Applied Math Lab Seminar
2006 - 2007
Seminars are Thursdays at 12:30 in Warren
Weaver Hall, room 1314, unless otherwise indicated. Questions or
comments please e-mail Mike Shelley (shelley at cims.nyu.edu)
or Jun Zhang (jun
at cims.nyu.edu)
Archived schedules and abstracts: 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06.
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Fall 2006
Schedule
September 21: Boris
Gershgorin
(RPI)
Host: David Cai
Effects of
Discreteness and resonances in $\beta$-FPU chains
September 28: Russ
Tedrake (MIT Robot Locomotion Group )
Host: Jun Zhang
Optimizing
Locomotion: Experiments with legged locomotion and flapping-winged
flight
October 5: Ralph Colby
(Penn State, Materials Science & Engineering)
Host: Mike Shelley
Polyelectrolyte
Solution Rheology
October 12: Xiao-lun Wu (Univ. of Pittsburg, Physics
& Astronomy)
Host: Jun Zhang
Thermal Convection
in a
Strongly Stratified Two-Dimensional-Like Fluid
October 19: David
Saintillan (Courant Institute, NYU)
Host: Mike Shelley
Collective
dynamics
in dispersions of anisotropic
and deformable particles
October 26: Andrea Liu (U. Penn, Physics)
Host: Mike Shelley
Actin
self-assembly, cell crawling and Listeria
motility
November 2: Shawn Walker
(Univ. of Maryland )
Host: Mike Shelley
Modeling and
Simulating the Fluid Dynamics of
Electrowetting On Dielectric (EWOD)
November 9: Victor Steinberg (Weizmann Institute of
Science, Dept. of Physics
of Complex Systems)
Host: Jun Zhang
Elastic
turbulence: random flow of visco-elastic fluid without inertia
November 16: Maxim Shkarayev (U.
of Arizona)
Host: David Cai
Large Deviation
Principles in Optical
Communication Systems: Theoretical and Experimental Study
November 23: No talk, Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30: No talk
December 7: Eric
Lauga (MIT, Math Dept)
Host: Jun Zhang
Floppy and
Squishy: Low-Reynolds number
locomotion with deformable bodies and surfaces
December 14: TBA
December 21: Uriel Frisch (Observatoire de Nice)
Host: Steve Childress
A Borel
transform method for locating
singularities of Taylor and
Fourier series