Physical Mathematics Seminar

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

Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm


Fall 2003 Schedule

Sept 9: Azadeh Samadani , Materials Processing Center, MIT
Leading The Way; Mechanism of Chemotaxis in Eukaryotic Cells

Sept 16: Todd Thorsen , Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Complex Pattern Formation in Two-Phase Microfluidic Devices

Sept 23: Nicolas G Hadjiconstantinou , Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Small Scale Gaseous Hydrodynamics: Going Beyond Navier-Stokes

Sept 30: Leonard M. Sander, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
Diffusion-limited Aggregation in a Channel

Oct 7: Vivek Shenoy , Division of Engineering, Brown University
A Variational Approach to the Dynamics of Stepped Nanostructure Surfaces

Oct 14: NO SEMINAR

Oct 21: Neil Balmforth, Department of Mathematics, MIT
Dynamics of Viscoplastic Films

Oct 28: Daniel H. Rothman, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Dynamics Of The Ancient Carbon Cycle

Nov 4: John S.Wettlaufer , Yale University, Connecticut
Life On The Edge: Surfaces, and the Persistence of Life in Ice

Nov 11: HOLIDAY : VETERANS DAY

Nov 18: William R. Young, University of California, San Diego.
Plankton Patchiness and Brownian Bugs

Nov 25: Alain Karma, Dept. of Physics, Northeastern University.
Origin and Control of Discordant Alternans, a Precursor to Sudden Cardiac Death

Dec 2: Lyderic Bocquet , Lab. of Condensed Matter Physics, Universite de Lyon I, France.
Hydrodynamic Slip of Simple Fluids at Solid Surfaces: When Roughness Decreases Friction

Dec 9: Nigel Goldenfeld , Department of Physics, University of Illinois
Renormalization Group Approach to Global Asymptotic Analysis


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