Morrey Assistant Professor
UC Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Invited seminars
- High-throughput screening of crystalline porous materials, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, April 8, 2013.
- Modeling the toughness of metallic glasses, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, February 28, 2013.
- Modeling the toughness of metallic glasses, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, February 21, 2013.
- Modeling the toughness of metallic glasses, School of Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech, February 8, 2013.
- Modeling the toughness of metallic glasses, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, February 6, 2013.
- Modeling the toughness of metallic glasses, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, February 4, 2013.
- Modelling the toughness of metallic glasses, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, January 28, 2013.
- Modeling of metallic glasses, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, January 23, 2013.
- Computational methods for the mechanics of complex materials, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Wednesday, January 16, 2013.
- Mechanical simulation of mammalian acini, Computational Biology Seminar, University of California, Davis, May 7, 2012.
- Mechanical simulation of mammalian acini, ICBP–PSOC joint seminar, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, February 15, 2012.
- Application of the Voronoi tessellation for high-throughput analysis of crystalline porous materials, Scientific Computing Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, February 1, 2012.
- Application of the Voronoi tessellation for high-throughput analysis of crystalline porous materials, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, January 11, 2012.
- Analysis of material porosity properties using the Voronoi tessellation, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, November 9, 2011.
- Relations between local geometry and macro-scale properties in complex materials, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 25, 2011.
- Granular flow in pebble bed reactors: dust generation and scaling, Laboratory for Thermal-Hydraulics, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, July 2, 2010.
- Multiscale modeling of granular flow, Courant Institute, New York, March 9, 2010.
- Multiscale modeling of granular flow: an application of the Voronoi tessellation, BC Cancer Research Center, Vancouver, December 7, 2009.
- Multiscale modeling of granular flow: an application of the Voronoi tessellation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, November 30, 2009.
- Multiscale Modeling of Granular Flow, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Tech, November 16, 2009.
- Multiscale Modeling in Granular Flow, Complex Fluids Seminar, University of Michigan, May 2, 2008.
- Multiscale Modeling in Granular Flow, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 4, 2007.
- Multiscale Modeling in Granular Flow, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech, March 30, 2007.
- Multiscale Modeling in Granular Flow, Department of Physics, Clark University, March 19, 2007.
- Multiscale Modeling in Granular Flow, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, February 28, 2007.
Invited talks at conferences
- Mechanical simulation of mammalian acini, SIAM Computational Science and Engineering 2013, Boston, February 26, 2013.
- A mechanical model of mammalian acinus growth, ICIAM 2011 – 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, July 18–22, 2011.
- Computation of three-dimensional standing water waves, SIAM Computational Science and Engineering 2011, Reno, February 28–March 4, 2011.
- Real-time control of mixing in dense granular flow, Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, May 9, 2009.
- A multiscale simulation technique for granular flow, Canadian Mathematical Society Winter 2008 Meeting, Ottawa, December 6–8, 2008.
- A coupled continuum/discrete model of dense granular flow, Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, MSRI, Berkeley, March 29, 2008. [Slides available]
Contributed talks at conferences
- Granular flows in pebble-bed nuclear reactors: scaling and dust generation, International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, Chicago, June 24–28, 2012.
- Application of the Voronoi tessellation for high-throughput analysis of crystalline porous materials, Applied Mathematics Pricipal Investigators Meeting, Washington DC, October 17–19, 2011.
- Computation of the three dimensional standing water waves, APS DFD Meeting, Long Beach, 21–23, 2010.
- Anisotropies in granular temperature in a dense sheared granular flow, APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, March 16–20, 2009.
- A multiscale simulation technique for granular flow, IMA Conference on Dense Granular Flows, Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, January 5–9, 2009.
- A multiscale simulation of dense granular flow, Greater Boston Statistical Mechanics Meeting, October 18, 2008. [Slides available]
- A multiscale simulation technique for optimization of granular mixing, Applied Mathematics Principal Investigators Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, October 15–17, 2008.
- Defining and measuring a granular continuum element, 5th Northeast Granular Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 1, 2007.
- Stress, Strain Rate, and Packing Fraction in Granular Flow, APS March Meeting, Denver, March 2007.
- Stress, Strain Rate, and Packing Fraction in Granular Flow, 29th New England Complex Fluids Workshop, Harvard University, December 1, 2006.
