The Applied Math Lab Seminar is now the Applied Math and Applied Math Lab Seminar (AMS/AML Seminar) .
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The older events are listed below.
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March 9: William Irvine, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago.
The life of vortex knots and links: the flow of knottiness across scales
March 30: Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute, NYU.
Spatiotemporal Self-Organization of Fluctuating Bacterial Colonies
April 6: Enkeleida Lushi, Courant Institute, NYU.
Self-organization of confined microbial suspensions
April 13: Bin Liu, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced.
Shape up to run - how bacterial motilities impact selective cellular morphologies
April 20: Saverio Spagnolie, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Entrapment, escape, and diffusion of active particles in complex environments
May 4: Gaddiel Ouaknin, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University.
July 13: Pietro Tierno, Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona.
Emergent Hydrodynamic Bound States Between Magnetically Powered Active Micropropellers
September 8: Megan Davies Wykes, Applied Math Lab, Courant Institute, NYU.
Flow-structure interaction at the micro-scale
September 15: Lisa Fauci, Department of Mathematics, Tulane University.
Explorations in biofluids: Stokes oddities
September 22: Yoav Lahini, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
Non-Monotonic Aging and Memory Retention in Disordered Mechanical Systems
September 29: Meredith Betterton, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
Physical determinants of bipolar mitotic spindle assembly and stability in fission yeast
October 20: David Hughes, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds
The Formation of Large Scale Vortices in Rotating Convection and Their Resulting Dynamo Action
October 27: John W. M. Bush, Department of Mathematics, MIT.
November 3: Ehud Yariv, Department of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Drop electrohydrodynamics under strong electric fields: Three singular limits
November 10: Blaise Delmotte, Courant Institute, NYU.
The genesis of "critters": a multi-part story
December 1: Naomi Oppenheimer, Simons Foundation.
Motion of a hot particle in viscous fluids
December 8: Simeon Carstens, Center for Soft Matter Research, Department of Physics, NYU.
December 15: Benny Davidovitch, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Elasto-capillary phenomena in thin solids: Singular mechanics and irregular geometry
February 4: Alban Sauret, SVI Lab, CNRS & Saint Gobain - UMR 125.
Erosion and spreading of granular material
February 11: David Saintillan, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego.
Nonlinear electrohydrodynamics of particles and drops in strong electric fields
February 18: Peter Foster, Applied Physics, Harvard University.
Active Contraction of Microtubule Networks
February 25: Marc Gershow, Department of Physics, NYU.
Decoding Drosophila photo-taxis and odor-taxis using natural and optogenetic stimuli
March 3: Jane Wang, Departments of Physics and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University.
Insect Flight: From Newton's Law to Neurons
March 10: No seminar.
March 17: No seminar.
March 24: Sungyon Lee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University. Interfacial dynamics: drops & particles March 31: Shreyas Mandre, School of Engineering, Brown University. Flow optimization for unconventional approaches to hydrokinetic energy conversion Friday, April 8: John Wettlaufer, Professor of Geophysics, Physics & Applied Mathematics, Yale University. April 14: Brian Skinner, Department of Physics, MIT Problems in human motion planning April 21: Douglas Zhou, Institute of Natural Sciences & Math Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. How does a neuron integrate spatiotemporal synaptic inputs? April 28: Daniel Goldman, Department of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology The (unreasonable?) effectiveness of resistive force theory in granular locomotion May 5: Lydia Bourouiba, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT Infectious disease transmission through the lens of fluid dynamics September 10: Sophie Ramananarivo, Applied Math Lab, Courant Institute, NYU Flapping wings propelling in a fluid September 17: Daniel Lecoanet, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley Internal Wave Excitation by Turbulent Convection September 24: No seminar.
