Developments in experimental pattern formation

Workshop theme

Supported by the European Commission, Sixth Framework Programme - Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses - MSCF-CT-2004-516558

Patterns are observed in a wide variety of natural systems, including animal coat markings, cloud formations and sand dune ripples. They can also be studied in laboratory experiments, such as thermal convection in a layer of fluid heated from below, nonlinear optics, chemical reactions, surface catalysis, and the Faraday experiment of a vertically vibrating layer of fluid or sand. Remarkably, it turns out that these different systems generate very similar patterns. Advances in experimental techniques and computing power have enabled attention to be focussed on larger domains. Unexpectedly, this has led to the identification of new kinds of spatially extended structures (for example 'spiral defect chaos' and 'quasipatterns') for which theoretical understanding is very much lacking. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experimentalists and theoreticians working on pattern formation, particularly on patterns formed in large domains, with an emphasis on examining key experimental results and discussing the interesting and challenging unsolved problems.

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Timetable

Monday 8th August 2005
08:30 to 10:00	Registration	No Room Required
10:00 to 11:00	Guenter Ahlers University of California Some unresolved issues in pattern-forming non-equilibrium systems	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Robert Ecke Los Alamos National Laboratory Pattern formation in dense granular flow on an inclined plane	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	Michael Schatz Homological characterization of complex spatiotemporal patterns	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:30	Michael Cross CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) Insights from large scale numerical simulations of Rayleigh-Benard convection	Room 1
16:30 to 17:30	Poster session 1	No Room Required
17:30 to 18:30	Wine and Beer reception	No Room Required
18:45 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required

Tuesday 9th August 2005
09:00 to 10:00	Victor Steinberg University of California, Irvine and Weizmann Institute of Science Onset of wave drag due to capillary-gravity surface waves	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Turbulent-laminar bands in plane Couette flow	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Snaking and its consequences	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	Hans - Georg Purwins Universal behaviour of self-organized patterns in gas-discharge	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:30	Alan Newell University of Arizona Plant patterns and plant phylloFaxis	Room 1
16:30 to 17:30	Eberhard Bodenschatz Solitary states in forced Rayleigh-Benard convection	Room 1
18:45 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required

Wednesday 10th August 2005
09:00 to 10:00	William Firth University of Strathclyde Spontaneous patterns in nonlinear optics	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Stefania Residori Patterns and optical structures in liquid-crystal light-valve experiments	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Jerry Gollub Haverford College Measuring fluid stretching to understand chemical reaction patterns and polymer mixing	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
19:30 to 18:00	Conference Dinner at Emmanuel College (Old Library)	No Room Required

Thursday 11th August 2005
09:00 to 10:00	Herbert Levine University of California Dictysotelium aggregation: A meeting point of cell biology and pattern-formation physics	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Stephen Morris University of Toronto Order and disorder in columnar joints	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Sascha Hilgenfeldt Northwestern University Foam failure	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	Jay Fineberg Grid states and nonlinear selection in parametrically excited surface waves	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:30	An association of particules and waves on a fluid interface	Room 1
16:30 to 17:30	Poster session 2	No Room Required
18:45 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required

Friday 12th August 2005
09:00 to 10:00	Jorge Vinals McGill University Grain boundary motion and orientation selection in lamellar phases	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Patterned segregation	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Stephan Fauve Effect of multiplicative noise on instabilities	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	Harry Swinney Japan Atomic Energy Agency & University of Texas at Austin Fractal growth of viscous fingers	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:30	Pierre Hohenberg New York University Summary and discussion session	Room 1
18:45 to 19:30	Dinner at Wolfson Court (Residents only)	No Room Required

Developments in experimental pattern formation

Speakers

Guenter Ahlers University of California
Eberhard Bodenschatz
Michael Cross CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
Robert Ecke Los Alamos National Laboratory
Stephan Fauve
Jay Fineberg
William Firth University of Strathclyde
Jerry Gollub Haverford College
Sascha Hilgenfeldt Northwestern University
Pierre Hohenberg New York University
Herbert Levine University of California
Stephen Morris University of Toronto
Alan Newell University of Arizona
Hans - Georg Purwins
Stefania Residori
Michael Schatz
Victor Steinberg University of California, Irvine and Weizmann Institute of Science
Harry Swinney Japan Atomic Energy Agency & University of Texas at Austin
Jorge Vinals McGill University

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Developments in experimental pattern formation

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