BPI Seminar Series

How I became stuck in Layered Materials: From Origins of Life, to Drugs to Renewable Energy

Dawn Geatches, STFC UKRI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Ocean Plastics

Erick van-Sebille, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Granular Flows

Amalia Thomas, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

On Tornado Dynamics

Professor Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta, Canada.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

BPI Seminar Series

Some problems in low Reynolds number environmental flows

Ed Hinton, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Have Glue, Will Travel!

Ewen Kellar, TWI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

How will climate change affect volcanic plume rise and aerosol cycle?

Thomas Aubry (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Peatland hydrology and carbon cycling

Professor Joseph Holden, University of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Solutal Convection in Porous Media

Prof Marc Hesse, University of Texas.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Stratification in Drying Films: Diffusion and Diffusiophoresis and Particle sedimentation from current blown plumes and Nanoporous silica as a pre-concentrator for enhanced VOC detection

Claire Rees-Zimmerman, BPI and Cara James, BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The Effect of Coordination Chemistry in Aerosols and Fogs on Air Quality

Dr Chiara Giorio, Dept of Chemistry.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Impact of wind on dynamics of turbulent buoyant plumes

Guillaume Carazzo, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Mixing in bubble trains and bubble plumes

Andy Woods, BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

BP Sustainability Lecture 2021

Professor Emily Allyn Weiss - Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Photo-Sciences Research Center (PSRC) Northwestern University .

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

BPI Seminar Series

Mini Symposium: On Laboratory Observations of Turbidites: Traction and Yielding.

Nigel Woodcock, Dave Pritchard, Jerry Phillips, and Andy Woods.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Internal wave recipes? Identifying the optimal mix of multi-scale shear and convection in wave-breaking events.

Colm Caulfield, BPI and DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Flood inundation prediction

Professor Paul Bates, Uni of Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Particle suspension from Rouse to Turbidty Currents, and back again

Dr Robert Durrell, University of Hull.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

See Below

Patrick Mortimer, BPI and Eric Newland, BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Kieran Gilmore, BPI and Sandy Armstrong, BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The link between the global carbon cycle and the interplay between calcium and sulfur in marine pore fluid

Hal Bradbury, Dept of Earth Sciences, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The effects of planetary-scale volcanism on Io's interior structure and evolution

Dan Spencer ( University of Oxford).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Introduction to BPI Faculty.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Surface Science Aspects of Coronavirus

Stuart Clarke, BPI and Dept of Chemistry.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Modelling Dispersal of Aerosols in Buildings

Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

DEM, dams and dikes

Catherine O'Sullivan, Imperial College.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Experimental insights into the gravity-driven flows and mixing in layered porous media

Chunendra Sahu, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Making rubber gloves

Alexander F. Routh CEB and BP Institute ( BP Institute and Bob Groves, BP Institute visitor).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Open questions in turbulent stratified mixing: Do we even know what we do not know?

C. P. Caulfield, BPI and DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Cleaning soil layers by impinging liquid jets

Ian Wilson, Dept of Chemical Engineering (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Introduction to Imaging Fluid Flows with Application to Viscous Fingering

Dr Patrick Bunton, William Jewell College.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Functional nanomaterials for energy harvesting and sensing

Sohini Kar-Narayan, Materials Science, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Towards the control of transition to turbulence

Cedric Baume, Uni of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Rocking the boat: The physics of kayaks, canoes and rowing

Graham Benham, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Fin Allen - A recipe for Cation-bridging and David Broussault - Metal doped silica beads, a promising system for environmental and biological application?

Fin Allen, BPI and David Brossault, BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Edward Hinton - Capillary trapping of CO2 in aquifers with vertically varying permeability and Chris Howland - Mixing in forced stratified turbulence

Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Chris Howland, DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Nanotechonolgy, Biology, and Sustainability: Intersections with Gold Nanocrystals

Prof. Catherine Jones Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Amine-Functionalised Metal-Organic Frameworks as Next Generation Adsorbents for CO2 Capture

Dr Alex Forse, Dept of Chemisty, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

WEEE separation and PVC window frames separation

Phil Mutsaerts, All Controls.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The interplay of stress and chemical processes in rocks: why it matters, what is explained, and some unsolved problems

