CDP
Centre for Dynamical Processes and Structure Formation
Previous activities
CDP has hosted the following activities. See links for more information.
Sessions
Magnetism and structure formation (2003-2004)
Workshops
Att hantera komplexa system - hur kan forskningen ge stöd och råd?, autumn 2006
Courses
Chaos and structure - an introduction, autumn 2004
The evolution of sex and its consequences, autumn 2004
The solar effects on the planetary atmospheres, autumn 2004
Special Topics in Observational Stellar Astronomy, autumn 2004
Geometrical Aspects of Dynamical Systems and Fluid Flows, autumn 2005
Quantum compution and quantum information, autumn 2005
Phylogenetic trees and networks, spring 2006
Genetic drift or genetic draft, summer 2007
Seminars
2007
January 23
Prof. Taras A. Melnyk, Department of Mathematical Physics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Title: Vibrations of thick multi-structures with concentrated masses
February 1
Dr. Imre Bako, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Title: Dynamic nanoclusters in mixed aqueous liquids from neutron diffraction and MD simulation
February 8
Dr. Adri van Duin, California Institute of Technology, USA
Title: Initial applications of the ReaxFF reactive force field to proton transfer reactions in aqueous phases
April 27
Prof. Gerald J. Wasserburg California Institute of Technology, USA
Title: Where, oh where has the r-process gone?
May 10
Prof. Enrico Clementi Como, Italy
Title: Recent developments in computational quantum chemistry
May 25
Prof. Jens K. Nørskov, Technical University of Denmark
Title: Surface processes for heterogeneous catalysis
June 4
Dr. Tom Abel, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University
Title: The Formation of the First Stars
June 15
Prof. Ole K. Andersen, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart
Title: Large Metal-insulator transitions in 3d multiband oxides
June 25
Professor Dan Stinebring, Oberlin College, USA
Title: Pulsar Scintillation: Probing Turbulence in the Interstellar Gas with Interference Techniques
September 26
Prof. Piotr Zgliczynski, Jagiellonian University
Title: On some computer assisted proofs in the dynamics of the N-body problem.
December 5 December 14 December 18
Dr. Adri van Duin, Materials and Molecules Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, USA Prof. John Barrow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK Prof. Raazesh Sainudiin, Mathematical Genetics Group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, UK Prof. Risto Nieminen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Mini symposium on High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy and Sunspots Dr. Russel Regnery, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, USA Dr. Martijn Huynen, Radboud University, The Netherlands Dr. Michael D. Sorensen, Boston University, USA Dr. Gavin Rowell, Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg Dr. Sarah Teichmann, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK The Kurland Symposium, Prof. Anders Karlqvist, Swedish Polar Resarch Secretariat Prof. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Prof. Jaan Einasto, Tartu University, Estonia Dr. Violeta Munoz, EBC, Uppsala University Prof. Karen Luise Knudsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Dr. Robert Fleischer, The Smithonian Institute Prof Hermann Haken, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart Prof Hermann Haken, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart Prof Timothy C. Beers, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University Prof. Arthur B. McDonald, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Dr. Marcel van Tuinen, Biological Sciences, Stanford University, USA Prof. Colin Price, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University Prof. George Weinstock, Co-director Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA Dr. Michael Probst, Institute of Ion Physics, University of Innsbruck Prof. Tsutomu Kambe, Tokyo University Evolution of innate immunity Dr. Anne Pringle Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA Judith Mank, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, USA Prof. Andy Purvis, Imperial College, UK Prof. Tomasz Dietl, Warsaw Prof. Erland Källén, Dynamical metrology, Stockholm University Prof. Sergey Gavrilets, University of Tennessee Prof. Predrag Cvitanovic, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Sir Michael Berry, Physics department, Bristol University Prof. Joachim Stöhr, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Dr. Ralph Sutherland, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University Prof. Ted Barnes, University of Tennessee Dr. Regner Trampedach, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University Prof. Julian Gale, Nanochemistry Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Prof. Sandra Chapman, University of Warwick, UK Prof. Jeffrey Linsky, JILA, USA Dr. Holger Then, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala Prof. Georgy S. Golitsyn, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow Prof. Sergej S. Zilitinkevich, Marie Curie Chair of Boundary-layer Physics at University of Helsinki. Dr. Malcolm Fridlund, European Space Agency Prof. Cecilia Jarlskog, Lund Institute of Technology Chris J. Pethick, NORDITA (The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss Prof Eugen Mareev, Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod Prof. Lee Anne Wilson, University of Iowa Prof. Mitchell Feigenbaum Jr, Rockefeller University Prof. Frank Wilczek, MIT Cambridge
Prof. Hans-Thomas Janka, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
Title: How do core-collapse supernovae explode?
