Daniels Nonlinear Lab

News from the Lab

The Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany will host a workshop entitled "Particulate Matter: Does Dimensionality Matter?" organized by Patrick Charbonneau, Karen Daniels, and Matthias Schroeter from May 31 - June 4, 2010. [Link] (October 2009)
Congratulations to sophomore Adam Keith and junior Kate Foco for winning Undergraduate Research Awards which will support their work in the lab. (October 2009)
Read mathematics PhD student Ellen Peterson's article on what happens when mathematicians go into a physics lab (ours): [Link] (Sept 2009)
First-year graduate student Carlos Ortiz was awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship to support his research on jamming in microfluidic systems, which he will also be carrying out in collaboration with Prof. Robert Riehn. (May 2009)
Senior Laura Golick received the Physics Department's "Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in Research", and senior Philip Boyne received the "Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in Scholarly Achievement" at the Graduation ceremony. Laura will be pursuing at PhD in physics Emory University, and Philip will be teaching high school physics. (May 2009)
Our submission to the APS Gallery of Nonlinear Images was awarded an Honorable Mention at the APS March Meeting. Watch it here: [APS] [Local Copy] (March 2009)
The Jackson School of Geosciences (UT-Austin) provides a lay summary of our work on the granular behavior of faults: [Link] (January 2009)
Congratulations to sophomore Melissa Fender and junior Adele Lichtenberger for winning Undergraduate Research Awards. (November 2008)
Kasey Phillips 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. (May 2008)
Coverage of our work with Bob Behringer at Duke University on shaken and sheared granular materials recently appeared in Science (March 2006)

Thin Fluids Day 2009

Saturday, January 10, 2009

314 Riddick, NCSU

Schedule

10 am Gather for coffee and tea in the Riddick Hearth (3rd floor)
Morning Session
- 10:10 Karen Daniels (NCSU): Introductions
- 10:15 Dave Fallest (NCSU): Fluorescence imaging of a surfactant spreading on a glycerine layer
- 10:40 Ellen Peterson (NCSU): Flow of thin films with surfactant: behavior of perturbations
- 11:05 Eugene Dumitrescu (UNC): Thin film dynamics of liquid transport in gas-liquid core annular flow
- 11:30 Rachel Levy (Harvery Mudd) & Michael Shearer (NCSU): Thin films/surfactant modelling: future directions
12 pm Lunch on Hillsborough St.
Afternoon Session
- 1:30 Jie Zhang (Duke): Marangoni convection in binary mixtures
- 2:00 Thomas Ward (NCSU): Squeezed droplets
- 2:30 Tom Witelski (Duke): Coarsening of drops in dewetting thin film
- 3:00 Karen Daniels: Discussion

Directions

Campus Map
Take I-40 East to Wade Avenue, following signs to stay on Wade Avenue. Soon after you pass the Whole Foods (in the shopping center on the left), turn right at the stoplight at Faircloth St. At the next stoplight, turn left on Hillsborough St. As you approach the NCSU campus, turn right on Dan Allen Dr., go down the hill and turn left on Yarborough Dr. (passing through the open traffic gates). Follow this road through parking lots until it forks, at which point take the left fork and you will arrive at a parking lot at the back of Riddick Lab. Walk to the left (west) of the building so that you can enter from the front side through the big doors on the 3rd floor.

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