Program

Thursday, March 1:

Wardlaw Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Opening Remarks, Computational Homology Tutorial
W. Kalies, Florida Atlantic Univ.
M. Gamiero, Rutgers Univ.
T. Wanner, George Mason Univ.
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Computational Homology Tutorial - continued
11:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Lunch
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Guenter Ahlers, University of California, Santa Barbara
Different universality classes for spatiotemporal chaos
Abstract
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Discussion
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Mark Paul, Virginia Tech
Quantifying spatiotemporal chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection: New insights from numerics
Abstract
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Discussion
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Break
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Michael Schatz, Georgia Tech
Homological analysis of spatiotemporal patterns
Abstract
5:00 PM - 5:15PM
Discussion

Friday, March 2:

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Hermann Riecke, Northwestern University
Geometric diagnostics of complex patterns: Spiral defect chaos in convection
Abstract
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Edward Ott, University of Maryland
Determining the state of a large spatiotemporally chaotic system
Abstract
11:15 AM - 11:30 PM
Discussion
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Brian Hunt, University of Maryland
State estimation for Rayleigh-Benard convection from shadowgraph data
Abstract
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Discussion
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen and Cornell University
Crystalline chaos and resonant structures in spatially forced Rayleigh-Benard convection
Abstract
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Discussion
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Genta Kawahara, Osaka University
Turbulence structures, their control and unstable periodic orbits
Abstract
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Fabian Waleffe, University of Wisconsin
Homotopy of exact coherent states in shear flows
Abstract
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Discussion

Saturday, March 3:

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Tech
Turbulence: a walk on the wild side
Abstract
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
John Gibson, Georgia Tech
Invariant solutions and the dynamics of plane Couette flow
Abstract
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Discussion
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University
What can we learn about granular materials from the geometry and topology of force chain networks?
Abstract
12:15 PM -12:30 PM
Discussion