Fall 2002

Average Attendance 36.77

9/13 Granick, University of Illinois, Slippery Questions, from Microfluidics to Nanofluidics

9/20 Mackay, Michigan State University, Nanoparticles and how they affect the dynamics of linear polymers

9/27 Basaran, Purdue, Micro-scale flows exhibiting singularity formation, interface rupture, and unexpected dynamics

10/4 Solomon, University of Michigan, Diffusion and hydrodynamic interaction of colloidal particles in polymer solutions

10/11 Kumar, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Dynamics of miscible polymer blends

10/25 Maginn, University of Notre Dame, A molecular simulation study of dilute gas wall slip in nanopores

11/1 Prud’homme, Princeton University, Polymer-Surfactant Mesophases: Structure, Rheology, and Reaction Templating

11/8 Grest, Sandia National Laboratory, Rheology of Gravity Driven Granular Flow

11/15 Winokur, University of Wisconsin, Surprising structure/property relationships in electronic polymers

11/22 Lakes, University of Wisconsin, Tissue Mechanics

12/6 Lucey, University of Wisconsin, Recent Progress in Cheese Rheology Related to Melting

12/13 Crone, University of Wisconsin, Plastic Deformation at a Notch Tip in Ductile Single Crystal Metals: The Influence of Crystallographic Orientation, Initial Yield, and Hardening