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Sumanta Tewari, Clemson University Host: Dibyendu Roy (T-4) Visit Dates: Dec. 19th, 2012 to Dec. 21st, 2012. Dr. Tiwari will present the Quantum Lunch seminar. Joseph Shepherd, California Institute of Technology Host: Doug Shepherd (MPA-CINT) Visit Dates: Dec. 17th, 2012 to Dec. 18th, 2012. Dr. Shepherd will be presenting the CNLS colloquium. He is an expert in the studies of combustion, fuel properties, fluid and solid dynamics relevant to explosions and dynamic impact events. Talks: Crisis at Fukushima NPP – The Incidents and the Aftermath Milan Bradonjic, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent Host: Nathan Lemons (T-5) Visit Dates: Dec. 17th, 2012 to Dec. 21st, 2012. Dr. Bradonjic will collaborate with Dr. Lemons on mathematics of social networks. Talks: Containing Viral Spread on Sparse Random Graphs: Bounds, Algorithms, and Experiments Huy Hang, University of California at Riverside Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Dec. 10th, 2012 to Dec. 14th, 2012. Mr. Hang will collaborate with Dr. Hagberg on cybersecurity research. Nicholas Ouellette, Yale University Host: Hussein Aluie (CCS-2) Visit Dates: Dec. 10th, 2012 to Dec. 12th, 2012. Dr. Ouellette will collaborate with Drs. Aluie and Ecke on fluid dynamics and turbulence and present the CNLS Colloquium. Talks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Weak Turbulence Michael Zwolak, Oregon State University Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4) Visit Dates: Dec. 10th, 2012 to Dec. 18th, 2012. Dr. Zwolak will present the Quantum Lunch and collaborate with Drs. Del Campo, Zapf, and Zurek on non-local quantum superpositions of topological defects. Talks: Universality of redundancy under pure decoherence John Toner, University of Oregon Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4) Visit Dates: Dec. 3rd, 2012 to Dec. 5th, 2012. Dr. Toner will present the CNLS colloquium, "Hydrodynamics of Flocking." Talks: Birth, Death, and Flight: A Theory of Malthusian Flocks Cecelia Rorai, National Center for Atomospheric Research Host: Susan Kurien (T-5) Visit Dates: Dec. 3rd, 2012 to Dec. 5th, 2012. Dr. Rorai will present a seminar on her research in fluid dynamics. Talks: Some Motions of Vortices in Superfluids Mark Dickison, DTRA Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 29th, 2012 to Nov. 30th, 2012. Dr. Dickison will collaborate with Drs. Hagberg and Pan. He will present a seminar on epidemics on interacting complex networks Talks: Epidemics on Dynamic and Interacting Complex Networks Lawrence Schulman, Clarkson University Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4) Visit Dates: Nov. 28th, 2012 to Dec. 1st, 2012. Dr. Schulman will present the Quantum Lunch and collaborate with Dr. Del Campo and other LANL staff. Talks: Relative momentum for identical particles Philippe Odier, Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 22nd, 2012 to Nov. 29th, 2012. Dr. Odier will collaborate with Dr. Ecke on stratified flow turbulence. Talks: Mixing by waves in a stratified fluid Bridget Wilson, University of New Mexico Host: Doug Shepherd (MPA-CINT) Visit Dates: Nov. 19th, 2012. Dr. Wilson will present the CNLS colloquium and meet with Drs. Munsky, Drocco, Shepherd and others. Talks: Mapping and Modeling the Impact of Membrane Topography on Receptor Behavior Sherwood Richers, California Institute of Technology Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 15th, 2012 to Nov. 16th, 2012. Mr. Richers will be exploring a collaboration with Dr. Hagberg. Brian Anderson, University of Arizona Host: Chris Ticknor (T-1) Visit Dates: Nov. 14th, 2012 to Nov. 16th, 2012. Dr. Anderson will present the Quantum Lunch Seminar discussing his recent experimental results. Talks: Studies of Vortex Physics in 2D with Bose-Einstein Condensates Alex Rudkevich, Newton Energy Group Host: mish (T-4) Visit