October 1: Roseanna Zia, Deparment of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University Diffusion and rheology in crowded, 3D-confined suspensions: A model for intracellular transport October 8: Daniel Rothman, Lorenz Center, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, MIT Earth-System Stability Through Geologic Time October 15: David Stein, Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis October 22: David Lentink, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University Avian flight as an inspiration for drone design October 29: No seminar. November 5: Michael Siegel, Department of Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology Computations and analysis of the initial value problem for hydroelastic waves November 12: Blaise Delmotte, Courant Institute, NYU Understanding particle transport and diffusion in active suspensions: a multiscale study November 19: Ryan L. Hartman, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NYU December 10: Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Science-Driven Robots to Study the Fluid Mechanics of Animal Propulsion January 29: Alexandra Zidovska, Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University Positional Fluctuations of Interphase Chromatin February 5: Jonathon Howard, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University Polymerization Forces Exerted by Microtubules and the Position of Cellular Organelles February 12: Ehssan Nazockdast, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Mechanics and Hydrodynamics of Cellular Assemblies February 26: Emilie Dressaire, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Interfacial Responses to Mechanical Forcings March 12: Science Chalk Talk 1 March 26: Naomi Oppenheimer, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago Non-dissipative Shapable Sheet April 2: Sibani Lisa Biswal, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University Active Colloidal Assemblies with Rotating Magnetic Fields April 9: Science Chalk Talk 2 April 16: Shawn D. Ryan, Mathematical Sciences and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University Collective Dynamics in Active Biological Systems April 24: James W. Swan, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT (special date and time: Friday at noon) The Medium Amplitude Oscillatory Shear of Colloidal Dispersions April 30: Science Chalk Talk 3 May 7: Chris H. Rycroft, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Interfacial Dynamics of Dissolving Objects in Fluid Flow May 14: Science Chalk Talk 4 September 11: Hassan Masoud, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Princeton University Individual and Collective Surfing of Chemically Active Particles September 25: Dan Hu, Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Optimization, Adaptation, and Initiation of Biological Transport Networks October 2: Michael E. Cates, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh Scalar Active Matter: Field Theories, Phase Ordering and Fluid Dynamics October 16: Anand U. Oza, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University A Trajectory Equation for Walking Droplets: Hydrodynamic Pilot-Wave Theory October 23: Tong (Tony) Gao, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Microtubule/Motor Protein Assemblies October 30: Wilson Poon, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh Bacterial Swimming in Polymer Solutions November 6: Mehdi Karzar-Jeddi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut Brownian Interactions in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures November 13: Nicolas Meunier, MAP5, Universite Paris Descartes, France A Predictive Model for Yeast Cell Polarization in Pheromone Gradients November 20: Ignacio Tomas, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland PDE Models for Ferrofluids and Their Numerical Analysis January 23: Igor Aronson, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory February 6: Science Chalk Talk 1 February 13: Alexandre Pieri, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council Large-scale structures in (moist) convection February 27: Vinothan Manoharan, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University A particle walks into an interface... March 6: Silas Alben, School of Mathematics, University of Michigan Optimizing snake locomotion in the plane March 13: Science Chalk Talk 2 March 27: Andrea Liu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania Mechanical reaction-diffusion equations in biological systems April 3: Science Chalk Talk 3 April 10: Tadashi Tokieda, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge and Harvard University Some mathematics as applied physics April 17: Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University Motion and locomotion of liquid crystal elastomers and networks May 1: Science Chalk Talk 4 May 8: Ronojoy Adhikari, Theory of Soft Condensed Matter Group, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India Irreducible representations of oscillatory and swirling flows in active soft matter May 15: Sophie Ramananarivo, Applied Mathematics Laboratory, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Biomimetic propulsion of elastic structures May 22: Oliver Pohl, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Berlin Chemoataxis in colloidal and bacterial systems June 5: Dietmar Ölz, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis June 19: Stefania Melillo and Leonardo Parisi, Istituto Sistemi Complessi and Dipartimento di Fisica, "Sapienza" Universita di Roma, Italy Collective behaviour in large groups of animals September 5: Nima Sharifi Mood, The Benjamin Levich Institute, City University of New York