- Voronoi Volumes in Dense Granular Flow, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, March 2006. [Slides available]
- Discrete Element Simulations of Granular Flow in a Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor, 24th New England Complex Fluids Workshop, Brandeis University, September 16, 2005.
- Dynamics of Random Packings in Granular Flow, APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, March 2005. [Slides available]
- Toward a Theory of Diffusion in Dense Granular Flow, 20th New England Complex Fluids Workshop, Brandeis University, September 24, 2004.
- Toward a Theory of Diffusion in Dense Granular Flow, APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.
Public lectures
- The Mathematics of Elasticity, Cal Day, University of California, Berkeley, April 20, 2012.
- The Voronoi tessellation: how a century-old mathematical idea is now used in everything, Cal Day, University of California, Berkeley, April 22, 2012.
Seminars within MIT Mathematics
- Multiscale Modeling in Granular Flow, Thesis Defense, MIT, June 26, 2007. [Slides available]
- Understanding Granular Flow through the Intermediate Length Scale, Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar, MIT, February 22, 2007.
- High Performance Parallel Computing: A Beginner's Guide, Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar, MIT, October 5, 2006.
- The Lighter Side of Black Holes, Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar, MIT, March 23, 2006.
- The Life of Pi, Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar, MIT, November 15, 2005. [Slides available]
- Fractals and Chaos: A Graphical Overview, Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar, MIT, April 7, 2005.
- Dynamics of Random Packings in Granular Flow, Applied Mathematics Brown Bag Seminar Series, MIT, November 11, 2004. [Slides available]
- Quantum Computation and Information: A Simple Introduction, Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar, MIT, April 8, 2004.
- Granular Drainage: Theory and Simulation, Applied Mathematics Brown Bag Seminar Series, MIT, October 17, 2003.
Poster presentations
- Mechanical simulation of cell and microenvironment interactions
in mammalian acini (with Robert Saye, Daniela Ushizima, and James
Sethian), Third Annual NCI
Physical Sciences–Oncology Network Investigators' Meeting,
Tampa, April 15–18, 2012.
- Applications of physical simulation models to understand forces
and stresses in mammalian acini (with Robert Saye, Gautham
Venugopalan, Kevin Webster, David Camarillo, Hanna Engelke, Rajarshi
Ghosh, Quanming Shi, Dan Fletcher, Hana El-Samad, Jan Liphardt,
and James Sethian), Third Annual NCI
Physical Sciences–Oncology Network Investigators' Meeting,
Tampa, April 15–18, 2012.
- Structural Properties and Mechanical Homeostasis of Mammary
Acini (with David Camarillo, Gautham Venugopalan, Kevin
Webster, Dan Fletcher, James Sethian, Valerie Weaver, and Hana
El-Samad), Second Annual NCI
Physical Sciences–Oncology Network Investigators' Meeting,
San Diego, April 10–12, 2011.
- Coupling Physical Models to the Epithelial Cell Differentiation
(with Robert I. Saye, James A. Sethian, K. Tanner, M. J. Bissell, and
D. Ushizima), Second Annual NCI
Physical Sciences–Oncology Network Investigators' Meeting,
San Diego, April 10–12, 2011.
- Voro++: A three-dimensional Voronoi cell library in C++,
DOE Applied Mathematics
Program Meeting, Berkeley, May 3–5, 2010.
- A modular simulation framework for physical cell modeling
(with Cyrus M. Ghajar, Robert I. Saye, and James A. Sethian), First
Annual NCI
Physical Sciences–Oncology Network Investigators' Meeting,
National Harbor, Maryland, April 5–7, 2010.
- Voro++: A three-dimensional Voronoi cell library in C++, Bay
Area Scientific Computing Day, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, May 9, 2009.
- Voro++: A three-dimensional Voronoi cell library in C++, APS
March Meeting, Pittsburgh, March 16–20, 2009. Selected as a
winning entry in the APS Gallery of Nonlinear Images.
[More information]
- Toward a Theory of Diffusion in Dense Granular Flows, Gordon
Research Conference on Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow, Colby College,
June 2004.
- Toward a Theory of Diffusion in Dense Granular Flows, 2nd
New England Granular Materials Workshop, Yale University, June 3, 2004.
[Slides available]
- Diffusion and Mixing in Granular Flow: Theory and Experiment
(with Jaehyuk Choi), October 28, 2003.
- Analysis of Stochastic Models for Granular Drainage, 1st New
England Granular Materials Workshop, July 18, 2003.