Friday, October 16, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Mechanisms of Elastic Enhancement and Hindrance for Finite-Length Undulatory Swimmers in Viscoelastic Fluids
Speaker: Robert Guy (Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis)
Hosted by Wanda Strychalski
Abstract: Low Reynolds number swimming of microorganisms in Newtonian fluids is an extensively studied classical problem. However, many...
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Monday, November 23, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Joint Colloquium/Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar
Title: Collective dynamics: modeling, analysis and simulations
Speaker: Marie-Therese Wolfram (Senior Research Scientist, Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics)
Hosted by Alethea Barbaro
Abstract: Collective dynamics refer to the coordinated behavior of large groups of individuals. They can be observed in animal groups, pedestrian...