Professor John Wheeler, University of Liverpool.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Decoding the thermochemical and magnetic evolution of asteroids using thermal modelling

Dr James Bryson, Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland ice sheets

Dr Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Institute (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Unsteady Turbulent Plumes and Volcanoes

Dr Matthew Scase, Nottingham University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Karol Bacik - Sand Dunes and Their Interactions Kasia Warburton - Glacial Squeegee: Tidal Effects on Subglacial Hydrology

Karol Bacik, DAMTP and Kasia Warburton, DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Nicola Mingotti - BP Institute, Martin Lippert - BP Institute, Neeraja Bhamidipati - BP Institute

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Ptychotomographic imaging of nano-materials at I13-1 Diamond Light Source

Dr Charan Kuppili, Dept of Earh Sciences, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Granular flow visualization using nuclear imaging

Professor Indresan Govender, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Importance of Innovation in Engineering

Capt Mark Grenfell-Shaw.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

TBC.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Some applications of the numerical method SPH to geophysical problems

Professor Joe Monaghan, Monash University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

How to Snowboard on Mars?

Professor Jim McElwaine, Durham University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Special Seminar: Rheology of complex suspensions

Olivier Pouliquen, Aix-Marseille Université.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Self-Assembly in Deep Eutectic Solvents

Professor Karen Edler, University of Bath.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Searching for periodic orbits in turbulence with convolutional neural networks

Dr Jacob Page (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Controlling carbon nanomaterials in dispersion with surfactants: stability and adsorption at interfaces

Tom McCoy, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

CFD from academia to industry

Dimitrios Pavlidis, Foster + Partners.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Modelling the Dynamics and Hazards from Volcanic Mudflows and Flash Floods

Dr Jeremy Phillips, University of Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Turbulence, Periodic Orbits and Koopman analysis

Rich Kerswell, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Special Seminars

See below.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The structure and origin of confined Holmboe waves

Adrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The viscosities of partially molten materials undergoing diffusion creep

John Rudge (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Interacting plumes in a rotating environment: The special case of a single plume and The dynamical system of mixing layers

Chris Howland (University of Cambridge), Jeremy Parker (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Diffusion problems for Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in permeable porous media

Edmund Fordham, Energetics Research.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On

Marcella Bonchio University of Padova and ITM-CNR.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Adjoint-based data assimilation for compressible and reactive flows

Professor Joern Sesterhenn, Technische Universitat Berlin.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Multiphase Aspects of Ice Sheet Dynamics

Professor Ian Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Carbon capture and storage: it has a cost, but does it have any value?

Professor Niall Mac Dowell, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Nanocarbon and Metal Aerogels as Multifunctional, Porous Support Materials in Adsorption and Catalysis

Dr Robert Menzel, Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The Benefits of Bayesian Machine Learning

Stanley Lazic, Cantab.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

A high-order and conservative particle-mesh algorithm for advection-dominated flows

Jakob Maljaars and Robert Jan Labeur, Delft University of Technology.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolyte/Surfactant Mixtures at the Air/Water Interface: The Dominance of Non-equilibrium Effects

Dr Richard A Campbell, University of Manchester.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Unstructured Mesh Generation and Its Applications

Dr Hang Si, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Symmetry Breaking For Biomimetic Locomotion

Professor Jian Deng, Zhejiang University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

See details

Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Extreme Environments and Dynamic Morphology: Anticipating and harnessing evolving structure-property relationships

Jessica Krogstad, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Suppression of marine ice sheet instability

Dr Sam Pegler, Applied Maths, University of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 15 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

NO SEMINAR

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Self-sculpting of a dissolvable body due to gravitational convection

Megan Davies Wykes (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Kinetic barriers in surfactant adsorption and desorption

Dr Chris Breward, University of Oxford.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Ed Hinton -Injection of a fluid into a confined aquifer with a vertical gradient of permeability. Alex Gutai - Formation and eruption of silicic magmas by crustal melting.

Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Alex Gutai, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Bob Groves - I'm Glovin' It and Alex Routh - How do LEA proteins operate?

