Levich Institute Seminar Archive 1990-2018

Levich Institute Seminar Archive

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Seminar Title/Notes
12/12/2017	Professor Michelle Girvan	University of Maryland Department of Physics	"Phase Transitions and Criticality in Biological Networks: Implications for Genes and Neurons"
12/5/2017	Professor Nicolas Giovambattista	Brooklyn College Physics Department	"Understanding Water Liquid/Glass Polymorphism using the Potential Energy Landscape Approach"
11/28/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	**************
11/21/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	APS/DFD Meeting
11/14/2017	Professor Elisa Riedo	CUNY Advanced Science Research Center	"Harnessing Forces and Heat to Study and Pattern Atomic Interfaces"
11/7/2017	**************	SEMINAR CANCELLED	DUE TO POWER OUTAGE, SEMINAR RESCHEDULED TO 12/05/2017
10/31/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	AIChE Annual Meeting
10/24/2017	Professor Joseph Seymour	Montana State University Chemical and Biological Engineering Department	"Measurement of Dynamics by NMR in Polymers, Colloids and Near Critical Fluids"
10/17/2017	Chaoming Song	University of Miami Department of Physics	"Quantifying Group Dynamics in Online Social Media"
10/10/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	Society of Rheology Meeting
10/03/2017	Professor Pejman Sanaei	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	"Mathematical Models for Membrane Filtration"
9/26/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	**************
9/19/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	Thursday Schedule
09/12/2017	Dr. Ben Ovryn	Scripps Institute	"Single Molecule Tracking of Tagged Glycans and Modeling of Beads-on-a-String Structures Along Membrane Nanotubes in Live Cells"
9/5/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	**************
08/29/2017	Dr. Jonghun Lee	Argonne National Laboratory	"The Role of an Order-to-Disorder Transition in Shear Thickening"
05/09/2017	Dr. Emily Asenath-Smith	Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory	"Cold (and Warm!) Materials RDT&E at the US Army's Cold Regions Laboratory"
5/2/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	**************
04/25/2017	Professor Konstantin Mischaikow	Rutgers University Department of Mathematics	"Reduction and Reconstruction of Complex Spatio-Temporal Data"
4/18/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	Spring Recess
4/11/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	Spring Recess
4/4/2017	Dr. Chungqiu Zhang	CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (Research Associate with Professors Rein V. Uljin and Charles Maldarelli)	"Conformation Switchable Artificial Hydrolase Based on a Self-Assembling Peptide"
3/28/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	**************
03/21/2017	Professor Gerald Fuller	Stanford University Department of Chemical Engineering	"The Fluid Dynamics of Ultra-low Surface Tension Liquids"
3/14/2017	**************	NO SEMINAR	APS March Meeting
03/07/2017	Professor Ehud Yariv	Technion Israel Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics	"Strong-Field Electrohydrodynamics"
02/28/2017	Professor James Swan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chemical Engineering Department	"The Hydrodynamics of Colloidal Gelation"
02/21/2017	Professor Ralph Colby	Penn State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering	"Flow-Induced Crystallization"
2/14/2017	Professor Yannick Hallez	Universite Toulouse III Paul Sabatier	"Electrostatic Effects in Suspensions of Hollow Spheres"
02/07/2017	Professor Eva Kanso	University of Southern California Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	"Active Chains in Micro-Confinement"
01/31/2017	Professor Wolfgang Losert	University of Maryland Department of Physics	"Physical Guidance of Cell Migration"
12/06/2016	Professor Frederick MacKintosh	Rice University Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department	"Extracellular Matrix Rheology: Mechanical Phase Transitions and Anomalous Normal Stresses"
11/29/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	*************
11/22/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	APS/DFD Meeting
11/15/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	Annual AIChE Meeting
11/8/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	Election Day
11/01/2016	Professor Petia Vlahovska	Brown University School of Engineering	"Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities of Viscous Drops"
10/25/2016	Dr. Christine Lafforgue-Baldas	CNRS Laboratory LISBP	"In situ 3D Analysis of Cake Formation During Filtration on Microsieves Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy"
10/18/2016	Professor Albert Libchaber	Rockefeller University	"Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria: Dynamics in Natural Sediment, Crystalline Organization in Simple Geometry"
10/11/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	Yom Kippur Holiday
10/4/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	Rosh Hashanah Holiday
09/27/2016	Professor Chang-Hwan Choi	Stevens Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering	"Hydrodynamic Friction Reduction on Superhydrophobic Surfaces"
09/20/2016	Professor Seth Fraden	Brandeis University Department of Physics	"Microfluidic Networks of the Oscillatory Chemical Reactions"
09/13/2016	Dr. Farhang Radjai	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Multiscale Material Science of Energy and Environment (Visiting Scientist from CNRS)	"Granular Flows: Insights from Numerical Simulations"
9/6/2016	Professor Vincent Pauchard	City College of CUNY Department of Chemical Engineering	"Stabilization of Water in Crude Oil Emulsions by Asphaltenes: Simplicity Beyond Complexity"
8/30/2016	Dr. Ehssan Nazockdast	New York University Courant Institute Simons Foundation and University of North Carolina	"Mechanics and Hydrodynamics of Spindle Positioning"
05/17/2016	Dr. Jaehun Chun	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	"Colloidal Interactions in Nanomaterials, Crystal Growth, and Beyond: Correlating Details at Small Scales to Larger Scale Phenomena "
05/10/2016	Professor Victor Steinberg	Weizmann Institute of Science Department of Physics of Complex Fluids	"Role of Thermal Noise in Vesicle Dynamics in a General Linear Flow"
05/03/2016	Professor Jeffrey Giacomin	Queen's University Chemical Engineering Department	"Advances in Large-Amplitude Oscillatory Shear Flow of Polymeric Liquids"
04/29/2016	Professor Sunil Bhagwat	Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai Department of Chemical Engineering	" Interfacial Science & Engineering: Basics and Applications"
4/26/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	Spring Recess
04/19/2016	Dr. Blaise Delmotte	New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	"Fingering and Clustering Instability in Suspensions of Rollers: Computational Study and Potential Applications"
04/12/2016	Professor Arun Ramchandran	University of Toronto Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry	"Macrotransport Processes in the Pressure-Driven Flow of a Concentrated, Non-Colloidal Suspension"
4/5/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	**************
03/29/2016	Professor Grae Worster	University of Cambridge (UK) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)	"Freezing of Soils and Colloidal Suspensions"
03/22/2016	Professor Sungyon Lee	Texas A&M University Department of Mechanical Engineering	"Interfacial Dynamics: Drops & Particles"
3/15/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	APS March Meeting
3/8/2016	Morgane Houssais	City College of CUNY Levich Fellow	"Complex Material Rheology in Landscape Dynamics"
02/26/2016	Alban Sauret	CNRS, SVI Laboratory, Aubervilliers, France	"Erosion and Spreading of Granular Material"
2/23/2016	Professor Jing Fan	City College of CUNY Mechanical Engineering Department	"Microfluidics Enabled Studies on Complex Fluids and Materials Sciences"
02/16/2016	Professor Sachin Velankar	University of Pittsburgh Chemical and Petroleum Engineering	"Capillarity, Wetting, and Rheology in Multiphase Particle-Liquid-Liquid Mixtures"
2/9/2016	**************	NO SEMINAR	Friday Schedule
02/02/2016	Dr. Jai Pathak	Medimmune Drug Product Manufacturing Group	"Viscoelasticity of Crowded Monoclonal Antibody Solutions: Chain Conformation Does Matter"