Seminars and Posters
2009
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Moving walls accelerate mixing.
Talk at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 23 November 2009.
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Braids of entangled particle trajectories.
Seminar at the Dept. of Mathematics, University of Minnesota – Twin
Cities, Minneapolis, MN, 9 November 2009.
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The cat's cradle, stirring, and topological complexity.
Seminar at the Dept. of Mathematics, St. Olaf College,
Northfield, MN, 3 November 2009.
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Stirring by swimming bodies.
Seminar at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT,
Boston, MA, 27 October 2009.
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Braids of entangled particle trajectories.
Seminar at the Dept. of Mathematics, Boston University,
Boston, MA, 26 October 2009.
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Stirring and Mixing: Topology, Optimization,
and Walls. Seminar at the Institute for Mathematics and Applications,
Minneapolis, MN, 23 September 2009.
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Topological dynamics: Probing dynamical systems
using loops.
Chaos/Xaoc Anniversary Conference, National Academy of Science,
Woods Hole, MA, 26 July 2009.
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pseudo-Anosovs in the real world.
Bouillabaisse Seminar, H. Masur 60th Birthday Conference, CIRM,
Luminy, France, 25 June 2009.
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Orbits that Stir.
Talk at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems,
Snowbird, Utah, 20 May 2009.
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Stirring, Topology, and the Simplest Maps.
Seminar at the Department of Mathematics, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL, 5 April 2009.
2008
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Topology of Chaotic Mixing Patterns.
Talk at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 24 November 2008.
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Stirring and Mixing: Topology, Optimization,
and those Pesky Walls. Seminar at the
Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, 14 October 2008.
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Topology of Surfaces and the Stirring of
Fluids.
Seminar at the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI, 26 September 2008.
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Speeding Up Mixing with Moving Walls. Talk at the
International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics,
Adelaide, Australia, 28 August 2008. See also the
proceedings paper.
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The Role of Walls in Chaotic Mixing.
Seminar at the School of Mathematics, University of Adelaide, Australia,
22 August 2008.
Lecture Notes
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Mixing Hits a Wall.
Talk at the Summer Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,
Woods Hole, MA, 30 June 2008.
Lecture Notes
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The Role of Walls in Chaotic Mixing: Experimental Results. Talk at the
second Canada–France Congress, Montréal,
Canada, 3 June 2008.
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Optimizing the Source Distribution in Fluid Mixing. Seminar at the
IPAM and Department of Mathematics, University of California,
Los Angeles, 28 May 2008. [Part 1]
[Part 2]
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Stirring and Mixing: Topology, Optimization,
and those Pesky Walls. Seminar at the
Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 12 February 2008.
2007
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Stirring and Mixing: Topology, Optimization,
and those Pesky Walls. Pritchard Lab Seminar, Penn State University,
10 December 2007.
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Stirring and Mixing: A Mathematician's
Viewpoint. Rheology Research Center Lecture, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, 7 December 2007. See a movie of the lecture
(170MB).
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The Role of Walls in Chaotic Mixing:
Experimental Results. Talk at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 November 2007.
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Optimizing the Source Distribution in
Fluid Mixing. Talk at ICIAM (International Congress on Industrial
and Applied Mathematics), Zurich, Switzerland, 19 July 2007.
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A Topological Theory of Rod Stirring.
Talk at the Chaos, Complexity, and Transport Conference, Le Pharo,
Marseille, 8 June 2007.
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Aspects Topologiques du Mélange.
Séminaire au Centre de Physique Théorique, Université
de Provence, Luminy, 7 Mars 2007.
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A Topological Theory of Stirring.
Seminar at the Department of Mathematics, Queen Mary University,
6 February 2007.
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A Topological Theory of Stirring.
Seminar at the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester,
31 January 2007.
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A Topological Theory of Stirring.
Seminar at the BP Institute for Multiphase Flows, University of Cambridge,
26 January 2007.
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A Topological Theory of Stirring.
Seminar at the Department of Mathematics,
University of Sydney, 22 January 2007.