Dates: Nov. 13th, 2012. Dr. Rudkevich will present the Smart Grid seminar. Richard Brierley, Cambridge University Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4) Visit Dates: Nov. 13th, 2012 to Nov. 16th, 2012. Dr. Brierley will collaborate with Dr. Saxena and present a seminar on Nonequilibruum States in Polariton Systems. Ed Banigan, University of Pennsylvania Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6) Visit Dates: Nov. 13th, 2012 to Nov. 15th, 2012. Dr. Banigan will present a seminar at CNLS Jinwoo Shin, IBM Watson Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Nov. 12th, 2012 to Nov. 16th, 2012. Dr. Shin will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov on the subject of machine learning and graphical models. Andrew Gelfand, UC Irvine Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Nov. 12th, 2012 to Nov. 16th, 2012. Dr. Gelfand will collaborate with Dr. Cherkov on machine learning and graphical models. Benjamin Sanderson, NCAR Host: Nathan Urban (INST) Visit Dates: Nov. 7th, 2012 to Nov. 8th, 2012. Dr. Sanderson will be presenting the IS&T seminar. Talks: Model Interdependency in the CMIP5 Multi-Model Ensemble: A Framework for Integrated Projections Sam Potter, Princeton Unversity Host: Geoff Vallis (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 6th, 2012 to Nov. 10th, 2012. Dr. Potter will collaborate with Dr. Vallis and COSIM researchers on planetary atmospheres. Jonathan Mitchell, University of California at Los Angeles Host: Geoff Vallis (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 6th, 2012 to Nov. 10th, 2012. Prof. Mitchell will collaborate with Dr. Vallis and COSIM researchers on planetary atmospheres. Fernando Cucchietti, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Host: Eddy Timmermans (T-4) Visit Dates: Nov. 5th, 2012 to Nov. 9th, 2012. Dr. Cucchietti will be presenting a special Quantum Lunch seminar on BEC-Holography. Talks: Can we trust quantum simulators? Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth University Host: Rolando Somma (T-4) Visit Dates: Oct. 31st, 2012 to Nov. 4th, 2012. Dr. Viola will present the Quantum Lunch on quantum control and quantum engineering. Talks: Quantum control of open quantum systems: from dissipation-protected to dissipation-driven quantum dynamics Ondrej Certik, University of Nevada at Reno Host: Pieter Swart (T-5) Visit Dates: Oct. 31st, 2012 to Nov. 2nd, 2012. Dr. Certik will be collaborating with Dr.s Swart and Hagberg on numerical methods for electronic structure, quantum chemistry, and scientific computing with Python. Talks: Physics in Screening Environments Martin Jucker, Princeton Unversity Host: Geoff Vallis (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Oct. 15th, 2012 to Oct. 29th, 2012. Dr. Jucker will collaborate with Dr. Vallis on the COSIM project. Boris Khattatov, Fusion Numerics, LLC. Host: Josephine Olivas (IS&T) Visit Dates: Oct. 3rd, 2012. Dr. Khattatov will present the IS&T Seminar. Talks: Assimilative Modeling of the Ionosphere: Implementation, Validation and Applications Andrea Wiggins, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and DataONE at UNM Host: Reid Priedhorsky (D-4) Visit Dates: Sep. 17th, 2012. Dr. Wiggins will collaborate with Dr. Priedhorsky on citizen science and present a related seminar. Talks: Citizen Science 101: What Every Researcher Should Know About Crowdsourcing Science HyeJin Youn, Santa Fe Institute Visit Dates: Sep. 13th, 2012 to Sep. 14th, 2012. Dr. Youn will present the CNLS postdoc seminar on September 13, 2012. Talks: The hidden structure in urban economic diversity. Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Stanford University Host: Peter Loxley (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Sep. 10th, 2012 to Sep. 11th, 2012. Dr. Sohl-Dickstein will collaborate with LANL scientists in the field of neural computation and machine learning.He will give a seminar on September 10, 2012. Talks: Parameter Estimation in Intractable Probabilistic Models by Minimum Probability Flow Learning Kin Chung Fong, California Institute of Technology Host: Dima Mozyrsky (T-4) Visit Dates: Sep. 4th, 2012 to Sep. 7th, 2012. Dr. Fong will present the Quantum Lunch entitled, "Can Graphene Detect Single Microwave Photon?" Talks: Can graphene detect single microwave photon? Colm Connaughton, University of Warwick Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2012 to Sep. 7th, 2012. Dr. Connaughton will collaborate with Drs. Ecke and Nadiga on geophysical fluid dynamics and other fundamental aspects of fluid turbulence. Caroline Bauer, University of Madgeburg Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 15th, 2012 to Aug. 18th, 2012. Dr. Bauer will collaborate with Drs. Ecke and Backhaus on flow and jamming of granular media. Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University Host: Robert Ecke (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 15th, 2012 to Aug. 18th, 2012. Dr. Daniels will collaborate with Drs. Ecke and Backhaus on flow and jamming of granular media. Tom Woolf, Johns Hopkins University Host: Gnana Gnanakaran (T-6) Visit Dates: Aug. 13th, 2012 to Aug. 24th, 2012. Dr. Woolf will be the CNLS Ulam Fellow and will present lectures on enhanced sampling of protein kinases. Lenka Zdeborova, Saclay Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Aug. 13th, 2012 to Aug. 17th, 2012. Dr. Zdeborova will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov on graphical models of smart grids. Talks: Module Detection in Networks Via Belief Propagation Florent Krzakala, ESPCI Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Aug. 13th, 2012 to Aug. 17th, 2012. Dr. Krzakala will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov on graphical models of statistical interference. Talks: A statistical physics appraoch to compressed sensing David Sherrington, Oxford University Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 8th, 2012 to Aug. 23rd, 2012. Dr. Sherrington will collaborate with Dr. Ecke and other staff members in T-4 and CNLS. Michael White, Nature Journal Host: Mark Petersen (CCS-2) Visit Dates: Aug. 6th, 2012. Dr. White will be presenting the CNLS Colloquium "Publishing with Nature". Talks: Publishing with Nature Ehud Meron, Ben-Gurion University Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 5th, 2012 to Sep. 5th, 2012. Dr. Meron will collaborate with Dr. Hagberg on theoretical and computational analysis of pattern formation with applications to ecological modeling. Cris Moore, Santa Fe Institute Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 3rd, 2012. Dr. Moore will visit to attend a meeting on materials informatics in CNLS. Kevin Lin, University of Arizona Host: IS &T (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 1st, 2012. Professor Lin will deliver the IS&T Seminar on 8/1/2012. Talks: Faster Dynamic Monte Carlo via Markov Couplings Manuel Garcia, University of California at Berkeley Host: Russell Bent (D-4) Visit Dates: Jul. 30th, 2012 to Aug. 10th, 2012. Dr. Garcia will participate in the Smart Grid seminar series and collaborate with Dr. Bent. Talks: Uncertainty Quantification for Fast State Estimation Adam Larios, Texas A&M Host: Jared Whitehead (CCS-2) Visit Dates: Jul. 30th, 2012 to Aug. 3rd, 2012. Mr. Larios will collaborate with Drs. Whitehead and Wingate on using structure functions to determine the scale interactions in weakly stratified, rotating Boussinesq fluids. Talks: A Massively Parallel CFD Code and New Advances in Turbulence Modeling Joseph Traub, Santa Fe Institute Host: Rolando Somma (T-4) Visit Dates: Jul. 26th, 2012. Dr. Traub will present the Quantum Lunch Seminar and collaborate with Drs. Somma, Yard, and DelCampo. Talks: Algorithms and Complexity for Quantum Computing Patrick Rubin-Delanchy, Imperial College Host: Joshua Neil