Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 2-338
Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm
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Spring 2004 Schedule |
Feb 6:Jacqueline Ashmore , DAMTP, University of Cambridge,
England
Asymptotic Analysis of Flow in Reactive Porous Media and Motion of a Sphere Close to a Boundary
Feb 10: Silas Alben, Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, New York University
Bending Leaves and Flapping Flight: Transitions in Flow-Body Interaction Problems
Feb 13: Dionisios Margetis, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Continuum Approach to Profile Scaling in Nanostructure Decay Below the Roughening Temperature
Feb 17: Steven G. Johnson, Division of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Stretching the Boundaries of Computation: Self-Optimizing FFTS and Semi-Analytical Approaches in Electromagnetism
Feb 24: Matthew Hastings, Center for Nonlinear Studies,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mean-Field and Anomalous Behavior on a Small-World Network
March 2: Frederic Gibou, Stanford University
Discretization of
Parabolic PDE's for Stefan Problems and Image Segmentation
March 5: Yuxing Ben,
University of Notre Dame
Ac Electro-Osmotic
Flow and Polarized Electrodes
March 9: Rava da Silveira, Department of Physics, Harvard University
Minimal Paths
and Signal Propagation in a Model Cortex
March 12: Shidong Jiang, Department of Mathematics, Yale University
Second Kind
Integral Equations For Scattering By Open Surfaces
March 16: Jin Wang, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
A Numerical
Approach for Simulating Two-Dimensional Viscous
Incompressible Flows with Interfaces
March 23: No seminar.
March 30: Andrew L. Belmonte, W.G. Pritchard Laboratories,
Department of Mathematics, Penn State University
Dimpling and
Buckling of Viscoelastic Free Surfaces
April 6: Vincent Studer, Laboratoire de Photonique et
Nanostructures, UPR CNRS, France
Fast and
Tunable Integrated AC Electrokinetic Pumping in a
Microfluidic Loop
April 9: Mederic Argentina, Division of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Filaments in
Fluids: Fluttering Flags, Fishes and Bridges
April 13: Andrew B. G. Bush, Department of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada
Simulated
Changes in The El Niño Southern Oscillation
(ENSO) From The Last Ice Age to Today
April 20: No seminar. MIT holiday.
April 27: Corey S. O'Hern, Yale University
Topological
Classification of Jammed States CANCELLED
May 4: Jan Skotheim, University of Cambridge
How The Venus
Flytrap Snaps
May 11: Jané Kondev, Physics Department, Brandeis
University
Mechanics of DNA
Packing in Viruses
May 18: Pedro Miguel Reis, Manchester Center for Nonlinear
Dynamics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Gases, Liquids and
Crystals in Granular Segregation
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