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  1. Induced-Charge Electrokinetic Phenomena

    Paris-Sciences Chair Lecture Series
    January 7 - February 14, 2008
    ESPCI, Paris, France

    1. Introduction to nonlinear electrokinetics

    2. Induced-charge electrophoresis in colloids

    3. AC electro-osmosis in microfluidics

    4. Theory at large applied voltages

  2. Some New Applications of Conformal Mapping

    Applied Mathematics Colloquium, MIT, December 12, 2005. Click here for a movie of ADLA (by Jaehyuk Choi) from the talk, which won Honorable Mention for Best Video in the 2004 Gallery of Images in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics at the APS March Meeting.

  3. Cooperative Diffusion and Stochastic Plasticity in Granular Flow

    Workshop on Friction, Fracture, and Earthquakes, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, August 16, 2005. The link above also contains streaming video. For more details, see the slides from a longer (one hour) talk at University of Pennsylvania in Oct. 2005.


List

    Invited Talks at Conferences

  1. Intercalation dynamics in rechargeable batteries, Joint Mathematics Meeting (AMS, MAA, SIAM), Washington, DC, January 8, 2008.

  2. Nanoscale phenomena in induced-charge electrokinetics, Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Philadelphia, Nov 18, 2008.

  3. Towards an understanding of nonlinear electrokinetics at large voltages, MIT-Spain Workshop on Electrokinetics, MIT, Oct. 20, 2008.

  4. Nanoscale phenomena in nonlinear electrokinetics, Physics of Micro- and Nanofluids, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, June 10, 2008.

  5. Induced-charge electrophoresis, (plenary talk) ELKIN International Electrokinetics Conference, Santa Fe, NM May 22, 2008.

  6. Nanoscale phenomena in induced-charge electrokinetics, Gordon Research Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics, Waterville, NH, July 16, 2007. (HTML slides)

  7. Induced-charge electro-osmosis, Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, May 16, 2007.

  8. Stochastic plasticity: A multiscale model for granular flow, SAMSI Workshop on Computer Models, Duke University, September 10, 2006.

  9. Nonlinear electrokinetics at highly charged surfaces, SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, July 13, 2006.

  10. Conformal mapping of some non-harmonic functions in transport theory, SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, July 12, 2006.

  11. Random-packing dynamics in dense granular flow, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Focus Session on Jamming, March 2006.

  12. Simulations of granular flow in pebble-bed nuclear reactors, Advanced Simulations: A Critical Tool for Future Nuclear Fuel Cycles, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Dec. 15, 2006.

  13. Multiscale modeling of granular flow, IPAM Workshop on Multiscale Analysis and Computation, UCLA, Nov. 16, 2005.

  14. Induced-charge electro-osmosis and electrophoresis, New England Complex Fluids Workshop, Sept. 16, 2005.

  15. Cooperative diffusion and stochastic plasticity in granular flow, KITP Workshop on Friction, Fracture, and Earthquakes, Santa Barbara, CA August 16, 2005. ( SLIDES AND STREAMING VIDEO)

  16. Time-dependent electro-diffusion and nonlinear electrokinetics, SIAM Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, July 2005.

  17. A microscopic mechanism for granular flow, Prager Symposium in honor of S. Torquato, Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Lincoln, NE, Oct. 10, 2004.

  18. A theory of cooperative diffusion in dense granular flows, New England Granular Materials Workshop, Yale University, June 3, 2004.

  19. A theory of cooperative diffusion in dense granular flows, SIAM Conference on Materials Science, Los Angeles, May 2004.

  20. Conformal-map dynamics for transport-limited aggregation, SIAM Conference on Materials Science, Los Angeles, May 2004.

  21. Non-Laplacian Transport-Limited Aggregation, Session: DLA and Beyond, Annual March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Montreal, Canada, March 22, 2004.

  22. The fractal central limit theorem in percolation, Horizons in Complex Systems, Messina, Italy, December 6, 2001.

  23. The Environment-Dependent Interatomic Potential for covalent bonding, Lakeview Conference on Computational Materials Science, Morgantown, WV, June 9, 2001.

  24. Renormalization of the order-parameter distribution in percolation, New England Complex Fluids Conference, MIT, September 22, 2000.


