7:30am Continental Breakfast and Poster Setup
Opening Session I, 141 Loomis chaired by K. Dahmen 7:55am Opening Remarks (K. Dahmen) 8:00am E. Bodenschatz, "Complexity in Thermal Convection" 8:40am D. Goldberg "Toward a Physics of Innovation: Lessons from Genetic Algorithms." 9:20am J. Marko, "Statistical Physics and the Folding of Chromosomes in Cells"
10:00am Coffee Break
Opening Session II, 141 Loomis chaired by K. Dahmen
10:10am P. Goldbart, "Optimal design of liability rules: How judges set damages
(or should)"
10:50am S. Coppersmith, "Comparing classical and quantum complex systems"
11:30am G. Friedman, "Hysteresis and Return-Point Memory in Complex Systems"
Tutorial I, 144 Loomis
10:10am Chaos and Harmony (A. Hubler)
12:10 Lunch in the Ballroom of the Illini Union
Afternoon Session I: Turbulence and Fluids, 141 Loomis chaired by N. Goldenfeld
1:30pm P. Cvitanovic', "Hopf's last hope: Spatiotemporal chaos in terms of unstable recurrent patterns"
2:10pm D. Pushkin, "Self-similar behavior of coagulating systems"
2:35pm N. Goldenfeld, "Can you tell the difference between a washing machine and a
spin wave?"
Afternoon Session II: Geology, Hydrology, 151 Loomis chaired by K. Dahmen
1:30pm C. Bethke, "Bio-reactive transport in natural systems"
2:10pm W.-P. Chen, "Foreshocks, Subevents, and Aftershocks: Complex Interaction of
Seismogenic Zones?"
2:35pm K. Dahmen, "Avalanches, Disorder, and what Magnets and Earthquakes may have
in common"
Afternoon Session III: Self-Organization, 158 Loomis chaired by G. Foster
1:30am L. Gasser, "Dynamic, Self-Organizing, and Multi-Agent Information Structures"
2:55am E. Clark, "Emergence of a complex fluid"
2:20am J. Tran, "Is Adobe a Fractal Solid"
Tutorial II, 144 Loomis
1:30pm Tree-like Graphs and Fractals (A. Hubler)
3:15pm Coffee Break
Afternoon Sesssion V: Foundations 141 Loomis chaired by A. Hunt
3:30pm G. Wong, "Self-Assembly Phases of Biopolymers, membranes, and Counterions"
4:10pm B. Fouke, "The Emergence of Scale-Invariant Architecture in Rimmed-Pool
Mineral Deposits in Yellowstone Hot Springs and Illinois Caves"
4:50pm A. Hunt, "Looking at ENSO from the outside: what looks like internal
variability may result from changes in forcing conditions"
5:30pm A. Nathan, "A Dynamical Model of the Baseball-Bat Collision"
5:55pm K. Makino, "High-order transfer maps and verification of stability in
particle accelerators"
6:20pm end of session
Afternoon Session VI: Foundations 151 Loomis chaired by G. Foster
3:30pm C. Marchetti, "Collective Transport in Random Media: from Superconductors
to Fluid Flow."
4:10pm U. Fischer, "Short wavelength spectrum of vortex rings"
4:35pm A. Middleton, "Optimization algorithms and phase transitions in their
dynamics"
5:15pm G. Mayer, "Time-Scales In The History Of The Evolution Of Global Brains"
5:55pm D. Geisler, "Is There a Conservation Law For Recursion?"
6:20pm end of session
Afternoon Session VII: Foundations 136 Loomis chaired by A. Scheeline
3:30pm A. Scheeline, "Complex Enzyme Network Reveals Small Molecule Chemistry"
3:55pm M. Nayfeh, Sahraoui Chaieb, "Self-Assembly of Web-like Membrane in
Luminescent Si Nanoparticle Suspensions"
4:20pm R. White, "Driving Rate Effects on Avalanche systems"
4:45pm A. Travesset, "Crystalization on complex geometries"
5:10pm C. Simon, "A complex systems approach to modeling
the spread of diseases: the effect of mixing and stochastic dynamics"
5:50pm S. Beshers, "Division of labor and the behavioral design of social insect
colonies"
6:15pm end of session
Tutorial III, 144 Loomis
3:30pm Artificial Life - Cellular Automata,
Genetic Algorithms, Neural Nets (A. Hubler)
5:30pm Poster Session with Refreshments
V. Wong, "A computational study of non-exponential dephasing in molecular
vibrational dynamics and a local random matrix model"
A. Balaeff, "Multi-Resolution Modeling of Protein-DNA Systems"
D. Smyth, A. Hubler, "Scaling of Ramified River Networks"
D. Finkenstadt, "Modeling of Layered, Electrostatic
Self-Assemblies with Iterative Maps"
N. Weber, "Adaptation to the Edge of Chaos in the Self-adjusting Chua
Oscillator"
P. Melby "Suppression of Chaos and Chaotic Outbreaks in Self-adjusting
systems
7:00pm End of Symposium