Physical Mathematics Seminar

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

Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm


Fall 2004 Schedule

Sept 14: Nicola Marzari, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Bloch, Wannier, and Berry: Don't Lose Your Phase, but do Follow Your Manifold.
POSTPONED

Sept 21: George Haller, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
An Objective Definition of a Vortex

Sept 28: Robert V. Kohn, Courant Institute, New York University
A Deterministic-Control-Based Approach to Interface Motion

Oct 5: Matthew Hancock, Department of Mathematics, MIT
Generation of Sand Bars Under Surface Waves

Oct 12: Nicola Marzari, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
Bloch, Wannier, and Berry: Don't Lose Your Phase, but do Follow Your Manifold.

Oct 19: David J. Srolovitz, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Two Materials Science Applications of the Level-Set Method

Oct 26: Philip Yecko, Department of Mathematics, MIT
Ligament and Droplet Formation in Fast Liquid Jets and Sheets

Nov 2: Corey S. O'Hern, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Physics, Yale University
Random Close Packing Revisited: How Many Ways Can We Pack Smooth, Spherical Grains?

Nov 9: Stella Y. Park,Biological Labs 2004, Harvard University
Electroosmosis Through a Bottleneck: Formation of Eddies and Theory for Arbitrary Debye Lengths

Nov 30: Russel Caflisch, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
Design and Optimization of a Solid State Qubit System

Dec 7: Efthimios Kaxiras, Department of Physics and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Multiscale Modeling of Materials


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