    Invited Lecture Series

  25. Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena, Paris-Sciences Chair Lecture Series, ESPCI, Paris, France, January 7 - February 14, 2008.
    1. Introduction to nonlinear electrokinetics
    2. Induced-charge electrophoresis in colloids
    3. AC electro-osmosis in microfluidics
    4. Theory at large applied voltages

  26. Fluctuations in correlated systems: Granular flow and percolation, Paris-Sciences Chair Lecture Series, ESPCI, October 3-24, 2002.
    1. Particle Mixing in Granular Drainage
    2. Velocity Correlations in Granular Drainage
    3. Fluctuations and Crossover in Percolation
    4. Stochastic Renormalization Group in Percolation

  27. Asymptotic methods in electrochemistry, five-lecture mini-course, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Pessac, France, June 5-18, 1999.


    Invited Seminars and Colloquiua

  28. Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena, Theoretical Mechanics Seminar, Cornell, Oct. 15, 2008.

  29. Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena, Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Oct. 6, 2008.

  30. Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena, Applied Mathematics Seminar, Berkeley, Oct. 3, 2008.

  31. Stochastic plasticity in granular flow, PMMH, ESPCI, Paris, France, April 4, 2008.

  32. Induce-charge electrokinetic phenomena, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, March 20, 2008.

  33. Stochastic plasticity in granular flow, Fac. de Fisica, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain, March 7, 2008.

  34. Induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena, Dpto. de Electronica y Electromagnetismo, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, Feb. 29, 2008.

  35. Multiscale modeling of dense granular flow, Theoretical Physics Seminar, CEA, Saclay, France, Dec. 13, 2007.

  36. Mathematical modeling of rechargeable batteries, CNRS Gulliver, ESPCI, Paris, France, Sept. 24, 2007.

  37. Induced-charge electro-osmosis, Micro/Nanosystems Seminar Series, Research Laboratory for Electronics, MIT, Sept. 13, 2007.

  38. Induced-charge electro-osmosis, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Harvard University, May 3, 2007.

  39. The dynamics of electrolytes at large voltages, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, March 29, 2007.

  40. Nonlinear electrokinetics at large voltages, Fluid Dynamics Seminar, Danish Techical University, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 23, 2006.

  41. Electrokinetics at large induced voltages, Chemical Engineering Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, August 12, 2006.

  42. Induced-charge electro-osmosis, Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Stanford University, May 20, 2006.

  43. Induced-charge electro-osmosis, Mechanical Engineering Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, April 28, 2006.

  44. Induced-charge electro-osmosis and electrophoresis, Mechanical Engineering Seminar, University of Illinios, March 30, 2006.

  45. Induced-charge electro-osmosis and electrophoresis, Applied Mathematics Seminar, UCLA, March 9, 2006.

  46. Some new applications of conformal mapping, Computations in Science Seminar, University of Chicago, Jan. 18, 2006.

  47. Induced-charge electro-osmosis and electrophoresis, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Northwestern University, Jan. 16, 2006.

  48. Some new applications of conformal mapping, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, MIT, Dec. 12, 2005.

  49. Stochastic conformal maps and transport-limited aggregation, Statistics Seminar, Harvard University, Nov. 7, 2005.

  50. Random-packing dynamics in granular flow, Physics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 5, 2005. (slides)

  51. Induced-charge electro-osmosis and electrophoresis, Physical Mathematics Seminar, MIT, Sept. 20, 2005.

  52. Induced-charge electro-osmosis: Theory and microfluidic applications. Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Stanford University, June 7, 2005.

  53. The dynamic of random packings: Granular flow in pebble-bed nuclear reactors, Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Stanford University, April 7, 2005.

  54. Transport and aggregation in two dimensions, Ergodic Theory and Statistical Mechanics Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, Princeton University, March 31, 2005.

  55. Dynamics of random packings in granular flow, Physics Colloquium, MIT, March 3, 2005.

  56. Dynamics of random packings in granular flow, Mechanics Seminar, MIT, Nov. 29, 2004.

  57. Cooperative diffusion in dense granular flow, Physics Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Nov. 18, 2004.

  58. Cooperative diffusion in dense granular flow, Nonlinear and Complex Systems Seminar, Duke University, Nov. 16, 2004.

  59. Induced-charge electro-osmosis: theory and microfluidic applications, Chemical Engineering Seminar, University of Minnesota, Sept. 27, 2004.

  60. Stochastic conformal mapping and transport-limited aggregation, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, Sept. 8, 2004.

  61. Induced-charge electro-osmosis, Microfluidics Seminar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, June 2, 2004.

  62. Induced-charge electro-osmosis, Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Stanford University, May 27, 2004.

  63. A theory of cooperative diffusion in dense granular flows, Applied Mechanics Seminar, Harvard University, April 21, 2004.

