A warm welcome to two new postdocs – Dipan Deb and Pedro Ormonde. Dipan just completed his PhD at UC Irvine working with Haitam Taha, and Pedro just completed his PhD at Lehigh University, working with Keith Moored.
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Congratulations to Noah Medina and Mareesa Islaam who presented a poster at the Annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in Seattle. The poster presented results from their summer 2023 research project on the individual variability of starling flight patterns as they fly in our Wind tunnel.
Mareesa was visiting Brown from Berkeley, supported by the NSF REU program, while Noah, a Brown undergraduate was supported by the Brown UTRA research program
Our lab is honored to be highlighted in National Geographic Magazine and Time Magazine’s top photos of 2023 – See our colleagues Sharon Swartz and Brooke Quinn flying a bat in our Animal Flight Wind tunnel. This photo was the National Geographic Magazine photo of the year, and in the Time Magazine top 100 – (photo by Nichole Sobecki)
Congratulations and bon voyage to lab members who are (sigh) moving to bigger and better things: postdocs Xiaowei He, Joel Newbolt, and recent graduates Noah Medina, Tommy Mahoney, and Oliver Sand. Best fortunes to you all
Congratulations to our former lab mate, Yuanhang Zhu, whose paper on swept wing aeroelastic instabilites, was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics!
A fantastic lab presence and Brown presence at the 2023 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS/DFD) annual meeting in Washington DC. According to Prof Tom Powers, there were 43 papers by members of the Center For Fluid Mechanics (not including collaborations) and one invited talk by an alumni of our research groups (Sevario Spagniole (who was a PostDoc with Tom and is now a Prof at U.Wisconsin ) gave a wonderful talk on liquid crystals.
From our lab, there we had a great presence with Kenny, Ronan, Eva, Anoop, Siyang, Alex, Eric, Xiaowei, PJ, and Brooke, as well as recent alumni Xiaozhou and Yuanhang, and future lab member, Pedro.
Check out the new paper on soft elastomeric membranes and their interactions with an oncoming flow. Our paper, led by lab alumni Varghese Mathai (now at UMass) and Asimanshu Das just appeared in Physics Review Letters
Congratulations to our former lab member, Yunxing Su who is moving to Colorado to start a new position at CU Boulder. Yunxing completed his PhD in our lab, but has stayed in Providence for the past few years as a Postdoc, first with Roberto Zenit and then with Monica Willhelmus. Bon Voyage on your relocation to the Rockies!!
As the summer winds up, we bid a fond farewell to several people:
Mareesa Islam, Tanner Diring and Jayna Rybner – our wonderful “Surfing Bird” REU students. These three students spent the summer at Brown, visiting from UC Berkeley, U. Wisconsin and USC respectively and made a huge contribution to our bird flight research program. Thanks for everything!
Xiaozhou Fan – a valued and treasured member of the lab for the past five years. Xiaozhou received his PhD (in May) and is moving west to start as a Postdoc at Caltech.
Sakthi Swarrup – our wonderful Postdoc (working jointly with Sharon Swartz) whose Fulbright fellowship has ended. Sakthi has returned to India as a faculty member at the Vellore Institute of Technology.
Alberto Bortoni – Sharon Swartz’s PhD student – has spent many hours on this side of campus, is an honorary member of the lab and co-designer of the “flapperoo”. Alberto defends his PhD next week (we assume it will be successful) and he will be returning to Mexico.
Congratulations to our graduates: Yuanhang and Xiaozho who both received their PhDs. Tommy and Jenya received their ScBs – congratulations to all!