| Feb. 7 |
Andrzej Banaszuk |
United Technologies
Research Center
|
The Role of Control in Design: from Fixing Problems to the Design of Dynamics |
| Feb. 14 |
Frans Spaepen |
Harvard University
|
Mechanical Properties of Metallic Glasses |
| Feb. 21 |
NO SEMINAR |
Presidents Day |
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| Feb. 28 |
Suraj Deshmukh |
HML, MIT |
Development, Characterization and Applications of 'Smart'
Materials using Field-Responsive Fluids on the Macro to Micro Scale |
| March 7 |
Chris Pipe |
HML, MIT
|
Experiments Investigating the Effects of Fluid Elasticity
on Laminar Vortex Shedding from a Cylinder |
| March 14 |
Fazle Hussain |
University of Houston
|
Transient Growth of Perturbations in a Columnar Vortex |
| March 21 |
Tom Mullin |
University of Manchester |
Observations of the Motion of Heavy Particles in a Viscous Fluid |
| March 28 |
NO SEMINAR |
Spring Break
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| April 4 |
Michael Brenner |
Harvard University
|
On the Evolution of Voltage
Gated Ion Channels |
| April 11 |
Pradeep Guduru |
Brown University
|
Mechanics of Detachment of a Rigid
Solid from an Elastic Wavy Surface |
| April 18 |
NO SEMINAR |
Patriots Day |
|
| April 25 |
Michael Graham |
University of Wisconsin
|
Jiggling Genes and Dancing Bacteria: Two Problems in Biologically-Inspired Hydrodynamics |
| April 26 |
Vered Rom-Kedar |
Weizmann Institute, Israel |
Classifying Chaotic Solutions in Optical Fibers and Surface Waves |
| May 2 |
NO SEMINAR |
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| May 9 |
Robert Behringer |
Duke University
|
Fluctuations, Correlations, and Transitions in Granular Materials:
Statistical Mechanics for a Non-Conventional System |