Alexander F. Routh, BP Institute and Bob Groves, BP Institute visitor.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Non-equilibrium turbulence scalings and self-similarity in turbulent planar jets

Giaccchino Cafiero, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

On the origin of the hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film

Rajat Bhagat, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Plasma Spray and Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coatings

Professor Bill Clyne, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

On the origin of the hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film

Rajat Bhagat, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Tuesday 10 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Transport and Settling of Sediments in River Plumes

Bruce Sutherland, Depts. Physics / Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Downstream dispersion of bedload tracers

Eric Lajeunesse, IPGP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Filling box flows in porous media

Chunendra Sahu, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Mechanical properties of cells or cell components on the micro- and nanometer scale

Othmar Marti, Institute of Experimental Physics, Ulm University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The Engineering of Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator Gravimetric Sensors

Dr Andrew Flewitt (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Developing and Selecting Tribological Coatings

Professor Allan Matthews, School of Materials, the University of Manchester, Director BP International Centre for Advanced Materials.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The sensitivity of West Antarctica to the submarine melting feedback

Robert Arthern ( British Antarctic Survey).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Gravity-driven flows of non-Newtonian fluids in porous media

Professor Sandro Longo, University of Parma.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The Best of TIMES? Turbulence, Instability, Mixing and Exact States in Stratified Shear Flows

Professor Colm C Caulfield, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Gravity-driven flows of non-Newtonian fluids in porous media

Professor Sandro Longo, University of Padua.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Monday 08 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Monday 08 January 2018, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Bubbly jets and particle-laden fountains in confined and unconfined spaces

Martin Lippert, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Towards Durable Hydrophobicity and Omniphobicity

Nenad Miljkovic, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing (UIUC).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Rupture-resistant filter cakes for wellbore strengthening - Nikzad Falahati and Simulator of underground water flow and transport processes - Jan Hybs

Jan Hybs and Nikzad Falahati, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Numerical study of interfacial flows for environmental and industrial applications

Dr Zhihua Xie, University of Cardiff.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Friction behavior of Organic Friction Modifiers: an experimental and numerical approach

Professor Clotilde Minfray, Ecole Centrale de Lyon.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Halogen bonding and Crystal Engineering

Chris Truscott, BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Density stratification in gravity currents; topographic interactions, shear layer stability, and impact on the global sediment budget

Professor Ben Kneller, University of Aberdeen.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Technical challenges in the upstream oil industry

Dr Fereidoun Abbassian, BP Wells, Production and Facilities.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Effects of Submesoscale Turbulence on Reactive Tracers in the Upper Ocean

Dr Kat Smith (DAMTP).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Taking control of flowing dense suspensions

Dr Chris Ness (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

TBC.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Dynamics of thin liquid sheets: Theory and Experiments

Mahesh Tirumkudulu (IIT Bombay, INDIA).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

TBC.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Drop splashing at smooth dry surfaces

Professor Jose Gordillo, University of Seville.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

'Mixing in Gravity Currents' and 'Gravity Driven Flow in a Horizontal Annulus'

Diana Sher and Marcus Horsley - BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Measuring Ocean Mixing

Greg Ivey, UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Modelling entrainment and surface processes in atmospheric flows over rural and urban boundary layers.

Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Vibrating cables & flapping flags: classical fluid-solid instabilities or energy sources ?

Professor Sebastien Michelin, LadHyx.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Internal BPI Student Seminars

Ed Hinton, Neerjana Bhamidipati and Thomasina Ball.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Energy release rate in hydraulic fracture: Can we neglect an impact of the hydraulically induced shear stress?

Professor Gennady Mishuris, Aberystwyth.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Multifunctional Micro and Nanoencapsulation technology with remote controlled delivery and release of various cargos

Professor Gleb Sukhorukov, Queen Mary University of London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Instabilities of internal gravity wave beams: insignts from experimental and analytical approaches

Directeur Thierry Dauxois, ENS Lyon.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Electrohydrodynamic control of multi-fluid systems at small scales

Dr Radu Cimpeanu, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Improving Oil Recovery Using Controlled Salinity Waterflooding

Dr Matthew Jackson, Imperial College.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Arrested bubble 'rise' in a narrow tube

Mrs Catherine Kamal, Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Characterising heterogeneity in multiphase flow and reactive transport processes in application to CO2 storage

Dr Sam Krevor, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Multi-directional simple shear response of soils

Giovanna Biscontin (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Waves and wave-driven flows on coral reefs

Stephen Monismith, Stanford.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Flow and Arrest of Very Dense Suspensions

Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Biofunctionalised Nanotools for New Materials Design

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Dept of Chemical Engineering.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

FEniCS-Shells: solving thin structural theories using a high-level finite element language

Dr Jack S. Hale, Research Unit in Engineering Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Luxembourg..

