Thin Films, < Fall 2005 >  

• Friday, September 9, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Group discussion (), Organizational Meeting

• Friday, September 16, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Thomas Witelski (Duke Math), An overview of the group's research history and further plans

• Friday, September 23, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Anne Catlla (Duke Math), Pattern formation in implusively forced Faraday waves

• Friday, September 30, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Alexander Oron (Technion), Long-wavelength thermocapillary instability with the Soret effect   [abstract]

• Friday, October 7, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Rachel Levy and Michael Gratton (), Deriving the surfactant transport euqation using only calculus

• Friday, October 14, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Michael Shearer (North Carolina State University, Mathematics), A first-order PDE describing particle-size segregation in granular avalanches'   [abstract]

• Friday, October 21, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Jie Zhang (Dept of Physics, Duke University), Thermal convection in a 2D soap film

• Friday, October 28, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Shomeek Mukhopadhyay (Duke University, Physics), Discussion of an article on surfactant driven dynamics   [abstract]

• Friday, November 4, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Michael Gratton (), Discussion of the following article: Contact Line Motion for Partially Wetting Fluid s by Jens Eggers   [abstract]

• Friday, November 11, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Shomeek Mukhopadhyay and Rachel Levy (), Practice Talks for DFD Conference

• Friday, November 18, 2005, 9:30am, Thin Films Seminar
  Damir B. Khismatullin (Duke University, Biomedical Engineering), Towards a computational model of leukocyte adhesion cascade: Leukocyte rolling   [abstract]