Visit Dates: Jul. 25th, 2012 to Jul. 26th, 2012. Dr. Rubin-Delanchy will give a talk on cyber security and collaborate with ACS-PO and the Cyber LDRD-DR team. Talks: Bayesian algorithms for detecting and describing human interactions in videos Eric Mjolsness, University of Calfornia at Irvine Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6) Visit Dates: Jul. 23rd, 2012 to Aug. 3rd, 2012. Dr. Mjolsness will visit as the CNLS Ulam Fellow and present lectures on quantitative biology and information science. Talks: Computational Morphodynamics New methods for modeling stochastic biochemical networks Rich Colbaugh, Sandia National Laboratories Host: Joshua Neil (ADTSC) Visit Dates: Jul. 19th, 2012. Dr. Colbaugh will present a talk on machine learning/game theory for cyber security. Talks: Leveraging Social Science for Prediction Walter Fontana, Harvard Medical School Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6) Visit Dates: Jul. 16th, 2012 to Jul. 27th, 2012. Dr. Fontana will at CNLS as the Ulam Fellow. He will present talks on quantitative biology and information science. Talks: The C. elegans Lifespan Machine Executable Knowledge Jinwoo Shin, Georgia Tech Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Jul. 16th, 2012 to Aug. 17th, 2012. Dr. Shin will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov on Graphical Models and Machine Learning. Talks: Improved Mixing Condition on the Grid for Counting and Sampling Independent Sets Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4) Visit Dates: Jul. 9th, 2012. Dr. Zwierlein will present the CNLS colloquium on ultracold gasses as model systems for strongly interacting quantum matter. Talks: A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin Host: Bob Ecke (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jul. 2nd, 2012 to Jul. 6th, 2012. Dr. Coppersmith will present a series of lectures during her week-long visit. Talks: Making spin qubits using silicon quantum dots Biologically Controlled Assembly of Mother-of-Pearl Jacek Klos, University of Maryland Host: Michael Di Rosa (T-4) Visit Dates: Jun. 28th, 2012 to Jun. 29th, 2012. Dr. Klos will present the Quantum Lunch on collisions and reactions between atoms and molecules at very cold temperatures. Talks: Collisional processes involving radicals: Theory & Experiment John Klein, Wayne State University Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4) Visit Dates: Jun. 27th, 2012 to Jul. 11th, 2012. Dr. Klein will be collaborating with Dr. Sinitsyn to develop new methods to explore mesoscopic fluctuations in solid state systems. Ruth Nussinov, National Cancer Institute Host: Gnana Gnanakaran (T-6) Visit Dates: Jun. 23rd, 2012 to Jul. 6th, 2012. Will be visiting as the CNLS Ulam Fellow and present lectures on protein design principles. Talks: Networks in the Cell: Structural networks of signaling pathways on the proteome scale Allostery and Conformational Control in Signaling: The Ubiquitin E3 Ligases Mihailo Jovanovic, University of Minnesota Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Jun. 19th, 2012. Dr. Jovanovic will be presentign the Smart Grid seminar on Sparsity-Promoting Optimal Control of Distributed Systems. Danhua Wang, SMU Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Jun. 18th, 2012 to Jun. 29th, 2012. Dr. Wang will collaborate with Dr. Chertkov on modeling of dynamics within long power distribution feeder. Kevin Yates, University of Nevada at Reno Host: Thomas Intrator (P-24) Visit Dates: Jun. 18th, 2012 to Jun. 20th, 2012. Mr. Yates will participate in the P-24 plasma physics summer school. Dick Siemon, University of Nevada at Reno Host: Thomas Intrator (P-24) Visit Dates: Jun. 18th, 2012 to Jun. 20th, 2012. Dr. Siemon will participate in the P-24 plasma physics summer school. Bruno Bauer, University of Nevada at Reno Host: Thomas Intrator (P-24) Visit Dates: Jun. 18th, 2012 to Jun. 20th, 2012. Dr. Bauer