Recent Talks

• Theory of the Spread of Epidemics: an Example of a Physicist's Contribution to Interdisciplinary Science, plenary Einstein celebration lecture at Simon Bolivar University,  Caracas, Venezuela, November 2005.
• Analytic Techniques in the Study of NMR as a Probe of Confined Spaces in Porous Materials and Blood Vessels, at the IX Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena, in Bariloche, Argentina, October 2005.
• Mice, Men, and Epidemics: Theory of the Spread of Epidemics. Distinguished Lecture in the Sigma Xi Series, Albuquerque Chapter, September 2005.
• Fisher Equation, Origin of Nonlinearities and Pattern Formation, at the Workshop on Pattern Formation and Transport Phenomena in João Pessoa, Brazil, August 2005.
• Considerations of Animal Diffusion in Epidemics, at the Conference on Modeling in Interdisciplinary Science: Nonlinear Waves and Biological and Geophysical Phenomena in Paraty, Brazil, June 2005.
• Animal Diffusion in the Theory of Epidemics, at the SPIE Conference on Fluctuations and Noise in Complex Systems in Austin, USA, May 2005.
• Theory of the Spread of Epidemics, at the Conference on Mathematical Ecology held by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, May 2005.
• Analytical Considerations in the Theory of the Spread of Epidemics, at the Conference on Stochasticity and Nonlinearity on Three Continents in Santa Fe, USA, March 2005.
• Theory of the Spread of Epidemics: the Hantavirus, the West Nile Virus and Plague, at BIOMATH, the International Conference on the Applications of Mathematics to Biology held in Angra dos Reis, Brazil, February 2005.
• Statistical Mechanical Theory of the Spread of the Hantavirus and related Epidemics, at the XIV Conference on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics in La Serena, Chile, December 2004.
• Fokker-Planck Treatments of Mice Movement in the Theory of Epidemics, at the Four Corners Section Fall Meeting of the American Physical Society in Albuquerque, , October 2004.
• Theory of the Spread of Epidemics, at the Workshop on Transport and Self-Organization in Complex Systems in Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 2004.
• Recent advances in the Theory of Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors, plenary lecture at the Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.
• Spatiotemporal Pattern Formation in Epidemics, at the X International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures, in Viña del Mar, Chile, December 2003.
• Studies of Stress Distribution in Granular Compacts and Segregation in Rotating Cylinders, at the Southern Workshop on Granular Materials in Pucon, Chile, December 2003.
• Adventures with the Fisher equation, at the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Some Complex Biological Systems in Mexico City, December 2003.
• Adventures with the Fisher Equation: Mice, Men and Bacteria, at the VIII Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena, in Salvador, Brazil, September 2003.
• Memory Function Formalisms in Solid State Physics and Ecomathematics, at the Multidisciplinary Conference of Peruvian Scientist in Lima, Peru, January 2003.
• Memory functions and Nonlinearity, at the Uruguyan International Conference on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, December 2002.
• Dynamic Disorder in Transport in Organic Crystals, at the International Conference on Disorder in Puebla, Mexico, August 2002.
• Theory of Charge Transport in Organic Crystals: Lessons from the Past and Prospects for the Future, at the American Physical Society March Meeting, Indianapolis, March 2002.
• Granular Matter: Solid or Fluid?, at the International Conference on Fluid Dynamics and Complex Systems in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2001.
• Interacting Electron-Phonon Systems: from Quantum Evolution to Nonlinearity, at the Workshop on Nonlinear Lattice Structure and Dynamics in Dresden, Germany, Sept 2001.
• Tunneling of Bose Condensates in Traps: Relation to Polaron Physics, at the TAMU Conference in Jackson Hole, USA, August 2001.
• Mobility Tailoring via Correlation Control, and Temperature Dependence Questions, at the Mona Lisa Workshop in Faro, Portugal, July 2001.
• Tunneling of Bose Condensates and Polaron Selftrapping, at the Cold Atoms Workshop in Zakopane, Poland, June 2001.
• Tunneling of Bose Condensates in Traps: Relation to Polaron Physics, at the Quantum Optics Conference I in Santiago, Chile, August 2000.
• Charge Transport in Molecular Solids, at the SELOA School in Bologna, Italy, June 2000.
• Stress Distributions in Granular Materials, at the International Workshop on Nanofilms: Structure and Growth in Bonassola, Italy, June 2000.
• Theory of Stress Distribution in Granular Compacts, at the Materials Research Symposium in San Francisco, CA, April 2000.
• Memory Function Formalism for the Theory of Granular Materials, at the Workshop on Sparsely Connected Systems: Porous/Granular Materials, Bariloche, Argentina, March 2000.
• Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, at the Annual Meeting of the Argentinean Physical Society, Tucuman, Argentina, October 1999.
• Lectures on Transport Theory with Application to Molecular Solids, at the International Workshop in Pune, India, December 1998.
• Dynamic and Static Disorder Effects in Quasiparticle Transport in Organic Solids, at the Symposium in honor of Martin Pope in Rochester, New York, July 1998.
• Recent Theoretical Developments in the Theory of Charge Transport in Organics, at the International Conference in Trieste, Italy, July 1998.
• Nonlinear Response Formalism: Beyond Kubo Theory, at the Statistical Physics Workshop at Los Alamos, April 1998.
• Clouds of Virtual Phonons in Electron-Phonon Interactions and the Silver Lining behind them, at the International Conference DCP-97 held in Mittleberg, Germany, July 1997.
• What do Polarons Owe to their Harmonic Origins? at the Conference on Fluctuations, Nonlinearity and Disorder, held in Crete, Greece, September 1996.