The Applied Math Lab Seminar is now the Applied Math and Applied Math Lab Seminar (AMS/AML Seminar) .
The current AMS/AML seminar site: AMS/AML
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.
(*NOTE: Special time and location, 4 PM in Room 1302*)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
Hydrodynamics and collective behavior of the tethered bacterium Thiovulum majusFall 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
Dynamics of Single Semi-flexible Polymers and Giant Vesicles in ExternalMarch 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 3: Jane Wang, Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, Cornell University
Maple Seeds, Tiger Beetles, Computer Insects, and Us
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
September 8:
Empty
September 15:
Bin Liu, School of Engineering, Brown University
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
Microfluidics of Active Filaments
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
How to Swim in a Perfect FluidApril 7: Closed AML Group Meeting
April 14: John Bush, Department of Mathematics, MIT
Bouncing Droplets (and the nature of reality)April 21: Petia Vlahovska, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Brown University
Electrohydrodynamics of Droplets and VesiclesApril 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
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
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
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
****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
Spindle Assembly and Architecture: From
Laser Ablation to Microtubule Nucleation
December 2: Professor
Frédéric Gibou,
Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, UCSB
Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial
Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
December 9: Open
Spring 2010 Schedule