External Visitor Program (1997)

The purpose of the external visitor program is to keep in touch with the latest developments in the field and to help in the identification of research directions for the LANL effort.

Visitors to date/confirmed visitors:

E. Titi (University of California, Irvine)

Title: Postprocessing the Galerkin Method: a Novel Approach to Approximate Inertial Manifolds

Date: January 9, 1997. Abstract/Notes: Not Available

A. J. Leggett (Urbana-Champaign)

Title: Some Thoughts on High-Energy Low-Temperature Physics

Date: March 7, 1997. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 32 KB gzipped, 91 KB raw).

E. G. D. Cohen (Rockefeller)

Title: Transport Coefficients and Lyapunov Exponents

Date: March 11, 1997. Abstract, Notes: Not Available. The reference for this work is E. G. D. Cohen, Physica A 213, 293 (1995).

S. N. Coppersmith (Chicago)

Title: Force Fluctuations in Sandpiles

Date: March 27, 1997. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 20 KB gzipped, 47 KB raw).

J. M. Yusof (Stanford)

Title: DNS and Modeling of the Interaction of Massive Particle

Date: April 17, 1997. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 10 KB gzipped, 22 KB raw).

R. K. P. Zia (VPISU)

Title: Surprises in the Cooperative Behavior of Driven Diffusive Systems

Date: April 18, 1997. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 22 KB gzipped, 51 KB raw).

N. Zabusky (Rutgers)

Title: Vortex Layers, Projectiles and Turbulence in Strong-Shock Accelerated Bubble Environments

Date: May 29, 1997. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 18 KB gzipped, 41 KB raw).

G. Eyink (Arizona)

Title: Fluctuations and Variational Principles in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Date: June 9, 1997. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 34 KB gzipped, 84 KB raw).

J. Lebowitz (Rutgers)

Title: Microstructure of Macroscopic Systems Far from Local Equilibrium: Structure of Shocks in a Simple Model

Date: June 17, 1997. Abstract: Not Available, Notes (postscript, 25 KB gzipped, 60 KB raw).

F. J. Alexander (Boston)

Title: The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method: New Directions

Date: June 26, 1997. Abstract, Notes: Not Available.

K. Lindenberg (San Diego)

Title: When Disorder Creates Order: Tuning in to Noise

Date: July 24, 1997. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 18 KB gzipped, 42 KB raw).

V. Privman (Clarkson)

Title: Diffusional Relaxation in Surface Deposition

Date: August 7, 1997. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 19 KB gzipped, 43 KB raw).

H. Mabuchi (Caltech)

Title: Real Time Tracking of an Individual Atomic Motion with Quantum Limited Precision

Date: September 3, 1997. Abstract, Notes (postscript, 16 KB gzipped, 36 KB raw).

L. G. Yaffe (Seattle)

Title: Effective Theories for Understanding Real-Time Correlations in Hot Plasmas

Date: December 3, 1997. Abstract: Not Available, Notes (postscript, 24 KB gzipped, 56 KB raw).

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