will participate in the P-24 plasma physics summer school. David Huse, Princeton Unversity Host: Armin Rahmani (T-4) Visit Dates: Jun. 17th, 2012 to Jun. 23rd, 2012. Dr. Huse will present the CNLS colloquium 6/18/12 on condensed matter physics and a second seminar on cold atomic Fermi gases 6/21/12. Talks: Localization and thermalization in quantum many-body systems Spin and energy transport in cold atomic Fermi gases Valerie Vallet, National Center for Scientific Research, France Host: Enrique Batista (T-1) Visit Dates: Jun. 13th, 2012 to Jun. 19th, 2012. Dr. Vallet will be collaborating with Drs. Martin and Batista on chemical separations using ionic liquids. Andrey Chubakov, University of Wisconsin Host: Cristian Batista (T-5) Visit Dates: Jun. 11th, 2012 to Jun. 22nd, 2012. Dr. Chubakov will visit CNLS as the Ulam Fellow. He will present lectures on frustrated materials and a new family of unconventional superconductors know as Iron Pnictides. He will collaborate with Dr. Batista. Leonardo Chamorro, University of Minnesota Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Jun. 5th, 2012 to Jun. 6th, 2012. Dr. Chamorro will present the Smart Grid Seminar. Geoffrey Vallis, Princeton Unversity Host: Beth Wingate (CCS-2) Visit Dates: Jun. 4th, 2012 to Jun. 29th, 2012. Dr. Vallis will be collaborating with Dr. Wingate on COSIM. Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 4th, 2012 to May. 9th, 2012. Professor Bienstock will visit as an ULAM fellow and give three seminars concerning optimization and control theory of smart grids. Tanja Mehlstaubler, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) Host: Adolfo Del Campo (T-4) Visit Dates: May. 28th, 2012 to May. 30th, 2012. Dr. Mehlstaubler will present the Quantum Lunch on experimental views and progress in atomic clocks and quantum metrology. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University Host: Sergei Tretiak (T-1) Visit Dates: May. 15th, 2012 to May. 21st, 2012. Dr. Aspuru-Guzik will visit as the CNLS Ulam Fellow and present 3 lectures on theoretical chemistry and quantum computing. Talks: Finding renewable energy materials using one screensaver at a time: Combinatorial quantum chemistry for organic photovoltaics. Molecules as quantum processors: Quantum process tomography as a tool for unraveling quantum coherent effects in photosynthesis. Paul Chaikin, New York University Host: Mike Wall (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 7th, 2012 to May. 9th, 2012. Dr. Chaikin will present the CNLS Kac Lecture Series. Talks: CNLS KAC Lecture: Classical Wigner Crystals on flat and curved surfaces, topological defects, `pleats ‘ and particle fractionalization. CNLS KAC Lecture: Self-Replication Without Life CNLS KAC Lecture: Random Organization: Irreversibility & Collisions, a Dynamic Phase Transition Jonathan Yeddidia, Disney Research Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: May. 7th, 2012 to May. 18th, 2012. Dr. Yedidia will be visiting as a CNLS Ulam Fellow. Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State University Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Apr. 30th, 2012 to Jul. 20th, 2012. Dr. Chernyak will be collaborating with Dr. Chertkov. Adrian Roitberg, University of Florida Host: Sergei Tretiak (T-1) Visit Dates: Apr. 30th, 2012 to May. 11th, 2012. Dr. Roitberg will be visiting as the CNLS Ulam Fellow and will present 3 lectures on computational molecular biology. Talks: Protein Simulations at constant pH. Sometimes a pKa is not a pKa Sampling conformational space of biomolecules using Blade Runner technologies. A trip through the development of replica exchange methods Eilyan Bitar, Cornell University Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Apr. 30th, 2012. Dr. Bitar will present the Smart Grid seminar. Talks: Extracting Flexibility from the Demand Side: Pricing and Control Vicenc Gomez