Physical Mathematics Seminar

Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 2-338

Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm


Fall 2001 Schedule

Sept. 18: Arezki Boudaoud (Mathematics, MIT)
Self-adaptation in Vibrating Systems: From Strings to Soap Films

Sept. 25: Markus Zahn (Electrical Engineering, MIT)
Electrohydrodynamic and ferrohydrodynamic interactions with electrically charged, dielectric, and magnetizable liquids

Oct. 2: Arshad Kudrolli (Physics, Clark University)
Granular matter with attraction

Oct. 9: No seminar -- MIT holiday.

Oct. 16: Sonya Legg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
Entrainment in Rotating Convective Plumes

Oct. 23: Oliver Buhler (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Wave-driven Currents and Vortex Dyanmics on Barred Beaches

Oct. 30: Triantaphyllos Akylas (Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
Gravity-Capilary Solitary Waves on Deep Water and Related Phenomena

Nov. 6: Martin Bazant (Mathematics, MIT)
Electrophoresis of Conductors: Theory and Microfluidic Applications

Nov. 13: Alar Toomre (Mathematics, MIT)
Colliding Galaxies

Nov. 20: No seminar -- APS Fluids conference in San Diego.

Nov. 27: Greg Huber (Physics, University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Chirality Transformations Acting on Bacterial Flagella

Dec. 4: Jorg Imberger (University of Western Australia)
Charcterizing the Dynamical Regimes of a Lake

Dec. 11: Chad Topaz (Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University)
Superlattice Selection in Faraday Waves


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