On Friday, December 4th at 2:00 PICS will present a colloquium featuring Professor Arvind Gopinath, Assistant Professor at University of California Merced. Title: Swarming bacteria as novel active biomaterials – insights into the collective mechanics, particle transport and morphological adaptation in swarming bacteria from in-silico experiments. Abstract: Flagellated and motile bacteria, in isolation or in […]
On Friday, April 23 at 2:00 PICS will host a virtual colloquium featuring Professor Kunihiko (Sam) Taira of UCLA Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
On Friday, January 22 at 2:00 PICS will host a colloquium featuring Dr. Steven Brunton of the University of Washington. Title: Machine learning for Fluid Mechanics Abstract: Many tasks in fluid mechanics, such as design optimization and control, are challenging because fluids are nonlinear and exhibit a large range of scales in both space and […]
On Friday, February 19 at 2:00 PICS will be hosting a virtual colloquium with Professor Elbridge Gerry Puckett Professor of Mathematics at the University of California Davis. Title: Recent Advances in Modeling Subduction and Viscoelastic Flow in Geodynamic Computations. Abstract: We will describe two separate but related methodologies that have been implemented in the open […]
On Friday, February 26 at 2:00 PICS will be hosting a virtual colloquium featuring Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University Department of Physics. Title: Learning about learning by many-body systems Abstract:Many-body systems from soap bubbles to suspensions to polymers learn the drives that push them far from equilibrium. This learning has […]
On Friday, March 26 at 2:00 PICS will host a virtual a colloquium featuring Assistant Professor Zachary Ulissi of Carnegie Mellon University. Title: Workflows, Datasets and Models for Active Discovery in Catalysis Abstract: Machine learning accelerated catalyst discovery efforts has seen much progress in the last few years. Datasets of computational calculations have improved, models […]
On Friday, April 2 at 2:00 PICS will host a virtual colloquium featuring Associate Professor Sapna Sarupria of Clemson University Title: Molecular Engineering of Ice Responsive Materials: Decoding Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation Abstract: The presence of particles such as dust and pollen affect cloud microphysics significantly through their effect on the state of water. These […]
On Friday, April 16 at 2:00 PICS will host a virtual colloquium featuring Professor Jin Liu of Washington State University. Title: Modeling and simulations of protein conformational changes and virus entry Abstract: Virus infections remain major threats to human health worldwide. Viruses are intracellular parasites, and must enter host cells and deliver their genetic material […]
On Friday, April 23 at 2:00 PICS will host a colloquium featuring Associate Professor Kunihiko (Sam) Taira of UCLA. Title: Network-Based Characterization, Modeling, and Control of Fluid Flows Abstract: The network of interactions in a sea of vortices gives rise to the amazingly rich dynamics of fluid flows. To describe these interactions, we consider the […]
On Friday, September 17 PICS will host a colloquium featuring Gregory Bowman, Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University in St. Louis. Title: Protein dynamics and energy landscape engineering Abstract: Experiments only reveal a few of a protein’s structures with the atomic detail required to rationally engineer mutations and drugs. However, a protein […]