NYU-Tulane 2012 FRG Workshop Schedule

When:  Friday-Saturday, February 10-11
Where: The Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall 1314

Talk Schedule

Friday, February 10th

9:30-10:30am
 
Jun Zhang, Courant Institute
 Asymmetric structures in oscillatory flows
Meredith Betterton, University of Colorado
 Flow instability and mixing of a complex fluid with extensional microstructure
John Chrispell, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
 An actuated elastic sheet interacting with passive and active structures in a viscoelastic fluid
 
11am-12pm
 
Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University
 Triply periodic regularized Stokeslets
Bree Cummins, Tulane University
 A regularized Langrangian numerical method for viscoelastic fluid flow.
David Saintillan, UIUC
 Dynamics and buckling instabilities of short semiflexible polymers in linear flows
 
2-3pm
 
Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
 Diatom chains in linear shear
Christel Hohenegger, University of Utah
 Active suspensions near a solid wall
Bin Liu, Brown University
 Helical swimming in viscoelastic fluids
 
3:30-4:30pm
 
Enkeleida Lushi, Imperial University
 Effects of micro-swimmer interactions in relatively large flows
Sarah Lukens, University of Pittsburgh
 Peristalsis of a viscoelastic fluid in a cavity with closed ends.
Trush Majmudar, Courant Institute
 Experiments and theory of undulatory locomotion in structured media
 
7pm: Workshop Banquet
 

Saturday, February 11^th

 
9:30-10:30am
 
Robert Dillon, Washington State
 Models for complex fluids-structure interaction in peristalsis and sperm motility
Matthew (Nick) Moore, Courant Institute
 A weak coupling expansion for viscoelastic fluids
Michael Shelley, Courant Institute
 Collective chemotactic dynamics in the presence of self-generated fluid flows
 
11:00-12:00pm
 
Tamar Shinar, UC-Riverside
 A computational model of microtubule-based motion in the single-celled C elegans embryo
Daisuke Takagi, Courant Institute
 Dispersion of active nanorods turning and flipping spontaneously
Joseph Teran, UCLA
	    Virtual node methods for elliptic interface problems in irregular domains

 
2:00-3:00
 
Jacob Bedrossian, Courant Institute
 Some analytical aspects of the Keller-Segal model of chemotaxis
Jingxuan Zhuo, Washington State
       Using the immersed boundary method to model complex fluids-peristaltic pumping and rheometry
Becca Thomases, UC-Davis
 Elastic turbulence in a Stokesian viscoelastic flow