Workshop: Dynamical Systems and Continuum Physics

November 14-16, 2007

Program

 

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

09:00 - 10:00
Registration (5345) and Coffee & Croissant (6245)

Session - Granular media
Meeting room : 6214

10:00 - 10:30
Stephen Morris
(University of Toronto)
Waves in the sand: Oscillations and Subdiffusion in Granular Segregation
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
John R. de Bruyn
(University of Western Ontario)
Impact craters in granular media
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30
Olivier Dauchot
(CEA/Saclay)
Clustering and correlations in granular systems
Abstract

Session - Hydrodynamics
Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Juan Lopez
(Arizona State University)
Quenching of Vortex Breakdown Oscillations via Harmonic Forcing
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Francisco Marques
(Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
Bursting dynamics due to a heteroclinic cascade in Taylor-Couette flow
Abstract
17:00 - 17:30
Laurette Tuckerman
(PMMH-ESPCI)
Binary convection as a 2 by 2 matrix problem
Abstract

 

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Session - Granular media / Foam
Meeting room : 6214

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245
09:00 - 10:00
Charles Radin
(University of Texas at Austin)
Mathematical models of sand
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
Philippe Marmottant
(CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier)
Foams: a transparent model material with elastic, plastic and viscous properties
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30
Michael Dennin
(University of California, Irvine)
How does foam flow?
Abstract
12:30 - 13:00
John R. de Bruyn
(University of Western Ontario)
Drag in foam

Session - Transition to Turbulence
Meeting room : 6214

14:30 - 15:30
Bruno Eckhardt
(Philipps-Universitat Marburg)
How does flow in a pipe become turbulent?
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Dwight Barkley
(University of Warwick)
Turbulent-Laminar Patterns in Shear Flows
Abstract

 

Friday, November 16, 2007

Session - Hydrodynamics
Meeting room : 6214

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245
09:00 - 09:30
Stephen Morris
(University of Toronto)
Smectic film convection: A tempest in a soap bubble
Abstract
09:30 - 10:30
Edgar Knobloch
(University of California at Berkeley)
Convectons
Abstract
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee break
Room 6245
10:45 - 11:45
Patrice Le Gal
(Technopôle de Château-Gombert)
Waves and instabilities in rotating flows

Session - Faraday / Hydrodynamics
Meeting room : 6214

13:00 - 14:00
Jorge Viñals
(McGill Institute for Advanced Materials)
TBA
14:00 - 15:00
Cristian Huepe
(Northwestern University)
Controlling Faraday wave instabilities in viscous shallow fluids through the shape of the forcing function
Abstract
15:00 - 15:30
Jessica Conway
(Northwestern University)
Superlattice patterns in oscillatory systems with multi-frequency forcing
Abstract
15:30 - 15:45
Coffee break
Room 6245

Session - Colloque CRM-ISM Colloquium
Meeting room : 6214

15:45 - 16:45
Charles Radin
(University of Texas at Austin)
Unexpected Properties of Dense Packings of Spheres
Abstract
17:00 - 18:00
John Tate
(University of Texas at Austin)
Symmetries of the field of algebraic numbers

18:00
Wine-and-cheese reception
Room 6245