CCS/COSNet Seminars will normally be held in Room L3.17 of the Le Couteur Building (Building #59) at the end of Mills Road. There is a shortage of visitor (and ANU permit) parking in the immediate vicinity. If you can't find a convenient parking place, there is pay parking at the South Oval, near the Pavilion (Building #88). [You can get to the back of the Le Couteur Building from there by taking the gravel path (not shown on the map) along the left bank of Sullivans Creek.] The next-nearest pay parking is in the courtyard at University House through the archway in the Molly Huxley Building (Building #1A), off Garran Road.

2008 SEMINARS

CCS/COSNet Seminar and MSI Colloquium
Thursday June 12, 2008, 4 pm
MSI John Dedman Building 27, in the Bernhard Neumann Seminar Room (G35)

"Looking for Ergodic Theory in Dynamical Systems"

Prof Chris Bose
Distinguished COSNet Visitor
University of Victoria, Canada

All Welcome
Afternoon tea will be served in the MSI Common Room at 3:30 pm before the seminar

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2007 SEMINARS

CCS/COSNet Seminar
Tuesday December 4, 2007, 4 pm
Link Building Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Is statistical mechanics a theory of everything?"

Dr Roderick Dewar
Distinguished COSNet Visitor
INRA Bordeaux, France

All Welcome
Refreshments will be provided at the Link Lounge Area before the Seminar

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CCS/COSNet AMSI-MASCOS Seminar
Wednesday November 21, 2007, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Building 26a, Manning Clark Centre, Lecture Theatre 5
http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/displaybldg.asp?no=26a

"The terroristic Nimbus of Entropy - and other fanciful stories from the early history of thermodynamics"

Emeritus Prof Ingo Müller
Technical University, Berlin
2007 AMSI-MASCOS Lecturer

All Welcome

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COSNet Seminar / MSI Special Colloquium

Friday 24 August 2007, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Building 26a, Manning Clark Centre, Lecture Theatre 5
http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/displaybldg.asp?no=26a

"Coordinate transforms underpin multiscale modelling and reduction in deterministic and stochastic systems"

Prof Tony Roberts
Department of Mathematics & Computing
University of Southern Queensland

All Welcome
Afternoon tea will be provided in the MSI Common Room at 3 pm after the Seminar

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COSNet / SP3 Seminar

Monday 20 August 2007, 4:00 pm
Seminar Room, Link Building, RSPhysSE
http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/displaybldg.asp?no=60

"Plasma Thrusters and Double Layers"

Prof Amnon Fruchtman
Sciences Department, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

All Welcome
Refreshments will be provided at the Link Lounge Area before the Seminar

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Wednesday 20 June 2007, 1100 am – 1200 pm
Room 152, Second Floor, Building 15, The Australian Defence Force Academy
http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/maps/adfa.html

"Towards a theory of learning and levels for biology"

Dr Tony Bell
Research Scientist, University of California at Berkeley

All Welcome

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CCS/COSNet Seminar

Tuesday 22 May, 2007, 11:00 AM
Link Building Seminar Room Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"A Taxonomy of Three-Periodic Nets and the Design of Crystals"

Prof Michael O'Keeffe

Regents’ Professor, Arizona State University

All Welcome
Refreshments will be provided at the Link Lounge Area before the Seminar

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CCS/COSNet/ACT Fluids Seminar
Thursday 26 April, 2007, 4:00 PM
Link Building Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

Jointly organized by COSNet, Centre for Complex Systems, ACT Fluids Seminars

"Extended MHD Equations"

Prof Roger J Hosking
Department of Mathematics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

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Nonlinear Physics Centre Seminar
Wednesday April 18, 2007, 2:00 PM
Link Building Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

Jointly organized by COSNet, Centre for Complex Systems, Nonlinear Physics Centre

"Noise-free Stochastic Resonance"

Dr Thomas Stemler
School of Statistics and Mathematics, University of Western Australia

