Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 2-146
Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm
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Spring 2007 Schedule |
Jan. 9: Pedro Reis (ESPCI - Paris)
Special Physical Mathematics Seminar, Time: 2:30 PM,
Location: Room
2-105
The Unzip Instability: Straight to-Oscillatory
Transitions in the Fracture of Thin Sheets
Jan. 18: Marcus L. Roper (Harvard University)
Special Physical Mathematics Seminar, Time: 2:30 PM,
Location: Room 4-370
Life at Small Reynolds
Number: Growing Drag-Minimising Shapes and Swimming
with a Reversible Stroke
Jan. 22: Amit Surana (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Special Physical Mathematics Seminar, Time: 2:00 PM,
Location: Room 2-105
Nonlinear Dynamics of 3D
Fluid Flow Separation
Jan. 23: Sunghwan Jung (Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, NYU)
Special Physical Mathematics Seminar, Time: 2:30 PM,
Location: Room 2-105
Swimming, towing, tumbling in viscous fluids
Jan. 25: Dominic Vella (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Special Physical Mathematics Seminar, Time: 2:30 PM, Location:
Room 2-105
The Physics of Floating
and Sinking
Jan. 30: Martin Bowen Short (University of Arizona)
Special Physical Mathematics Seminar, Time: 2:30 PM, Location:
Room 2-105
Fluids, Form, and
Function: The Role of Fluid Dynamics in the Evolution
of Stalactities, Icicles, and Aquatic Micro-Organisms
Feb. 6: Jerome Neufeld (Yale University)
The World in a Bowl of
Mush: Solidification from the Inner Core to the Arctic
Ocean
Feb. 13: Vitaly A. Shneidman (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Steady-State and Transient Nucleation in an
Ising Ferromagnet with Glauber Dynamics
Feb. 15: Boris Gershgorin (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute)
Special Physical Mathematics Seminar, Time: 2:00 PM, Location:
Room 4-370
Quasiparticles in Thermalized FPU Chains:
Renormalized Waves and Breathers
Feb. 27: Buddhapriya Chakrabarti (Harvard University)
Physics of Helices
Mar. 6: Marius Ungarish (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Intrusive Gravity Currents in a
Stratified Ambient - Shallow-water Theory, Numerical
Results and New Interpretations of Previous Experiments
Mar. 13: Thomas Peacock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Stratified Flows: From
the Lab to the Ocean
Mar.20: Thierry Dauxois (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
Internal Gravity Waves
and Topography: Emission, Propagation and Reflection
Apr. 3: Hans Wyss (Harvard University)
Soft Materials: Controlling and
Probing Structure Formation at the Meso Scale
Apr. 10: Andrew Belmonte (Penn State)
Acoustic Ripples and Elastic Splashes
Apr. 17: HOLIDAY (Patriots Day)
Apr. 24: Igor Mezic (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Joint Seminar with MMEC and Physical Mathematics Seminar --
Room 3-370, Time: 4:00 PM
Theory and Practice of
Active Microfluidic Devices
May 1: Narayanan Menon (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Ordering and Swarming
in a Collection of Fluidised Rods
May 15: Andrei Dukhin (Dispersion Technology)
Electrokinetic Phenomena and its Relationship
to Microfluidics from the Viewpoint of Old Theories
May 22: Russ Tedrake (M.I.T.)
On the Pursuit of Robotic
Locomotion: Experiments with Legged Locomotion and
Flapping-winged Flight
June 26: Suman Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur)
Special Physical Mathematics Seminar --
Room 2-105, Time: 4:00 PM
Towards An Improved
Understanding of Surface Effects in Microscale Liquid Flows
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