ghazaryan (University of North Carolina)
11:30-12:00	Mathematical modeling of the menstrual cycle	Mary Lou Zeeman (Bowdoin)
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:30	Multi-scale dynamics and noise sensitivity	Rachel Kuske (University of British Columbia)
2:30-3:00	Stochastic perturbations of growth models	Ami Radunskaya (Pomona University)
3:00-3:45	Tea
3:45-4:15	Degenerate Diffusion Limits in Gene Duplication	Lea Popovic (Cornell)
4:15-4:45	What goes into a good proposal, where do I send it, and what happens to it?	Hans Kaper (NSF)
4:45-5:00	Closing

Posters

Modeling fish migration: Focusing on the migration of the capelin around Iceland	Alethea Barbaro (UC Santa Barbara)
A Geometric Construction of Traveling Waves in a Bioremediation Model	Margaret A. Beck (U Surrey)
Bifurcation and stability properties of periodic solutions to two nonlinear spring-mass systems	Nitsan Ben-Gal (Brown)
Existence, uniqueness and blow-up of solutions to wave equations with supercritical boundary sources and boundary damping	Lorena Bociu (U Virginia)
The dynamics of macrophage activation	Lauren Childs (Cornell)
Extremal properties of quadratic maps	Ana Christina Freitas (U of Porto)
Survey of Control of Dynamical Systems over a Communication Channel	Maryam Kamgarpour (UCB)
A model on interaction between plant and herbivore: modeling on gypsy moth	Yun Kang (Arizona State)
Transient growth for the linearized Navier-Stokes equations	Lina Kim (UC Santa Barbara)
The linear Landau equation in the weak coupling limit	Kay Kirkpatrick (UC Berkeley)
Coarse analysis of stochasticity-induced switching in a schooling model	Allison Kolpas (UC Santa Barbara)
Applications of geometric phases and Hamiltonian dynamical systems in classical molecular dynamics	Florence Lin (U of Southern California)
Assimilation of Lagrangian data into Layer ocean model	Liyan Liu (U North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Delay dynamics of nuclear transcription autoregulation	Eva Pokojska (Czech Academy of Sciences), Rachid Ouifki
Finite-dimensionality and smoothness of the global attractor for a semilinear wave equation with localized dissipation, and a source of critical exponent	Daniel Toundykov (U Virginia)
Some rigorous results for the periodic oscillation of an adiabatic piston	Paul Wright (Courant)
Noise-induced mixed mode in a pair of weakly coupled neuronal oscillators	Na Yu (U of British Columbia)