Daniels Nonlinear Lab

Congratulations!

Kasey Phillips (physics and mathematics major '08) has been awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship. She will first attend the University of Cambridge to study Applied Mathematics, after which she will move to Harvard University to pursue a PhD in Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Fall 2008 Group Meeting Schedule

Fridays from 12:20 to 1:20 in 415 Riddick (unless otherwise noted)

Aug 29: Planning/Progress Reports

Sept 5

(Laura) Hill and Fan. "Isolating Segregation Mechanisms in a Split-Bottom Cell." PRL, 2008. [Link]

Sept 12

Progress Reports: bring a 1-plot, <5-minute summary of your recent accomplishments or a recent problem

Sept 19

Ellen: Nguyen & Stebe "Patterning of Small Particles by a Surfactant Enhanced Marangoni-Bénard Instability" [Link]

Sept 26

(Dave) Sarkar et al. "Tuning wetting by tailoring surface morphology". [arXiv] and Lee, Choi, and Kim. "Structured Surfaces for a Giant Liquid Slip." PRL, 2008. [Link]

Oct 3

Two papers by Jean-Luc Thiffeault:

"Topology, braids and mixing in fluids" [Proc Roy Soc A]
"Measuring Topological Chaos" [PRL]

Oct 17

Fred: Lechenault et al. "Critical scaling and heterogeneous superdiffusion across the jamming/rigidity transition of a granular glass" EPL, 2008. [Link]

Oct 24

Practice talks/posters for SESAPS

Oct 31: No meeting, SESAPS

Nov 7

(Eli) Smart & Ottino. "Granular matter and networks: three related examples." Soft Matter, 2008. [Link]

Nov 14

Practice talks (Fred, Laura, Dave) for DFD

Dec 5

Karen: gel cracking paper/results

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