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CCS/COSNet Seminar
Tuesday April 10, 2007, 11am
Link Building Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

Jointly organized by COSNet, Centre for Complex Systems, Nonlinear Physics Centre, Mathematical Physics Program

"Heat Conduction in Nonlinear Systems"

Prof Bambi Hu
Distinguished COSNet Visitor
Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University and Department of Physics, Houston University

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2006 SEMINARS

CCS/COSNet Seminar
Thursday November 23, 2006, 11am
Room L3.17, Le Couteur Building
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Low-dimensional Analysis by Proper Orthogonal Decomposition"

Prof Claudio Tebaldi
Department of Mathematics, Politecnico of Torino, Italy

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CCS/COSNet Seminar
Thursday November 16, 2006, 11am
Room L3.17, Le Couteur Building
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Slow Dynamics via Degenerate Variational Asymptotics"

Dr. Georg Gottwald
Australian Research Fellow, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney

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CCS/COSNet Seminar
Friday November 10, 2006, 11am
Room L3.17, Le Couteur Building
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Structural Stability of Equilibrium and Confinement Transitions in Plasmas"

Dr. Emilia R. Solano
Research Physicist, Theory Group
Laboratorio Nacional de Fusion, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain

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CCS/COSNet Seminar
Thursday October 5, 2006, 11am
The Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Wanted: A Theory of Model Coupling"

Dr Jay Larson
ANU Supercomputer Facility

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CCS/COSNet Seminar
Thursday 21 September, 11 am
The Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Black Holes, Jets and their Interaction with the Interstellar Medium"

Dr Geoff Bicknell
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
ANU

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CCS/COSNet Seminar
Wednesday 2 August, 11 am
The Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Complex Systems Approaches to Space and Fusion Confinement Plasmas"

Prof Sandra Chapman
Head of the Space and Astrophysics Group,
Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics
University of Warwick, United Kingdom

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CCS/COSNet Seminar
Wednesday 2 August, 2 pm
The Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Modelling the Noah and Joseph Effects in Space Plasma Time Series using Fractional Levy Motion"

Dr Nicholas Watkins
Project Leader, Natural Complexity Project,
British Antarctic Survey

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RSPhysSE/CCS/COSNet Colloquium
Thursday 20 July, 4.00pm (Note time and venue)
Leonard Huxley Lecture Theature
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Quantitative Modelling of Multiscale Brain Activity"

Prof Peter Robinson
School of Physics
University of Sydney

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Department of Theoretical Physics/CCS/COSNet seminar
Thursday 6 July, 11.00am
Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Exact Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics"

Dr Robert Niven
School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering
UNSW@ADFA

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Thursday 2 March, 11.00am
Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"A brief illustrated history of bushfire research and where to from here?"

Mr Andrew Sullivan
Department of Theoretical Physics and CSIRO

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Monday 20 February, 2.00pm
Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Magnetic Reconnection "

Dr Daniela Grasso
Burning Plasma Research Group
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

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Tuesday 24 January, 11.00am
Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Global Kinetic Ballooning Modes"

Dr Rajaraman Ganesh
Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, INDIA

2005 SEMINARS

Friday, 16 December, 11:00am

Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Ergodic pumping: a mechanism to drive biomolecular conformation change"
Joint with the ARC Nanotechnology Network

Professor Robert MacKay, FRS
Director of Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research
Mathematics Institute
University of Warwick, UK

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Thursday, 15 December, 11:00am

Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Examples of how mathematics can be useful (even essential) for understanding complex systems (closed and open)"

Professor Robert MacKay, FRS
Director of Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research
Mathematics Institute
University of Warwick, UK

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Wednesday, 7 December, 11:00am

Link Seminar Room
Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

"Dynamics of Multidimensional Nonlinear Wave Structures of Soliton and Vortex Types in Dispersive Media"

Professor Vasily Yu. Belashov
Kazan State Power Engineering University
51 Krasnosel'skaya, Kazan 420066, Russia

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Thursday, 4 August, 2:00pm