AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 11, 2009 00:27:58

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday April 4, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Progress and Challenges for Biological Materials, I
Room 317, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Mansoor A. Haider, North Carolina State University m_haider@ncsu.edu
Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 9:00 a.m.
  Transient Anomalous Diffusion in Soft Matter: An Exactly Solvable Model.
  Scott McKinley*, Duke University
  M. Gregory Forest, UNC-Chapel Hill
  Lingxing Yao, University of Utah
  (1048-60-344)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the Stability of Active Suspensions.
  Christel Hohenegger*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  Michael J Shelley, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  (1048-76-296)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Nanofluid Flow in Bio-MEMS.
  Clement Kleinstreuer*, NC State University
  Jie Li, NC State University
  (1048-76-180)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Modeling blood flow and pressure-area dynamics in arteries.
  Mette S. Olufsen*, North Carolina State University
  (1048-92-236)

Saturday April 4, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Progress and Challenges for Biological Materials, II
Room 317, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Mansoor A. Haider, North Carolina State University m_haider@ncsu.edu
Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 2:30 p.m.
  Models of the Human Tear Film During the Blink Cycle.
  Richard J Braun*, University of Delaware
  (1048-76-77)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Application of the viscoelastic Volume-of-Fluid algorithm to biological systems.
  Damir B. Khismatullin*, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University
  (1048-92-367)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The structure of fish fins.
  Silas Alben*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1048-74-73)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Continuum-microscopic computation of biological material mechanical properties.
  Sorin M. Mitran*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1048-70-234)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Advances in computational methods for soft-tissue biomechanics.
  Padmanabhan Seshaiyer*, George Mason University
  (1048-65-304)

Sunday April 5, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Progress and Challenges for Biological Materials, III
Room 317, Riddick Hall
Organizers:
Mansoor A. Haider, North Carolina State University m_haider@ncsu.edu
Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- 9:00 a.m.
  Continuum mixture models of cell-matrix mechanics in articular cartilage.
  Mansoor A. Haider*, N.C. State University
  Eunjung Kim, N.C. State University
  Farshid Guilak, Dept. of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center
  (1048-92-255)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stochastic Dynamics of Cell Signaling and Cell Motility.
  Garegin A Papoian*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Pavel Zhuravlev, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1048-60-263)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An electromechanical model of myocardial contraction in the embryonic heart tube.
  Laura A Miller*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1048-92-258)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Hydrodynamics and Rheology of Active Particle Suspensions.
  Zhenlu Cui*, Fayetteville State University
  (1048-76-40)

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