Cerda Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 30th, 2012 to May. 25th, 2012. Dr. Gomez Cerda will collaborate with the Smart Grid team. Talks: Modeling the structure and evolution of online discussion cascades Alexandra Navrotsky, University of California at Davis Host: Claire White (LANSCE-LC) Visit Dates: Apr. 29th, 2012 to May. 1st, 2012. Dr. Navrotsky will present the CNLS Colloquium and collaborate with Dr. White. Talks: Emergent Phenomena in Chemistry and Materials Science Alexander Ihler Host: Misha Chertkov (IS&T) Visit Dates: Apr. 25th, 2012 to Apr. 26th, 2012. Dr. Ihler will present the IS&T seminar. Talks: Mixed inference algorithms for estimation and decisions in graphical models Marina Thottan, Bell Labs, Lucent Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Apr. 17th, 2012 to Apr. 18th, 2012. Dr. Thottan will be the Smart Grid Seminar speaker. Talks: SeDAX: A Scalable, Resilient, and Secure Middleware for Smart Grid Communications Martin Feinberg, Ohio State University Host: Mike Wall (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2012 to Apr. 17th, 2012. Dr. Feinberg will present the CNLS colloquium. Talks: Stability and Instability in Chemical Reaction Networks: The Big Picture Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard University Host: Gnana Gnanakaran (T-6) Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2012 to Apr. 27th, 2012. Dr. Shakhnovich will be visiting as the CNLS Ulam Fellow and present three lectures on protein folding. Talks: Bridging scales in Biology: From Atoms to Organisms *** CHANGE IN DAY *** Multiscale modeling of protein evolution Protein evolution in crowded cellular environments: triumphs and frustrations. Ryan Wilson, JILA Host: Chris Ticknor (T-1) Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2012 to Apr. 20th, 2012. Dr. Wilson will collaborate with Drs. Ticknor, Timmermans, and Sykes on recent advances in correlated dipolar physics. Talks: Manifestations of the Roton in Dipolar Bose Gases Jeremy VanCleve, Santa Fe Institute Host: David Wolpert (CCS-3) Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2012. Dr. VanCleve will present a seminar on the origins of cooperative behavior in animals. Ram Rajagopal, Stanford University Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Apr. 10th, 2012 to Apr. 11th, 2012. Dr. Rajagopal will present the Smart Grid Seminar. Talks: Can California meet its renewable goals for 2030 and 2050? Michael Littman, Rutgers University Host: David Wolpert (CCS-3) Visit Dates: Apr. 9th, 2012. Dr. Littman will present the Game Theory seminar. Talks: Non-cooperative Mechanisms for Cooperative Utility Maximization in Repeated Games Sanjoy Mitter Host: Frank Alexander (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 9th, 2012 to Apr. 19th, 2012. Professor Mitter will be the ULAM Fellow during his visit and deliver the CNLS Colloquium on April 9, 2012. Talks: Bayesian Inference and Fee Energy Minimization Towards a Unified View of Communication and Control Probabilistic Inference of Neural Signals Daniel Kirschen, University of Washington Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Mar. 23rd, 2012. Dr. Kirschen will be presenting the Smart Grid seminar. Talks: Probabilistic assessment of power system security Probabilistic assessment of power system security Brian Thompson, Rutgers University Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 21st, 2012 to Mar. 24th, 2012. Dr. Thompson will collaborate with Dr. Hagberg on cybersecurity modeling and analysis. Talks: *** NOTE CHANGE IN PLACE AND TIME *** Streaming Models and Algorithms for Communication and Information Networks Dennice Gayme, Johns Hopkins University Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Mar. 20th, 2012 to Mar. 21st, 2012. Dr. Gayme will present the Smart Grid seminar. Talks: Toward Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources Geoffrey Vallis, Princeton Unversity Host: