This program is broadly concerned with fundamental challenges of modeling, analysis and computation for (mostly) incompressible fluid dynamics. Much attention will be focused on non-Newtonian fluids in which complex material constitutions produce nonlinear and/or nonlocal relationships between stresses and rates-of-strain (and sometimes strains) leading to unique and often unforeseen flow phenomena. Complex fluids are ubiquitous in engineering applications and the applied sciences from biology to geology. They serve as the focus of active areas of research within the larger fluid dynamics community.

Complex flows include those of both simple and complex fluids in simple and complex domains, in the presence of moving boundaries, and turbulent flows. Key questions for such flows include transport and mixing properties, and flow-structure interactions generating motions including swimming, flying, sliding and crawling. Recent research has revealed new connections between fluid characteristics, flow complexity and transport properties that will in part serve as a unifying theme throughout the program.

The year will be organized around specific themes highlighted by six week-long workshops encompassing the following topics:

1. Rheology of complex fluids
2. Dynamics of complex fluids
3. Microfluidics and electrokinetic and interfacial phenomena
4. Analysis and computation of simple and complex fluids
5. Transport and mixing in complex and turbulent flows
6. Fluid-structure interactions and locomotion

The mathematical scope of this program will be very broad, ranging from fundamental modeling questions through issues of computation, simulation, approximation and analysis. Program participants will include researchers from the engineering and applied sciences, including both theorists and experimentalists, numerical analysis and scientific computation, and both applied and abstract analysts. A central goal of the program will be to bring these interdisciplinary perspectives together and facilitate productive engagement. Toward this end, each focused week-long workshop will be preceded by introductory tutorials aimed at researchers from neighboring areas.

Stephen Childress	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	New York University
Peter Constantin	Mathematics	University of Chicago
L. Pamela Cook	Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Charles R. Doering	Mathematics and Physics	University of Michigan (chair)
Sandip Ghosal	Mechanical Engineering	Northwestern University
Michael D. Graham /a>	Chemical and Biological Engineering	University of Wisconsin, Madison
David H. Sharp	Complex Systems, Theoretical Division	Los Alamos National Laboratory

