Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 2-338
Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm
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Spring 2000 Schedule |
Jan. 21: Alain Pumir
(Institut Non Lineaire de Nice, France)
Interaction of an Electric Field with Cardiac Tissue
(NOTE: special day,
Friday)
Feb. 1: Vladimir Vladimirov (Mathematics, Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology)
On the Nonlinear Stability of Fluid Flows: Arnold's Approach
Feb. 8: Adi Ditkowski (Applied Mathematics, Brown University)
Feb. 15: Tom Peacock
(Applied Mathematics, Univ. of Colorado)
Micro-active Control of a Planar Jet
Feb. 22: Herbert Levine (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Viscoelastic Lattice Models of Brittle
Fracture
Feb. 29: Cyprien Gay (CNRS, France)
Does Stretching Affect Adhesion?
Mar. 8: Hermann Riecke
(Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University)
Localized Waves and Tunable Front Interaction
by Temporal Modulation
(NOTE: special day, Wednesday)
Mar. 14: Meredith Betterton
(Physics, Harvard)
Collapsing Bacterial Cylinders
Mar. 28:
Jun Zhang
(Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU)
From Flapping Flags to Drifting Continents:
Dynamics Boundaries and Fluid Interaction
Apr. 4: Stephane Zaleski
(Laboratoire de Modelisation en Mecanique
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie,
Paris)
Simulation of Flows with Free Surfaces: Bubble Dynamics, Cavitation and
Splashing
Apr. 11: Lisa Olson (Dept. of Physics, Princeton)
Adding a Dimension to Cochlear
Mechanics
Apr. 18: No seminar
Apr. 25: Richard Kerswell (Dept of Math, University of Bristol)
A Variational Approach to
Turbulence
May 2:
Sima Setayeshgar (Firestone Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology)
Electrical Wave Propagation in the
Heart: The Dynamics of Scroll Waves in Anisotropic Excitable Media
May 5:
Colm Caulfield (Mechanical Engineering, UCSD)
Turbulent Plumes in the Environment:
The Crucial Importance of Source Conditions
(Note special day)
May 9: Arezki Boudaud (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
Singularities in the Deformations
of Elastic Plates
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