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.