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Prof. Venuti will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture. Keith Lee, University of Waterloo, Canada Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Dec. 5th, 2016 to Dec. 7th, 2016. Dr. Lee will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch Lecture. Clark Petri, Naval Postgraduate Schools Operations Research Department Host: Donatella Pasqualini (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Dec. 5th, 2016 to Dec. 13th, 2016. Mr. Petri will visit LANL to discuss his thesis research project and explore potential collaboration with LANL. Walter Vinci, University of Southern California Host: Rolando Somma (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 28th, 2016 to Jan. 30th, 2016. Prof. Vinci will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture. John Tolsma, University of Texas, Austin Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 28th, 2016 to Nov. 30th, 2016. Mr. Tolsma will give a talk about his recent research of physics of excitons in novel atomically thin films. Talks: Oxide two-dimensional electron gases: toy models, quasiparticle properties, and orbital & spin ordering instabilities Vittorio Verda, University of Torino Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 17th, 2016 to Nov. 18th, 2016. Mr. Verda will give a talk on thermal systems, pipes and flows. Talks: THERMOFLUID-DYNAMIC MODEL OF COMPLEX DISTRICT HEATING NETWORKS AND APPLICATION TO OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT Baosen Zhang, University of Washington Host: Deepjyoti Deka (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 17th, 2016. Professor Zhang will give a seminar on Online Optimization of Battery Systems Patrick Coles, University of Waterloo, Canada Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 16th, 2016 to Nov. 18th, 2016. Prof. Coles will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch seminar. Jose Onuchic, Rice University Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 15th, 2016 to Nov. 16th, 2016. Prof. Onuchic will give the Kac Lecture Series. Michael Zudov, University of Minnesota Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 8th, 2016. Prof. Zudov will give a talk about his research on infrared spectroscopy of thin film. Andrej Risteski, Princeton University Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 7th, 2016 to Nov. 8th, 2016. Mr. Risteski will give a seminar on graphical models. Henry Stopfel, Uppsala University Sweden Host: Cristiano Nisoli (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 6th, 2016 to Nov. 10th, 2016. Prof. Stopfel will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and postdocs. Daniel Kirschen, University of Washington, Seattle Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Nov. 3rd, 2016 to Nov. 4th, 2016. Professor Kirschen will give a seminar on power systems. Thomas Kurtz, University of Wisconsin-Madison Host: Youfang Cao (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Oct. 3rd, 2016 to Oct. 5th, 2016. Dr. Kurtz will give the CNLS Colloquium. Justin Smith, University of Florida Host: Angel Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Oct. 3rd, 2016 to Oct. 31st, 2016. Mr. Smith will work with his mentor, CNLS Ulam Scholar Adrian Roitberg. Dustin Tracy, University of Florida Host: Angel Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Oct. 3rd, 2016 to Oct. 31st, 2016. Mr. Tracy will work with his mentor, Ulam Scholar Adrian Roitberg. Doug Swank, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Host: Angel Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Oct. 3rd, 2016 to Oct. 4th, 2016. Prof. Swank will meet with LANL staff. Federico Spedalieri, USC Host: Diego Dalvit (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Sep. 30th, 2016. Professor Spedalieri will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch Lecture. Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University Host: Diego Dalvit (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Sep. 19th, 2016 to Sep. 23rd, 2016. Dr. Gonzalez will give a community lecture on gravitational waves and the Directors Colloquium. John Weyant, Stanford University Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Sep. 14th, 2016 to Sep. 16th, 2016. Prof. Weyant will give a Grid Science Seminar. Thomas Swinburne, Culham Science Centre Host: Danny Perez (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Sep. 1st, 2016 to Sep. 2nd, 2016. Dr. Swinburne will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and postdocs. Talks: Stochastic dynamics of crystal defects: glide and climb Neil Dhringra, University of Minnesota Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 29th, 2016 to Aug. 30th, 2016. Mr. Dhingra will give a Grid Science lecture and have discussions with staff and postdocs. Hidemaro Suwa, University of Tokyo Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 22nd, 2016 to Aug. 26th, 2016. Dr. Suwa will meet with Kipton Barros to discuss auxiliary-field method. Talks: Quantum Monte Carlo Analysis of Linearly Dispersing Spinons at Deconfined Quantum-Critical Point Juan Pablo Vielma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 22nd, 2016 to Aug. 26th, 2016. Dr. Vielma will present a CNLS seminar and will meet with Russell Bent, Misha Chertkov, Harsha Nagarajan, and Carleton Coffrin. Talks: Advanced Mixed Integer Programming Formulation Techniques Philippe Odier, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2016 to Aug. 26th, 2016. Professor Odier will present a CNLS seminar and have discussions with LANL postdocs and staff. Dhruv Balwada, Florida State University Host: Joseph Schoonover (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 17th, 2016 to Aug. 19th, 2016. Mr. Balwada will give a CNLS seminar and have discussions with Joseph Schoonover. Talks: Lagrangian Observations of Ocean Turbulence Jinwoo Shin, KAIST, Deajun, Korea Host: Misha Chertkov, Mark Vuffray (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 15th, 2016 to Aug. 19th, 2016. Professor Shin will give a CNLS seminar and have discussions with CNLS staff members and postdocs. Talks: Approximating the Spectral Sums of Large-scale Matrices using Chebyshev Approximations Edward Arevalo, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 15th, 2016 to Aug. 26th, 2016. Dr. Arevalo will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and postdocs. Talks: Nonlinear excitations in photonic honeycomb lattices: Beyond the high-symmetry points of the Band structure William Dewar, Florida State University Visit Dates: Aug. 10th, 2016 to Aug. 12th, 2016. Professor Dewar will give a CNLS seminar and have discussions with Joseph Schoonover. Vladimir Frolov, Skoltech Institute of Technology Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 8th, 2016 to Aug. 26th, 2016. Mr. Frolov will meet with the Grid Science Team, and other CNLS postdocs and staff members. Justin Kinney, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Host: William Hlavacek (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 5th, 2016 to Aug. 6th, 2016. Mr. Kinney will present a CNLS seminar. Talks: Formal diagrammatic methods for modeling large macromolecular complexes Jarrod McClean, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Host: Rolando Somma (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 3rd, 2016 to Aug. 5th, 2016. Dr. McClean will give the CNLS Quantum Lecture seminar. Talks: Hybrid quantum-classical computation for chemistry and materials Guy Bresler, MIT Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 1st, 2016 to Aug. 3rd, 2016. Prof. Bresler will give a seminar and have discussions with postdocs and staff. Miles Lubin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 1st, 2016 to Aug. 26th, 2016. Mr. Lubin will be collaborating with CNLS postdocs and students. Franz Mertens, University of Bayreuth Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Aug. 1st, 2016 to Oct. 26th, 2016. Professor Mertens will meet with Alan Bishop, Avadh Saxens, and others on magnetic and nonlinear phenomena including solitons. Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jul. 27th, 2016 to Aug. 3rd, 2016. Professor Bienstock will give a CNLS seminar and have discussions with CNLS staff members and postdocs. Talks: Modeling and solving battery optimization problems Yian Ma, University of Washington Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jul. 25th, 2016 to Jul. 29th, 2016. Mr. Ma will present a CNLS seminar and have discussions LANL staff members. Talks: A complete framework for devising stochastic gradient MCMC algorithms Ulf Schiller, Clemson University Host: Christoph Junghans (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jul. 25th, 2016 to Jul. 29th, 2016. Professor Schiller will give a CNLS seminar and have discussions with CNLS postdocs and staff. Talks: Computational modeling in a virtual materials laboratory Martin Lopez Garcia, University of Leeds Host: William Hlavacek (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jul. 16th, 2016 to