Physical Mathematics Seminar

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

Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm


Spring 2003 Schedule

Feb 4: Matthew Hancock, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
Ocean Waves and Sand Bars

Feb 11: Benny Davidovitch, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Ripening of Porous Media

Feb 18: No seminar. (Monday class schedule after President's Day.)

Feb 25: Sonya Legg, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Internal wave breaking on concave and convex sloping boundaries

March 4: Karl Helfrich , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Rotating hydraulics and upstream basin circulation

March 11: Nigel Goldenfeld , Physics, U. Illinois
CANCELLED

March 18: Mitchell Luskin , Mathematics, U. Minnesota
Metastability and Microstructure in Structural Phase Transformations

March 20: Jeff Davis, Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University
The Hydrodynamic Stability and Control of Thermocapillary Driven Spreading on Micropatterned Substrates

March 25: No seminar. (Spring Break.)

April 1: Rava da Silveira Department of Physics, Harvard University
Stress Propagation In Frictional Granular Matter

April 8: Jacqueline Ashmore Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Coating Flows

April 15: Alex LevineDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Semiflexible Polymer Networks

April 22: No seminar. (Patriot's Day.)

April 29: James W. Landry Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Granular Packing and Hopper Flow

May 6: Darren Crowdy, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London
Mathematical Models of Viscous Sintering

May 13: Michael P. Brenner Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Optimal Mechanisms


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