Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 2-105
Refreshments in Room 2-290 at 3:30pm
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Fall 2009 Schedule |
Sept. 15: Efi Efrati (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Frustrating Geometry:
Elastic Theory of Non-Euclidean Plates
Sept.. 22: Marcos Marcos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Bacteria in Shear
Sept. 29: Francis Corson (The Rockefeller University)
The Structure of Leaf
Venation Networks: Relation with Growth and Transport Properties
Oct. 6: Ruben Juanes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nonequilibrium Physics of
Multiphase Flow through Porous Media: Origin of Gravity
Fingering during Water Infiltration into Dry Soil
Oct. 13: Eitan Grinspun (Columbia University)
A Geometric Approach to
Computation of Elastica in Contact
Oct: 20: Tristan Gilet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Dynamics of Bouncing
Droplets onto Vibrating Liquid Interfaces
Oct. 27: Thomas Peacock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sailing Diffusion
Nov. 3: Christian Santangelo (University of
Massachusetts, Amherst)
Programmable
Buckling: Shaping Thin Films with Inhomogeneous Swelling
Nov. 10: Otger Campas (Harvard University)
Morphogenesis and
Evolutionary Strategies of Tip Growing Cells
Nov. 17: Serina Diniega (University of Arizona)
Dune and Dune Field Morphology
Dec. 1: Lyubov Chumakova (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Shear Instability for
Stratified Flows and a Note in "Avoidance of Crossings"
Dec. 8: Sigolene Lecuyer (Harvard University)
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