Diffusiophoresis of Colloids at Nano-scales September 12: Jared Whitehead, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory In search of the 'Ultimate' state of Rayleigh-Benard convection September 19: John M. Kolinski, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Rapid dynamics at the initial moments of liquid droplet impact October 17: Douglas Zhou, Department of Mathematics and Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Causal and Structural Connectivity of Neuronal Networks October 31: Isaac Klapper, Department of Mathematics, Temple University November 7: Ivan C. Christov, Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems Group and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory Transport phenomena in flows of granular materials November 14: Jeremie A. Palacci, Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University Out of Equilibriumness of Light-Activated Colloidal Particles November 28: Thanksgiving December 5: Arezoo Ardekani, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame Transport of particles, drops, and small organisms in density stratified fluids December 12: Shilpa Khatri, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Settling and Rising in Stratified Fluids: fluid-structure interactions and multiphase flow December 19: Vered Rom-Kedar, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute The innate immune system: some theory, some experiments and some medical implications January 31: No seminar February
7: Larry Sirovich, Rockefeller University
Prospects for hurricane
modification February 14: Open February 21: Open
February 28: Chris
Vogl, Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics, Northwestern
University
March 7: Open
March 14: Jared Bronski, Mathematics, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 21: NYU Spring Break
March 28: Andreas
Zottl, Technische Universität Berlin Collective motion of active colloids
in a quasi-2D geometry
April 4: J. Nathan
Kutz, Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
April 11: Canceled
April 16 (Tuesday): Paul
Jianjun Tian, College of William and Mary
Modeling of brain tumor therapies and tumor
stem cell initiation
April 18: Pradeep
Kumar, Rockefeller University A tale of two phenotypes: Cell fates and
their reversibility of E. coli under high pressure
April 25: Open
May 2: Chun Liu,
Mathematics, Penn State University Ionic solutions and ion channels: An
energetic variational approach
May 9: Alexander
Petroff, Rockefeller University Fall 2012 Schedule
September
6: Empty
Spring 2012
Schedule
January
26: No Seminar February
2: Arshad Kudrolli,
Physics
Department, Clark University Speed
of a
Taylor Swimmer in Newtonian and Viscoelastic Fluids February
9: Justin Kao, Dept. of Earth,
Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT February
16: Empty February 23: Vasily Kantsler, DAMTP, Cambridge March 1: James C. Liao, Biology Department,
University of Florida
Fluid-fish
interactions around a cylinder in flow: insights from energetics and
behavior March
8: Empty March
15: NYU Spring Break March
22: Xiao-dong Song, University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign Super-rotation of the Earth's inner core:
claims
and counterclaims March
28: SPECIAL
Seminar date: Alex Mogilner, Mathematics Department, UC Davis Polarization and turning of motile
cells March
29: Adi Rangan, Courant Institute Emergent collaborative activity
within a model
of primary visual cortex April 5: Ayusman Sen, Chemistry
Department, Penn State University Designing Intelligent Nano/Microbots April 12: Justin Bois, Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UCLA
Pattern
formation
in active fluids with applications to developmental biology April
19: Sarah Olson, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute Coupling
biochemistry, mechanics, and hydrodynamics to model sperm motility April 26: Jan Brugues, School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, Harvard Biological physics of the mitotic
spindle. From
quantitative measurements to continuum theories. May 10: John Roberts, Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Control
of
Fluid-Body Systems via Real-Time Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
Fall 2011 Schedule Imaging the microscopic
structure of shear
thinning and thickening colloidal suspensions
Falling bodies through
sharply
stratified fluids: theory and experiments
An integrated model of lamprey
swimming:
Fluid-structure interaction and segmental coupling
The Wonders of Thin Objects:
Coiling
Spagetti and Pressing Eggshells
Hydrodynamics of Microorganism
Motility:
Flagellar Shapes and Boundary Effects
Physics of earthquake
interactions: Progress,
challenges, and lessons
The Convective Modoki: the Linear
and
Nonlinear Dynamics of Real Flows
December 1:
Daniel T.N. Chen, Brandeis University Physics Department
Spring
2011 Schedule
January 13: Closed AML Group Meeting January 20: Open January 31: Eugene Levich, School
of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
SPECIAL TIME: 2:00 PM in WWH 1314 February 3: Adam
Braunschweig, Department of Chemistry, NYU Molecular
Printing: Solving the sub-100 nm Soft Matter Conundrum February 10: Eric Keaveny,
Applied Math Lab, CIMS, NYU Enhancing
micron-scale transport through swimmer design and geometric constraints February 17: Anke Lindner,
PMMH-ESPCI TBA February 24: Open March 3: Open March 10: Closed AML Group
Meeting March 17: No Talks, Spring Break March 24: Possibly no talks, APS
March Meeting March 31: Eva Kanso, Department of Aerospace and
Mechanical Engineering, USC April 7: Closed AML Group Meeting April 14: John Bush, Department of Mathematics, MIT April 21: Petia Vlahovska,
School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, Brown University April 28: Ken Kamrin, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, MIT Continuum Modeling and Computational Aspects of
Flowing Granular Media May 5: Paul Chaikin, Physics Department, NYU.
