Laufer Lecture

The keynote lecture for Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering is named after the late Janos Laufer, a renowned fluids authority who was the founding chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering (before it merged with mechanical engineering).

2011 Speakers

Professor John Bush
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Applied Mathematics
"Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogues: Droplets Walking on the Impossible Pilot Wave"
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Past Speakers 

2010
Professor L. Mahadevan
Harvard University, Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
"On Growth and Form: Mathematics, Mechanics and Morphogenesis"
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2010
Dr. Stephen H. Davis
McCormick School Professor, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
"Control and Suppression of Interfacial Instabilities by Shear"
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2009
Elaine Oran, PhD.
Senior Scientist for Reactive Flow Physics at the Naval Research Laboratory
"The Laminar Flame to Turbulent Flame to Detonation Transition: Studies of Non-Kolmogorov Turbulence and Stochasticity"
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2007 Anatol Roshko (inaugural lecture) "Reflections of the Turbulence Problem" Learn More >>