Recent Talks

Theory of Coalescence of Clusters on a Cell Membrane, at the UNM Cancer Center, December 2009
Reaction Diffusion Considerations in Combustion, at the Springfield Meeting of DTRA PI's, October 2009
Nonlinear Extinction in Biological Systems, at the XI Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena LAWNP’09, Búzios, Brazil, October 2009
Extinction of Biological Random Walkers: Analytical Theory for Bacteria and Epidemics, at the Hands-On Research on Complex Systems School, Universidade Federal do ABC, Sáo Paulo, Brasil, August 2009
Converting Space into Time: Effective Medium Theory for Random Walks in Disordered Systems, at the Centro Internacional de Ciencias A. C., New Paths for Random Walks, Cuernavaca, Mexico, January 2009
Extinction of Biological Random Walkers: Analytical Theory for Bacteriaand Epidemics, at the Centro Internacional de Ciencias A. C., New Paths for Random Walks, Cuernavaca, Mexico, January 2009
Effective Medium Theory for Disordered Systems: How to Turn Space into Time, at the Graduate Colloquium, Math Department, UNM, November 2008.
Extinction of Biological Random Walkers: Analytical Theory for Bacteriaand Epidemics, at the Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, August 2008.
Random Walk Techniques in Quantitative Biology: Molecules to Mice, at the q-bio Summer School Lecture Series, Los Alamos National Laboratory, July 2008.
Thoughts about Animal Motion from a Physicist's Perspective: Epidemics Spread and Related Problems, State University of New York at Buffalo, April 2008.
Spread of Infection, a Physicist's View at the 44 Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical in Porto Alegre, Brasil in March 2008.
Infectious Disease Modeling: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects at the RAPIDD Conference, National Institute of Health, Stone House, Washington D. C. in Janurary, 2008.
Patterns, Confinement of Random Walkers, and Wavefront Propagation in Population Dynamics at the XXXVIII Winter Meeting on Statistical Physics in Taxco, Mexico in January, 2008.
Allee Efects in Biological Phenoma via Reaction-Diffusion Equations: Pattern Formation and Epidemics Spread, at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Búzios, Brasil in August of 2007.
Thoughts About Animal Motion, at Ulm, Germany in August, 2007.
Thoughts about Animal Motion from a Physicist's Perspective, at the II Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics, in Campinas, Brasil in July, 2007.
Humanities and Sciences: What Connects, What Separates, at the TICFIA National Conference at UNM in Albuquerque, New Mexico in April, 2007.
Thoughts about Animal Motion from a Physicist's Perspective: Epidemics Spread and Related Problems, at the Santa Fe Institute in Sante Fe, New Mexico in November, 2006.
Mice, Men, and Mathematics: Investigations into the Spread of Epidemics, at the Horizons and Livestock Sciences Conference in Brisbane, Australia, October 2006.
Thoughts about Animal Motion in Epidemics Spread and Related Problems, at the Meeting of Brazilian Physicists from the North and Northeast in João Pessoa, Brazil, October 2006.
Science and Spirituality, a View from a Practicing Scientist's Porthole, at the International Conference on Science and Spirituality in New Delhi, India, February 2006.
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.