  64. A theory of cooperative diffusion in dense granular flows, Mechanical Engineering Colloquium, California Institute of Technology, Jan. 13, 2004.

  65. Transport-limited aggregation in two dimensions, Applied Math Colloquium, California Institute of Technology, Jan. 12, 2004.

  66. Transport-limited aggregation in two dimensions, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Princeton University, Nov. 3, 2003.

  67. Particle dynamics in granular drainage, Physics Seminar, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Jan 6, 2003.

  68. Induced-charge electro-osmosis: theory and microfluidic applications, Microfluidics Seminar, ESPCI, Paris, France, Dec. 11, 2002.

  69. Conformal mapping of advection-diffusion and some other non-Laplacian transport phenomena, Statistical Physics Seminar, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, Dec 4, 2002.

  70. Conformal mapping of advection-diffusion and some other non-Laplacian transport phenomena, Applied Mathematics Seminar, DAMTP, Cambridge, UK, Nov 29, 2002.

  71. Particle dynamics in granular drainage, British Petroleum Institute, Cambridge, UK, Nov 28, 2002.

  72. Particle dynamics in granular drainage, Materials Seminar, Oxford, UK, Nov 25, 2002.

  73. Conformal mapping of advection-diffusion and some other non-Laplacian transport phenomena, Mathematics Seminar, Imperial College, London, UK, Nov 20, 2002.

  74. Particle dynamics in granular drainage, Chemical Engineering Seminar, University College London, Nov 19, 2002.

  75. Induced-charge electro-osmosis: theory and microfluidic applications, Mechanics Seminar, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, May 13, 2002.

  76. Induced-charge electro-osmosis: theory and microfluidic applications, Materials Research Seminar, University of Chicago, January 21, 2002.

  77. Electrophoresis of conductors: theory and microfluidic applications , Physical Mathematics Seminar, MIT, November 6, 2001.

  78. The fractal central limit theorem in percolation, Physics Colloquium, Clark University, October 11, 2001.

  79. Electrophoresis of conductors: theory and microfluidic applications, Applied Mathematics Lab Seminar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, October 4, 2001.

  80. Defects, surfaces, and phase transitions of amorphous silicon Materials Seminar, Princeton Materials Institute, October 3, 2001.

  81. The fractal central limit theorem in percolation, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Princeton University, October 1, 2001.

  82. Atomistic modeling of amorphous silicon: Defects, surfaces, and phase transitions, Materials Science Seminar, Oxford University, June 18, 2001.

  83. Percolation and renormalization, Materials Science Seminar, Oxford University, June 18, 2001.

  84. Percolation and renormalization, British Petroleum Institute, Cambridge, England, June 12, 2001.

  85. Electrophoresis of conductors, Fluid Mechanics Seminar, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. June 5, 2001.

  86. Percolation and renormalization, Applied Mathematics Seminar, DEAS, Harvard University, May 23, 2001.

  87. Renormalization groups and limit theorems in percolation, Mechanical Engineering Seminar, MIT, March 19, 2001.

  88. Renormalization groups and limit theorems in percolation, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, California Institute of Technology, January 8, 2001.

  89. Renormalization groups and limit theorems in percolation, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Arizona, April 21, 2000.

  90. Asymptotic theory of diffuse charge, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, University of Arizona, April 20, 2000.

  91. Theory of pricing "risky" financial derivatives, Mathematical Modeling Seminar, University of Arizona, April 20, 2000.

  92. A limit theorem for subcritical percolation, Mathematical Physics Seminar, University of Arizona, April 19, 2000.

  93. Finite-size scaling in percolation, Civil Engineering Seminar, MIT, February 11, 2000.

  94. Renormalization groups and central limit theorems in percolation, Applied Mathematics Seminar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, Oct. 1, 1999.

  95. Renormalization groups and central limit theorems in percolation, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, MIT, Sept. 27, 1999.

  96. The largest cluster in subcritical percolation, Lab. Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Talence, France, June 18, 1999.

  97. The largest cluster in subcritical percolation, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Pessac, France, June 10, 1999. (abstract in French)

  98. Diffuse charge and limiting current in dilute, binary electrochemical cells, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Pessac, France, June 5, 1999.

  99. The largest cluster in subcritical percolation, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University, April 29, 1999.

  100. The largest cluster in subcritical percolation, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, March 10, 1999.

  101. Diffusion-limited corrosion of porous solids, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Washington, March 9, 1999.

