New Jersey Institute of Technology Hosts Spring Colloquium

NEWARK, Mar 3 2003

The mechanical engineering department at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a spring lecture series featuring leading experts in the fields of fluidics, propulsion and materials processing.

The lectures, free and open to the public, will be held on Wednesdays from 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. The lectures are held at the Mechanical Engineering Center on the NJIT campus.

Editor’s Note: If you’d like to attend a lecture or interview one of the speakers, please call Robert Florida at (973) 596-5203.

* On March 5, L.-S. FAN, distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Ohio State University, will lecture on “Real Time Three-Dimensional Tomography and the Discrete Computations for Multiphase Flow Systems.”

* On April 2, Stuart Savage, emeritus professor of civil engineering and applied mechanics at McGill University, will lecture on “Effects of Pore-Pressure Dissipation on Debris-Flow Surges.”

* Haim Bau, a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania, will lecture on “Complex Interactions in Microfluidic Systems,” on April 9.

* Subrata Mukherjee, a professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University, will present the final lecture, “Error Analysis and Adaptivity in the Boundary Element and Related Methods,” on April 16.

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