Fall 2012 Clark Physics Colloquium Schedule

Wednesdays, 4:15 pm, Sackler Sciences Center, Room S-122 (unless otherwise noted)

Date Speaker Institution Title Host
Thursday, August 23, 4 pm Moumita Dasgupta Clark University Speed of a Taylor Swimmer in Newtonian and Viscoelastic Fluids (Master's Thesis Defense) Kudrolli
Wednesday, September 5 Physics Welcome     Physics
Wednesday, September 12        
Wednesday, September 19        
Wednesday, September 26 Leif Ristroph NYU Shape and Flow in Biological and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Abstract Chopin
Wednesday, October 3 Jan Tobochnik Kalamazoo College & Boston University Network Analysis of Patent Citations Gould
Wednesday, October 10 Eli Ben-Naim LANL What is the most competitive sports league? Abstract Kudrolli
Wednesday, October 17 Mehran Kardar MIT   Kudrolli
Wednesday, October 24        
Wednesday, October 31, 2 pm Andreea Panaitescu Clark University Ph.D. Defense: Order - Disorder Transitions in Granular Sphere Packings Kudrolli
Wednesday, November 7        
Wednesday, November 14 Scott Franklin Rochester Institute of Technology What we do and what we say: Observing faculty practice through multiple research lenses, abstract Kudrolli
Wednesday, November 21 Thanksgiving Break      
Wednesday, November 28 Anjan Soumyanarayanan Harvard University Visualizing Dirac Fermions in Topological Materials, abstract Boyer
Wednesday, December 5 Russ Tedrake MIT Algebraic Methods for Legged Robots and Robotic Birds, abstract Boyer
Wednesday, December 12        
Wednesday, December 19        
         
         
         
         

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Updated December 3, 2012