UCS2003 - Audio Recordings

Audio recordings of the talks given at the symposium Understanding Complex Systems, May 20-21, 2003, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics.

The recordings are made available in the MP3 format (MPEG-2 Layer 3, 32 kbps, 22 kHz, mono) as streams and file downloads. In order to listen to the audio steams, a SHOUTcast compatible player such as Winamp or RealPlayer is required. To save audio files to the local disk drive press the Shift key while clicking the download link.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Opening Session I in 141 Loomis chaired by Duane Johnson

• Bill Greenough: We all know that the brain is a complex system.
  listen, download (48 minutes, 10.9 MB)
• Duane D. Johnson: Bi-metallic nanoassemblies on graphite: simplicity out of complexity.
  listen, download (40 minutes, 9.22 MB)
• Erik Luijten: Simulation of complex fluids by means of a geometric cluster algorithm.
  listen, download (28 minutes, 6.4 MB)
• Frank Moss: Random walks with a zooplankton.
  listen, download (30 minutes, 6.9 MB)

Session II in 141 Loomis chaired by Bob Clegg

• Pierre Wiltzius: Complex materials and microphotonics.
  listen, download (41 minutes, 9.5 MB)
• Pascal Bellon: Nanoscale patterning in alloy systems under driving forces.
  listen, download (25 minutes, 5.9 MB)
• John Rogers: Soft Materials and patterning techniques for optoelectronics.
  listen, download (30 minutes, 6.9 MB)
• Kumara Sastry: Genetic programming for multiscale modeling.
  listen, download (15 minutes, 3.5 MB)

Session III in 151 Loomis chaired by Karin Dahmen

• Elaine Chandler: Plastic deformation of metals, a problem in pattern dynamics.
  No recording.
• Moonsub Shim: Photo-induced conductivity changes in carbon nanotube films and transistors.
  listen, download (24 minutes, 5.5 MB)
• Bulbul Chakraborty: Large-scale spatial structures in gravity-driven granular flows.
  listen, download (32 minutes, 7.3 MB)
• Sahraoui Chaieb: Crumpling and wrinkling: the mechanics of a crackling sheet of paper.
  listen, download (26 minutes, 5.9 MB)
• John Toner: Strained, dirty, disordered, and skewed: the smectic A to C transition in anisotropic disordered media.
  listen, download (35 minutes, 8.1 MB)

 After-Dinner Presentation chaired by Jeremiah Sullivan

• Susan Kieffer: Old Faithful Eyser and Mount St. Helens as nonlinear complex systems.
  listen, download (39 minutes, 8.9 MB)

Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Session IV in 141 Loomis chaired by Glenn Foster

• Josh Socolar: Force chains and stresses in granular materials
  listen, download (46 minutes, 10.6 MB)
• Alex Travesset: Disclinations dislocations, packing and encapsulation
  listen, download (22 minutes, 5.1 MB)
• Ian Robertson: Dislocation dynamics and mechanical behavior: experiment, simulation and modeling approach
  listen, download (26 minutes, 6.0 MB)

Session V in 141 Loomis chaired by Duane Johnson

• John Toner: Can you beat the Second Law of Thermodynamics if you're too dumb to know which way is up. A Theory of Nematic Flocks
  listen, download (26 minutes, 5.9 MB)
• Mark Robbins: Cracks and Crazes: From Atomic Interactions to Macroscopic Adhesion
  listen, download (28 minutes, 6.4 MB)
• Mark Goulian: Continuous Control in a Simple Bacterial Signaling Circuit
  listen, download (26 minutes, 6.1 MB)
• Philip Phillips: The Elusive Bose Metal
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Session VI in 141 Loomis chaired by Karin Dahmen

• David Campbell: Organic Electronic Materials: Competing Phases and Spatial Orders
  listen, download (48 minutes, 11.0 MB)
• Unknown speaker for Gerard Wong: Unknown title
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• Mike Weissman: Noise and Aging of Relaxor Ferroelectrics
  listen, download (26 minutes, 6.0 MB)
• Don Wuebbles: Downscaling Climate Change to the Regional Scale
  listen, download (partial, 20 minutes, 4.8 MB)

Session VII in 151 Loomis chaired by Joseph Jun

• Paul Melby: The depletion force in bidisperse granular media: a new mechanism for segregation
  listen, download (23 minutes, 5.2 MB)
• James F. Gilchrist: Mixing and Segregation in a Spherical Granular Tumbler
  listen, download (24 minutes, 5.6 MB)
• Wayne Davis:  A new paradigm for distributed coordination
  listen, download (25 minutes, 5.7 MB)

Session VIII in 141 Loomis chaired by Bob Clegg

• Paul Kwiat: Lost in Hilbert Space
  listen, download (29 minutes, 6.7 MB)
• Anzhong Wang: Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse
  listen, download (23 minutes, 5.4 MB)
• Walter Goldburg: Global fluctuations in a strongly-driven system
  listen, download (27 minutes, 6.2 MB)
• Barbara Kitchell: Cancer and Aging - Bad Brakes and Cellular Immaturity
  listen, download (31 minutes, 7.1 MB)

Session IX in 151 Loomis chaired by Christopher Strelioff

• Karin Dahmen: Crackling Noise, Demagnetization Curves, and History Induced Critical Behavior in disordered systems
  listen, download (25 minutes, 5.8 MB)
• Waltraud M. Kriven: The Usefulness of  "Traffic Jams" in the Production of Complex Ceramic Microstructures
  listen, download (23 minutes, 5.3 MB)
• Jiawei Han: Mining Data Streams in Multi-Dimensional Space
  listen, download (21 minutes, 4.7 MB)
• Robert White: Thermal Effect on Crackling Noise
  listen, download (24 minutes, 5.6 MB)

Session X in 141 Loomis chaired by Austin Gerig

• Joe Brewer: Regarding the Estimation of Fractal Dimension
  listen, download (17 minutes, 3.9 MB)
• Predrag Tosic: On Modifying the Definition of Box-Counting Dimension for Scale-Invariant Geometric Objects
  listen, download (18 minutes, 4.2 MB)
• Nikolai Zarkevich: First-principles prediction of thermodynamics and ordering in complex alloys
  listen, download (9 minutes, 2.0 MB)
• Anupama Mahajan: Remote Control System for Integrated Control of Displays and Applications
  listen, download (16 minutes, 3.5 MB)
• Ioannis Tziligakis: Simulating the Bandwagon Effect Using the RIC Model
  listen, download (22 minutes, 5.1 MB)

Session XI in 151 Loomis chaired by Benny Brown

• Sang-Chul Lee: Understanding structural material properties by fusing data from multiple advanced sensors
  listen, download (14 minutes, 3.2 MB)
• Tansu Alpcan: Randomized Algorithms for Stability Analysis of Large-Scale Communication Networks
  listen, download (13 minutes, 3.0 MB)
• Dmitri Pushkin: Power-law spectra generated by scale-free cascade processes
  listen, download (22 minutes, 5.0 MB)
• Amit Mehta: Universal Moment Rate Shape and Statistics of Earthquakes
  listen, download (12 minutes, 2.7 MB)

Audio files were recorded and cut with mp3DirectCut, encoded with LAME, tagged with MP3 Tag Tools, broadcast with SHOUTcast server, and tested with Winamp.

Created by Christoph Gohlke, 05/22/2003