Symposium in Honor of Kenneth Showalter

The Interdisciplinary Impact of Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics

May 17, 2019

Physics and Astronomy Department (Click for Map)
135 Willey St
G09 White Hall
West Virgina University, Morgantown, WV

Program

 
AM SESSION
 
8:30 Greg Dudley West Virginia University Welcome by the Chair of the Chemistry Department
8:40 Vilmos Gaspar Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Session Chair: opening remarks
8:50 Raj Roy University of Maryland Glimpses of wonderland .... a special address, 4949
9:20 Steve Scott University of Leeds 125 years of diffusion-driven instabilities
9:40 Jan Totz TU Berlin Coupled chemical oscillators
 
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
 
10:20 Lou Pecora Naval Research Lab Networking with Ken
10:40 Annette Taylor University of Sheffield Synthetic quorum sensing: bugs to beads
11:00 Mark Tinsley West Virginia University Precipitation patterns
11:20 Takashi Amemiya Yokohama National University Photosensitive BZ studies in Morgantown
11:40 Marcus Hauser Otto-von-Guericke University Partial synchronisation of metabolism in yeast cell colonies
 
12:00 LUNCH
 
PM SESSION
 
1:20 Sheryl Hemkin Kenyon College Session Chair: opening remarks
1:30 Ray Kapral University of Toronto Chemically-powered nanomotors:
from single motor motion to collective dynamics
1:50 Anna Balazs University of Pittsburgh Designing materials that compute using self-oscillating gels
2:10 Istvan Kiss Saint Louis University Control of pattern formation and synchronization:
from BZ to electrochemistry
2:30 Renate Wackerbauer University of Alaska Transient chaos and switching behavior in two
synaptically coupled layers of Morris-Lear neurons
2:50
 
John Pojman
 
Louisiana State University
 
Using fronts to repair and make art
 
3:10 GROUP PICTURE
3:20
 
COFFEE BREAK
 
3:40 Dezso Horvath Szeged University Morgantown years
3:50 Mike Shlesinger Office of Naval Research On distributions with long tails
4:10 Oliver Steinbock Florida State University Materials as excitable systems
4:30 Reuben Simoyi Portland State University Self-organization with convection
4:50 Ulrike Feudel Universität Oldenburg Extreme multistability and synchronization in coupled systems

5:10
 

CONCLUDING REMARKS
 
7:00 GALA DINNER