Seminars are Thursdays at 12:30 in Warren
Weaver Hall, room 317, unless otherwise
indicated. Questions or
comments please e-mail Daisuke Takagi (takagi at cims.nyu.edu)
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Fall 2012 Schedule
September 6: Empty
September 13: Tong Gao, Courant Institute, NYU
Dynamics of soft elastic particles in viscous flows
September 20: Hassan Masoud, Courant Institute, NYU
Polymer networks: modeling and emerging applications
September 27: Empty
October 4: Eric King, Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
Planetary convection: heat transfer by rotating flows
October 11: Empty
October 18: Guo-wei Wei, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
Variational multiscale modeling of biomolecules
October 24 (Special time - 11:00): William Schultz, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Oscillating contact lines
October 25: Yuan-nan Young, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Modeling the interaction between fluid and an elastic filament: Two examples in biology
November 1: Empty
November 8: Ed Spiegel, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
From kinetic theory to fluid dynamics via a pastiche of methods
November 15: Guo-wei He, LNM, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lift enhancement by stretching and retracting wingspan in bat flight
November 22: Thanksgiving
November 29: Empty
December 6: Esteban Tabak, Courant Institute, NYU
The diurnal cycle and the meridional extent of the tropics
December 13: William Schultz, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Viscoelastic effects in glass fiber spinning
Spring 2012
Schedule
January
26: No Seminar February
2: Arshad Kudrolli,
Physics
Department, Clark University Speed
of a
Taylor Swimmer in Newtonian and Viscoelastic Fluids February
9: Justin Kao, Dept. of Earth,
Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT February
16: Empty February 23: Vasily Kantsler, DAMTP, Cambridge March 1: James C. Liao, Biology Department,
University of Florida
Fluid-fish
interactions around a cylinder in flow: insights from energetics and
behavior March
8: Empty March
15: NYU Spring Break March
22: Xiao-dong Song, University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign Super-rotation of the Earth's inner core:
claims
and counterclaims March
28: SPECIAL
Seminar date: Alex Mogilner, Mathematics Department, UC Davis Polarization and turning of motile
cells March
29: Adi Rangan, Courant Institute Emergent collaborative activity
within a model
of primary visual cortex April 5: Ayusman Sen, Chemistry
Department, Penn State University Designing Intelligent Nano/Microbots April 12: Justin Bois, Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UCLA
Pattern
formation
in active fluids with applications to developmental biology April
19: Sarah Olson, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute Coupling
biochemistry, mechanics, and hydrodynamics to model sperm motility April 26: Jan Brugues, School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, Harvard Biological physics of the mitotic
spindle. From
quantitative measurements to continuum theories.
Flows
May 3: Jane Wang, Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, Cornell University
May 10: John Roberts, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Control of Fluid-Body Systems via Real-Time Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
Fall 2011 Schedule Imaging the microscopic
structure of shear
thinning and thickening colloidal suspensions
Falling bodies through
sharply
stratified fluids: theory and experiments
An integrated model of lamprey
swimming:
Fluid-structure interaction and segmental coupling
The Wonders of Thin Objects:
Coiling
Spagetti and Pressing Eggshells
Hydrodynamics of Microorganism
Motility:
Flagellar Shapes and Boundary Effects
Physics of earthquake
interactions: Progress,
challenges, and lessons
The Convective Modoki: the Linear
and
Nonlinear Dynamics of Real Flows
September 8:
Empty
September 15:
Bin Liu, School of Engineering, Brown University
September 22:
No Seminar
September 29:
Xiang Cheng, Department of Physics, Cornell University
October 6:
Rich McLaughlin, Mathematics Department, University of North Carolina
October 13:
Bruce Shaw, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
October 20:
Eric Tytell,
Locomotion In Mechanical and Biological Systems, Johns Hopkins
University
October 27:
Pedro Reis, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 3:
Saverio Spagnolie, School of Engineering, Brown University
November 10:
Dr. Jian Lin, Henry B. Bigelow Chair
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA
November 14:
Georg Stadler, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin
November 17:
Jean-Marc Chomaz,
Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, France
November 24: Thanksgiving
December 1:
Daniel T.N. Chen, Brandeis University Physics Department
December 8:
Neil Balmforth, Institute of Applied Mathematics, The University of
British Columbia
December 15: Leif Ristroph,
Applied Math Lab, Courant Institute, NYU
Spring
2011 Schedule
January 13: Closed AML Group Meeting
January 20: Open
January 31: Eugene Levich, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
SPECIAL TIME: 2:00 PM in WWH 1314
February 3: Adam Braunschweig, Department of Chemistry, NYU
Molecular Printing: Solving the sub-100 nm Soft Matter Conundrum
February 10: Eric Keaveny, Applied Math Lab, CIMS, NYU
Enhancing micron-scale transport through swimmer design and geometric constraints
February 17: Anke Lindner, PMMH-ESPCI
TBA
February 24: Open
March 3: Open
March 10: Closed AML Group Meeting
March 17: No Talks, Spring Break
March 24: Possibly no talks, APS March Meeting
March 31: Eva Kanso, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC
How to Swim in a Perfect FluidApril 7: Closed AML Group Meeting
April 14: John Bush, Department of Mathematics, MIT
Bouncing Droplets (and the nature of reality)April 21: Petia Vlahovska, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Brown University
Electrohydrodynamics of Droplets and VesiclesApril 28: Ken Kamrin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Continuum Modeling and Computational Aspects of Flowing Granular Media
May 5: Paul Chaikin, Physics Department, NYU.
Fall 2010
Schedule
September 16: Closed AML Group
Meeting
September 23: Nick Moore, CIMS, NYU
Stratified Flows with Vertical Layering of
Density: Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Time Evolution of
Flow Configurations and their Stability
September 30: Closed AML Group
Meeting
October 7: Vikram Jandhyala,
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
Green's functions and
large matrix systems: electronics and multiphysics design, networked
systems, and recommendation engines.
October 14: Daniel Andor,
Rockefeller
University
Exploring Resonance
Phenomena in the Auditory System
October 21: Professor Robert Deegan,
Physics
Department, University of Michigan
Vibrated Fluids
October 28: Georg Stadler, ICES,
University of Texas Austin
First- and
second-order shape derivative-based analysis of roughness effects on
channel flow
November 4: Open (AML members away, no talk to be scheduled)
****Special AML Seminar Tuesday 9th November @ 3:55 PM in WWH 1314****
November 9: Professor Bill Schultz, Mechanical Engineering, University
of Michigan
Fish Swimming
Stability
November 11: Professor Jack
Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), MA
Cellular Convection with a Raft
November 18: Closed AML Group
Meeting/Practice
for APS DFD meeting
November 25: Thanksgiving
****Special AML Seminar Tuesday 30th November @ 10:30 AM in WWH 1314****
**** Please Note the Special Time: 10:30 AM****
November 30: Dan Needleman, SEAS,
Harvard University
Spindle Assembly and Architecture: From
Laser Ablation to Microtubule Nucleation
December 2: Professor
Frédéric Gibou,
Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, UCSB
Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial
Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
December 9: Open
Spring 2010 Schedule