Applied Math Colloquium - Fall 2009
All talks are in Cullimore Lecture Hall II at 11.35am (on the ground floor of Cullimore Hall) unless noted otherwise. Refreshments are served at 11.30am. Any questions about a particular colloquium should be referred to the speaker’s host. General enquiries may be directed to the organizer, Linda Cummings (Linda.J.Cummings@njit.edu).
DATE
Sept 4
Sept 11
Sept 18
Sept 25
Oct 2
Oct 9
Oct 16
Oct 23
Oct 30
Nov 6
Nov 13
Nov 20
Nov 27
Dec 4
SPEAKER, INSTITUTION & TITLE
Morton Denn, Levich Institute, CCNY
Issues in the flow of yield-stress liquids
Sheldon Ross, University of Southern California
Gambler ruin problems and pricing barrier options
Jun Zhang, Courant Institute, NYU
Ratchets in fluid transportation and biological locomotion
Michael Brenner, Harvard
The fluid mechanics of fungal spore ejection
John Bush, MIT
The fluid trampoline: Droplets bouncing on a soap film
Robert Gilmore, Drexel
Tony Rosato, NJIT (Mechanical Engineering)
Density relaxation of granular matter
Jonathan Wylie, City University of Hong Kong
Drawing of viscous threads with temperature dependence
Itai Cohen, Cornell
Shahriar Afkhami, NJIT
Determination of interfacial tension for ferrofluid droplets
Iskander Akhatov, North Dakota State University
Direct Write: Modeling and experiment
Oliver Jensen, University of Nottingham
Instabilities of flows in flexible tubes and channels
THANKSGIVING
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State
HOST
Linda Cummings
Manish Bhattacharjee
Yuan Nan Young
Linda Cummings
Yuan Nan Young
Roy Goodman
Denis Blackmore
Robert Miura
Michael Siegel
Linda Cummings
Lou Kondic
Linda Cummings
NO SEMINAR
Lou Kondic