Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series

Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and
Department of Mechanical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Spring 2007

Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in 611 Cullimore Hall, unless noted otherwise.  Faculty are encouraged to bring students as most of the seminars will include a short introduction at the beginning. For questions about the seminar schedule, please contact Yuan-Nan Young (yyoung@oak.njit.edu). 

 

Date
Speaker and title
Host

January 22nd
Kausik Sarkar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware
Title: Ultrasound Contrast Agents: A Problem in Fluid Mechanics (abstract)
 Yuan

February 5th
Darko Volkov, Department of Mathematics, WPI
Title: An inverse problem for the recovery of active faults from surface observations (abstract)
 Demetrius Papageorgiou

February 12th
Jerzy Blawzdziewic, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
Title: Distributions of particle packings in static and slowly driven amorphous materials: Does the concept of Edwards entropy make sense? (abstract)
 Yuan

February 19th
Becca Thomases, Courant Institute, New York University
Title: Analysis and computations for viscoelastic fluids (abstract)
 Yuan

February 26th (Postponed)
Arvind Gopinath, DEAS, Harvard University
Title: TBA (abstract)
 Yuan

March 5th
Gerardo Callegari, TRI, Princeton University
Title: Spontaneous absorption of droplets into single pores and fibrous porous materials (abstract)
 Lou Kondic

March 20th
Petia Vlahovska, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Title: Microhydrodynamics of soft particles (abstract)
 Yuan

April 2nd
Arnauld Goullet, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NJIT
Title: Chaotic advection and control for mixing purposes in laminar flows (abstract)
 Wooyoung Choi

April 30th
Roman Grigoriev, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: The role of resonance phenomena in chaotic mixing (abstract)
 Lou Kondic