Center for Nonlinear Studies

The FY 2013 CNLS Colloquium series is in progress and CNLS is scheduling speakers for this fiscal year (2013) and next. The organizing committee includes Aric Hagberg (CNLS), Robert Ecke (CNLS), Doug Shepherd (MPA-CINT)), Claire White (LANSCE-LC), Jeff Drocco (T-4), Adolfo Del Campo (T-4), Kipton Barros (T-4), and Lena Lopatina (T-1). We host speakers who are outstanding scientists with a broad vision of their field and capable of delivering a comprehensive lecture addressing an audience with multi-disciplinary scientific interests; both experimentalists and theoreticians. Selected speakers will dedicate some amount of their time during the visit (including a postdoc lunch) for meeting with CNLS postdocs and affiliated staff scientists. The research interests of the nominee will cover, but will not be limited to, the fields of particular CNLS activity such as statistical physics and complex systems, fluid dynamics, optics and spectroscopy, condensed matter, chemical physics, biological physics, and applied math.

If you have a nomination for a speaker, please contact the committee via email at cnls_colloq@lanl.gov.

Guidelines for CNLS Colloquium
The CNLS Colloquium series is designed to engage a diverse set of student, postdoctoral and staff scientists with quite different backgrounds including physics, chemistry, biology, applied mathematics, and information theory. This audience is broader than what one would expect for a departmental colloquium at a university. Speakers need to communicate the importance of their work and its basic foundations in a language accessible at a general advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student level. Speakers should not assume that because CNLS has historically been interested in a particular topic, e.g., solitons or nonlinear dynamics, that the audience will be experts in that topic - CNLS research areas are continually changing and CNLS postdocs come from very different backgrounds. These guidelines do not preclude a more technical core to the talk for the more knowledgeable members of the audience but a clear 10-15 minute introduction and a 5 minute summary of the main results of the research should be included as part of a CNLS colloquium.

All colloquium are held on Monday at 3:00-4:00pm. Coffee is served at 2:30.

Host Guidelines

Upcoming CNLS Colloquia - Next 26 Weeks

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Host
February 18th, 2013			No Colloquium
February 25th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
March 4th, 2013	Dean Astumian	University of Maine	Microscopic Reversibility: The Organizing Principle for Molecular Machines	John Pearson, T-6
March 11th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
March 18th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
March 25th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
April 1st, 2013			Available to be scheduled
April 8th, 2013	Mike Thorpe		TBA	Lena Lopatina, T-1/CNLS
April 15th, 2013			No Colloquium
April 22nd, 2013	Thomas Halsey	Exxon Mobil	TBA	Bob Ecke, CNLS
April 29th, 2013	Jonathan Sellinger	Kent State University	TBD	Lena Lopatina, T-1/CNLS
May 6th, 2013			No Colloquium
May 13th, 2013	Blair Sullivan	Oak Ridge National Lab	TBD	Nathan Lemons
May 20th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
May 27th, 2013			No Colloquium
June 3rd, 2013			No Colloquium
June 10th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
June 17th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
June 24th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
July 1st, 2013			Available to be scheduled
July 8th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
July 15th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
July 22nd, 2013			Available to be scheduled
July 29th, 2013			Available to be scheduled
August 5th, 2013			Available to be scheduled

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