Physical Mathematics Seminar

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

Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm


Spring 2005 Schedule

Feb. 1: Jean-Christophe Nave, University of California, Santa Barbara
Direct Numerical Simulation of Multi-Component Flows

Feb. 15: Dionisios Margetis, Applied Mathematics, MIT
Unified Approach to Crystal Surface Evolution Below Roughening

Feb. 22: Todd Squires, Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Balancing With the Inner Ear: Why it Works so Well, and How it Goes Wrong

March 1: Jon Wilkening, Courant Institute, New York University
Stress-Driven Grain Boundary Diffusion: Modeling, Analysis And Numerical Methods

March 8: Eric Lauga, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
Pack & Swim: Fluid Mechanics at the Micron Scale

March 15: Ellak Somfai, Instituut-Lorentz, University of Lieden
Diffusion-Limited Aggregation and Laplacian Growth

March 28: Aslan R. Kasimov, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On The Theory of Self-Sustained Detonations

March 29: Armand Ajdari, Theoretical Physical Chemistry, ESPCI, Paris, France
Motion From Asymmetry: From Motor Proteins to Microfluidic Pumps Through Separation Techniques

March 30: Amit Singer, Department of Applied Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Brownian Simulations and Uni-Directional Flux in Diffusion

April 5: Govind Menon, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Dynamic Scaling in Smoluchowski's Coagulation Equations

April 19: No seminar (vacation).

April 26: Jonah Erlebacher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University
Nanoscale Rippled Surfaces Spontaneously Formed Using Ion Beams

May 3: Sinisa Dj. Mesarovic, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of Washington State University
Transition Between The Models in Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulations

May 10: Niles Pierce, Department of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
Computational Engineering of DNA Devices


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