Virtual Seminars

1. Dr. Verónica C. Martins (INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal)

• Date: April 8, 2021
• Time: 9:00-10:00am
• Seminar title: Biosensors for the point-of-care diagnostics
• Website: https://sites.google.com/site/inescmn/people/vernica-martins

2. Dr. Simon Rogers

• Date: April 19, 2021
• Time: 9:00-10:00
• Seminar details: A material’s perspective: Developing a transient framework for understanding nonlinear rheological responses
• Website: https://chbe.illinois.edu/directory/profile/sarogers/

3. Prof. Gaetano Scamarcio

• Date: May 10, 2021
• Time: 16:00-17:00
• Seminar details: Bio-functionalized interfaces for molecule detection at the physical limit
• Website: https://www.uniba.it/docenti/scamarcio-gaetano

4. Prof. Vivek Sharma

• Date: July 19, 2021
• Time: 9:00-10:00
• Seminar details: Stretched Polymer Physics, Extensional Rheology and Free Surface Flows
• Website: https://che.uic.edu/profiles/vivek-sharma/

5. Dr. Bavand Keshavarz

• Date: Aug 16, 2021
• Time: 09:00-10:00
• Seminar details: Time–connectivity superposition and the gel/glass duality of weak colloidal gels
• Website: http://web.mit.edu/bavand/www/

6. Prof. Chandi Sasmal

• Date: Aug 30, 2021
• Time: 15:00-16:00
• Seminar details: Elastic instabilities and bifurcations in flows of wormlike micellar solutions: a numerical perspective with two-species constitutive model for wormlike micelles
• Website: https://sites.google.com/view/chandisasmal/home?authuser=0

6. Prof. Jacinta C. Conrad

• Date: Sep 6, 2021
• Time: 09:00-10:00
• Seminar details: Transport of nanoparticles in polymer solutions
• Website: http://conradlab.chee.uh.edu

7. Dr. Olivier Mesdjian

• Date: Oct 25, 2021
• Time: 16:00-17:00
• Seminar details: Longitudinal to transverse metachronal wave transitions in an in-vitro model of ciliated bronchial epithelium
• Website: https://www.cinam.univ-mrs.fr/cinam/en/team/physique-et-nano-micro-ingenierie-pour-le-vivant/

8. Prof. Arezoo Ardekani

• Date: Nov 1, 2021
• Time: 09:00-10:00
• Seminar details: Viscoelastic fluids through porous media: flow instability and particle transport
• Website: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ComplexFlowLab/

9. Dr. Antonio Minopoli

• Date: Nov 2, 2021
• Time: 16:30-17:30
• Seminar details: Plasmonic nanostructures for optical biosensing

10. Ricardo López

• Date: Nov 18, 2021
• Time: 16:00-17:00
• Seminar details: Marangoni effect and phase separation of mixtures within a Hele-Shaw cell

11. Prof. Chao Sun

• Date: Jan 12, 2022
• Time: 16:00-17:00
• Seminar details: Explosive boiling of drops near a solid surface and inside a turbulent flow
• Website: https://www.cce.tsinghua.edu.cn/info/1005/2118.htm

12. Dr. Davide Michieletto

• Date: Jan 24, 2022
• Time: 17:00-18:00
• Seminar details: Topologically Active Polymers
• Website: https://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~dmichiel/

13. Assistant Prof. Andrew Gibbons

• Date: Feb 7, 2022
• Time: 15:30-16:30
• Seminar details: Printing Porosity in Thin Film Polymers
• Website: https://pureosity.org/en/are-you-pureous/

14. Prof. Gareth H. McKinley

• Date: Feb 25, 2022
• Time: 10:00-11:00
• Seminar details: Gaborheometry: Applications of the Gabor Transform to Time-Resolved Oscillatory Rheometry
• Website: https://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/GARETH@MIT.EDU

15. Dr. Cesare M. Cejas

• Date: Mar 7, 2022
• Time: 17:00-18:30
• Seminar details: Universal diagram for the kinetics of particle deposition in microchannels
• Website: https://www.microfluidx.co.uk/

16. Prof. Yogesh M Joshi

• Date: Mar 22, 2022
• Time: 16:00-17:00
• Seminar details: Analysis of Thixotropy
• Website: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~joshi/