Aug. 13th, 2016. Dr. Lopez Garcia will collaborate with William Hlavacek and meet with CNLS postdocs and staff. Davd Rogers, University of South Florida Host: Diego Dalvit (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jul. 7th, 2016 to Jul. 8th, 2016. Dr. Rogers will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch seminar. Ryan Wilson, United States Naval Academy Host: Chris Ticknor (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jul. 5th, 2016 to Jul. 8th, 2016. Mr. Wilson will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch seminar. Talks: Ordering and phase transitions in photon cavity arrays Ali Hassanali, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jul. 5th, 2016 to Jul. 6th, 2016. Mr. Hassanali will present a CNLS seminar and have discussions with Angel E. Garcia, CNLS staff members, and postdocs. Talks: Hydrophobic Effects in Hydrogen-Bonded Systems: From Liquid Water to Amyloid Proteins to Charged Water Clusters Marco Merkli, Memorial University of Newfoundland Host: Gennady Berman (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jul. 1st, 2016 to Aug. 1st, 2016. Prof. Merkli will collaborate with Drs. Berman and Sayre. Talks: Dynamics of a dimer in thermal environments Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State University Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 29th, 2016 to Jul. 22nd, 2016. Professor Chernyak will give a CNLS seminar and will meet with Misha Chertkov and the Grid Science Team. Joris Bierkens, University of Warwick Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 27th, 2016 to Jul. 22nd, 2016. Professor Bierkens will have discussions with Misha Chertkov and CNLS staff members. Talks: The Zig-Zag process and its use in computation Sandra Eksioglu, Clemson University Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 20th, 2016 to Jul. 29th, 2016. Ms. Eksioglu will have discussions with Russell Bent and CNLS postdocs and staff. Andrew Harter, Indiana University Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 20th, 2016 to Jul. 1st, 2016. Mr. Harter will have discussions with Dr. Saxena and others. Adam Kaufman, Harvard University Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 14th, 2016 to Jun. 17th, 2016. Dr. Kaufman will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch seminar. Talks: Quantum thermalization through entanglement Jin Wang, Suny Stony Brook Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 13th, 2016 to Jun. 15th, 2016. Dr. Wang will give the CNLS Colloquium. Talks: The potential and flux landscape for physical and biological nonequilibrium systems Igor Pikovski, Harvard University Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 8th, 2016 to Jun. 10th, 2016. Prof. Pikovski will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch seminar. Talks: Universal decoherence due to gravitational time dilation Marilyn Gunner, City College of New York Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 6th, 2016 to Jun. 8th, 2016. Prof. Gunner will give the CNLS Colloquium. Talks: Proton pumping and electron tunneling to power the cell Tyler Reddy, University of Oxford Host: Cesar Lopez (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jun. 6th, 2016 to Jun. 7th, 2016. Dr. Reddy will present a CNLS seminar. Talks: Computational Virology: From the Outside In Nir Navon, University of Cambridge Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 31st, 2016 to Jun. 2nd, 2016. Prof. Navon will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture. Brian Munsky, Colorado State University Host: Gnana Gnanakaran (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 31st, 2016 to Jun. 2nd, 2016. Dr. Munsky will meet Dr. Gnanakaran and Jim Werner. Talks: Measuring, Modeling and Predicting Fluctuations of Signal-Activated Gene Expression Scott Baalrud, University of Iowa Host: Jerome Daligault (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 31st, 2016 to Jun. 3rd, 2016. Continue collaboration with J. Daligault/T-5 on understanding transport properties of strongly coupled plasmas, with specific focus on the effects of magnetic fields. Steve Campbell, Queens University Belfast Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 25th, 2016 to May. 27th, 2016. Dr. Campbell will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture. Spiros Eliopoulos, Computationally Endowed Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 25th, 2016 to May. 27th, 2016. Mr. Eliopoulos will give a lecture on cutting edge software development in the modern world. Talks: Approaching the Ideal of Contemporary Software Development and Operations William Klein, Boston University Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 23rd, 2016 to Jun. 30th, 2016. Dr. Klein will have discussions with CNLS staff. Cristian Batista Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 12th, 2016 to May. 23rd, 2016. Professor Batista will meet with Kipton Barros and Filip Ronning. Charles Doering, University of Michigan Host: Jeffrey D. Hyman (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 9th, 2016 to May. 10th, 2016. Prof. Doering will give the CNLS Colloquium. Talks: Heat rises: 100 Years of Rayleigh-Benard convection Francesco Sorrentino Host: William Hlavacek (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 5th, 2016. Mr. Sorrentino will present a CNLS seminar. Talks: Optimal Target Control of Complex Networks Jon Yard, Microsoft Research Host: Rolando Somma (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 4th, 2016 to May. 7th, 2016. Dr. Yard will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch seminar. David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 2nd, 2016. Prof. Wolpert will give the CNLS Colloquium. Talks: Extending Landauer's Bound from Bit Erasure to Arbitrary Computation Anders Rantzer Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 2nd, 2016 to May. 3rd, 2016. Professor Rantzer will give a CNLS seminar. Talks: Scalable Control of Positive Systems Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 2nd, 2016 to Apr. 4th, 2016. Mr. Hiskens will continue ongoing discussions with the Smart Grid Group. Denis Sheka, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2016 to May. 20th, 2016. Prof. Sheka will have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs. He will also present a seminar. Martin Fossat, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 25th, 2016 to May. 14th, 2016. Mr. Fossat will have discussions with LANL staff. Daniel Mohsenizadeh, Texas A&M University Host: Amy Larson (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 18th, 2016 to Apr. 19th, 2016. Professor Mohsenizadeh will present a CNLS seminar. Talks: Optimal Objective-Based Experimental Design for Uncertain Dynamical Gene Networks Michael Bachmann, University of Georgia Host: Christoph Junghans (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 14th, 2016 to Apr. 19th, 2016. Prof. Bachmann will give the CNLS Colloquium on structural behavior of course-grained polymers. Kamalika Chaudhuri, UC San Diego Host: Paul Johnson (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 11th, 2016 to Apr. 12th, 2016. Prof. Chaudhuri will participate in a workshop on machine learning apple to earthquakes. Joan Gomberg, University of Washington Host: Paul Johnson (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 11th, 2016 to Apr. 12th, 2016. Prof. Gomberg will participate in a workshop on machine learning apple to earthquakes. Francois Fillion-Gourdeau, University of Waterloo Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 6th, 2016 to Apr. 8th, 2016. Dr. Fillion-Gourdeau will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture. Talks: Numerical approaches for the understanding of Schwinger's pair production in multi-center systems (and some qubits along the way) Quig Nie, University of California, Irvine Host: Youfang Cao (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 4th, 2016 to Apr. 5th, 2016. Prof. Nie will give the CNLS Colloquium. Douglas Abraham, University of Oxford Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Apr. 4th, 2016 to Apr. 16th, 2016. Professor Abraham will give a CNLS seminar. David Sivak, Simon Frasier University Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 28th, 2016 to Mar. 30th, 2016. Prof. Sivak will give the CNLS Colloquium. Talks: Efficient molecular-scale energy transmission Aleksandr Rudkevich Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 28th, 2016 to Mar. 29th, 2016. Meetings with the Grid Science Team. Roland Faller, UC Davis Host: Christoph Junghans (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 24th, 2016 to Mar. 25th, 2016. Prof. Faller will give the IS&T Seminar. Jie Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago Host: Youfang Cao (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 21st, 2016 to Mar. 22nd, 2016. Prof. Liang will give the CNLS Colloquium. Debashish Mukherji, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Host: Christoph Junghans (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 21st, 2016 to