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| 2010 Heilborn Speakers (from left to right): Dr. Yoram Lithwick, Dr. Jacques Laskar, Dr. Murray Gell-Mann, Dr. James Sauls, Dr. James Yorke. Not pictured: Dr. Michael Syphers. |
The department of Physics and Astronomy has decided to change the format of our yearly Heilborn lectures to yearly Heilborn Symposium starting the academic year 2009/10. We plan to focus on a different topic every year during the Heilborn week. This year, the theme of the symposium is on complexity and we hope there is much interaction between Heilborn speakers, outside visitors and our department faculty/postdocs/graduate students.
The program focuses on complexity in nature and consists of six talks given on January 6 - 8, 2010 at 11 am and 4 pm. The afternoon talks, given by J. Yorke, J. Laskar and M. Gell-Mann, will be of a more general nature while the morning talks, given by Y. Lithwich, M. Syphers and J. Sauls, will be more technical.
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Dr. Murray Gell-Mann1969 Nobel Prize Winner 'Simplicity and Complexity' |
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Dr. James YorkeProfessor of Matehmatics and Physics 'Chaos' |
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Dr. Jacques LaskarDirector of Research CNRS 'Is the Solar System Stable' |
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Dr. Yoram LithwickAssistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy 'Secular Instability: Organization of Planetary Systems and the Formation of Hot Jupiters' |
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Dr. Michael SyphersAssistant Accelerator Divison Head 'Relativistic Chaos: Nonlinear Dynamics in Large Particle Accelerators' |
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Dr. James SaulsProfessor of Physics and Astronomy 'Quantum Transport in a Random Fractal' |
Co- Sponsered by Northwestern University's Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts & Science (WCAS), The Graduate School (TGS), Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST), and the Adler Planetarium.
