SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HISTORY AND OVERVIEW |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Hilborn (Amherst College
& U. Nebraska-Lincoln) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale University & IBM)
"Towards a science of roughness: History and overview of fractals" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Edward Lorenz (MIT)
"The Recognition of Chaotic Behavior" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am | Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH (PER) |
| Discussion Leader: Kerry Browne (Dickinson College) |
9:00 am - 9:45 am | Paula Heron (University of Washington)
"Research on student understanding of mechanics:
Overview and latest results." |
9:45 am - 10:30 am | Rachel Scherr (University of Maryland) and Stamatis Vokos
(Seattle Pacific University)
"Understanding student reasoning: Relativity as a case study" |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:45 am | Brad Ambrose (Grand Valley State University)
"Investigating student understanding in intermediate mechanics: Identifying a need for a tutorial approach to instruction" |
11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Corinne Manogue (Oregon State University)
"Improving visual and geometrical understanding of
upper-division mechanics" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TEXTBOOKS AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Priscilla Laws (Dickinson College) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | John R. Taylor (University of Colorado)
"What should be in an upper-division mechanics text?" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood (North Carolina State University)
"Starting from fundamental principles" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | RETHINKING THE MECHANICS CURRICULUM:
ACTION AS A UNIFYING THEME |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Romer (Amherst College) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Edwin Taylor (MIT)
"Introducing physics with action" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Jozef Hanc (Technical University, Slovakia)
"Lagrange's victory and Euler's comeback" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Tom Moore (Pomona College)
"Action: Training our majors for contemporary physics" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 1 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | RESEARCH IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS I |
| Discussion Leader: Greg Voth (Wesleyan University) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Jerry Gollub (Haverford College & University of Pennsylvania)
"Mixing in Fluids: Nonlinear Hamiltonian Dynamics in Real Space" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Tom Solomon (Bucknell University)
"Table-top experiments in chaotic mixing and reacting flows" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSES |
| Discussion Leader: Edwin Taylor (MIT) |
9:00 am - 9:45 am | Priscilla Laws (Dickinson College)
"A chaotic physical pendulum for the introductory lab" |
9:45 am - 10:30 am | Robert DeSerio (University of Florida)
"A chaotic physical pendulum for the upper division lab" |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:45 am | Matthew Moelter (California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo)
"Lab-based course in nonlinear dynamics" |
11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Julien C. Sprott (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Simple chaotic systems and circuits" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 2 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | RESEARCH IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
AND CHAOS II |
| Discussion Leader: Eric Weeks (Emory University) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Michael Dennin (University of California, Irvine)
"Nonlinear dynamics experiments with soft materials" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Wolfgang Losert (University of Maryland)
"Granular dynamics experiments: Visual demonstrations of
non-equilibrium statistical mechanics" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BROADENING THE FOCUS OF
CLASSICAL MECHANICS I |
| Discussion Leader: Gerald Jay Sussman (MIT) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Sarah Bolton (Williams College)
"NLD in mode-locked lasers" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Robert Hilborn (Amherst College & U. Nebraska-Lincoln)
"No noise is bad noise: Stochastic effects in nonlinear dynamics." |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Raymond Goldstein (University of Arizona)
"An interdisciplinary graduate laboratory for biological physics" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Free Time |
5:00 pm | Business Meeting |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BROADENING THE FOCUS OF
CLASSICAL MECHANICS II |
| Discussion Leader: Scott Franklin (Rochester Institute of Technology) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Jack Wisdom (MIT)
"Procedural formulation of the foundations of mechanics" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Donald Turcotte (University of California, Davis)
"Fractals and chaos in geology and geophysics" |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |