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MEAM Seminar: “Data-driven Discovery of Governing Physical Laws in Engineering, Physics, and Biology”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

A major challenge in the study of dynamical systems is that of model discovery: turning data into models that are not just predictive, but provide insight into the nature of the underlying dynamical system that generated the data. This problem is made more difficult by the fact that many systems of interest exhibit parametric dependencies […]

MEAM Seminar: “Wrinkles, Spaghetti, and Knots”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Buckling, twisting and fracture are ubiquitous phenomena that, despite having been studied for centuries, still pose many interesting conceptual and practical challenges. In this talk, I will summarize recent theoretical and experimental work that aims to understand the role of curvature and torsion in wrinkle pattern selection, fragmentation cascades and knots. First, we will show […]

MEAM Seminar: “Interfacial Soft Matter”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Surface tension plays a critical role in a wide range of biological, environmental, technological and geophysical settings. In this talk, I will present three different problems dealing with interfacial soft matter that find motivation in markedly diverse areas. First, I will discuss the evaporation kinetics and flow dynamics of non-spherical sessile drops undergoing phase change. […]