Complex Fluids Engineering Seminar Series

The Complex Fluids Engineering Center at CMU sets aside Mondays at lunch time to hear about the latest research from a variety of soft materials and complex fluids engineering researchers. These seminars are informal, involve lots of conversation, and are a great chance to get together with like-minded lovers of complex fluids. The series is organized by PhD students in the department and focuses on early career researchers, CFE alumni, and friends. Series organizers: Jeremy Kach and Olivia Haider.

Contact the organizers to be added to the email list.

Summer 2022

6/24 Dr. Vignesh Thammanna Gurumurthy, Carnegie Mellon University, "Spontaneous and Forced Wetting in a Square Capillary"

8/8 Dr. Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Princeton University, "Active Emulsions: Physicochemical Hydrodynamics and Collective Behavior"

8/15 Dr. Michael Davidson, PPG, "Developing chemistry-infused formulation models for Architectural Paints"

Spring 2022

3/25 Dr. Ramalingam Kailasham, Carnegie Mellon University, "The influence of internal friction on dilute polymer solution dynamics"

4/22 Dr. Enrique A. López-Guajardo, Carnegie Mellon University, "Process Intensification: Fundamentals and Applications in Multiphasic Systems"

Summer 2021

7/16 Dr. Corine Jackman, Carnegie Mellon University, "Adapting a microfluidic platform to elucidate bacterial communication in the vaginal and respiratory tract"

7/23 Dr. Debasish Das, Strathclyde University, "Electrohydrodynamics of drops in strong electric fields"

8/6 Dr. Nicholas Chisholm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, "Interfacial Hydrodynamic Multipoles, their Comparison to Experiment and Open Issues"

8/13 Dr. Rajarshi Sengupta, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Phase-field simulations to quantify phase-separating soft materials"

Spring 2021

2/5 Dr. Sam Winslow, LiquiGlide, "Lead Sulfide Nanocrystal Ligand Structure and Its Influence on Superlattice Self-Assembly”

3/26 Prof. Jae Sung Park, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Dynamics and rheology of conductive particles in concentrated suspensions under an electric field"

4/2 Dr. Reza Rock, PPG, "Challenges and Opportunities in Coatings Technology"

4/9 Dr. Sarah Feicht, ExxonMobil, "Algae Biofuels Path to Commercialization"

4/16 Prof. Ankur Gupta, University of Colorado-Boulder, "Charging Dynamics of Supercapacitors: Effect of Overlapping Double Layers and Ion-Ion Correlations”

4/30 Dr. Kathleen Weigandt, NIST, "RheoSANS: Development of Simultaneous Structure and Rheology Measurements for Soft Materials"

Fall 2020

10/30 Prof. Danielle Mai, Stanford University, "Stretching Dynamics of Topologically Complex Polymers”

11/6 Dr. Benjamin Yezer, Johnson & Johnson, "Colloids in the pharmaceutical industry"

11/13 Prof. Michelle Calabrese, University of Minnesota, "Beyond alignment: new mechanisms for controlling block copolymer self-assembly via magnetic fields"

12/4 Prof. Amanda Marciel, Rice University, "Biomimetic model polymers for natural and synthetic soft matter"

12/11 Prof. Min Pack, Baylor University, "Drop impact dynamics on thin films"