Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm, Room 2-105
Refreshments in Room 2-349 at 3:30pm
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Spring 2009 Schedule |
Feb. 3: Melvin Leok (Purdue University)
Lie Group and Homogeneous
Variational Integrators and their Applications to
Geometric Optimal Control Theory
Feb. 17: Trushant S. Majmudar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nonlinear Dynamics
in Viscoelastic Jets
NOTE: Seminar will be held in Building 2, Room 139.
Feb. 24: Benjamin Seibold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Crystal Cutting and Radiative Moment Closures
by Optimal Prediction
Mar. 3: Benny Davidovitch (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Instabilities and
Morphological Phases of Stressed Elastic Membranes
Mar. 10: Eran Sharon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Shaping via Active Deformation
Mar. 31: Tobias Schneid (Harvard University)
Edge of Chaos and
the Turbulence Transition in Pipe Flow - How does Flow
in a Pipe become Turbulent?
Apr. 7: Ernst van Nierop (Harvard University)
Flow in Films
Apr. 14: Christophe Clanet (Ecole Polytechnique, FRANCE)
Wheatfield and Dominoes
Apr. 21: Patriots Day - HOLIDAY
Apr. 28: Mack Durham (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Gyrotaxis in Variable
Shear: The Formation of Thin Phytoplankton Layers
May 5: SIMONS LECTURE in Mathematics -- Robert Schapire
(Princeton University)
Time: 4:30 PM, Room 3-270
Boosting and how to play repeated games
May 12: Kenneth Golden (University of Utah)
Climate Change and
the Mathematics of Transport in Sea Ice
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