Recent Talks

Seminars and Colloquia

1. Phases: from He3 to Nanomechanical Oscillators
   • Osheroff65 symposium to celebrate the 65th birthday of Doug Osheroff, Stanford (October 2010)
2. Synchronization by Nonlinear Frequency Pulling
   • Guangxi Normal University, Guilin (May 2006)
   • East China Normal University, Shanghai (May 2006)
   • Southampton University (December 2005)
   • Statphys 22, Bangalore (July 2004)
3. Spatiotemporal Chaos in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
   • Institute of Applied and Computational Math, Beijing (June 2006)
   • Yunnan University, Kunming (May 2006)
   • Hebei University, Baoding, (April 2006)
   • Hong Kong Baptist University (February 2006)
   • Tel Aviv University (December 2005)
   • Southampton University (December 2005)
   • Exeter University (October 2005)
4. Pattern Formation and Spatiotemporal Chaos in Systems Far from Equilibrium
   • Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an (May 2006)
   • Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou (May 2006)
   • Xiamen University (May 2006)
   • Zhejiang University, Hanzhou (May 2006)
5. Noise, AFMs, and Nanomechanical Biosensors Lancaster University (October 2005)
6. Nanomechanical Oscillators from Thermodynamics to Pattern Formation, TCM Cambridge (October 2005)
7. Models of Coupled Nanomechanical Oscillators, Newton Institute, Cambridge (September 2005)
8. Pattern Formation and Chaos: Insights from Large Scale Numerical Simulations of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
   • Newton Institute, Cambridge (August 2005)
   • Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics, Chennai (July 2004)
9. Collective and Stochastic Effects in Arrays of Submicron Oscillators, Dynamics Days 2005, Long Beach, CA (January 2005)
10. Nonlinear and Collective Effects in Mesoscopic Mechanical Oscillators, Dynamics Days Asia Pacific (June 2004)
11. Coupled Modes and Nonlinearity in Nanomechanical Systems, review presentation at the Nanoscale/Molecular Mechanics workshop, Hawaii (May 2002)

Courses

1. Pattern Formation in Spatially Extended Systems: a short course given at various institutions
2. Collective Effects in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Physics: a special topics course given at Beijing Normal University, March-June 2006 - BNU website or Caltech mirror.