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Agenda - May 25th and 26th, 2007
The conference will be held in the conference room at the
Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP - Kohn Hall building) at UCSB.


There will be an evening reception on may the 25th for the speakers and their partners
at Pr. Mezic's house.
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Day 1 - May the 25th
TimeSpeakerSubject
8:00-8:30Catered Coffee/BreakfastCatered Coffee/Breakfast
8:30-9:30Serge Aubry"Shock waves in discrete lattices"
9:30-10:00M. SatoIntrinsic localized modes in cantilever arrays
10:00-10:30Coffee breakCoffee break
10:30-11:30Michael RoukesLecture on MEMS oscillators
11:30-12:00Steve ShawHomoclinics, Noise, and Self-Modulation in Superconducting Stripline Resonators
12:00-12:30Panel of fourDiscussion
12:30-2:00Catered lunchPoster session
2:00-2:30Kim TurnerA survey of nonlinear dynamic effects in micro and nanoscale resonant structures
2:30-3:00Ron LifshitzParametric excitation of coupled nonlinear resonators
3:00-3:30Takashi HikiharaControl of nonlinear dynamics in nanosystem - from sensing to actuation -
3:30-4:00Coffee breakCoffee break
4:00-4:30Chanmin SuExtracting time resolved nonlinear interaction at the nanometer scale
4:30-5:00Michael Cross (Caltech)Synchronization of NEMS Oscillators by Nonlinear Frequency Pulling
5:00-5:30DiscussionDiscussion

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Day 2 - May the 26th
TimeSpeakerSubject
8:30-9:00Catered Coffee/BreakfastCatered Coffee/Breakfast
9:00-10:00Predrag CvitanovicDynamical drag recycled
10:00-10:30Jeff Moehlis"On the dynamics of coupled, non-autonomous oscillators"
10:30-11:00Coffee breakCoffee break
11:00-11:30Igor MezicLecture on Biological and molecular oscillators
11:30-12:00H. YamadaSubnanometer-resolution Imaging in Liquid by Frequency Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy
12:00-12:30DiscussionDiscussion
12:30-2:00Catered lunchCatered lunch
2:00-3:00Ratnesh LalAFM for multiscale and mutlimodal study of biological systems
3:00-3:30Andrew ClelandMechanical quantum resonators: A proposal to create and detect single phonons in a bulk mechanical resonator
3:30-4:00Coffee breakCoffee break
4:00-4:30Hiroaki DaidoAging of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators
4:30-5:00DiscussionDiscussion

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