Modeling: Dynamics of polar and nematic media

Title

Modeling: Dynamics of polar and nematic media

Speaker

Prof. Leonid Pismen (Technion–Israel Institute of Technology)

Time and Location

November 22, 2024, Friday, 9:30 am-11:30 am, E408 (Educational Building, 4rd floor, North Campus)

Zoom

972 9742 2319 （https://gtiit.zoom.us/j/97297422319）

Biography

Prof. Leonid Pismen, the distinguished Julius M. and Bernice Naiman Chair in Fluid Mechanics at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering since 1975 and has held the Naiman Professorship since 1993 (Emeritus since 2005). A Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2015, he earned his Ph.D. in 1963 from the Karpov Physico-Chemical Institute in Moscow, specializing in surface phenomena and multiscale processes.

Prof. Pismen’s research spans several key areas:

1. Multiscale Mechanisms of Epithelial Patterning and Morphogenesis – Studies focusing on the diversity and dynamics of expression patterns, pattern formation mechanisms, and their connection with morphogenesis.
2. Patterns and Defects in Nonlinear Systems – Development of tools for studying the formation and evolution of patterns, especially in reaction-diffusion systems and optical feedback devices.
3. Motion of Contact Lines and Dynamics of Interfaces – Analysis of the motion and stability of three-phase boundaries under intermolecular forces and transport processes.

Prof. Pismen has authored several notable works, including:

• Active Matter Within and Around Us: From Self-Propelled Particles to Flocks and Living Forms (2021)
• Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics (2006)