Participants willing to speak elsewhere
All long-term participants in Newton Institute programmes are encouraged to give seminars at, or to make short visits to, UK institutions outside Cambridge during their stay. To support this activity, the Institute will cover the travel expenses involved for any participant who is formally invited to speak at another institution; the host institution is expected to cover any accommodation and incidental costs.
To assist organizers of seminar series at UK Universities in their search for relevant speakers, the Newton Institute maintains a register of those of its participants who are visiting from overseas for a period of at least two weeks, and who have indicated their willingness to give lectures or seminars elsewhere during their stay. This register lists their contact details, visit dates and key subject areas. Arrangements are normally made directly with the speaker via the email address given in the register; but the Institute will be happy to assist in cases where there are difficulties in making direct arrangements.
A complete list of all participants in each programme may be found by visiting the relevant programme's web page.
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Complex Fluids and Active Media in Evolving Domains1 May - 23 Aug 2013 |
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| Name: | Alexeev, A |
| Home Institution: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Date of visits: | 8 May - 31 May, 24 Jun - 28 Jun |
| Area of Expertise: | fluid mechanics, soft materials, complex fluids, cfd |
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Possible titles for seminars: Sorting cells and particles using microfluidic channels Controlled release from stimuli-sensitive microgel capsules Manipulating particles and flows using synthetic cilia Swimming and flying at low Reynolds number |
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| Name: | Feng, JJ |
| Home Institution: | University of British Columbia |
| Date of visits: | 22 Jun - 3 Aug |
| Area of Expertise: | Interfacial flows, cell and tissue mechanics |
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Possible titles for seminars: A particle-based simulation of the mechanics of malaria-infected red blood cells Simulation of interfacial flows of complex fluids Modeling dorsal closure during embryonic development of the fruit fly Simulating moving contact lines on patterned substrates |
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| Name: | Fontelos, MA |
| Home Institution: | ICMAT |
| Date of visits: | 1 May - 23 Aug |
| Area of Expertise: | Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Mechanics |
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Possible titles for seminars: Contact line instabilities en electrowetting Drop impact on a solid wall Similarity solutions in coagulation equations |
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| Name: | Holm, C |
| Home Institution: | Universität Stuttgart |
| Date of visits: | 1 May - 31 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | Computational Charged Soft Matter |
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Possible titles for seminars: Magnetic Soft Matter Tracer diffusion in polymer solutions -anomalous or not? Colloidal Electrophoresis - Influence of multivalent salts DNA nanopore physics- a coarse-grained approach |
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| Name: | Pismen, L |
| Home Institution: | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| Date of visits: | 1 May - 23 Aug |
| Area of Expertise: | active media, patterns |
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Possible titles for seminars: Mechanics of active media: from cytoskeleton to tissues Signaling and genetic expression patterns Chemo-mechanical interactions in epithelial spreading Chemo-capillary instabilities of a contact line |
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| Name: | Pototskyy, A |
| Home Institution: | University of Cape Town |
| Date of visits: | 15 Jun - 14 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | applied stochastic equations and processes |
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Possible titles for seminars: Rectification of Active Brownian particles Directed transport of attracting colloids through narrow channels |
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| Name: | Ratiu, TS |
| Home Institution: | École Polytechnique |
| Date of visits: | 1 May - 26 Jun, 28 Jul - 23 Aug |
| Area of Expertise: | geometric mechanics, fluid dynamics, global analysis |
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Possible titles for seminars: The geodesics of the universal Teichmüller space The geometric formulation of the liquid crystal equations The three representations of continuum mechanics A new class of integrable systems |
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| Name: | Shearer, M |
| Home Institution: | North Carolina State University |
| Date of visits: | 9 Jun - 10 Aug |
| Area of Expertise: | nonlinear partial differential equations; thin liquid films |
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Possible titles for seminars: Surfactant spreading on thin liquid films: mathematical implications of new experiments Two-phase flow in porous media |
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| Name: | Thutupalli, S |
| Home Institution: | Princeton University |
| Date of visits: | 8 Jun - 29 Jun |
| Area of Expertise: | collective dynamics, active matter |
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Possible titles for seminars: Collective dynamics in active emulsions From Huygens' clocks to Greek monsters - Chimera states in hierarchical mechanical oscillator networ The dance of dissolving liquid crystals: from myelin fingers to swimming droplets |
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| Name: | Xu, Z |
| Home Institution: | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Date of visits: | 16 May - 30 May, 24 Jun - 28 Jun |
| Area of Expertise: | Applied Mathematics, Computational soft matter |
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Possible titles for seminars: Green's functions in varying media with applications in colloidal suspensions |
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| Name: | Yoshinaga, N |
| Home Institution: | Tohoku University |
| Date of visits: | 1 May - 29 May, 24 Jun - 28 Jun |
| Area of Expertise: | Theory on Active Soft Matters and Nonlinear Dynamics |
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Possible titles for seminars: Spontaneous motion and deformation of a droplet driven by chemical reaction Active Motion of Janus Particle by Self-thermophoresis Mechanics of Stress Fibers -- Polarity Patterns and Contraction Dynamics |
