Upcoming Seminar:
Dynamics and Stability of Elastocapillary interactions
By Dr. Arnaud Antkowiak
l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France),
Monday 9th of December 2013 – 14:00 / Room ME B10 – abstract
Past Seminars:
The counter-propagating Rossby waves Perspective to shear flows
By Prof. Eyal Heifetz
Department of Geophysical Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
and
Department of Meteorology (MISU), Stockholm University,
Thursday 26th of September 2013 – 10.00 am till 12am – Room Nano BM 6204 – abstract
Asymptotics of Solutions and Artificial Boundary Conditions for a Basic Case of Fluid-Structure Interaction
By Dr. Christoph Boeckle
Theoretical Physics Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Tuesday 18th of June 2013 – 10.15 am – Room ME B331 – abstract
Wind Tunnel Studies of Shear-Stress Partitioning in Live Plant Canopies
Le lauréat du Prix Ryhming : Dr Benjamin Walter
Friday 26th of April 2013 – 11 :15 – Room ME B10 – abstract
Poking and Wrinkling of Sheets and Shells
By Dominic Vella
OCCAM – Oxford University, UK
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/vella
Tuesday 16th of April 2013 – 10:15 – Room MEB10
Poking an object is a useful way of testing its properties in a range of everyday applications from cooking meat to inflating a bicycle tyre. It is also used quantitatively in science to achieve the same thing. In this talk I will discuss what we can learn from poking pressurized elastic shells – a simple model of yeast cells. I will also show that poking can cause wrinkling and how the wrinkling pattern may be useful in its own right. This leads on to a more general discussion of wrinkling in systems with a large number of wrinkles.