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Some fluid-structure interaction problems in the viscous limit

Dr Zhong Zheng, Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Redxo-active anilines: From switchable surfactants to tuneable gas capture

Professor Charles Faul, Chemistry, Uni of Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Topographic enhancement of turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean

Ali Mashayek Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Non-Covalent Chemistry

Dr Chris Hunter, Dept of Chemistry.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Generation of quick flood events by a groundwater flow

Dr Adrien Guerin, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

BPI Internal Speakers.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Folding within deep-marine deposits: large contorted rafts and small convolutions

Dr Lotty Gladstone, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Unravel buried soft interfaces: From lipid bilayers to responsive polymer brushes

Wuge Briscoe ( University of Bristol).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Physics of Surfing

Christophe Clanet, LadHyx, GK Batchelor Lecturer - DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Instabilities in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids: a long story

Helen Wilson, UCL.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Formation, Breakup and Coalescence of Droplets

Dr Rafael Castrejon-Pita, QMUL.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Characterization of Gravelly Soils for Geotechnical Engineering Applications

Professor Jason DeJong, University of California Davis.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Granular segregation in dunes and avalanches

Nathalie Vriend (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Internal BPI Seminars

TBC.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

When ice meets ocean: meltwater plumes from the murky depths

Andrew Wells, University of Oxford.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The destabilization of capillary rafts into armored droplets

Suzie Protiere, UPMC.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Internal student talks

BPI students.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Internal Student talks - see abstracts

BPI students.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Regulation of topographic order in the developing nervous system through dynamic cell adhesion

Professor Stephen Price, UCL.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Sedimentological Regimes for Subaqueous Turbidity Currents

Thomas Halsey, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Liquids on solids, and gases in liquids on solids, in vacuum

Rob Jones, Uni of Nottingham.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Convective mass transfer from a droplet into a submerging falling film

Julien Landel ( DAMTP).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Drops in an electric field: instabilities, bifurcations and singularities

Marco Fontelos, ICMAT, Spain.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

High-density Reservoir Networks in Semiarid Northeastern Brazil

Iran Lima-Neto, UFC Brazil and BP Institute visitor.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Green to Gold - From academic curiosity to a Multi $Bn Business Opportunity!

Professor Xiaobin Zhao, Cambond.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Modified Sequential Fully Implicit Scheme for Compositional Flow Simulation

Arthur Moncorge, TOTAL.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Exploring multiphase flows in porous media

Jonathan Mitchell, Schlumberger Cambridge Research.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Self-assembly of nanoparticles on membranes

Dr Andela Saric, Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Internal BPI Welcome Seminars

BP Institute internal seminar.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Strong Acoustic Streaming in High-Intensity Discharge Lamps

Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

How Elastic Flow Instabilities Increase Oil Recovery

Andrew Howe, BP Institute and Dept of Chem Eng.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Dynamical systems methods for tracking oil dispersion in ocean flowsand their application during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Igor Mezic, Engineering, UCSB.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Purely-elastic flow instabilities, elastic turbulence and an engineering application

Professor Robert Poole, Dept of Engineering, University of Liverpool.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Permeability of fault zones and how it changes over time

Professor Emily E. Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Dynamics and Instability of straight and helical Vortices

Prof Maurice Rossi, CNRS-Institut D'Alembert University of Paris 6.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

The impact of internal heat transfer on the performance of air breathing cycles

Rob Miller, Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Aromatic interactions in simple and complex liquids

Neal Skipper, UCL.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Kinneyia, a fossil hydrodynamic instability

Lucas Goering, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics, Germany.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Elastocapillary dynamics: Pattern forming and the role of evaporation

Dominic Vella, University of Oxford.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Felicity Bartholomew and Finn Box, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

A computational model for macroscale simulations of moving contact lines

Yi Sui, Queen Mary University of London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Resource efficiency: what are the limits?

