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Fluid Mechanics in Living Systems

  • Skylight room 365 5th Avenue New York, NY, 10016 United States (map)

Friday, 31 January, 2025
10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Skylight room


Life has been a source of interesting fluid mechanics problems for more than a century.  There has been a renaissance in the subject, and we will sample exciting recent work on the design principles of ciliary flows, cytoplasmic movements in a developing embryo, and the strategies used by fish to sense flow in their surroundings. Speakers will be Eva Kanso, USC; Matt McHenry, UC Irvine; and Massimo Vergasolla, ENS. Lectures will be accessible to students and there will be plenty of time for informal discussion.


10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee and bagels

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Mechanics, sensing, and control in fish swimming
Matthew McHenry
University of California at Irvine

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Flow physics drives morphological adaptations in ciliates
Eva Adnan Kanso
University of Southern California and Princeton University

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Break

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Cytoplasmic fluid dynamics
Massimo Vergasolla
École Normale Supérieure


This event is sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of the CUNY Graduate Center and Princeton University.