Name	Department	Affiliation	Period of Visit
Donald G. Aronson	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota	9/1/02 - 12/31/10
Claude Bardos		Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)	2/15/10 - 4/25/10
Jennifer Beichman	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan	9/1/09 - 5/31/10
Andrew John Beveridge	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	Macalester College	6/14/10 - 7/16/10
Richard J. Braun	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware	9/1/09 - 12/15/09
Maria-Carme T. Calderer	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
Stephen Childress	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	New York University	2/1/10 - 2/27/10, 5/9/10 - 6/6/10
Eric Choate	Department of Mathematics	University of North Carolina	10/10/09 - 11/10/09
L. Pamela Cook	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware	9/6/09 - 12/12/09
Michael Earl Cromer Jr	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware	9/1/09 - 12/20/09
Domenico D'Alessandro	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University	4/15/10 - 6/30/10
Charles R. Doering	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan	8/15/09 - 6/10/10
Angbo Fang	Department of Physics	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	9/10/09 - 10/18/09
Xiaobing Henry Feng	Department of Mathematics	University of Tennessee	10/2/09 - 10/31/09
David Finn	Department of Mathematics	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	9/1/09 - 11/23/09
Daniel Flath	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	Macalester College	6/7/10 - 7/16/10
Mark Gregory Forest	Department of Mathematics	University of North Carolina	9/11/09 - 10/20/09
Sandip Ghosal	Department of Mechanical Engineering	Northwestern University	9/21/09 - 12/12/09
Michael D. Graham	Chemical and Biological Engineering Department	University of Wisconsin-Madison	9/1/09 - 12/17/09
Thomas C. Hagen	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Memphis	9/1/09 - 12/23/09
Olaf Hall-Holt	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	St. Olaf College	6/14/10 - 7/16/10
Yan Huang	Department of Mathematics	Macalester College	6/13/10 - 7/17/10
Vera Mikyoung Hur	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	2/18/10 - 5/28/10
Volkan Isler	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota	6/14/10 - 7/16/10
Mihailo Jovanovic	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota	9/11/09 - 6/10/10
Ning Ju	Department of Mathematics	Oklahoma State University	1/4/10 - 6/25/10
Catherine G Kealey	Department of Mathematics	Beloit College	6/13/10 - 7/16/10
Markus Keel	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota	7/21/08 - 6/30/11
Kimberly D. Kendricks	Department of Mathematics	Central State University	5/10/10 - 7/19/10
Ronald G. Larson	Department of Chemical Engineering	University of Michigan	9/12/09 - 12/18/09
Chiun-Chang Lee	Department of Mathematics	National Taiwan University	10/22/09 - 6/9/10
Young-Ju Lee	Department of Mathematics	Rutgers University	9/11/09 - 12/14/09
Gilad Lerman	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	6/14/10 - 7/16/10
Marta Lewicka		University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
Congming Li	Department of Applied Mathematics	University of Colorado	1/11/10 - 6/15/10
Wanyi Li	Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics	Macalester College	6/14/10 - 7/16/10
Yi Li	Department of Mathematics	Stevens Institute of Technology	9/16/09 - 12/17/09
Ellen K. Longmire	Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics	University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
Yasunori Maekawa	Department of Mathematics	Kobe University	9/7/09 - 3/1/10
Krishnan Mahesh	Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics	University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
Aaron J Maurer	Department of Mathematics	Carleton College	6/13/10 - 7/16/10
Anna L. Mazzucato	Department of Mathematics	Pennsylvania State University	1/12/10 - 6/11/10
John M McCauley	Department of Mathematics	Haverford College	6/13/10 - 7/17/10
Yoichiro Mori	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
Monika Nitsche		Ohio State University	9/1/09 - 12/18/09
Dongjuan Niu	School of Mathematical Sciences	Capital Normal University	4/1/10 - 6/15/10
Samuel Segun Okoya	Department of Mathematics	Obafemi Awolowo University	2/15/10 - 5/15/10
Hans G. Othmer	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
Harald Pleiner		Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research	9/12/09 - 10/17/09
Michael Renardy	Department of Mathematics	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	9/1/09 - 12/12/09
Yuriko Renardy	Department of Mathematics	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	9/1/09 - 12/12/09
Juan Mario Restrepo	Department of Mathematics	University of Arizona	8/11/09 - 6/15/10
Rolf Ryham		Rice University	5/13/10 - 6/15/10
Fadil Santosa	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota	7/1/08 - 8/30/11
Vishal Saraswat	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	6/13/10 - 7/16/10
Arnd Scheel	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
George R Sell	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
Gregory Seregin	Mathematical Institute	University of Oxford	9/20/09 - 10/18/09
Daniel Spirn	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	9/8/09 - 6/1/10
Paul H. Steen	Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Cornell University	10/15/09 - 12/15/09
Panagiotis Stinis	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
Huan Sun	Department of Mathematics	Pennsylvania State University	8/16/09 - 12/15/09
Vladimir Sverak	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota	9/1/09 - 6/30/10
Charles L Talbot	Department of Mathematics	University of Connecticut	6/13/10 - 7/16/10
Mark Taylor	Computation, Computers, Information & Mathematics Center	Sandia National Laboratories	9/1/09 - 12/18/09
Jean-Luc Thiffeault	Department of Mathematics	University of Wisconsin-Madison	9/1/09 - 6/14/10
Becca Thomases	Mathematics Department	University of California, Davis	2/9/10 - 6/12/10
Giordano Tierra Chica	Dpto. Ecuaciones Diferenciales y Análisis Numérico	University of Sevilla	4/6/10 - 6/15/10
Edriss Saleh Titi		University of California	3/28/10 - 6/12/10
Chad Michael Topaz	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Macalester College	9/1/09 - 6/29/10
Silviya D Valeva	Department of Mathematics	Mount Holyoke College	6/14/10 - 7/16/10
Peter B VanKoughnett	Department of Mathematics	Oberlin College	6/14/10 - 7/16/10
Changyou Wang	Department of Mathematics	University of Kentucky	9/1/09 - 6/15/10
Xiaoming Wang	Department of Mathematics	Florida State University	1/5/10 - 5/14/10
Benjamin Weitz	Department of Mathematics	California Institute of Technology	6/15/09 - 9/10/09
Andrew J W White	Department of Computer Science	St. Olaf College	6/14/10 - 7/16/10
Sijue Wu	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan	9/1/09 - 6/5/10
Jin Xu	Traditional Medicine Laboratory	Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine	12/9/09 - 6/9/10
Xiang Xu	Department of Mathematics	Pennsylvania State University	1/13/10 - 6/13/10
Zhifei Zhang	School of Mathematical Sciences	Beijing (Peking) University	2/15/10 - 5/14/10

