Recent NEWS
- PhD student Mingxin Li joins the group in
Spring of 2023.
- (April 24th 2023) Dr.
Ondrej Maxian successfully defended his Ph.D.
thesis "Hydrodynamics of transiently cross-linked actin networks: theory, numerics, and emergent behaviors."
- Wenzheng
Shi joins the group starting September 2023.
- Brennan
Sprinkle starts a tenure track position in
applied math at the Colorado School of Mines in September of 2022.
- (Sept 2021) A. Donev, A. Mogilner, and B. Sprinkle are awarded a
three-year NSF
grant DMS-2052515 on "Computational modeling of
cytoskeleton-cytoplasm mechanics at the mesoscale" by the Division
of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation.
- Aref
Hashemi joins the group as a Courant Instructor
starting May 2021.
- (June 17th 2020) A. Donev is awarded a three-year
NSF grant DMS-2011544 on "Fast Electrostatics and
Brownian Hydrodynamics in Doubly-Periodic Geometries" by the
Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science
Foundation.
- (Sept 2018) A. Donev gets promoted to full Professor of
Mathematics.
- (June 5th 2018) A. Donev is awarded a three-year
NSF grant CBET-1804940 on "Active Colloids under AC
Electric Fields: From Single Particle Motion to Collective
Dynamics" by the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering,
Environmental and Transport Systems of the National Science
Foundation, a collaboration with the group of Ning
Wu at Colorado School of Mines.
- (April 26th 2018) Courant Ph.D. student Bill Bao successfully defended
his thesis "Efficient and
Accurate Numerical Methods for Fluid-Structure and
Fluid-Particle Interactions" under the supervision of A.
Donev and L. Greengard.
- (May 2017) A. Donev, B. Delmotte and M. Driscoll are awarded a
three-year
NSF grant CBET-1706562 on "Magnetic microrollers as a
platform for active transport" by the Division of Chemical,
Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems program of the
National Science Foundation.
- (March 2017) A. Donev gets awarded the
Simons Fellow in Mathematics and Physical Sciences from the
Simons Foundation for Fall of 2017.
- (February 2017) A group of Courant faculty lead by A. Donev as
PI are awarded a five-year Research and Training Grant
NSF RTG on "Mathematical Modeling and Simulation" by
the National Science Foundation (NSF
grant DMS-1646339).
- (Sept 2015) A. Donev gets promoted to Associate
Professor of Mathematics.
- (April 29th 2015) Courant Ph.D. student Steven Delong
successfully defended his thesis "Temporal
Integrators for Langevin Equations with Applications to
Fluctuating Hydrodynamics and Brownian Dynamics" under the
supervision of A. Donev.
- (July 1st 2014) A. Donev is awarded a three-year
NSF grant DMS-1418706 on "Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
of Suspensions of Rigid Bodies" by the Division of Mathematical
Sciences of the National Science Foundation, a collaboration with
the group of Neelesh
Patankar at Northwestern.
- (April 16th 2013) Read popular science
"new faces" article about A. Donev.
- (May 8th 2012) A. Donev is awarded
a five-year Department
of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program.
- (Jan. 11th 2012) A. Donev is awarded
a three-year
Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program award.
- (June 2011) A. Donev is awarded a three-year NSF grant
DMS-1115341 on "Computer simulations of giant fluctuations in
mixing fluids" by the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the
National Science Foundation.
Recent preprints
- "Hydrodynamics of transiently cross-linked actin networks: theory, numerics, and emergent behaviors," Ph.D. thesis by Dr. Ondrej Maxian, NYU Courant Mathematics, April 2023. As
a preview of an upcoming publication, here is a movie
showing a dynamically cross-linked homogeneous network under
cyclic shear, without Brownian motion (left), or with fluctuations
(right).
Selected
Presentations
- "Bending
fluctuations in semiflexible, inextensible, slender filaments
in Stokes flow", UC Berkeley PDE seminar, March
17th 2023.
- "Fast
(Brownian) HydroDynamics in Doubly-Periodic Geometries",
SIAM CSE23, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2023.
- "Rheology
of Suspensions of Fluctuating, Inextensible, Semiflexible
Fibers in Stokes Flow", IWNET 2022, Victoria, BC,
Canada, July 2022.
- "Computational
methods for complex suspensions", keynote talk at
CAIMS, Kelowna, BC, Canada, June 2022. Here are the animations.
- "Brownian
HydroDynamics for Confined Electrolytes", seminar
at Pitzer center for Theoretical Chemistry at UC Berkeley,
February 2nd 2022.
- "Active
dynamics in dense suspensions of microrollers",
online 13th Northeast Complex Fluids & Soft Matter, June 19th
2020.
- "Fluctuating
Hydrodynamics and Debye-Huckel-Onsager Theory for Electrolytes",
talk given at Celebrating 50 years of CECAM, Lausanne, Switzerland
September 2019.
- "Fluctuating
hydrodynamics and coarse-graining" --- mini
course given at the First Berlin - Leipzig Workshop on Fluctuating
Hydrodynamics, Berlin, August 2019.
- "Brownian
HydroDynamics of Colloidal Suspensions", lecture
given at the Summer School on Particulate Suspensions in MPI
Magdeburg, Sept. 27th 2019.
- "Dynamics
of Colloids Above a Bottom Wall Driven by Active Torques and
Forces" talk at SIAM CSE19 and math colloquium at
Drexel University, April 2019.
- "Fluctuating
hydrodynamics of reactive electrolyte mixtures", talk
given at the 8th International Workshop on Nonequilibrium
Thermodynamics, Netherlands, July 2018.
- "Brownian
Dynamics of Confined Colloidal Suspensions", widely
applied math seminar, Harvard University, October 2017.
- "Brownian dynamics
of colloids in quasi two-dimensional confinement",
seminar given at ETH Polymer Physics, July 2017.
- "A
fluctuating boundary integral method for Brownian suspensions",
Simons Foundation Biophysical Modeling seminar, May 16th 2017.
- "Coupling a
nano-particle with fluctuating hydrodynamics", talk at
workshop on Advances in theory and simulation of non-equilibrium
systems, NESC16, Sheffield, England, July 2016.
- "Fast Reactive
Brownian Dynamics", invited talk at workshop on
Spatially Distributed Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Biology,
Newton Institute, Cambridge, June 2016.
- "Computer
Simulations of Giant Fluctuations", talk at IMT12,
Madrid, May 2016.
- "The
Truth about diffusion (in liquids)", seminar given
at UMD College Park, October 28th 2015.
- "Fluctuating
Hydrodynamics of Reactive Fluid Mixtures", invited
talk at the workshop on Molecular and Chemical Kinetics
(MOLKIN'15), Berlin, Germany, Sept 2015.
- "Fluctuating
hydrodynamics of complex fluid flows", review given at
the CECAM Workshop on Molecular Dynamics meets Fluctuating
Hydrodynamics, Miraflores, Spain, May 11th 2015.
- "An Immersed
Boundary Method for Suspensions of Rigid Bodies", NA
Courant Seminar, Dec 5th 2014.
- "Brownian Dynamics
without Green's Functions", minisymposium on Particle
Methods for Micro- and Nano-flows at ECFD VI, July 21st 2014,
Barcelona, Spain.
- "Computational
Modeling of Reaction-Diffusion Systems: From particle to
hydrodynamic simulations", CEA Saclay seminar, July
18th, 2014.
- "A
Hybrid Particle-Continuum Method Coupling a Fluctuating Fluid
with Suspended Structures", plenary talk at the AMS von
Neumann Symposium, Snowbird, Utah, July 6th 2011.
- "An
Event-Driven Kinetic Monte Carlo Algorithm for
Reaction-Diffusion Systems", Courant Graduate Student
Seminar, December 2010.