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The Mark Kac Memorial Lectures
To honor the founding Chairman of the CNLS External Advisory Committee, the Mark Kac Annual
Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1985 as a fitting and
continuing tribute to his lifelong commitment, not only to the
pursuit of scientific research of the highest quality, but also to
the broad dissemination of the results of this research.
2013 Joe Pedlosky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
- TBD
Monday, April 15, 2013, Physics Auditorium
- TBD
Wednesday, April 17, 2013, CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)
- TBD
Thurssday, April 18, 2013, CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)
2012 Paul Chaikin, New York University
- Classical Wigner Crystals on Flat and Curved Surfaces, Topological Defects, 'Pleats' and Particle
Monday, May 7, 2012, Physics Auditorium
- Self-Replication Without Life
Tuesday, May 8, 2012, Physics Auditorium
- Random Organization: Irreversibility & Collisions, a Dynamic Phase Transition
Wednesday, May 9, 2012, CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)
2011 Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
2010 Robert Austin, Princeton University
2009 James S. Langer, University of California at Santa Barbara
2008 Michael Fisher, University of Maryland
2007 David R. Nelson, Harvard University
2006 Peter Wolynes, University of California San Diego
- The Theory of Glasses
- Recent Suceesses of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding
- Quantum Many Body Chaos: Energy Flow in Molecules
2005 Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago
- Excellence in Computer Simulations
- Making a Splash; Breaking a Neck
- Loewner Evolution: Maps and Shapes in Two Dimensions
2004 David Thouless, University of Washington
- Topological Quantum Numbers
- Quantized vortices in superfluids and superconductors
- Dynamics in the presence of noise: How special is the Boltzmann distribution
2002 Alex Müller, IBM Zurich
- Fifteen Years After the Discovery of Superconductivity in the Cuprates
- On the Macroscopic Superconductivity s- and d-wave Symmetry in Cuprate SuperConductors
2001 John Hopfield, California Institute of Technology
- Neurobiology as a Dynamical Systems: Introduction to 'Neural' Computing
- Perception in a World Made of 'Objects'
- Collective Oscillations and Effective Computing Primitives: What is a Moment
2000 Guenter Ahlers, University of California Santa Barbara
- Turbulent Heat Transport in Fluids Heated from Below
- Pattern Formation Near Onset of Rayleigh-Benard Convection: Some Simple Unexplained Results
- Critical Phenomena Near Bifurcations in Systems Far From Equilibrium
1999 Richard Garwin, IBM Watson Research Center
- Ballistic Missile Defense
- Nuclear Power
1998 Isadore Singer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Atiyah-Siner Index Theorem and Its Recent Applications
1996 Edward Spiegel, Columbia University
- Staryoli Waves in the Natural Sciences
- Patterns of Propogating Pulses
- Waves of Solar Activity
- Bifurcation of Species
1995 Joseph Keller, Stanford University
- Wave Propogation
- Semiclassical Mechanics
- Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions
1994 Pierre Hohenberg, AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Topics in Nonequilibrium Pattern Formation: Spatiotemporal Chaos
- Fluctuations and Noise in Pattern Forming Systems
- Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation in One Dimension
1993 Israel Gelfand, Rutgers University
- Some Special Questions of Spectral Theory and Integrable Systems
1992 Nancy Kopell, Boston University
- Rhythms and Clues: Mathware for Wetware: Chains of Oscillators and Undulatory Swimming
- Rhythms and Clues, Geometry and Biophysics: Which Differences Make a Difference?
- A Geometric View of Singular Perturbations: Case Studies
1991 Harry Swinney, University of Texas, Austin
- Observations of Chaos and Pattern Formation: Laboratory Model of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter
- Observations of Chaos and Pattern Formation: Chemical Pinwheels, Spirals and Crystals
- Observations of Chaos and Pattern Formation: Instabilities and Turbulence in Flow between Concentric Rotating Cylinders
1990 Alan Newell, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
1989 Philip Holmes, Cornell University
- Poincare, Celestial Mechanics, Dynamical Systems Theory and Chaos
- Can Dynamical Systems Approach Turbulence?
1988 Jerry P. Gollub, Haverford College
- Nonlinear Dynamics of Interacting Waves: Symmetry and Multiple Bifurcations
- Transport Processes and Flow Patterns in Convecting Fluids
- Pattern Formation at the Liquid/Solid Interface
1987 Joseph Ford, Georgia Institute of Technology
- The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem: Past Becomes the Future: Paradox Becomes Discovery
- What is Chaos, That We Should Be Mindful of It?
- Chaos: Solving the Unsolvable; Predicting the Unpredictable!
1986 Joel L. Lebowitz, Rutgers Univ.
- From Determinism to Chance and Back Again: Microscopic and Macroscopic Time Evolutions
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