( C ) Project Description : 1 . List of Participants

Director: Predrag Cvitanović, G. Robinson Chair in Nonlinear Sciences, School of Physics PC Assistant Director: Raenell Soller, Ph.D. RS Executive Committee: Leonid A. Bunimovich, Regents’ Professor, School of Mathematics LAB Kurt Wiesenfeld, Professor, School of Physics KW Jeannette Yen, Deputy Dir. for CoS, Professor, School of Biology JY P.K. Yeung, Deputy Dir. for CoE, Associate Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering PKY Faculty: Y.H. Chen, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering YHC E. Di Lorenzo, Associate Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences EDL R.F. Fox, Regents’ Professor, Chair of School of Physics RFF G. Goldsztein, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics GG R. Grigoriev, Assistant Professor, School of Physics RG E.M. Harrell, Professor, School of Mathematics EMH R. Hernandez, Co-director CCMST, Associate Professor, School of Chemistry RH H. Kantz, Professor, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems HK C.A. Klausmeier, Assistant Professor, School of Biology CAK Kimberly E. Kurtis, Assistant Professor, School of Environmental and Civil Engineering KEK P.J. Mucha, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics PJM G.P. Neitzel, Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering GPN T.J. Pedley, G.I.Taylor Professor of Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University TJP Elisa Riedo, Assistant Professor, School of Physics ER M.F. Schatz, Associate Professor, School of Physics MFS L.A. Smith, Reader in Statistics, London School of Economics, Adjunct Prof. EAS LAS M. Srinavasarao, Associate Professor, School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering MS Laurette S. Tuckerman, Director of Research, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris LST Lena Ting, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech/Emory Biomedical Engineering Department LT T. Uzer, Regents’ Professor, Physics TU E. Voit, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology, BME EV D.R. Webster, Associate Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering DRW H. Yamazaki, Professor, Dept. Ocean Sciences, Tokyo Univ. of Marine Science & Technology HY Minami Yoda, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering MY H.M. Zhou, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics HMZ Key to abbreviations used throughout the proposal: AE School of Aerospace Engineering Bio School of Biology BME Georgia Tech/Emory Biomedical Engineering Department CE School of Civil & Environmental Engineering Chem School of Chemistry and Biochemistry CNS Center for Nonlinear Science CoE College of Engineering CoS College of Sciences EAS School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences GT Georgia Institute of Technology Math School of Mathematics ME School of Mechanical Engineering Phys School of Physics PTFE School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering