Organisers: Jesse Taylor-West, Rachel Bennett
- Isaac Chenchiah
Thursday 9th January 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Fry Building, G.07
Past Seminars:
- Ryan Doran
Vortices in one- and two-component superfluid systems
Thursday 5th December 2024 - Anastasia Kisil
Diffraction of acoustic waves by edges and corners of a simple periodic material
Thursday 21st November 2024 - Lois Baker
Lagrangian filtering for wave-mean flow decomposition
Thursday 14th November 2024 - Michel Fruchart
Pattern formation by turbulent cascades
Thursday 7th November 2024 - Lloyd Demetrius
The evolutionary dynamics of collective behaviour: From inorganic matter to living matter
Thursday 31st October 2024 - Dan Lucas
Stabilising travelling waves from fluid turbulence.
Thursday 24th October 2024 - Julianne Simmchen
Exploring the Structure and Dynamics of (Active) Matter in presence of liquid-liquid interfaces
Thursday 17th October 2024 - Francesco Turci
Partial and complete wetting of active Brownian particles
Thursday 10th October 2024 - Matthew Hennesy
Phase separation in polyelectrolyte gels
Thursday 3rd October 2024 - Nir Gov
Guided by curvature: A theoretical model of cellular shape dynamics and motility, coupling curvature and activity
Thursday 26th September 2024 - Paola Gallo
Water and “the others”
Tuesday 17th September 2024 - Darren Crowdy
Marangoni meets Burgers in the complex plane: new mathematics for surfactant dynamics
Thursday 6th June 2024 - Neil Balmforth
Impacts of a yield stress fluid
Thursday 30th May 2024 - Edwina Yeo
Clumping and clotting: Multiscale modelling of responsive species in fluid flows
Thursday 23rd May 2024 - Alberto Alberello
The dynamics of water waves in sea ice
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Nir Gov (Postponed due to train strikes)
Guided by curvature: A theoretical model of cellular shape dynamics and motility, coupling curvature and activity
Thursday 9th May 2024 - Marie Touboul
Non-reciprocity for the time-modulated wave equation and diffusion equation through the lens of high-order homogenization
Thursday 2nd May 2024 - Tyler Shendruk
Spontaneous Self-Constraint in Actively Kinky Situations
Thursday 25th April 2024 - Anne Bernheim
Self-assembled active actomyosin gels spontaneously curve and wrinkle similar to biological cells and tissues
Thursday 18th April 2024 - Marcelo Dias
Damage propagation in architected materials
Thursday 21st March 2024 - Anastasia Kisil
Diffraction of acoustic waves by edges and corners of a simple periodic material
Thursday 14th March 2024 - Alison Raby
Physical modelling of extreme waves: issues and applications
Thursday 29th February 2024 - Katarzyna Kowal
Slippery flows in nature and industry
Thursday 22nd February 2024 - Ian Hewitt
Fluid Mechanical Models of Ice Sheets
Thursday 15th February 2024 - Chris Johnson
Frictional hysteresis in granular avalanches
Thursday 8th February 2024 - Ory Schnitzer
Equatorial blowup and polar caps in drop electrohydrodynamics
Thursday 1st February 2024 - Suzanne Fielding
Modelling the rheology of biological tissue
Thursday 25th January 2024 - Mathieu Leocmach
Wall enhanced polarity makes active particles climb up
Friday 15th December 2023 - Anne Juel
Models of flow and slip of yield-stress fluids in confined geometries
Thursday 14th December 2023 - Charlie Lloyd
Internal wave dynamics in stratified plane Poiseuille flow
Thursday 30th November 2023 - Miles Morgan
Fluid-driven granular flows in silos and channels
Thursday 23rd November 2023 - Matthew Durey
Resonant free-surface water waves in closed basins
Thursday 16th November 2023 - Bryn Davies
Discrete approximations for elliptic PDE models: a framework for metamaterials and waveguides
Thursday 9th November 2023 - Stephen Wilson
Mathematical Models for Evaporating Sessile Droplets
Thursday 26th October 2023 - Alex Doak
Mode-2 Internal Solitary Waves
Thursday 19th October 2023 - Sriram Ramaswamy
Nonreciprocity in the hydrodynamics of nonequilibrium matter
Thursday 12th October 2023 - Zoë Leinhardt
Polluted white dwarfs and super mercuries, studies into the extremes of planet formation
Thursday 5th October 2023 - Ajay Harish
Data-driven methods for real-time 3D reconstruction of flow in abdominal aorta
Thursday 28th September 2023 - Vikas Krishnamurthy
Liouville Chain Solutions of the Euler Equation
Monday 31st July 2023 - Jacques Prost
Examples of epithelial dynamics
Tuesday 11th July 2023 - Jonathan Reid
The Airborne Transmission of Respiratory Diseases
Thursday 8th June 2023 - Chiu Fan Lee
Polar Fluctuations Lead to Extensile Nematic Behaviour in Confluent Tissues
Thursday 25th May 2023 - Tom Shearer
Modelling tendon and ligament non-linear elasticity
Thursday 18th May 2023 - Anton Souslov
Active solids and the elastic Leidenfrost effect
Thursday 11th May 2023 - Paul Martin
Solving Laplace's equation in a tube: how hard can it be?
Thursday 4th May 2023 - Stuart Thomson
Driven interfacial hydrodynamics
Thursday 27th April 2023 - Wolfram Ponisch
How droplets affect the irreversible formation of linear aggregates
Thursday 20th April 2023 - Wouter Mostert
Direct numerical modelling of breaking waves, bubbles, and droplets
Thursday 9th March 2023 - Matthias Merkel
Thursday 23rd February 2023 - Elena Luca
Postponed due to UCU strikes
Thursday 16th February 2023 - Benjamin Walker
Multiscale methods and microswimmer models
Thursday 9th February 2023 - Isabelle Cantat
Horizontal soap film drainage: soap film elasticity, lubrication equation, line tension and instability
Thursday 26th January 2023 - Jake Langham
Thursday 8th December 2022 - Doireann O’Kiely
Moving out of plane: wrinkling and buckling
Thursday 1st December 2022 - Peter Foster
Active mechanics of sea star oocytes
Thursday 17th November 2022 - Smitha Maretvadakethope
The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions: Impacts on the distribution of micro-swimmers in channel flow
Thursday 10th November 2022 - Buddhapriya Chakrabarti
Does soft matter, matter? Predictive design of formulated products
Thursday 3rd November 2022 - Arash Yavari
The Universal Program of Nonlinear Hyperelasticity
Thursday 27th October 2022 - Reidun Twarock
Viruses Through the Lens of Geometry: Novel Opportunities for Antiviral Therapy and Virus Nanotechnology
Thursday 20th October 2022 - Dario Cortese
A minimal model of flagellate microswimmers: superhelices, phototaxis and motile gaits
Thursday 13th October 2022 - Thomasina Ball
Viscoplastic blisters
Thursday 29th September 2022 - Radu Cimpeanu
From bouncing to making a splash: Mathematical modelling of liquid impact
Friday 29th July 2022 - Shreyas Mandre
Functional interpretation for transverse arches of the human foot
Thursday 23rd June 2022 - Ryan Palmer
The flower, the bee and the charge between: sensing electrical fields in the natural world
Thursday 16th June 2022 - Natasha Cowley
Viscosity mediated deformation of active droplets.
Thursday 9th June 2022 - James Sprittles
Thursday 19th May 2022 - Ramin Golestanian
Thursday 12th May 2022 - Kranthi Mandadapu
Thursday 5th May 2022 - Karen Alim
How flows shape life
Thursday 28th April 2022 - Alexander Mietke
Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals
Thursday 21st April 2022 - Shreyas Mandre – CANCELLED
This seminar has been postponed and will be rescheduled later this summer
Thursday 31st March 2022 - Fanlong Meng
Thursday 17th March 2022 - Dan Needleman
Thursday 10th March 2022 - Arnold Mathijssen
The synergy of biophysics and active materials
Thursday 3rd March 2022 - Marco Fontelos Lopez
Thursday 24th February 2022 - Margaret Gardel
Active Matter controlling Epithelial Dynamics
Thursday 17th February 2022 - Maciej Buze
Mathematical analysis of atomistic fracture and near-crack-tip plasticity in crystalline materials
Thursday 3rd February 2022 - Douglas Jerolmack
Landscapes of Glass
Thursday 27th January 2022 - Eric De Giuli
What is the simplest model of an amorphous solid?
Thursday 20th January 2022 - Ananyo Maitra
Thursday 16th December 2021 - Sriram Ramaswamy
Thursday 9th December 2021 - Amin Doostmohammadi
Thursday 25th November 2021 - Shane D. Ross
Chaotic dynamics in geophysical flows and connections with field experiments
Thursday 24th June 2021 - Tom Eaves
Two-phase flow in a screw press
Thursday 17th June 2021 - David L George
D-Claw: a granular-fluid model for landslides, debris flows, and their interactions with water bodies
Thursday 20th May 2021 - Catherine Kamal
The flow and rheology of graphene: modelling to predict the `unseen’
Thursday 6th May 2021 - Sunghwan (Sunny) Jung
Drinking and Diving
Thursday 22nd April 2021 - Stefan Karpitschka
Taylor Dispersion Governs the Compositional Evolution of Marangoni-Contracted Droplets
Thursday 18th February 2021 - Priya Subramanian
A new perspective to analyse grain boundaries as non-topological defects
Thursday 11th February 2021 - Brian Tighe
Sticky Matters: Dense attractive emulsions
Thursday 28th January 2021 - Bhargav Rallabandi
Particle hydrodynamics near deformable interfaces
Thursday 21st January 2021 - Stéphane Popinet
A vertically-Lagrangian, non-hydrostatic, multilayer model for multiscale free-surface flows
Thursday 14th January 2021 - Jacob Page
Learned low-dimensional representations of turbulence and connections to simple invariant solutions
Thursday 17th December 2020 - François Graner
Fluid + Fluid = Solid: the strange maths of cellular materials
Thursday 10th December 2020 - Daphne Klotsa
A touch of non-linearity: mesoscale swimmers and active matter in fluids
Thursday 3rd December 2020 - Ezequiel Ferrero
Avalanche statistics and criticality at the yielding transition of amorphous solids
Thursday 26th November 2020 - Emmanuela Del Gado
The physics of cement cohesion
Thursday 19th November 2020 - Katie Newhall
Energy landscapes, metastability, and transition paths
Thursday 12th November 2020 - Stefan Luding
From particle simulations towards a universal continuum theory and application
Thursday 5th November 2020 - Karoline Wiesner
Thursday 29th October 2020 - Jacco Snoeijer
Coalescence of floating drops
Thursday 28th May 2020 - Hermes Gadelha
The wiggly mathematical tale of the sperm tail and other fables
Thursday 21st May 2020 - Stavros C Farantos
Non-Linear Hamiltonian Classical Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics
Thursday 14th May 2020 - Pablo Cincotta
Chaotic diffusion: a Shannon entropy approach
Thursday 7th May 2020 - Srihari Keshavamurthy
New thoughts on old paradigms I: Transition states and reaction mechanisms
Thursday 30th April 2020 - Pierluigi Cesana
Mathematical models and ideas for disclinations
Thursday 23rd April 2020 - Guillaume Salbreux
Epithelial folds and flows
Thursday 12th March 2020 - Danny Feltham
Sea ice dynamics and its representation in climate models
Thursday 27th February 2020 - Rastko Sknepnek
Wrinkle patterns in active viscoelastic thin sheets
Thursday 20th February 2020 - Hermes Gadelha
The wiggly mathematical tale of the sperm tail and other fables (postponed to 21st May 2020)
Tuesday 11th February 2020 - Rachel Bearon
Revisiting Jeffery orbits; the importance of shape for micro-organism transport
Thursday 19th December 2019 - Emanuele Paci
Models for molecular biophysical data
Thursday 12th December 2019 - Federico Bosi
Thermoviscoelastic modelling and yield domain of inflatable thin films
Thursday 28th November 2019 - Francesco Sciortino
Friday 15th November 2019 - Kirsty Wan
Multiscale coordination of cilia and flagella
Thursday 14th November 2019 - Tony Lelièvre
Foundation of first order kinetics: the quasi stationary distribution approach
Thursday 7th November 2019 - Peter Schmid
Koopman analysis and the sparsity-promoting dynamic mode decomposition
Thursday 17th October 2019 - Dmitry Zhdanov
Quantum mechanics as an effective fluid theory. Fundamentals and chemical applications
Thursday 10th October 2019 - Christophe Josserand
Freezing droplets
Thursday 3rd October 2019 - Petr Sulc
Friday 6th September 2019 - Joel Bowman
A Machine Learning Approach for Prediction of Rate Constants
Wednesday 4th September 2019 - Dr Elsen Tjhung
Renormalization group theory of banana and pizza-slice-shaped mesogens: Long-range order in 2d
Tuesday 4th June 2019 - Dr Michio Tateno
Thursday 23rd May 2019 - Prof Helen Byrne
Mathematical Approaches to Modelling and Remodelling Biological Tissues
Thursday 9th May 2019 - Dr Dan Lucas
Layer formation and transition to turbulence in horizontally shearing stably stratified flows
Thursday 2nd May 2019 - Prof Anja Schlömerkemper
Passages from discrete to continuous systems allowing for fracture, external forces and heterogeneities
Thursday 18th April 2019 - Dr Ivo Peters
Bubble collapse in complex geometries
Thursday 4th April 2019 - Dr Elisabetta De Angelis
Multi-scale dynamics in wall bounded turbulent flows
Thursday 28th March 2019 - Prof Robert MacKay
Bifurcations of transition states and incorporation of electronic degrees of freedom
Thursday 21st March 2019 - Prof Natsuhiko Yoshinaga
Geometric control of wave instability in Min oscillations
Monday 18th March 2019 - Prof J. Michael T. Thompson
Nonlinear dynamics of shell buckling: energy probes and step loading
Thursday 14th March 2019 - Dr Alpha Lee
Lengthscale puzzles in concentrated electrolytes
Thursday 7th March 2019 - Dr Andela Šarić
Sensing and creating mechanical forces by collective protein behaviour
Thursday 28th February 2019 - Prof Christos Lykos
Polymer flow and polymer topology: linear chains, rings and knots flow differently
Thursday 21st February 2019 - Dr Rachel Bennett
Mechanics and self-assembly in cancer cell nuclei
Thursday 14th February 2019 - Dr Ian Griffiths
iPhones and Dysons: using fluid dynamics to tailor technology
Thursday 24th January 2019 - Dr Lorenzo Morini
Waves in quasicrystalline phononic structures: self-similar stop/pass band distribution and negative refraction
Thursday 13th December 2018 - Prof William Parnell
Acoustic and hyperelastic metamaterials – stretching the truth?
