Dec 17, 2007 - Claremont, Calif. - Harvey Mudd College students Chris Fox '09, Parousia Rockstroh '08, Stephen Rosenthal '09 and HMC Department of Mathematics faculty members Rachel Levy and Andrew Bernoff presented their research at the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 18-20.

The fluid dynamics meeting is the largest of its kind, drawing thousands of engineers, physicists and mathematicians from all over the world.

The students’ research was conducted this past summer in the Applied Mathematics Department at UCLA. The program is headed by Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA’s director of applied mathematics, who is an enthusiastic advocate of immersing undergraduates in UCLA’s active research communities.

The program is in its third year and is currently funded by an NSF Research Training Grant. Fox and Rockstroh conducted experiments on particle-laden flow under the supervision of UCLA postdoctoral fellow Thomas Ward. Rosenthal analyzed shock structures in thin liquid films under the supervision of Levy.

Bernoff and Levy presented talks at the conference, as did alumnus Michael Gratton '02, who is currently finishing his Ph.D. in mathematics at Duke University.

For more information and a gallery of results from the summer research projects, see the program’s web page at: http://www.math.hmc.edu/~levy/UCLA_RTG/

For further information contact:

Prof. Rachel Levy
Prof. Andrew Bernoff