  102. The Environment-Dependent Interatomic Potential: theory and application to amorphous silicon, Materials Modeling Seminar, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, M.I.T., May 22, 1998.

  103. The Environment-Dependent Interatomic Potential for silicon, Materials Science Seminar, Harvard University, May 7, 1998.

  104. Mobius series inversion rediscovered, Mathematical Physics Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, March 18, 1998.

  105. Mobius series inversion rediscovered, Physical Mathematics Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, M.I.T., February 17, 1998.

  106. Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of silicon at the atomic level, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Seminar, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, August 7, 1997.

  107. Effective equations for electrodeposition, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University, November 21, 1996.

  108. Virtual silicon, Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program, Baltimore, MD, August, 1995.

  109. Scalable parallel molecular dynamics for inhomogeneous systems, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA, September, 1994.


    Contributed Talks at Conferences

    (Not including many conference talks and posters given by collaborators and students.)

  110. Anisotropic surface-reaction-limited phase-transformation dynamics in LiFePO4 (poster), MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Nov 29, 2007.

  111. Electrolyte dependence of AC electro-osmosis (poster), MicroTAS, Paris, France Oct. 2007.

  112. A theory of electrokinetics at highly charged surfaces, ELKIN06 International Meeting on Electrokinetics, Nancy, France, June 2006.

  113. Exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations having steady vortex structures (talk and poster entry in the Gallery of Fluid Motion), APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 21, 2005. (SLIDES: talk - 3.4MB, poster - 1.3MB)

  114. A theory of cooperative diffusion in dense granular flow (poster), Workshop on Modeling Soft Materials, IMA, Minnesota, Sept 27, 2004.

  115. Induced-charge electro-osmosis: theory and microfluidic applications, International Conference on Electrokinetics, Carnegie Mellon University, June 15, 2004.

  116. Particle dynamics in gravity-driven, dense granular flows, Granular Materials Workshop, Clark University, July 18, 2003.

  117. Dynamics of conformal maps for a class of non-Laplacian growth phenomena, APS Condensed Matter Physics, Austin, TX, March 4, 2003.

  118. Electrophoresis of conductors: theory and microfluidic applications, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, San Diego, November 18, 2001.

  119. Recent developments with the Environment-Dependent Interatomic Potential, APS Computational Physics Meeting, MIT, June 25, 2001.

  120. Mass distributions of incipient infinite clusters in percolation, APS Computational Physics Meeting, MIT, June 26, 2001.

  121. Mass distributions of incipient infinite clusters in percolation, Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Conference, May 7, 2001.

  122. Renormalization of the order-parameter distribution in percolation, Greater Boston Area Statstical Physics Meeting, Brandeis University, October 14, 2000.

  123. Asymptotic Analysis of Diffuse Charge Layers in Electrochemistry (poster), Nonlinear Mathematics 2000, Courant Institute, NYU, May 31, 2000.

  124. Diffuse charge and limiting current in dilute, binary micro-electrochemical cells (poster), 4th Itzykson Meeting, Saclay, France, June 23, 1999.

  125. The structure of surfaces and voids in amorphous silicon, M.R.S. Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 3, 1998.

  126. Simulations of phase transitions in silicon with the Environment-Dependent Interatomic Potential, A.P.S. March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 20, 1998.

  127. The Enviroment-Dependent Interatomic Potential applied to silicon disordered structures and phase transitions M.R.S. Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 1, 1997.

  128. The Environment-Dependent Interatomic Potential for bulk silicon (poster), Workshop on Multiscale Materials Modeling, M.I.T., September 15, 1997.

  129. Interatomic potential for silicon condensed phases and bulk defects, A.P.S. March Meeting, Kansas City, MO, March 20, 1997.

  130. Ab initio cluster potentials for materials simulation, A.P.S. March Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March, 1996.

  131. Interatomic potentials from inversion of ab initio cohesive energy curves, Workshop on Multiscale Methods in Materials Modelling, M.I.T., February, 1996.

  132. Derivation of interatomic potentials from inversion of ab initio cohesive energy curves (poster), M.R.S. Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December, 1995.

  133. Method for imposing conditions at irregular boundaries using a regular grid, S.I.A.M. Conference on Nonlinear Mathematics and Computation, S.U.N.Y. - Stony Brook, NY, April, 1993.

  134. Method for imposing conditions at irregular boundaries using a regular grid, Arizona Fluid Mechanics Conference, Tucson, AZ, February, 1992.


M.R.S. = Materials Research Society
A.P.S. = American Physical Society
S.I.A.M. = Society for Industial and Applied Mathematics


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