Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 4-270
Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm
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Fall 2006 Schedule |
Sept. 6: Eli Barkai, (Bar Ilan University - Israel) -1:00 PM - Room 2-105
Weak Ergodicity Breaking: From Blinking
Quantum Dots to Weakly Chaotic Deterministic Dynamics
Sept. 12: Christophe Clanet, (Aix-Marseille University, France)
Impacts on Water: Skipping Stones and Torpedoes
Sept. 19: Jay Tang, (Brown University)
Biophysical Studies of a Fast Swimming,
Chemotactic, and Super Sticky Bacterium
Sept. 26: Nicholas Darnton, (Rowland Institute at Harvard)
Polymorphic Transformations in
Bacterial Flagella
Oct. 3: Boris Zaltzman, (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, ISRAEL)
Extended Charge Electro-Osmosis
and Electro-Convective Instability
Zaltzman's talk
Oct. 17: Charles Wolgemuth, (University of Connecticut)
The Biophysics of Conjoined Elastic Filaments
Oct. 24: George Lauder, (Harvard University)
How Fishes Swim: Experiments, Mechanics, and
Computations
Oct. 31: Igor Pak, (MIT)
The Ideal Pillow Shape
Nov. 7: Lisa Fauci, (Tulane University)
(Special Joint
Seminar - Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, Computation
(MMEC) / Physical Mathematics
Seminar) -- (Room 3-370 - Time: 4:00 PM)
Computational Models of Swimming Organisms:
Coupling Internal with Mechanics with External Fluid Dynamics
Nov. 13: Craig Maloney, (Univeristy of California, Santa
Barbara)
(Special Physical Mathematics Seminar -- Room 4-270 - Time: 2:00 PM)
Spontaneous Shear Localization in a Model
Brittle Solid
Nov. 14: Avshalom Manela, (MIT)
Stability Problems in the
Continuum Limit
Nov. 15: Roland Bouffanais, (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique
Federale de Lausanne - Switzerland)
(Special Physical
Mathematics Seminar -- Room 4-270 - Time:
2:30 PM)
Moving-boundary Problems and Free-surface
Flows using High-order Numerical Methods
Nov. 21: Pierre Gremaud, (North Carolina State
University)
Granular Flows in Hoppers
Nov. 28: Greg Huber, (UConn Health Center)
The "Soft Geometry" of
Phospholipid Membranes: From Tethers to the
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Dec. 5: Jacques Dumais, (Harvard University)
Cell Morphogenesis - What
We have Learned from Rubber Ballons and Soap
Bubbles
Dec. 12: Michael Loewenberg, (Yale University)
Drop Coalescence in
Stokes Flows
Dec. 13: Uriel Frisch, (Observatoire de Nice)
(Special
Physical
Mathematics Seminar -- Room 4-237 - Time:
4:00 PM)
Asymptotic Interpolation and the Superaccurate
Determination ofSingularities from Taylor and Fourier Series
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