Applied Math Lab Seminar
2007 - 2008
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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Spring 2007
Schedule
January
18: Elisabeth Guazzelli
(Institut Universitaire des systems thermiques idustriel, Polytech'
Marseille)
Host: Mike Shelley
Sedimentation of small particles
January 25: Paulo Arratia (University of Pennsylvania, Dept of
Physics)
Host: Mike Shelley
Complex Fluids in Microfluidic
Devices: Elastic Instabilities & Drop Breakup
February 1: Zhi Lin, (Mathematics,
UNC Chapel Hill)
Host: David Cai
Evolution of the Probability Measure for the
Majda Model: New Invariant Measures and Breathing PDFs
February 8: None
Februrary 15: James Glazier (Indiana
University, Dept of Physics)
Cell-level Modeling of
Biological Development using the GGH Model and
CompuCell3D—Applications, Technology and Open Problems
Host: Jun Zhang
February 22: None
March 1: Tony Levi (Electrical
Engineering Dept, University of Southern California)
Frontiers
in device engineering: Synthesis for non-intuitive design
March 8: John C. Schotland (Dept of
Bioengeering, University of Pennsylvania)
Optical Tomography
March 15: No talk. Spring Break
March 22: Brian Chan (Mechanical
Engineering, MIT)
Robosnail: Devices for Snail-Inspired Locomotion
March 29: Joey Terran (Courant)
Virtual
Surgery: Simulating the Cutting and Manipulation of Soft Tissues
April 5: Lionel Moret and
Benjamin Thiria (Courant)
April 11: Ray
Pierrehumbert (Dept. of the
Geophysical Sciences,
The
University of Chicago)
Strange eigenmodes of
advection-diffusion operators
Host: Bob Kohn
NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND DATE: WEDNESDAY at 2 PM
April 12: Charles Schroeder (Harvard
University, Deparment of Chemistry
and Chemical Biology)
Single Molecule Studies in Polymer
Physics and Biology
Host: Mike Shelley
April 19: Eric Siggia (Center for
Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller
University)
Fluctuations and the cell cycle in yeast
Host: Steve Childress
April 26: Guenter Ahlers
(Department of Physics and iQCD, UCSB)
Host:
Jun Zhang
The large-scale circulation in
Rayleigh-B\'enard convection: A dynamical system subjected to the fury
of turbulence
Fall 2007
Schedule
September 6: Jasna Brujic
(NYU, Physics)
Experiments employing statistical physics to
protein folding at the single molecule level
September 13: David Saintillan
(Courant)
Instabilities and
dynamics in active suspensions: direct numerical simulations and
kinetic
theory
September 20: Philip Yecko
(Montclair State U., Mathematics)
Modeling ferrofluids for fun and profit
September 27: Andy Ruina (Cornell,
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
Bipedal locomotion: people and robots
October 4: Paul Krueger (SMU,
Engineering)
Pulsed-Jet
Propulsion at Large and Small Scales
October 11: No AML this week.
October 18: Demetrius Papageorgiou
(NJIT, Mathematics)
Problems in interfacial
electro-hydrodynamics
October 25: Ross McPhedran (U. of
Sidney, Physics)
Knowledge of our gaps in photonic crystals
November 1: Mike Siegel (NJIT,
Mathematics)
Modeling,
analysis, and computations
of the breakup of bubbles and drops in a viscous fluid
November 8: Christel Hohenegger (UNC,
Mathematics)
Direct and Inverse Modeling for Stochastic
Passive Microbead Rheology
November 15: Manoj Srinivasan
(Princeton, Mechanical Engineering)
Walking and running
November 29: Peko Hosoi (MIT,
Mechanical Engineering)
Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion
Decmber 6: Itai Cohen (Cornell,
Physics)
Comparing flight strategies in species of fruit flies
December 13: Nicholas Darnton
(Amherst, Physics)
Note special location: Room 101.- (Room 1314 will be set up for
the Xmas party)
December 20: Sanat Kumar (Columbia,
Chemical engineering)