Physical Mathematics Seminar

Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 3-370

Refreshments outside of Room 3-370 at 3:30pm


Fall 2005 Schedule

Sept. 9: Anael Lemaitre, Institut Navier, France
Quasi-Static Deformation In AThermal, Amorphous Solids

Sept. 13: Ehud Yariv, Technion, Israel
Thermo-Capillary Motion About A Stationary Bubble, And A Convective PCR Model

Sept. 20: Martin Bazant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics
Induced-Charge Electro-Osmosis And Electrophoresis

Sept. 27: Axel Guenther, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microfluidics With Multiple Phases: From Stokes Flow To Particle Synthesis

Oct. 4: John Ochsendorf, Building Technology Program, MIT
Unsolved Problems In Ancient Architecture

Oct. 7: Gogi Singh, Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University (Building 2, Room 255 at 1:00 PM)
Mathematical Modeling of Self-Organized Nanoscale Porous Structures In Anodic Aluminum Oxide

Oct. 11: Columbus Day Vacation - NO CLASSES

Oct. 14: Klint Rose, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, (Building 2, Room 255 at 1:00 PM)
Electrokinetic Dynamics And Control Of Metallic Nanorods

Oct. 18: Stefan Siegmund, Department of Mathematics, J.W. Goethe University
Vortex Merger And A New Notion Of Bifurcation

Oct. 21: Boaz Nadler, Department of Mathematics, Yale University (Building 2, Room 255 at 1:00 PM)
Ionic Electrodiffusion Through Protein Channels: Atomic Details And Continuum Descriptions

Oct. 25: Oliver Buhler, Courant Institute, New York University
Impulsive Fluid Forcing And The Gait Of The Water Strider

Nov. 1: Francois Blanchette, The University of Chicago
Multiple Coalescence At Liquid Interfaces

Nov. 8: Alexander Golovin, Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
Feedback Control Of Pattern-Forming Systems

Nov. 15: Andre Nachbin, IMPA, Brazil
Improved Boussinesq Models For Solitary Waves

Nov. 29: Lyderic Bocquet, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiere Condensee et Nanostructures, Lyon University,
Skipping Stones

Nov. 22: NO SEMINAR

Dec. 2: George Gilmer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA (Building 2 Room 105 at 2:30 PM)
Kinetic Monte Carlo Applications To Some Materials Science Problems: A New Algorithm Based On First Passage Greens Functions

Dec. 6: Frederic Gibou, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCSB
Numerical Solvers For Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations On Fully Adaptive Grids

Dec. 13: Zhigang Suo, DEAS, Harvard University
Dynamics Of Step Flow On Crystalline Surfaces Due To The Interplay Of Elasticity And Kinetics


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