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Energy and the Environment

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 Spring 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 Brittany Leathers (bleathers@ucmerced.edu) or Nathan Willis (nwillis@ucmerced.edu) for more information or to register to the class.

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), Yessica Mares Barriga, and Daniela Pineda (Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Students) 

March 29: Cesar Chavez Holiday (no seminar)

April 5: Fluids in Yosemite Conference (no seminar)

April 12: Matt Blomquist and Scott West (Applied Mathematics Graduate Students)

April 19: Antonia Peters (Applied Mathematics Graduate Student) and Conor Olive (Applied Mathematics Undergraduate Student)

April 26: Sarah Malone (Applied Mathematics Graduate Student)

May 3: End of semester lunch

 

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 

December 11th, 2020
Eunji Yoo, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
 
December 4th, 2020
Shayna Benett, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
 
November 27th, 2020: Thanksgiving
No meeting
 
November 20th, 2020: DFD preparation
TBA
 

November 13th, 2020: DFD preparation

TBA
 
November 6th, 2020: DFD preparation
TBA
 
October 30th, 2020
Matteo Polimeno, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
 
October 23rd, 2020
Cayce Fylling, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
 
October 16th, 2020
Matea Santiago, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
 
October 9th, 2020: How to prepare a conference presentation?
Maxime Theillard, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
Shilpa Khatri, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
 
October 2nd, 2020
No meeting
 
September 25th, 2020
canceled 
 
September 18th, 2020
Reza Parsa, Post-doc, Applied Mathematics
 
September 11th, 2020 No meeting
 
 
September 4th, 2020
Adam Binswanger, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
 
August 28th, 2020
Organizational meeting
 
 

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

September 6th, 2019
Kevin Mitchell, Faculty, Physics
 
September 13th, 2019
Reza Parsa, Post-doc, Applied Mathematics
Jeremias Gonzales, Graduate student, Physics
 
September 20th, 2019
Shilpa Khatri, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
 
September 27th, 2019
Adam Binswanger, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
 
October 4th, 2019
Dustin Kleckner, Faculty, Physics
 
October 11th, 2019
Bin Liu, Faculty, Physics
 
October 18th, 2019
Eunji Yoo, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
Lori Lewis, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
 
October 25th, 2019
Shayna Bennett, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
Matea Santiago, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
 
November 1st, 2019
Arnold Kim, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
Title: Close evaluation of layer potentials in three dimensions
 
November 8th, 2019
Practice Talks for APS-DFD conference
 
November 15th, 2019
Practice Talks for APS-DFD conference
 
November 22nd, 2019
Elsie Cortes, Undergraduate, Applied Mathematics
Camille Carvalho, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
 
December 6th, 2019
Matteo Polimeno, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
Diego Tapia, Graduate student, Physics
 
December 13th, 2019
TBA