2001 Fall

Sept. 18: Arezki Boudaoud (Mathematics, MIT)
Self-adaptation in Vibrating Systems: From Strings to Soap Films
Sept. 25: Markus Zahn (Electrical Engineering, MIT)
Electrohydrodynamic and ferrohydrodynamic interactions with electrically charged, dielectric, and magnetizable liquids
Oct. 2: Arshad Kudrolli (Physics, Clark University)
Granular matter with attraction
Oct. 16: Sonya Legg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
Entrainment in Rotating Convective Plumes
Oct. 23: Oliver Buhler (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Wave-driven Currents and Vortex Dyanmics on Barred Beaches
Oct. 30: Triantaphyllos Akylas (Mechanical Engineering, MIT)
Gravity-Capilary Solitary Waves on Deep Water and Related Phenomena
Nov. 6: Martin Bazant (Mathematics, MIT)
Electrophoresis of Conductors: Theory and Microfluidic Applications
Nov. 13: Alar Toomre (Mathematics, MIT)
Colliding Galaxies
Nov. 20: No seminar -- APS Fluids conference in San Diego.
Nov. 27: Greg Huber (Physics, University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Chirality Transformations Acting on Bacterial Flagella
Dec. 4: Jorg Imberger (University of Western Australia)
Characterizing the Dynamical Regimes of a Lake
Dec. 11: Chad Topaz (Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University)
Superlattice Selection in Faraday Waves

Organizers

MIT Professor of Applied Mathematics

MIT Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics

MIT Professor of Applied Mathematics