| Seminar Date | Seminar Details |
|---|---|
| January 25 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Itai Cohen
(Department of Physics, Cornell) Title: Using Confocal Rheometry to Link a Material’s Microstructure With its Macroscopic Flow Properties Host: Richard Rand |
| February 1 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Alfred Crosby
(Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts) Title: Patterns, Polymer, and Adhesion Host: Herbert Hui |
| February 8 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Roald Hoffmann
(Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell) Title: Chemistry’s Essential Tension: The Same and Not the Same Host: Steve Strogatz |
| February 15 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Andy Ruina
(Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell) Title: A Particle Collision Model for Calculating the Energetic Cost of Legged Locomotion Host: Richard Rand |
| February 22 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Jun Zhang
(Physics and Mathematics, Courant Institute, NYU) Title: A Free Boundary in Thermal Convection Host: Jane Wang |
| March 1 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Jair Koiller
(Fundaocao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Millenium Institute, IMPA) Title: To Be or Not to Be Hamiltonian: Nonholonomic Systems under Time Reparametrizations Host: Richard Rand |
| March 8 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Tom Mullin
(Department of Physics, University of Manchester, UK) Title: Transition to Turbulence in a Pipe Host: Jim Jenkins |
| March 15 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Nigel Goldenfield
(Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Title: Patterns, Universality and Computational Algorithms Host: Steve Strogatz |
| March 29 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Dinesh Pai
(Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University) Title: Fast Simulation of Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Host: Andy Ruina |
| April 5 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Marc Timme
(Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany) Title: Unstable Attractors, Synchronization and Computation: Exact Dynamics of Spiking Neural Networks Host: Steve Strogatz |
| April 12 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Yijun Liu
(Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati) Title: Recent Development in the Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method and its Applications in Modeling Carbon Nanotube Composites Host: Subrata Mukherjee |
| April 19 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Eric Shea-Brown
(Courant Institute, NYU) Title: Spiking Dynamics in Phase Oscillator Networks Host: Richard Rand |
| April 26 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Kathleen Hoffman
(Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Title: Stability of Twisted Elastic Rods with Repulsive Potentials Host: Tim Healey |
| May 3 4:30 PM 205 Thurston Hall |
Tamas Kalmar-Nagy
(Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A & M University) Title: Of Networked Control Systems, Rabbits, and the Visible Point of the Integer Lettuce Host: Richard Rand |
