The Energy and the Environment seminar can be taken for course credit and used to be known as the Fluids seminar. It now has an extended reach.
For the Fall 2024 semester, seminars will take place on Fridays from 12:30pm to 1:30pm in ACS 362B. If there is a need for it, we will establish a remote option as well
Contact François Blanchette (fblanchette@ucmerced.edu) for more information or to register to the class.
Schedule for Fall 2024:
August 30: Organizational meeting
September 6: Sarah Malone, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
September 13: Preparing and Presenting a Poster discussion session, lead by Changho Kim, Applied Mathematics Professor
September 20: Jack Pham and Scott West, Applied Mathematics Graduate Students
September 27: Job talk and interview preparation discussion session, lead by François Blanchette, Applied Mathematics Professor
October 4: Alex Ho, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
October 11: SIAM NCC 2024 conference
October 18: Nathan Willis, Applied Mathematics Postdoc
October 25: Cayce Fylling, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
November 1: Diego Tapia Silva, Kevin Collins, Physics Graduate Student
November 8: Adam Binswanger, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
November 15: APS-DFD practice talks
November 22: APS-DFD practice talks
December 6: Visiting student from Arvind Gopinath's group, Bio-Engineering
December 13: Fluid lunch
Schedule for Spring 2024:
January 19: Organizational meeting
January 26: Discussion on applying for jobs
February 2: Nathan Willis (Applied Mathematics Visiting Assistant Professor)
February 9: Matteo Polimeno (Applied Mathematics Graduate Students)
February 16: Teamrat Ghezzehei (Life and Environmental Sciences Professor)
February 23: Dustin Kleckner (Physics Assistant Professor)
March 1: Cancelled
March 8: Alex Ho and Adam Binswanger (Applied Mathematics Graduate Students)
March 15: Cole Cooper (Physics Graduate Student)
March 22: Cayce Fylling (Applied Mathematics Graduate Student)
March 29: Cesar Chavez Holiday (no seminar)
April 5: Fluids in Yosemite Conference (no seminar)
April 12: Scott West (Applied Mathematics Graduate Student)
April 19: Cancelled
April 26: Yessica Mares Barriga, Daniela Pineda (Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Students) and Conor Olive (Applied Mathematics Undergraduate Student)
May 3: Central Valley Regional SIAM Student Chapter Conference (no seminar).
PREVIOUS SEMESTERS
Schedule for Fall 2023:
August 25: Organizational meeting
September 1: Identifying concrete efforts to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Shilpa Khatri, Applied Mathematics Faculty
September 8: Pat Sprenger, Applied Mathematics Visiting Assistant Professor
September 15: Matteo Polimeno and Scott West, Applied Mathematics Graduate Students
September 22: Linda Hirst, Physics Faculty
September 29: Matt Blomqvist, Applied Mathematics Graduate Students
October 6: Alex Ho and Adam Binswanger, Applied Mathematics Graduate Students
October 13: Cole Cooper and Kevin Collins, Physics Graduate Students
October 20: De Zhen Zhou, Physics Graduate Students and Steve Williams, Applied Mathematics Postdoc
October 27: Brittany Leathers, Applied Mathematics Postdoc
November 3: APS-DFD practice talks
November 10: Veterans Day
November 17: APS-DFD practice talks
November 24: Day after Thanksgiving
December 1: Diego Tapia Physics Graduate Student and Jack Pham, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
December 8: The publishing process and survey of Fluids Journals, François Blanchette, Applied Mathematics Faculty
Schedule for Spring 2023:
January 20: Organizational meeting
January 27: Conversation on best practices to promote diversity and inclusion
February 3: Nathan Willis, Applied Math Visiting Assistant Professor (postdoc)
February 10: Cole Cooper, Physics Graduate Student
February 17: Mahdi Ghadiri Motlagh, shared Physics and Applied Mathematics Postdoc
February 24: Discussion on the writing and publishing porcesses of scientific articles
March 3: Eunji Yoo, Applied Math Grad Student and François Blanchette, Applied Math Faculty, and Jeremias Gonzales, Physics Graduate Student
March 10: Edward Lu, Applied Math Undergraduate Student and Diego Tapia Silva, Physics Graduate Student
March 17: Graduate Visitation Weekend
March 24: Sarah Downs, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
March 31: Cesar Chávez Day, Activist
April 7: Doug Durian, Physics Professor, University of Pennsylvania (Exceptionally in GRAN 135)
April 14: SIAM Undergaduate conference
April 21: Matt Blomqvist, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student and Alex Ho, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student
April 28: Adam Binswanger, Applied Mathematics Graduate Student and De Zhou, Physics Graduate Student
May 5: Brittany Leathers, Applied Mathematics Postdoc
Schedule for Fall 2022:
August 26: Organizational meeting
September 2: Eunji Yoo, Applied Mathematics graduate student
September 9: Matteo Polimeno, Applied Mathematics graduate student
September 16: De Zhen Zhou, Physics graduate student
September 23: Matthew Blomquist, Applied Mathematics graduate student
September 30: Changho Kim, Applied Mathematics faculty
October 7: Maxime Theillard, Applied Mathematics faculty
October 14: Alex Ho, Applied Mathematics graduate student
October 21: Brittany Leathers, Applied Mathematics Postdoc
October 28: Bin Liu (or his representative), Physics faculty
November 4: Scott West, Applied Mathematics graduate student
November 11: Veteran's Day
November 18: Sarah Downs, Applied Mathematics graduate student
November 25: Thanksgiving
December 2: Diego Tapia Silva,Physics graduate student
December 9: Cayce Fylling, Applied Mathematics graduate student
Schedule for Spring 2022:
January 21: Organizational meeting
January 28: No seminar
February 4: No seminar
February 11: Internships applications and preparation session
February 18: Social discussion to feel better about life in general
February 25: Eunji Yoo, Applied Mathematics graduate student
March 4: Changho Kim, Applied Mathematics faculty
March 11: No seminar
March 18: No seminar (preparation for Spring break)
March 25: Cesar Chavez Day
April 1: Matthew Blomquist, Applied Mathematics graduate student and
Alex Ho, Applied Mathematics graduate student
April 8: Matteo Polimeno, Applied Mathematics graduate student
April 15: Adam Binswanger, Applied Mathematics graduate student and
De Zhen Zhou, Physics graduate student
April 22: No seminar
April 29: Diego Tapia Silva,Physics graduate student.