Fall 2010
Schedule November 4: Open (AML members
away,
no talk to be scheduled) ****Special
AML Seminar Tuesday 9th November @ 3:55 PM in WWH 1314**** November 9: Professor Bill Schultz, Mechanical Engineering, University
of Michigan ****Special
AML Seminar Tuesday 30th November @ 10:30 AM in WWH 1314**** ****
Please Note the Special Time: 10:30 AM**** November 30: Dan Needleman, SEAS,
Harvard University December 2: Professor
Frédéric Gibou,
Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, UCSB December 9: Open
Spring 2010
Schedule
September 13: Tong Gao,
Courant Institute, NYU
Dynamics of soft elastic particles in
viscous flows
September 20: Hassan Masoud,
Courant Institute, NYU
Polymer networks: modeling and
emerging applications
September 27: Empty
October 4: Eric King,
Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
Planetary convection: heat transfer
by rotating flows
October 11: Empty
October 18: Guo-wei Wei,
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
Variational multiscale modeling of
biomolecules
October 24 (Special time - 11:00): William
Schultz, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Oscillating contact lines
October 25: Yuan-nan Young,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Modeling the interaction between
fluid and an elastic filament: Two examples in biology
November 1: Empty
November 8: Ed Spiegel,
Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
From kinetic theory to fluid
dynamics via a pastiche of methods
November 15: Guo-wei He, LNM,
Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lift enhancement by stretching and
retracting wingspan in bat flight
November 22: Thanksgiving
November 29: Empty
December 6: Esteban
Tabak, Courant Institute, NYU
The diurnal cycle and the
meridional extent of the tropics
December 13: William Schultz,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Viscoelastic effects in glass
fiber spinning
Flows
May 3: Jane Wang, Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, Cornell University
September 8:
Empty
September 15:
Bin Liu, School of Engineering, Brown University
September 22:
No Seminar
September 29:
Xiang Cheng, Department of Physics, Cornell University
October 6:
Rich McLaughlin, Mathematics Department, University of North Carolina
October 13:
Bruce Shaw, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
October 20:
Eric Tytell,
Locomotion In Mechanical and Biological Systems, Johns Hopkins
University
October 27:
Pedro Reis, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 3:
Saverio Spagnolie, School of Engineering, Brown University
November 10:
Dr. Jian Lin, Henry B. Bigelow Chair
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA
November 14:
Georg Stadler, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin
November 17:
Jean-Marc Chomaz,
Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, France
November 24: Thanksgiving
December 8:
Neil Balmforth, Institute of Applied Mathematics, The University of
British Columbia
December 15: Leif Ristroph,
Applied Math Lab, Courant Institute, NYU
September 16: Closed AML Group
Meeting
September 23: Nick Moore, CIMS, NYU
Stratified Flows with Vertical Layering of
Density: Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Time Evolution of
Flow Configurations and their Stability
September 30: Closed AML Group
Meeting
October 7: Vikram Jandhyala,
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
Green's functions and
large matrix systems: electronics and multiphysics design, networked
systems, and recommendation engines.
October 14: Daniel Andor,
Rockefeller
University
Exploring Resonance
Phenomena in the Auditory System
October 21: Professor Robert Deegan,
Physics
Department, University of Michigan
Vibrated Fluids
October 28: Georg Stadler, ICES,
University of Texas Austin
First- and
second-order shape derivative-based analysis of roughness effects on
channel flow
Fish Swimming
Stability
November 11: Professor Jack
Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), MA
Cellular Convection with a Raft
November 18: Closed AML Group
Meeting/Practice
for APS DFD meeting
November 25: Thanksgiving
Spindle Assembly and Architecture: From
Laser Ablation to Microtubule Nucleation
Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial
Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
January 21: TBA
January 28: Leif Ristroph, Physics
Department, Cornell
University
Maneuverability and stability
of flying insects
February 4: Alex Levine, Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
Sailing the surfactant sea: The effect of
geometry and topology on membrane hydrodynamics and on the fluctuations
of red blood cells.
