Applied/Physical Applied Math

Physical Applied Math Group Meeting

• When: Thursdays at 4:00pm (unless there is a departmental meeting)
• Where: 901 Van Vleck Hall
• Organizers: Saverio Spagnolie and Jean-Luc Thiffeault
• To join the Physical Applied Math mailing list: See the mailing list website.

Spring 2014 Semester

date	speaker	title/paper
Jan 30	Peter Mueller	Roenby & Aref, On the atmosphere of a moving body, Phys. Fluids (2010).
Feb 13	Will Mitchell	Keaveny & Shelley, Applying a second-kind boundary integral equation for surface tractions in Stokes flow, J. Comput. Phys. (2011).
Feb 20	Saverio Spagnolie	Stone & Samuel, Propulsion of Microorganisms by Surface Distortions Phys. Rev. Lett. (1996) and Khair & Squires, Active Microrheology... Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010).
Feb 27	Jim Brunner	Craciun, Nazarov & Pantea, Persistence and permanence of mass-action and power-law dynamical systems, SIAM J. Appl. Math. (2013).
Mar 6	Marko Budisic	Spectral graph theory (link to notes and reading list)
Mar 13	faculty meeting
Mar 20	Spring Break
Mar 27	Tadashi Tokieda	Applying physics to mathematics
Apr 3	Jean-Luc Thiffeault	Leptos, Guasto, Gollub, Pesci, & Goldstein, Dynamics of Enhanced Tracer Diffusion in Suspensions of Swimming Eukaryotic Microorganisms, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2009) (see also these notes).
Apr 10	faculty meeting
Apr 17	Lei Li	Cottet & Maitre, A level set method for fluid-structure interactions with immersed surfaces, Math. Mod. Meth. Appl. S., (2006).
Apr 24	Ellie Ahmadi	Interactions between Brinkman and Stokes flows in biofilm resistance to an antimicrobial (see also the paper by Cortez et al. here.)
May 1	Christel Hohenegger

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