Mar. 24th, 2016. Dr. Mukherji will give the IS&T seminar. Talks: Co-non-Solvency: Soft, Smart Responsive Systems in Solvent Mixtures Madhu Advani, Stanford University Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 21st, 2016 to Mar. 22nd, 2016. Mr. Advani will present the CNLS seminar. Chris Coey, MIT Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 21st, 2016 to Mar. 26th, 2016. Dr. Coey will visit LANL to collaborate on the CNLS project Pajarito. Miles Lubin, MIT Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 21st, 2016 to Mar. 26th, 2016. Mr. Lubin will collaborate with CNLS postdocs. Janusz Bialek, Skoltech Institute of Technology Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 14th, 2016 to Mar. 18th, 2016. Professor Bialek will give a seminar on energy market design. Emiliano Dall Anese, NREL Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 14th, 2016 to Mar. 15th, 2016. Dr. Dall Anese will give a seminar and have discussions with CNLS postdocs. Nathan Ainsworth, NREL Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 14th, 2016 to Mar. 15th, 2016. Dr. Ainsworth will give a seminar and have discussions with CNLS postdocs. Brian Johnson, NREL Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 14th, 2016 to Mar. 15th, 2016. Dr. Johnson will give a seminar and have discussions with CNLS postdocs. Emil Yuzbashyan, Rutgers University Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 10th, 2016 to Mar. 12th, 2016. Prof. Yuzbashyan will present the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture. Talks: Integrable Matrix Theory (or What's Quantum Integrability and Who Cares?) Nicholas Ruozzi, University of Texas at Dallas Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 10th, 2016 to Mar. 11th, 2016. Dr. Ruozzi will give a seminar and collaborate with the Grid Science and Physics Informed Machine Learning teams. Talks: Scaling Up Approximate Variational Learning Michael Hinczewski, Case Western Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 7th, 2016 to Mar. 9th, 2016. Prof. Hinczewski will give the CNLS Colloquium. Libin Rong, Oakland University Host: Alan Perelson (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 7th, 2016 to Apr. 30th, 2016. Prof. Libin will collaborate with Drs. Perelson, Ribeiro, and Cao. Talks: Virus and T cell dynamics in HIV-infected individuals Ha Truong, Rice University Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 7th, 2016 to Mar. 8th, 2016. Ms. Truong will give a seminar at the CNLS. Talks: Funneling, Frustration and Folding Pathways in the Energy Landscapes of Proteins Elizabeth Simons, Florida State University Host: Christopher Schoonover (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 7th, 2016 to Mar. 10th, 2016. Ms. Simons will present a CNLS seminar. Talks: A brief observational occupation of Apalachicola Bay, Florida Daniel Steck, University of Oregon Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Mar. 2nd, 2016 to Mar. 4th, 2016. Prof. Steck will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture. Michele Benzi, Emory University Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 29th, 2016 to Mar. 2nd, 2016. Prof. Benzi will give the CNLS Colloquium. Talks: Numerical methods for differential equations on graphs Vladimir Frolov Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 29th, 2016 to Mar. 18th, 2016. Mr. Frolov will continue his work with Dr. Chertkov. Talks: A Novel Approach for Planning of Placement and Sizing of FACTS Devices Wai Keung Terrence Mak, NICTA Canberra Lab Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 29th, 2016 to Mar. 4th, 2016. Discussions with LANL staff on gas dynamics. Pascal Van Hentenryck Visit Dates: Feb. 29th, 2016 to Mar. 4th, 2016. Have discussions with LANL staff on power systems, networks, control theory and optimization. Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 26th, 2016 to Mar. 5th, 2016. Prof. Hiskens will continue his ongoing collaborations with the LANL Smart Grid group. Michael Wall, University of Colorado Host: Bartek Gardas (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 24th, 2016 to Feb. 26th, 2016. Dr. Wall will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture. Talks: Spins, bosons, entanglement, and matrix product states Vladimir Parfenyev, Landau Institute Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2016 to Mar. 25th, 2016. Discussions with Dr. Chertkov and group. Talks: Nonlinear generation of vorticity by surface waves Sergei Belan, Landau