Applied Math Lab Seminar
2009 - 2010

Seminars are Thursdays at 12:30 in Warren Weaver Hall, room 1302 (this current semester), unless otherwise indicated. Questions or comments please e-mail Trush Majmudar (tsm4 at nyu.edu

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Fall 2011 Schedule

September 8: Closed AML Group Meeting 

September 15: 

September 22: 

September 29: 

October 6: 

October 13: 

October 20: 

October 27: 

November 3: 

November 10:  Dr. Jian Lin, Henry B. Bigelow Chair Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA

Physics of earthquake interactions: Progress, challenges, and lessons

November 17: Jean-Marc Chomaz, Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, France

November 24: Thanksgiving 

December 1:


December 8: 

December 15: 



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

Beltrami-Trkal flows and Organized structures in fluid turbulence; theory, experiment and atmospheric observations 

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 Fluid

April 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 Vesicles

April 28: Ken Kamrin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Continuum Modeling and Computational Aspects of Flowing Granular Media

May 5: Paul Chaikin, Physics Department, NYU.

Particle Fractionalization and Pleats! Point defects and Topological defects on Wigner Crystals on Curved Surfaces



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


January 21: TBA

January 28: Leif Ristroph, Physics Department, Cornell University
Maneuverability and stability of flying insects

February 4: Alex Levine, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
Sailing the surfactant sea: The effect of geometry and topology on membrane hydrodynamics and on the fluctuations of red blood cells.

February 11: Knut Drescher, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Physical Aspects of Microorganism Cooperation

February 18: TBA

February 25: Bin Liu, AML, Courant Institute, NYU
From ``insect” hovering to ``continental” drift – bio and geo-inspired archetypes in fluid-structure interactions

March 4: Andrey Sokolov, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Swimming bacteria at work: from reduction of viscosity to rotation of gears.

March 11: James D. Murray, Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Biology
University of Oxford & Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics University of Washington
The Marriage Equation

March 18: Spring recess

March 25: Mike Graham, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin
Transport and collective dynamics in suspensions of swimming microorganisms

April 1: Jens Eggers, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
The role of singularities in hydrodynamics
(Venue: WWH 1302. Please note the change in the venue)

April 8: Kenny Breuer, Division of Engineering, Brown University
Bacterial Microfluidics: The Physics and Engineering of Flagellated Bacteria


April 15: Igor Aronson, Argonne National Lab
Self-Assembled Magnetic Surface Microswimmers

April 22: Yan Meng, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
Bio-inspired Self-Organizing Morphogenetic Robotic Systems

April 29: Tom Powers, Division of Engineering, Brown University
Mechanics of swimming microorganisms

April 30: Robert M. Kerr, Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick
Numerical generation of a vortex ring cascade in quantum turbulence
This is a Special Applied Math Lab Seminar
12:45-1:45pm Room 1314 WWH (Please note the change in time)




Fall 2009 Schedule


September 10: Lab meeting


September 17: Jeannette Yen (Georgia Institute of Technology, Biology)
Biologically-Generated Flows by Plankton

September 24: Andrew Belmonte (Pennsylvania State University, Math)
Sedimentation of a Rigid Sphere in a Bubbly Fluid

October 1: Lab meeting


October 8: Katie Newhall (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Math)
Synchrony in stochastic pulse-coupled neuronal network models

October 15: Marija Vucelja (Weizmann Institute of Science, Physics)
Weak compressibility of surface wave turbulence

October 22: Lab meeting


October 29: Eric Lauga (University of California, San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms

November 5: Thomas Peacock (MIT, Mechanical Engineering)
Sailing on Diffusion

November 12: open


November 19: Douglas Zhou (CIMS)
Predictability and chaos in networks of integrate-and-fire neurons

November 26: Thanksgiving


December 3: Hepeng Zhang (University of Texas at Austin, Physics)
Collective motion in bacterial colonies

December 10: open



More scheduled seminars:
Leif Ristroph (Jan 28, 2010).


Spring 2009 Schedule


January 29: none


February 5: Stephen Morris (University of Toronto, Physics)
Icicles, washboard road and meandering syrup

February 12: none


February 19: Gregory Forest (Univerisity of North Carolina, Math)
The Virtual Lung Project at UNC

February 26: Juan Restrepo (University of Arizona, Math)
Nonlinear/Non-Gaussian Time Series Estimation

March 5: Wendy Zhang (University of Chicago, Physics and James Franck Institute )
Memory as vibration in a disconnecting air bubble

March 12: Nicholas Ouellette (Yale University, Mechanical Engineering)
Lagrangian Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Flow

March 19: Spring recess


March 26: Tsvi Tlusty (Weizmann Institute, Physics)
The Physical Language of Molecules

April 2: Jin-Qiang Zhong (University of California, Santa Barbara, Physics)
Experimental studies of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection, in a rotating frame and with a liquid-vapor two-phase fluid

April 9: Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University, Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics)
Motors based on shape change: see how they run

April 16: Patrick T. Underhill (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Correlations in suspensions of swimming microorganisms: theory and simulation

April 23: Miranda Holmes (Center fo Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute)
Lava Tube Stability

April 30: Arshad Kudrolli (Clark University, Physics)
Flight of a tumbling elastic wing and aggregation of floating particles


To be scheduled:
Jerry Gollub