The Fluid Mechanics seminars are held on Fridays, 3:00-4:00pm, during the academic year, in the Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall, Room 101 Guggenheim Laboratory (#45 on the Caltech Campus Map), except as noted in the schedule. Refreshments are served in the Guggenheim Foyer following the seminar, from 4:00-4:45pm.

The schedule of seminars for this year is given below. The abstract for each seminar can be viewed by selecting the title. A brief biographical note on the speaker can be viewed by selecting the speaker's name.

Date	Name	Institution
3 October	Michael Brenner Professor	Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University
	Velocity Fluctuations in Sedimentation
10 October	Alex Mahalov Professor	Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Arizona State University
	Variability of Turbulence and its Outer Scales in a Nonuniformly Stratified Tropopause Jet
17 October	Ömer Savas Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering Univerity of California, Berkeley
	Instabilities of Wake Vortices
24 October	Bjorn Stevens Associate Professor	Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of California, Los Angeles
	Entrainment and Stratocumulus-Topped Mixed Layers
31 October	Rayhaneh Akhavan Associate Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Michigan
	Molecular Suppression of Turbulence: Physics and Computation of Drag Reduction by Dilute Polymer Solutions
7 November	James Riley Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Washington
	On Instabilities and Turbulence in Strongly Stratified Flows
14 November	GALCIT 75th Anniversary Laboratory tours 1 - 5PM
21 November	Tapio Schneider Assistant Professor	Department of Environmental Science and Engineering California Institute of Technology
	Potential Vorticity Dynamics of Stratified Flows: From Mountain Wakes to the Macroturbulence of the Atmosphere
28 November	Thanksgiving Break - No Seminar
5 December	Luminita Danaila Assistant Professor	CORIA University of Rouen
	Velocity and Passive Scalar Statistics in Moderate Reynolds Numbers Sheared Turbulence
12 December - 2 January	Winter Break - No Seminars
Second Quarter 2004 Seminars
Date	Name	Institution
9 January	Michael Macrossan Senior Lecturer	Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Queensland
	Viscosity of Argon at Temperatures > 2,000 K from Measured Shock Thickness
16 January	Robert Moser Professor	Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	A Reformulation of the Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence
23 January	Petros Koumoutsakos Professor	Institute of Computational Sciences ETH Zurich
	Stochastic Flow Optimization
30 January	Theodore Shepherd Professor	Department of Physics University of Toronto
	Wave-Vortex Interactions and Implications for Mixing in the Middle Atmosphere
6 February	Eric Wintenberger Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Application of Steady and Unsteady Detonation Waves to Propulsion
13 February	Habib Najm	Combustion Research Facility Sandia National Laboratories
	Uncertainty Quantification in Reacting Flow Modeling
20 February	William R.C. Phillips Professor	Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	Langmuir Circulation: An Upper Ocean Wave-Boundary-Layer Instability
27 February	Eric Cummings	Microfluidics & Microsystems Engineering Sandia National Laboratories
	Rational Design of Dielectrophoretic and Electrokinetic Particle Filter/Concentrators
5 March	Sarah Gille Assistant Professor	Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego
	Climate and Dynamics in the Southern Ocean: A Lagrangian Perspective
12 March - 26 March	Spring Break - No Seminars
Third Quarter 2004 Seminars
2 April	Ralf Deiterding Postdoctoral Scholar	Center for Advanced Computing Research Caltech
	Adaptive Multilevel Discretizations for Computational Fluid Dynamics
9 April	Rodney Bowersox Associate Professor	Department of Aerospace Engineering Texas A&M University
	Characterization and Control of Vorticity in High-Speed Jet Interaction Flows
16 April	David Hill Postdoctoral Scholar	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Large-Eddy Simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability with Re-Shock Using the Stretched-Vortex SGS Model
23 April	Peter Vorobieff Assistant Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering University of New Mexico
	Experimental Studies of Shock-Driven Instabilities
30 April	Gerard O'Reilly Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Compressible Vortices and Shock-Vortex Interactions
7 May	Claudia Pasquero Senior Research Fellow in Oceanography	Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences Caltech
	Vertical Mixing of Heavy Particles in Turbulent Clouds
14 May	Paul O'Gorman Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Theory and Simulation of Passive Scalar Mixing in the Presence of a Mean Scalar Gradient
21 May	Matthew Ringuette Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Vortex formation and drag on low aspect ratio, normal flat plates
28 May	Lars Bildsten Professor	Department of Physics University of California, Santa Barbara
	Extreme Fluid Dynamics of White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars

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