Distinguished Visitor Seminars

on

Multiscale Modeling and Simulations for Soft Matter and Complex Fluids

Sponsored and funded annually by the Dean of the College of Sciences
Old Dominion University

Spring - Fall 2007

Title: "Nano-materials: what's really different and what's math got to do with it?"
Speaker: Prof. M. Gregory Forest, University of North carolina at Chapel Hill
Time and place: 7:30pm on February 7 (Wednesday) at OCNPS 200

Title: "Modeling the nano-materials pipeline: some successes and the challenges ahead."
Speaker: Prof. M. Gregory Forest, University of North carolina at Chapel Hill
Time and place: 4:30pm on February 8 (Thursday) at OCNPS 100

Title: "Modeling liquid crystal materials and processes in biological systems"
Speaker: Prof. Alejandro D. Rey, McGill University
Time and space: 7:30pm on Febuary 19 at OCNPS 200

Title: "Computational materials science of liquid crystals"
Speaker: Prof. Alejandro D. Rey, McGill University
Time and space: 3:30pm on Febuary 20 at Webb Center Hampton/Newport News room

Title: New Insights into Hard Problems with Soft Materials
Speaker: Prof. David A. Weitz, Harvard University
Time and space: 3:00pm on March 20 at OCNPS 200

Title: Dripping, Jetting, Drops and Wetting: the Magic of Microfluidics
Speaker: Prof. David A. Weitz, Harvard University
Time and space: 7:30pm on March 21 at OCNPS 200

Title: Recent Advances in Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Viscoelastic Channel Flows: Towards a better Understanding of Polymer-Induced Drag Reduction
Speaker: Prof. Antony Beris, University od Delaware
Time and space: 7:30pm on March 29 at OCNPS 200

Title: Multiscale Analysis of Strong Extensional Flows of Polymer Solutions and Melts
Speaker: Prof. Antony Beris, University of Delaware
Time and space: 4:30pm on March 30 at OCNPS 200

Title: Kinetic theories for flowing polymer-particulate nanocomposites.
Speaker: Prof. Qi Wang, Florida State University
Time and space: 2:00pm on November 15 at Health 2000

Title: Phase field models for biofilms
Speaker: Prof. Qi Wang, Florida State University
Time and space: 2:00pm on November 16, CONST 1002.