Poking and Wrinkling of Sheets and Shells
Event details
| Date | 16.04.2013 |
| Hour | 10:15 |
| Speaker |
By Dr. Dominic Vella, University of Oxford Bio: I am a University 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. Previously I was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. My research was funded by an Ernest Oppenheimer Early Career Fellowship. From October 2007 until September 2009, I was a visiting researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. I was supported by a Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. From October 2006 until September 2010, I was also a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, where I studied for my PhD. |
| Location |
MEB10
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Poking an object is a useful way of testing its properties in a range of everyday applications from cooking meat 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 will also show that poking can cause wrinkling and how the wrinkling pattern may be useful in its own right. This leads on to a more general discussion of wrinkling in systems with a large number of wrinkles.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof François Gallaire.
Contact
- Bendel Petra Erika <[email protected]>