May 6: Shayna Bennett, Applied Mathematics graduate student and
Sarah Downs, Applied Mathematics graduate student
Schedule for Fall 2021:
Septermber 3: Organizational meeting
Septermber 10: Shayna Bennett, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
Septermber 17: Adam Binswanger, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics and De Zhen Zhou, Graduate student, Physics
Septermber 24: Matteo Polimeno, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
October 1: Kevin Mitchell, Faculty, Physics
October 8: Matthew Blomquist and Sarah Downs, Graduate students, Applied Mathematics
October 15: Bin Liu, Faculty, Physics
October 22: François Blanchette, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
October 29: Alex Ho and Eunji Yoo, Graduate students, Applied Mathematics
November 5: Cole Cooper, Graduate student, Physics
November 12: APS-DFD practice talks
November 19: APS-DFD practice talks
December 3: Diego Tapia Silva and Jane Garcia, Graduate students, Physics
December 10: Eric Eibeck, Undergraduate student, Applied Mathematics
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For the Spring 2021 semester, seminars will take place on Fridays from 12:30pm to 1:30pm.
Contact Prof. Khatri (skhatri3@ucmerced.edu) for more information to register to class.
Group Meeting Schedule for Spring 2021 - Fridays 12:30-1:30pm
January 22: Organizational meeting
January 29: Matea Santiago, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
February 5: François Blanchette, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
February 12: Matteo Polimeno, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics - draft of a poster
February 19: Graduate Visitation Weekend
February 26: Changho Kim, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
March 5: March meeting talk - Cayce Filling and Anna Kucherova, Graduate Students, Applied Mathematics
March 12: Stefan Faaland, Undergraduate, Physics
March 19: Diego Tapia Silva, Graduate student, Physics
March 26: SPRING BREAK
April 2: Bin Liu, Faculty, Physics
April 9: Adam Binswanger, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
April 16: De Zhen Zhou, Graduate student, Physics
April 23: Eunji Yoo, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
April 30: Shayna Bennett, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
May 7: TBD
The Energy and The Environment track course credit is combined of two topical seminars: the Fluids seminar, and Boundary Integral Equataions seminars.
For the Fall 2020 semester, seminars will take place on Fridays from 12:30pm to 1:30pm.
Contact Prof. Theillard (mtheillard@ucmerced.edu) for more information to register to class.
Group Meeting Schedule for Fall 2020 - Fridays 12:30-1:30pm
November 13th, 2020: DFD preparation
Group Meeting Schedule for Spring 2020 - Fridays 12:30-1:30pm
January 31st, 2020
Scientific Paper writing conversation, led by Francois Blanchette, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
February 7th, 2020
Arvind Gopinath, Faculty, Bio-Engineering
February 14th, 2020
Bin Liu, Faculty, Physics
February 21th, 2020
Graduate Visitation
February 28th, 2020
Jeremias Gonzales, Graduate student, Physics
Pooja Chopra, Graduate student, Physics
March 6th, 2020
No talk because of the March Meeting
March 13th, 2020
Reza Parsa, Postdoc, Applied Mathematics
March 20th, 2020
Matea Santiago, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
March 27th, 2020
Cesar Chavez, Activist
April 3rd, 2020
Shayna Bennett, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
April 10th, 2020
Eunji Yoo, Graduate Student, Applied Mathematics
De Zhen Zhou, Graduate Student, Physics
April 17th, 2020
SIAM Chapter Regional conference
April 24th, 2020
Adam Binswanger, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
Cole Cooper, Graduate student, Physics
May 1st, 2020
Mateo Polimeno, Graduate student, Applied Mathematicss
Diego Tapia Silva, Graduate student, Physics
May 8th, 2020
Social Event TBD
Group Meeting Schedule for Fall 2019 - Fridays 1:30-2:30pm ACS-362B