Postdoctoral Fellows for 2009-2010 Program on Complex Fluids and Complex Flows

With the advice of the organizers of the 2009-2010 year on Complex Fluids and Complex Flows, the IMA has chosen new postdoctoral fellows for the period September 1, 2009 to August 31, 2010. These postdocs will be active participants in all activities of the annual program. They were chosen from a long list of well-qualified recent Ph.D. recipients. All the postdocs may, at their option, remain at the IMA for a second year. A variety of options are available for second year postdocs including participation in the thematic program (which will be on "Simulating Our Complex World: Modeling, Computation and Analysis"), industrial interaction, teaching and teaching development, and research, independently and/or in conjunction with University of Minnesota faculty.

First Year IMA Postdoctoral Fellows
Name	Institution	Advisor
Balci, Nusret	Indiana University	Michael S. Jolly
Chan, Chi Hin	University of Texas	Alexis Vasseur
Ewoldt, Randy H.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Gareth McKinley / Anette Hosoi
Konieczny, Pawel	University of Warsaw	Piotr Boguslaw Mucha
Lin, Zhi (George)	University of North Carolina	Richard McLaughlin
Maki, Kara L.	University of Delaware	Richard Braun
Ortiz-Duenas, Cecilia	Cambridge University	Robert Miller
Yoneda, Tsuyoshi	University of Tokyo	Yoshikazu Giga

First Year IMA Industrial Postdoctoral Fellows
Name	Institution	Advisor	Industrial Partner
Trenev, Dimitar	Texas A&M University	James H. Bramble	ExxonMobil

First Year IMA New Directions (ND) Postdoctoral Fellows
Name	Institution	Advisor
Kim, Hyejin	University of Maryland, College Park	Mark I. Freidlin
Shao, Shuanglin	Institute for Advanced Study	Terence Tao
First Year IMA Postdoctoral Industrial Internships
Name	Institution	Advisor
Li, Yan	Texas A&M University	Yalchin Efendiev
Shin, Jaemin	Iowa State University	Paul Sacks
Tural, Mustafa	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Gabor Pataki
Second Year IMA Postdoctoral Fellows
Name	Institution	Advisor
Chen, Xianjin	Texas A&M University	Jianxin Zhou
Hyon, Yunkyong	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Do Young Kwak
Iwen, Mark	University of Michigan	Martin Strauss
Jeyaraman, Srividhya	Indiana University	M.S. Gopinathan
Li, Yongfeng	Georgia Tech	Yingfei Yi
Sendova, Tsvetanka	Texas A&M University	Jay Walton
Xiong, Wei	Ohio State University	Peter March

Second Year IMA Industrial Postdoctoral Fellows
Name	Institution	Advisor	Industrial Partner
Jiang, Lijian	Texas A&M University	Yalchin Efendiev	ExxonMobil
Maroulas, Vasileios	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Amarjit Budhiraja	Lockheed Martin
Zhong, Weigang	SAMSI	Eitan Tadmor	Corning

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Regular Postdoctoral Fellows 1982-present

Industrial Postdoctoral Fellows 1990-present

Quick Links to Events
9/12-13/09	Tutorial: An Introduction to Funny (Complex) Fluids: Rheology, Modeling and Theorems
9/14-18/09	Workshop: Flowing Complex Fluids: Rheological Measurements and Constitutive Modeling
10/11/09	Tutorial: From Microscopic to Macroscopic Fluid Dynamics in Complex Fluids
10/12-16/09	Workshop: Flowing Complex Fluids: Fluid Mechanics-Interaction of Microstructure and Flow
12/5-6/09	Tutorial: Mathematics of Microfluidic Transport Phenomena
12/7-11/09	Workshop: Microfluidics: Electrokinetic and Interfacial Phenomena
2/21/10	Tutorial: Tutorial on Analysis and Computation of Incompressible Fluid Flow
2/22-26/10	Workshop: Analysis and Computation of Incompressible Fluid Flow
4/11/10	Tutorial: Transport and Mixing in Complex and Turbulent Flows
4/12-16/10	Workshop: Transport and Mixing in Complex and Turbulent Flows
6/1-5/10	Workshop: Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding
Tutorials preceding each workshop are introductory lectures on the topics of the workshop.