Two seminars on Invisible Higgs by Prof. Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Prof. Jochum van der Bij, Freiburg University, Germany
Prof. Peter Schlein, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Title: Are large orchestral string sections necessary?Autumn 2006
Title: ReaxFF: A fast, transferable computational method for atomistic-scale dynamical simulations of chemical reactions
Title: "The study of universes" and "Varying constants of nature -- theory and observation"
Title: An Algebraic Geometric Approach to Exact Inference from Classical Population Genetic Summaries of a Non-recombining Locus.
Title: Perspectives in Materials Theory and ModelingSpring 2006
Speaker: Prof. Francis Halzen, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observations
Speaker: Prof. Göran Scharmer, Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Title: Why are sunspots so bright?
Title: Monkeypox virus in human and prarie dogs
Title: Evolution of Mitochondria, Peroxisomes and applications for protein function prediction.
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Title: Recent results in VHE Gamma-Ray Astronomy: Highlights of H.E.S.S. Observations
Title: Evolution and dynamics of transcription factor repertoires
Ekmanssalen, EBC, 10.00 - 16.30
Title: Complexity - a mathematical perspective
Title: Recent Advances in the Photophysics of Carbon Nanotubes
Title: The Dark Matter Story
Title: Population genetics and hybridization of white-headed ducks and ruddy ducks.
Title: Holocene climate variability: Natural climatic shifts in the northern North Atlantic
Title: Trouble in paradise: invasive diseases and vectors, and the Hawaiian avifauna
Title: Synergetics of Brain Function
Title: Beyond Attractor Neural Networks
Title: Perspectives on an Evolving Galaxy -- The Milky WayAutumn 2005
Title: Neutrino and Astro-Physics Measurements with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Title: Tempo and mode in modern bird evolution: from genes to genomes
Title: Global Lightning Activity and Climate Changes
Title: Functional genomics of sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis
Title: Analytical Potential Functions for Molecular Simulations
Title: Performance and Recent Innovative Results of the Earth Simulator
Title: Open Symposium and PhD student course within the CDP session Biological interactions
Title: Last chance to know? Using clues from the literature and a genome to understand the biogeography of the death cap mushroom Amanita phalloides
Title: The evolution of reproductive diversity in ray-finned fishesSpring 2005
Title: The shape of the Tree of Life: what can phylogenies tell us about how clades grow?
Title: Spin manipulations in ferromagnetic semiconductors
Title: Atmospheric and Climatic Predictability -- How Far Can We Go?
Title: Sympatric speciation and the costs of being choosy
Title: Hopf's last hope: Spatiotemporal chaos in terms of unstable recurrent patterns
Titles: Optical vorticulture and Physics of nonhermitian degeneracies
Title: Study of Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics with Soft X-Rays
Title: Impact of super-massive black holes outbursts in galaxies - 3D Dynamical Simulations and X-Ray Models
Title: The quark model: Historical successes and recent disasters
Title: Measuring Atoms with a Ringing Star - or how Helioseismology can Constrain the Equation of State
Title: The challenge of quantum mechanics for complex systemsAutumn 2004
Title: Scaling and complexity, models, methods, measurements, examples from astroplasmas
Title: Structure of the Local Interstellar Medium
Title: The large scale geometry of the universe
Title: Planetary atmospheres, their dynamics and climate systems
Title: Planetary atmospheres, their dynamics and climate systems
Title: ESA's Darwin -- The study of planets, habitability and the evolution of life
Title: CERN's 50th Anniversary
Title: The Fascination of Ultracold Quantum Gases
Title: Life, The Universe, and Nothing: Life and Death in an Ever-Expanding Universe
Title: Modern progress in the global electric circuit researchSpring 2004
Autumn 2003