Beth Wingate (CCS-2) Visit Dates: Mar. 19th, 2012 to Mar. 30th, 2012. Dr. Vallis will visit CNLS as the Ulam Fellow and will present two lectures. Talks: Science in the Age of Models: Is Theory still Relevant? Ocean heat uptake and an estimate of climate sensitivity and its uncertainty. The Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Ocean. Theory and Numerical Modelling Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin Host: Jonathan Graham (T-3) Visit Dates: Mar. 18th, 2012 to Mar. 20th, 2012. Dr. Forest will present the CNLS Colloquium on Dynamos. Talks: Magnetic Dynamos in the Lab: Progressing from Liquid Metal to Plasmas Florian Doerfler, US Santa Barbara Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Mar. 12th, 2012 to Mar. 23rd, 2012. Florian will continue a collaboration with Dr. Chertkov began last summer. John Musacchio, University of California at Santa Cruz Host: David Wolpert (CCS-3) Visit Dates: Mar. 12th, 2012. Dr. Musacchio will present a seminar in the Game Theory speaker series. Talks: Game Theory in Network Security and Pricing Yue Zhao, Princeton Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 12th, 2012 to Mar. 16th, 2012. Dr. Zhao will collaborate with Drs. Chertkov, Backhaus and Bent on power grid phasor measurement techniques. Peng Chen, Cornell University Host: Douglas Shepherd (MPA-CINT) Visit Dates: Mar. 11th, 2012. Dr. Chen will be presenting the CNLS colloquium David Gamarnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Mar. 5th, 2012 to Mar. 9th, 2012. Dr. Gamarnik will be visiting CNLS as the Ulam Fellow and presenting three lectures. Talks: On the uniqueness of Lebesgue measure on regular trees and the problem of computing the volume of a polytope. Tamer Basar, Illinois University Host: David Wolpert (CCS-3) Visit Dates: Mar. 2nd, 2012. Dr. Baser will present the CNLS seminar on game theory. Talks: Confluence of Networks, Games, and Economics Douglas Abraham, Oxford University Host: Avadh Saxena (T-4) Visit Dates: Mar. 1st, 2012 to Mar. 22nd, 2012. Dr. Abraham will be collaborating with Drs. Nisoli, Lookman and Saxena on the statistical physics of low-dimensional (e.g. nanowire) systems. Bernard Lesieutre, University of Wisconsin Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Mar. 1st, 2012 to Mar. 2nd, 2012. Dr. Lesieutre will present the Smart Grid seminar. Talks: Cascading of Compressor Loads and FIDVR Juan Alonso, Stanford University Host: David Wolpert (CCS-3) Visit Dates: Feb. 27th, 2012. Dr. Alonso will be presenting the CNLS seminar on game theory. Talks: Uncertainty Quantification Methodologies: from Hypersonic Propulsion to Designing the Next Generation Air Transportation System Wenxin Ding, Florida State University Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4) Visit Dates: Feb. 21st, 2012 to Feb. 22nd, 2012. Dr. Ding will present a seminar on the interface between condensed-matter and quantum information. Talks: Entanglement Entropy in Ordered and Quantum Critical Systems Stephanie Wehner, National University of Singapore Host: Rolando Somma (T-4) Visit Dates: Feb. 20th, 2012 to Feb. 22nd, 2012. Dr. Wehner will present the Quantum Lunch and collaborate with Drs. Somma, Yard, and Hugues on quantum cryptography. Talks: Security in the noisy-storage model abstract: Petr Vorobev, Landau Institute Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Feb. 14th, 2012 to Mar. 2nd, 2012. Dr. Vorobev will collaborate with the Smart Grid team on constructing physics models of power grid. Terry Haut, University of Colorado - Boulder Host: Beth Wingate (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 14th, 2012 to Feb. 15th, 2012. Dr. Haut will deliver a seminar on 2/15/2012. Talks: Optimal nonlinear approximations in computational science Philip Benfey, Duke University Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-6) Visit Dates: Feb. 13th, 2012 to Feb. 14th, 2012. Dr. Benfey will present a q-bio Seminar. Milind Tambe, University of Southern California Host: David Wolpert (CCS-3) Visit Dates: Feb. 13th, 2012. Present IS&T seminar on Game Theory and meet with Drs. Wolpert, Bent, Backhaus, Alexander, Sentz, and Kent. Talks: Game Theory for Security: An interdisciplinary real-world research challenge Mark Biggin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Host: Jeff Drocco (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 13th, 2012. Dr. Biggin will deliver the CNLS Colloquium on Monday, February 13, 2012. Talks: Modeling Animal Transcription Networks as Highly Connected, Quantitative Continua Robert Boyd, University of California at Los Angeles Host: David Wolpert (CCS-3) Visit Dates: Feb. 6th, 2012. Dr. Boyd will present the IS&T seminar on game theory. Talks: Why Relatedness is Not Enough to Predicct Social Evolution Ekhard Salje, Cambridge University Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 3rd, 2012 to Apr. 27th, 2012. Professor Salje will collaborate with T-4 and CNLS staff on phase transitions in functional materials. Gia-Wei Chern, University of Wisconsin Host: Cristian Batista (T-5) Visit Dates: Jan. 30th, 2012 to Mar. 30th, 2012. Dr. Chern will be collaborating with Dr. Batista on frustrated transition mexal oxides with unusual orbital effects. Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown University and NICTA Host: Russell Bent (D-4) Visit Dates: Jan. 30th, 2012 to Feb. 11th, 2012. Dr. van Hentenryck will be the CNLS Ulam Fellow and will present a series of lectures on combinatorial optimization and constraint programming. Talks: Hybrid Optimization Restoration of Interdependent Infrastructures The Linearized DC Model Revisited Again Konstantin Turitsyn, MIT Visit Dates: Jan. 23rd, 2012 to Jan. 27th, 2012. Professor Turitsyn will collaborate with the Smart Grid team on constructing physics models of power grid. Baylor Fox-Kemper, University of Colorado - Boulder Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jan. 23rd, 2012 to Jan. 27th, 2012. Dr. Fox-Kemper will confer with LANL colleagues on ocean dynamics and modeling, geophysical fluid dynamics and climate processes. Michael Assaf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4) Visit Dates: Jan. 11th, 2012 to Jan. 12th, 2012. Dr. Assaf will be presenting the q-bio Seminar and collaborating with Dr. Sinitsyn. Talks: Determining the stability of genetic switches: Explicitly accounting for mRNA noise Hemantha Yeddu, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Host: Turab Lookman (T-4) Visit Dates: Jan. 11th, 2012 to Jan. 13th, 2012. Dr. Yeddu will be presenting a seminar and exploring possible collaborations with Dr. Lookman. Igor Kolokolov, Landau Institute Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Jan. 9th, 2012 to Jan. 20th, 2012. Dr. Kolokolov will collaborate with the Smart Grid team on constructing physics models of power grid. Vladimir Lebedev, Landau Institute Host: Misha Chertkov (T-4) Visit Dates: Jan. 9th, 2012 to Jan. 20th, 2012. Dr. Lebedev will collaborate with the Smart Grid team on constructing physics models of power grid. Roland Regoes, ETH Host: Ruy Ribiero (T-6) Visit Dates: Jan. 9th, 2012 to Jan. 10th, 2012. Dr. Regoes will present the q-bio seminar and collaborate on spatial modeling of lymphocyte dynamics with Drs. Graw, Perelson and Ribiero. Yong Chen, Cornell University Host: Turab Lookman (T-4) Visit Dates: Jan. 9th, 2012 to Jan. 10th, 2012. Dr. Chen will present a seminar and explore possible collaborations on dislocation physics. Talks: Continuum theory of dislocation cellular structures: fractals, scaling, and x-ray diffraction William Klein, Boston University Host: Frank Alexander (IS&T) Visit Dates: Jan. 4th, 2012 to Jan. 13th, 2012. Dr. Klein will visit LANL to discus phase transition kinetics and methods of coarse graining.
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