February 11: Knut Drescher, DAMTP,
University of Cambridge
Physical Aspects of Microorganism
Cooperation
February 18: TBA
February 25: Bin Liu, AML, Courant
Institute, NYU
From ``insect” hovering to
``continental” drift – bio and geo-inspired archetypes in
fluid-structure interactions
March 4: Andrey Sokolov, Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Swimming bacteria at work: from reduction
of viscosity to rotation of gears.
March 11: James D. Murray, Emeritus
Professor of Mathematical Biology
University of Oxford & Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics
University of Washington
The Marriage Equation
March 18: Spring recess
March 25: Mike Graham, Department of
Chemical
and Biological Engineering, University of
Wisconsin
Transport and collective dynamics in
suspensions of swimming microorganisms
April 1: Jens Eggers, Department of
Mathematics, University of Bristol
The role of
singularities in hydrodynamics
(Venue: WWH 1302.
Please note the change in the venue)
April 8: Kenny Breuer, Division
of
Engineering, Brown
University
Bacterial Microfluidics: The Physics and
Engineering of Flagellated Bacteria
April 15: Igor Aronson, Argonne
National Lab
Self-Assembled Magnetic Surface Microswimmers
April 22: Yan Meng, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute
of Technology
Bio-inspired Self-Organizing Morphogenetic
Robotic Systems
April 29: Tom Powers, Division of
Engineering, Brown University
Mechanics of swimming microorganisms
April 30: Robert M. Kerr, Department of Mathematics, University of
Warwick
Numerical
generation of a vortex ring cascade in quantum turbulence
This is a Special Applied Math Lab
Seminar
12:45-1:45pm Room 1314 WWH
(Please note the change in time)
Fall 2009
Schedule
September 10: Lab meeting
September 17: Jeannette Yen (Georgia
Institute of Technology, Biology)
Biologically-Generated Flows by Plankton
September 24: Andrew Belmonte
(Pennsylvania State University, Math)
Sedimentation of a Rigid Sphere in a Bubbly
Fluid
October 1: Lab meeting
October 8: Katie Newhall (Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Math)
Synchrony in stochastic pulse-coupled
neuronal network models
October 15: Marija Vucelja (Weizmann
Institute of Science, Physics)
Weak compressibility of surface wave
turbulence
October 22: Lab meeting
October 29: Eric Lauga (University of
California, San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms
November 5: Thomas Peacock (MIT,
Mechanical Engineering)
Sailing on Diffusion
November 12: open
November 19: Douglas Zhou (CIMS)
Predictability and chaos in networks of
integrate-and-fire neurons
November 26: Thanksgiving
December 3: Hepeng Zhang (University
of Texas at Austin, Physics)
Collective motion in bacterial colonies
December 10: open
More scheduled seminars:
Leif Ristroph (Jan 28, 2010).
Spring 2009
Schedule
January 29: none
February 5: Stephen Morris
(University of Toronto, Physics)
Icicles, washboard road and meandering syrup
February 12: none
February 19: Gregory Forest
(Univerisity of North Carolina, Math)
The Virtual Lung Project at UNC
February 26: Juan Restrepo
(University of Arizona, Math)
Nonlinear/Non-Gaussian Time Series
Estimation
March 5: Wendy Zhang (University of
Chicago, Physics and James Franck Institute )
Memory as vibration in a disconnecting air
bubble
March 12: Nicholas Ouellette (Yale
University, Mechanical Engineering)
Lagrangian Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Flow
March 19: Spring recess
March 26: Tsvi Tlusty (Weizmann
Institute, Physics)
The Physical Language of Molecules
April 2: Jin-Qiang Zhong (University
of California, Santa Barbara, Physics)
Experimental studies of turbulent
Rayleigh-Bénard convection, in a rotating frame and with a
liquid-vapor two-phase fluid
April 9: Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent
State University, Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics)
Motors based on shape change: see how
they run
April 16: Patrick T. Underhill
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Correlations in suspensions of swimming
microorganisms: theory and simulation
April 23: Miranda Holmes (Center fo
Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute)
Lava Tube Stability
April 30: Arshad Kudrolli (Clark
University, Physics)
Flight of a tumbling elastic wing and
aggregation of floating particles
To be scheduled:
Jerry Gollub