Tidlegare gjesteforelesninger og seminarer - Side 3

By Rike Stelkens from Stockholm University

Anton Souslov is an Associate Professor in the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He is a theoretical physicist whose research focuses on soft matter, mechanical and optical metamaterials, active matter, topology, and polymer physics. He obtained his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Florida State University in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. Before joining Cambridge in 2024, he held research and academic positions at Georgia Tech, Leiden University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Bath.

His research explores how the collective behaviour and structure of materials can give rise to unusual physical properties. His work spans active materials, mechanical metamaterials, topological systems, and, more recently, topological photonics and structured optical fibres. His research has been recognised through awards and grants including an EPSRC New Investigator Award and a Royal Society Research Grant. At Cambridge, he continues to investigate how concepts from topology and condensed-matter physics can be used to design novel materials and devices with potentially useful mechanical and optical properties. 

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We will give an introduction to constructive analysis following Errett Bishops book "Foundations of Constructive Analysis". We start by covering elementary real analysis, and the aim is to cover Chapter 5 on Complex Analysis. 

Speaker: Erlend F. Wold 

Lecture I: Introduction, and start on Chapter 2 in Bishop. 

Professor Ivan C. Christov is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics (by courtesy) at Purdue University. He leads research at the intersection of applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, and solid mechanics, with particular interests in soft hydraulics, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, multiphase and particulate flows, nonlinear waves, and computational and data-enabled science and engineering.

His research combines mathematical modeling, theoretical analysis, computation, and experiments to investigate complex fluid–structure interactions and transport phenomena, with applications spanning biomedical engineering, advanced materials, and micro- and nanotechnology.

Professor Christov received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2011, following degrees from Northwestern University, Texas A&M University, and MIT. His honors include the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, the NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and the Richard P. Feynman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Karen Mulleners is an associate professor in the institute of mechanical engineering in the school of engineering at EPFL. She is the head of the unsteady flow diagnostics laboratory (UNFoLD). She is an experimental fluid dynamicist who focuses on unfolding the origin and development of unsteady flow separation and vortex formation. Karen studied physics in Belgium (Hasselt University, previously Limburgs Universitair Centrum) and the Netherlands (TU Eindhoven). She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from the Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany in 2010 for her work on dynamic stall on pitching airfoils that she conducted as a member of the German aerospace centre (DLR) in Göttingen. Before joining EPFL in 2016, Karen was a (non-tenure track) assistant professor at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany. 

Please visit her webpage for more details. 

C*-algebra seminar by Alina Vdovina (Graduate Center and City College, the City University of New York)

Cassandra Durr is a PhD candidate at the STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training at Lancaster University, UK. Her research focuses on non-linear system identification through equation discovery of physical systems, with an emphasis on epidemic modelling. Cassandra holds a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Sciences and postgraduate degrees in Mathematical Statistics, and Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence.

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Jonathan C. Tan, Professor, SEE, Chalmers University; Research Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Virginia.

Professor Anke Lindner is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on the physics of complex fluids, suspensions, active matter, and fluid–structure interactions. Her research combines innovative microfluidic experiments, microfabrication techniques, and particle-tracking methods to uncover how microscopic dynamics govern the macroscopic behavior of flowing materials. Her work has advanced our understanding of phenomena ranging from non-Newtonian fluids and rheology to bacterial suspensions, flexible fibers in flow, and active fluids.

After studying physics in Germany, she earned her PhD from the École Normale Supérieure in 2000, focusing on interfacial instabilities in complex fluids. She subsequently held positions at ESPCI Paris and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, before becoming Professor at Université Paris Cité.

Her achievements have been recognized with numerous distinctions, including an ERC Consolidator Grant, the Maurice Couette Prize of the French Society of Rheology, election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the prestigious CNRS Silver Medal. More recently, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology and serves as President of the European Society of Rheology.

To get more flavor of her research please check out her webpage. 

Lectures by Dr. Maëva Gabrielli, from the University of Toulouse, France, and Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich from Uppsala University, Sweden

Erik Rosenberg, Research Associate at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester (UK)

C*-seminar by Ebrahim Samei (University of Saskatchewan).

Professor Christopher MacMinn is a Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and leads the Poromechanics Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that brings together engineers, physicists, mathematicians, and earth scientists. His work focuses on the mechanics of fluids and soft materials, particularly how fluids flow through and deform porous materials such as soils, biological tissues, gels, and subsurface rock formations.

Professor MacMinn earned his SB, SM, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked with Ruben Juanes on the fluid mechanics of geological carbon dioxide sequestration. He later held a postdoctoral position at Yale University where he worked with John Wettlaufer and Eric Dufresne, researching the deformation of porous and granular materials.

His research combines mathematical modeling with laboratory experiments to address challenges in energy, environmental science, soft materials, and biomedical engineering. Recent work from his group has advanced understanding of fluid-driven deformation, gas migration in soft materials, carbon storage, and multiphase flow in porous media.

To read more about him please check out his webpage.

The Bernstein–Khovanskii–Kushnirenko (BKK) theorem gives a way to count the non-zero solutions of a system of polynomial equations using geometric objects called Newton polytopes. It can be seen as a refinement of Bézout’s theorem. One particularly nice proof of this result uses ideas from tropical geometry, where complicated algebraic problems can be translated into simpler, combinatorial ones. In this talk, I will explain the BKK theorem and sketch its proof using tropical geometry. I will also describe joint work with Andrés Jaramillo Puentes, where we extend this result to more general base fields, not just algebraically closed ones. This leads to a meaningful way to count solutions in a broader setting, again using tropical methods.

By Emeritus Professor Hamish G. Spencer from the Department of Zoology, University of Otago

Professor Jacques Magnaudet is a Senior Research Scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a leading member of the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), France. His research lies at the forefront of fluid mechanics, with internationally recognized contributions to hydrodynamics, turbulence, multiphase flows, and interfacial phenomena.

Over the course of his career, Prof. Magnaudet has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of bubbles, drops, and particles in complex flows, including their interactions with turbulence, vortices, walls, stratification, and rotating environments. His work combines theoretical analysis, high-fidelity numerical simulations, and close collaborations with experimental researchers.

He is widely known for developing predictive models and computational tools for two-phase and turbulent flows, including the in-house JADIM simulation code used for direct numerical simulations of complex fluid systems.

Prof. Magnaudet’s work has had broad scientific and engineering impact, with applications ranging from nuclear safety, chemical engineering, and aerospace systems to ocean-atmosphere interactions, drag reduction, volcanology, and environmental flows. His recent studies on bubble path instabilities, stratified turbulence, and interfacial dynamics continue to shape modern research in multiphase fluid mechanics.