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The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals7 Jan - 5 Jul 2013 |
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| Name: | Bauman, P |
| Home Institution: | Purdue University |
| Date of visits: | 7 Jan - 5 Jul, 8 Apr - 12 Apr |
| Area of Expertise: | Partial Differential Equations and Applications to Materials |
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Possible titles for seminars: Analysis of Nematic Liquid Crystals with Defects Mathematical Analysis of High-Temperature vs. Low-Temperature Superconductors |
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| Name: | Copic, M |
| Home Institution: | Univerza v Ljubljani |
| Date of visits: | 7 Jan - 18 Jan, 2 Feb - 5 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | Liquid crystals, light scattering, optics of soft matter |
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Possible titles for seminars: Probing liquid crystal elastomers with light Ferromagnetism in nematic colloidal suspension Soft bend elasticity in nematic dimers |
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| Name: | Fatkullin, I |
| Home Institution: | University of Arizona |
| Date of visits: | 7 Jan - 5 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | Mathematical models of liquid crystals and chemotaxis |
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Possible titles for seminars: Onsager-type models for liquid crystals Diffusive transport in nematics Particle methods for Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis Molecular dynamics study of fine structure of defect core in nematics |
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| Name: | Kats, E |
| Home Institution: | Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Date of visits: | 31 Mar - 30 May |
| Area of Expertise: | soft matter, theory |
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Possible titles for seminars: Universal statistics for boundary collisions of random walks Vibrational modes in magnetic field Vibrations in free standing graphene films Landau theory of weak crystallization and phase transitions in membranes |
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| Name: | Kralj, S |
| Home Institution: | University of Maribor |
| Date of visits: | 7 Jan - 28 Feb, 1 Jun - 5 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | soft matter, topological defects, soft nanocomposites |
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Possible titles for seminars: Nanoparticle driven stabilization of defect lattices in chiral phases Topological defects in nematic shells and biological membranes Memory effects in randomly perturbed liquid crystals Soft nanocomposites |
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| Name: | Lavrentovich, OD |
| Home Institution: | Kent State University |
| Date of visits: | 7 Jan - 11 Jan, 8 Apr - 12 Apr, 12 Apr - 13 May, 24 May - 10 Jun, 23 Jun - 5 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | Liquid crystals |
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Possible titles for seminars: Statics and Dynamics of Colloidal Particles in Liquid Crystals Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals (LC^2) Fast electrooptics of liquid crystals |
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| Name: | Monastyrsky, M |
| Home Institution: | ITEP (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics) |
| Date of visits: | 1 Apr - 1 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | Mathematical Physics |
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Possible titles for seminars: Applications of Topology to Condensed Matter Duality transformations in Lattice Models Integrable structures in Liquid crystals and Superfluid Liquids History of Mathematics of the XXth Century |
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| Name: | Park, J |
| Home Institution: | Chungnam National University |
| Date of visits: | 7 Jan - 28 Feb, 7 Apr - 13 Apr, 23 Jun - 5 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | mathematical theory of liquid crystals |
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Possible titles for seminars: Landau- de Gennes theory for Singularities Mathematical Study of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals |
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| Name: | Pelcovits, R |
| Home Institution: | Brown University |
| Date of visits: | 21 May - 5 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | Liquid Crystal Theory |
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Possible titles for seminars: Self assembly of fd viruses |
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| Name: | Phillips, D |
| Home Institution: | Purdue University |
| Date of visits: | 7 Jan - 5 Jul, 8 Apr - 12 Apr |
| Area of Expertise: | pdes used to model phase transitions and defects |
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Possible titles for seminars: Analysis of defects in solutions for nematic liquid crystals On the structure of smectic C liqiud crystal films A Gamma limit analysis for chevron formation in smectic liquid crystals Ginzburg Landau type models for liquid crystals |
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| Name: | Smalyukh, I |
| Home Institution: | University of Colorado |
| Date of visits: | 17 Mar - 29 Mar, 5 May - 19 May, 15 Jun - 5 Jul |
| Area of Expertise: | Liquid Crystals, Topology, Colloids, Soft Cond. Matter Phys |
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Possible titles for seminars: Plasmonic and Semiconductor Nanoparticle Self-assembly in Liquid Crystals Liquid crystal topological defects dictated by colloids and confinement Interplay of topologies of surfaces, fields, and defects probed using liquid crystals and colloids Experimental realization of Hopf vibration in liquid crystal director fields |
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| Name: | Telo da Gama, MM |
| Home Institution: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Date of visits: | 1 Mar - 30 Jun |
| Area of Expertise: | soft condensed matter physics |
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Possible titles for seminars: Nematic wetting of patterned substrates Nonequilibrium growth of patchy-colloid networks on substrates Bonding of liquid crystal boojum colloids |
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| Name: | Xing, X |
| Home Institution: | Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Date of visits: | 8 Jun - 30 Jun |
| Area of Expertise: | liquid crystals, rubber elasticity, charged systems |
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Possible titles for seminars: The nonlinear elasticity of rubbery materials Topological defects and morphology of liquid crystalline vesicles Poisson-Boltzmann theory and Beyond, exact solutions and asymptotics |
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