Invited Speakers
 Stephen J. Cowley Cambridge |
Bio not available at this time. |
 Darren Crowdy Imperial College |
Professor Darren Crowdy holds a Chair in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London. He obtained his PhD from Caltech in 1998 working under the supervision of Philip Saffman and Saleh Tanveer (who also gained his PhD under Philip's supervision). He then spent two years as an Instructor in the Mathematics Department at MIT and has returned there, as a Visiting Professor, several times since. In 2004, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Mathematics for his work in applied complex analysis. In 2005, Prof. Crowdy became an Advanced Fellow of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the UK. He is currently a Visiting Associate at Caltech until September 2009. Website: http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~dgcrowdy/ |
 Paul Dimotakis Caltech |
Bio not available at this time. |
 James Gleeson University of Limerick, Ireland |
James Gleeson was Philip Saffman's last PhD student, graduating from Caltech in 1999. Following a one-year postdoc in Arizona State University, he returned to Ireland to take up another postdoctoral position in University College Cork. In 2001 he was appointed to a lecturer position (later a senior lecturer ) in Cork. Since September 2007 he has held the Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics at the University of Limerick. He has published over 30 journal papers, and his current research interests include stochastic dynamics, complex systems and modeling of large-scale networks. Further information is available on his homepage: http://www.ul.ie/gleesonj. |
 Javier Jiménez Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain |
Javier Jiménez was born in Spain, and received the degree of Aeronautical Engineer by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1969. He received a Master in Aeronautics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics by Caltech in 1973. After returning to Spain, to work as a research scientist at the IBM Scientific Centre in Madrid, he became professor of Fluid Mechanics at the School of Aeronautics of the U. P. Madrid. He has also been professor of Mechanics at the E. Polytechnique in Palaiseau, FR, and is a regular visitor to the Centre for Turbulence Research at Stanford University. Shorter visits include the Dept. of Applied Mathematics at Caltech and the International Newton Institute at the U. Cambridge. He has worked on several areas of fluid mechanics, turbulence, large-scale numerical simulation, and image processing. He is a member of the Spanish Academy of Engineering, and of the Spanish Academy of Sciences. |
 Tom Lundgren University of Minnesota |
Bio not available at this time. |
 Mark Saffman University of Wisconsin |
Mark Saffman grew up in Pasadena and received his B.Sc. from Caltech in Applied Physics. He spent a number of years engaged in world travel and industrial research, working on development of laser based instruments for fluid and particle diagnostics. He then received a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder working in the area of nonlinear optics. He is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research interests center on experimental quantum information processing with neutral atoms and nonlinear atom-optics. In 2001, he received a Sloan Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of The American Physical Society. http://hexagon.physics.wisc.edu/ |
 Howard Stone Harvard |
Bio not available at this time. |