Thursday 6th December 2018 - Prof Alexei A. Mailybaev
Monday 26th November 2018 - Dr Laura Filion
Defects in colloidal crystals of hard particles
Monday 19th November 2018 - Dr Ed Brambley
Mathematical modelling of aeroacoustics and metal forming
Thursday 15th November 2018 - Dr Shiladitya Banerjee
Tissue fluidity promotes rapid wound repair
Thursday 8th November 2018 - Dr Piermarco Fonda
Thermodynamic equilibrium of lipid mixtures on curved substrates
Tuesday 6th November 2018 - Dr Silke Henkes
Dynamical patterns for polar and nematic active particles on a sphere
Thursday 1st November 2018 - Dr Ana Mancho
Lagrangian pathways for transport in a turbulent ocean
Thursday 18th October 2018 - Dr Michael Dallaston
Singularities of the thin film equation
Thursday 11th October 2018 - Dr Fausto Martelli
Polyamorphism in water
Thursday 4th October 2018 - Dr Louise Olsen-Kettle
Bridging the macro to the mesoscale: Developing tensorial damage models for anisotropic materials
Monday 16th July 2018 - Lee Steinberg
Investigating the Structure of Water Networks using Topological Data Analysis
Wednesday 4th July 2018 - Dr Kyohei Takae
Shape controls polarisation: Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity in dipolar crystals formed by shape-anisotropic particles
Monday 18th June 2018 - Dr Sam Pegler
The instability of marine ice sheets
Thursday 24th May 2018 - Dr Anita Zeidler
The intermediate phase: Fact or fiction?
Thursday 17th May 2018 - Prof Carmen Domene
Computational biophysics of ion channels
Thursday 10th May 2018 - Dr Claire McIlroy
3D Printing with Polymer Melts
Thursday 3rd May 2018 - Prof Stuart Humphries
Shape effects on microscale swimmers
Thursday 26th April 2018 - Dr Megan Davies Wykes
Fluid-structure interaction at the microscale: How to get from A to B and building micro-machines
Thursday 19th April 2018 - Prof Thomas Speck
Collective behavior of Active Brownian particles
Thursday 12th April 2018 - Dr Alexander Erlich
Thursday 22nd March 2018 - Dr Vojtech Kaiser
The second Wien effect: non-linear response of Coulomb systems from electrolytes to frustrated magnets
Wednesday 7th March 2018 - Dr Margarita Staykova
The mechanics of the cell interface studied by supported lipid bilayers
Thursday 15th February 2018 - Dr Mark Olenik
Struggling tadpoles and Big Bang Bifurcations
Thursday 8th February 2018 - Dr Richard Morris
Shape-changing epithelial monolayers
Wednesday 10th January 2018 - Dr Ory Schnitzer
Asymptotic solutions of the plasmonic eigenvalue problem and applications
Thursday 30th November 2017 - Dr. Valeria Garbin
Stability and dynamics of bubbles with particle-laden interfaces
Thursday 23rd November 2017 - Dr Patrick Ilg
Structure and dynamics of complex fluids: macroscopic description from systematic coarse-graining
Thursday 9th November 2017 - Dr David Bourne
Pattern Formation in Nonlocal Particle Systems
Thursday 2nd November 2017 - Mari Romain
Exploiting fragility of granular suspensions to enhance flowability
Thursday 8th June 2017
