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SUMMARY:Poking and Wrinkling of Sheets and Shells
DTSTART:20130416T101500
DTSTAMP:20260609T230441Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By Dr. Dominic Vella\, University of Oxford\nBio: I am a Unive
 rsity Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute in the
  University of Oxford and a tutorial fellow at Lincoln College. Within the
  Mathematical Institute\, I am affiliated to OCCAM and OCIAM.\nPreviously 
 I was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Applied Mathema
 tics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. My research w
 as funded by an Ernest Oppenheimer Early Career Fellowship. From October 2
 007 until September 2009\, I was a visiting researcher at the École Norma
 le Supérieure in Paris. I was supported by a Research Fellowship from the
  Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. From October 2006 until Sept
 ember 2010\, I was also a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College\, Camb
 ridge\, where I studied for my PhD.\nPoking an object is a useful way of t
 esting its properties in a range of everyday applications from cooking mea
 t to inflating a bicycle tyre. It is also used  quantitatively in science
  to achieve the same thing. In this talk I will discuss what we can learn 
 from poking pressurized elastic shells - a simple model of yeast ells. I w
 ill also show that poking can cause wrinkling and how the wrinkling patter
 n may be useful in its own right. This leads on to a more general discussi
 on of wrinkling in systems with a large number  of wrinkles.
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