Institute Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2016 to Mar. 25th, 2016. Discussions with Dr. Chertkov and group. Ruediger Schultz, Universitat Duisburg-Essen Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2016 to Feb. 24th, 2016. Prof. Schultz will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and postdocs. Ryan King, University of Colorado, Boulder Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2016 to Feb. 23rd, 2016. Mr. King will present the CNLS seminar. Talks: Machine Learning and Optimization for Modeling and Control of Turbulent Flows Claudia Hulbert, Pierre and Marie Curie University Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2016 to Apr. 22nd, 2016. Ms. Hulbert will work with Kipton Barros and others on applications of statistics for emulating electron transport properties. Chris Jarzynski, University of Maryland Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 19th, 2016 to Feb. 20th, 2016. Prof. Jarzynski will participate in the CNLS Executive Advisory Committee. Herbert Levine, Rice University Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 19th, 2016 to Feb. 20th, 2016. Prof. Levine will participate in the CNLS Executive Advisory Committee. Andrea Montanari, Stanford University Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 19th, 2016 to Feb. 20th, 2016. Prof. Montanari will participate in the CNLS Executive Advisory Committee. Thomas Witten, University of Chicago Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 19th, 2016 to Feb. 20th, 2016. Prof. Witten will participate in the CNLS Executive Advisory Committee. Peter Wolynes, Rice University Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 19th, 2016 to Feb. 20th, 2016. Prof. Wolynes will participate in the CNLS Executive Advisory Committee. Yigit Subasi, University of Maryland, College Park Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 16th, 2016 to Feb. 19th, 2016. Dr. Subasi will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture. Talks: Simulating highly nonlocal Hamiltonians with less nonlocal Hamiltonians Korana Burke, University of California, Davis Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 8th, 2016 to Feb. 10th, 2016. Ms. Burke will give the CNLS Colloquium. Talks: The Role of Phase Space Structures in Chaotic Ionization or Using Geometry to Understand Ionization from Mathematical Perspective Line Roald, ETH Zurich Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 8th, 2016 to Mar. 4th, 2016. Ms. Roald will continue work with the LANL Grid Science team. Robert Hager, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Host: Luis Chacon (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 8th, 2016 to Feb. 12th, 2016. Seung-Hoe Ku, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Host: Luis Chacon (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 8th, 2016 to Feb. 12th, 2016. Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Host: Luis Chacon (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Feb. 8th, 2016 to Feb. 12th, 2016. Jr-Shin Li, Washington University in St. Louis Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jan. 25th, 2016 to Jan. 26th, 2016. Prof. Li will give a CNLS Colloquium. Talks: Control of Dynamic Structures in Underactuated Ensembles Jason Johnson, Numerica Corporation Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jan. 25th, 2016 to Jan. 26th, 2016. Dr. Johnson will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and postdocs. Thiago Acconcia, Universitdade Estadual de Campinas Host: Sebastian Deffner (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jan. 18th, 2016 to Jan. 29th, 2016. Mr. Acconcia will visit LANL to research with Dr. Deffner. Talks: Work optimization from linear response theory Yury Dvorkin, University of Washington, Seattle Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jan. 11th, 2016 to Jan. 15th, 2016. Mr. Dvorkin will collaborate with Mr. Lubin. James Dama, University of Chicago Host: Danny Perez (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jan. 11th, 2016 to Jan. 15th, 2016. Mr. Dama will visit LANL and meet with Dr. Perez. Miles Lubin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host: Misha Chertkov (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jan. 11th, 2016 to Jan. 15th, 2016. Mr. Lubin will continue work with the LANL Smart Grid team. Robert Cordery, Fairfield University Host: Rajan Gupta (T-CNLS) Visit Dates: Jan. 7th, 2016 to Jan. 15th, 2016. Prof. Cordery will give a seminar at the CNLS.
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