Jonathan Cullen, Dept of Engineering, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

BPI Speakers

Stefano Rocco, Tim Beeson-Jones, Tom Eaves - BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Einstein on the beach: fluid flow on a curved space

Jean-Luc Thiffeault, Uni of Winsconsin.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Hydrodynamic Theory of Coating

Jens Eggers, Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Periodic and quasiperiodic vortex shedding in the wake of a rotating sphere

Benoit Pier, LMFA, Ecole Central, France.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Gradient damage models and brittle fracture: crack nucleation and complex patterns

Corrado Maurini, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

BPI End of Term Seminar

Note unusual time

Andy Hogg, Dave Pritchard, Jerry Phillips, Pete Smith.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 14:00-15:20

BPI Seminar Series

Digital Matter: Towards Colloidal Machines

Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 10:30-11:30

BPI Seminar Series

SEE DETAILS BELOW

Alex Evans, Nicola Mingotti, Kate Miller - BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Drying droplets: coffee stains and Mexican hats

David Fairhurst, Nottingham Trent University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Injection-driven deformation of a soft granular material

Christopher MacMinn, Engineering, Oxford.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Surface texturing for turbulent friction reduction

Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral, Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Numerical Simulation of Viscoelastic Free Surface Flows

Susanne Claus, UCL.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Understanding and Developing Inorganic Lubricant Additives

Professor Paul O'Brien, University of Manchester.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Peter Dudfield, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 10:30-11:30

BPI Seminar Series

Experimental modelling of the Fluid Dynamics of Magma Chambers / Buoyancy induced Taylor dispersion

Andrew Gilbert, BP Institute / Tiras Lin, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Internal BPI Speakers.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Synovial Fluid Lubrication of Artificial Joints

Phillipa Cann, Tribology Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBA

Pietro Cicuta, Physics, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Coarsening and grain boundary dynamics in a two-dimensional colloidal hard sphere system

Roel Dullens, Chemistry, Oxford.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Turbulent fountains: classification and scaling arguments

Henry Burridge, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Fluid-solid interactions: from instabilities to energy harvesting

Sebastien Michelin, LadHyx Polytechnique.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Extracting trends and correlations from noisy environmental data

John Wettlaufer, Oxford.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Julien Salort - Local investigation of turbulent thermal flows

Julien Salort, Laboratoire de Physique ENS, Lyon.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Chemically Synthesised Carbon Nanomaterials

Dr Mohammad Choucair, Dept of Chemistry, University of Sydney.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 April 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Skipping Stones, Ruined Roads and those Dam Oscillations

Neil Balmforth, University of British Columbia.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current through Drake Passage: Glacial versus Holocene

Professor Nick McCave, Dept of Earth Sciences.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Molecular Adsorption at Metal and Metal Oxide Surfaces: From Corrosion to Catalysis via Functional Biomaterials

Dr Andrew Thomas, University of Manchester.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Nonlinear Stability of Multilayer Shear Flows

Professor Demetrios Papageorgiou, Imperial College.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Alan Eales, Fanny Yuen and Alan McCreanor, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Volume of Fluid methods for the study of droplet impact and atomization

Professor Stephane Zaleski.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Fluid mechanics and biological development

Prof Julyan Cartwright, CSIC Spain.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Listen to the Volcano

Joern Sesterhenn, TU Berlin.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Influence of chemical reactions on buoyancy-driven fingering in porous media

Professor Anne de Wit, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Detraining and entraining line plumes

Charlotte Gladstone, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

To be advised

Merlin Etzold, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Interfacial Effects in Microflows: Different Models vs Experiments

James Sprittles, University of Warwick.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The many faces of emulsion droplets

Jasna Brujic, NYU.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Experiments on Mixing in Gravity Currents / Characterisation of Flux Sensitivity to Uncertainty in Porous Media

Alex Evans and Diana Sher, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Coating and Drying of Thin Films and its impact on morphology and structure formation

Professor Wilhelm Schabel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 31 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Nanotechnology for the Oilfield

James Tour, BP Lecturer, Rice University, Houston.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Automated parallel adjoints for model differentiation, optimisation and stability analysis

Patrick Farrell, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Turbulence subject to a strong background rotation

Peter Davidson, Engineering, Uni of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Packing of wires in cavities and growing surfaces

Professor Hans Herrmann ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Inferring past current contributions to the deep Atlantic using Nd isotope records

Natalie Roberts, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Peter Dudfield, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Mineral Separation by Froth Flotation: Research Tools and Techniques

Professor Jan Cilliers FREng, Department of Earth Science and Engineering Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Why did the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption cloud last so long?

Mark Jellinek, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences University of British Columbia.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

An informal talk on some volcanic flow problems

Professor Andy Woods, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The response of the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Antarctic Circumpolar Current to changes in surface forcing

Callum Shakespeare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Trembling, Chugging and Choking in Volcanic Eruptions

David Bercovici, Geology & Geophysics, Yale University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Consider the Icicle

Stephen Morris, Dept of Physics, University of Toronto.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The 2010 Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull: Interaction between volcanic plumes and the wind and consequences for modelling airborne ash hazard to aviation

Jerry Phillips, Dept of Earth Sciences, Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBA

TBC.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Wave Crest Statistics - the occurence of freak or rogue waves

Chris Swan, Imperial college London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Mineral and Glass Surface Reactivity: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Roy Wogelius, Manchester.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Taking the Plunge: Stages of a dense river inflow into a lake

Charlie Hogg.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Multiphase Hele-Shaw Flows: from Beaches to Dredgers

Onno Bokhove, Astro- & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, University of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

BPI Student Seminar - CANCELLED

BPI Students.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Control design for amplifier and oscillator flows

Professor Peter Schmid, LadHyX - CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

NO SEMINAR

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Using dynamic models to understand continental deformation

Alex Copley (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Shear at soft interfaces

Wuge Briscoe, University of Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBA

Peter Dudfield, Daan van Sommeren, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Clays in contact with water, ions and CO2: interfacial properties and hydrodynamics on the molecular scale

Benjamin Rotenberg, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

SPECIAL SEMINAR BP LECTURER - Functionalized Antibodies

Professor Akira Harada, Osaka University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Finite-Reynolds number effects and interfacial phenomena due to solid particles

Lorenzo Botto, Imperial College (London).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Freezing Colloidal Suspensions: Periodic Ice-banding

Anthony Anderson.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Understanding Corrosion through Interface Characterisation

Rob Lindsay, Manchester.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Granular segregation in driven binary monolayers

Draga Pihler-puzovic, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Uni of Manchester.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Patterning of Colloidal Particles via Infrared Radiation-Assisted Evaporative Lithography

J.L. Keddie Department of Physics, University of Surrey.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Numerical simulation of condensed-phase explosives

Dr Nikolaos Nikiforakis (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Modelling of forced and natural wetting on uniform and non-uniform surfaces

Dr Mark Wilson, School of Mechanical engineering, Uni of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Ionic Liquids Confined to Thin Films: Structure and Lubricity

Susan Perkin, Dept of Chemistry, University College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The Destabilising Effect of Stratification in Layered Shear Flows

Caulfield ( C (Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

(What's the Story) Internal Solitary Waves?

Bruce Sutherland, Dept of Physics and of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Subdivision-stabilised immersed b-spline finite elements for fluid-structure Interaction

Dr. Fehmi Cirak, Dept of Engineering.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Axel Zeitler, Chem Eng.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Flow and reaction of carbon dioxide stored in saline aquifers

Dr Silvana Cardoso, Chemical Engineering.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Dispersion and mixing in quasi-two-dimensional turbulent jets

Julian Landel, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Multiphase Flow in Pipes

Trevor Hill, BP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Pore Network Modelling for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery

Paul Hammond, Schlumberger Cambridge Research.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

NO SEMINAR

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

BPI Students.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

PlaqueTec Limited

Joseph Corrigan, Head of R&D, PlaqueTec Limited.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Encapsulation of microorganisms in colloidosomes / Encapsulation of Inhibitors for Down-well Applications

Polly Keen, BP Institute, University of Cambridge / Wei Jin Gun, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

On the propagation of non-isothermal gravity currents in an inclined porous layer / Propulsion in Stokes flow

Will Rayward-Smith, BP Institute, University of Cambridge / Tom Johnson, University of Birmingham.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Clay: the forgotten particle in submarine sediment density flows

Dr Esther Sumner, University of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

What are the battery technologies around the corner with or without Li?

Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The Existence and Significance of Deeply Buried Landscapes

Dr Nicholas White, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Interfaces and mixing in CO2 sequestration

Dr Jerome Neufeld, BP Institute and DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Why and how does organic matter in sediment matter to climate change science?

Dr Albert Galy, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Two-phase gravity currents in carbon dioxide sequestration / Miscible viscous fingering induced by a simple chemical reaction

Madeleine Golding, DAMTP / Thomas Gérard, BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Natural ventilation of double-skin facades, Energy Implications of Stratification

Nicola Mingotti, BP Institute, University of Cambridge, Andrea Kuesters, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Special Seminars in Multiphase Flow

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 09:30-05:00

BPI Seminar Series

How little we know about geological carbon storage

Prof Mike Bickle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Effects of natural convection on thermal explosions in a closed vessel

Ting-Yueh Liu, PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Granular research in extremes- from sand dunes in the desert to snow avalanches in the mountains

Dr Nathalie M. Vriend (DAMTP).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Experimental and Theoretical Modeling of Internal Tide Generation

Morris R. Flynn, Ph.D., P.Eng., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Alberta.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Lubricating with polymer brushes

Prof. Dr. Nicholas D. Spencer, ETH Zürich.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Encapsulation of inhibitors for Down-well applications/Adventures of salty water droplets in oil

Wei Jin Gun & Michael O'Sullivan.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Part III Presentations

Harry Frankish Becky Welbourn Paul Verhaak Earth Sciences Part III students.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

When is one very much less than one? Lee wave tracing in stratified shear flow experiments

Dr Colm Caulfield, BP Institute, DAMPT and Churchill College.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Numerical modelling of the respiratory system.

Bertrand Maury, Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université Paris Sud.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Effects of turbulence on the ignition of flames.

Prof. Epaminondas Mastorakos, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Technical context for deepwater drilling and oil spill response.

Dr Andy Leonard BP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Random sphere packings/Thermo-responsive polymers in porous media

Larry Melidis and Alexis Tran-Viet.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Richard Mott & Seung Yeon Lee: BPI Research Colloquium

Richard Mott & Seung Yeon Lee.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Interfacial Studies on a Charged Surface in Oil by Contact Angle Measurements / Natural ventilation of an enclosed space driven by periodic gusting of wind

Seung Yeon Lee / Richard Mott, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Self segregation in water-borne latex coatings.

Richard Truman, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Getting Organized at the Nanoscale with Liquid Crystals

David L. Patrick, Department of Chemistry, Western Washington University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Getting Organized at the Nanoscale with Liquid Crystals

David L. Patrick, Western Washington University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

BPI Research Colloquium:

Joel Taylor, BPI & Harry McLelland, Earth Sciences.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Intrusive gravity currents and the solitary wave lifecycle in a cylindrical geometry

Justine McMillan (Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Engineering in the cryosphere

Ben Lishman (Earth Sciences, University College, London).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Designing for climate change.

Torwong Chenvidyakarn (Architecture).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Soil Mechanics at the Particle Scale - Discrete Element Modelling and Micro Computed Tomography

Catherine O'Sullivan & Joana Fonseca Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Overturning Magma Chambers

Alex Cowan, BP institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Dynamic mode Decomposition of Numerical and Experimental Data

Peter Schmid: LadHyX at Ecole Polytechnique.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Fault Rocks and Permeability in the Upper Crust

Nigel Woodcock, Earth Sciences, CU.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Part III Reports

Alice Mannion, Peter Breen & Adam Brewer (Chemistry).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

IR thermography and heat flux measurements in high enthalpy hypersonic flows

Gennaro dello Ioio, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

NMR studies of displacement propagators in rocks and related porous media

Michael Johns, Chemical Engineering.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

High-throughput Applications for Heterogeneous Catalysts

Professor Avelino Corma Canos - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ().

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

BPI Seminar Series

Flow through and around groups of bodies

Ian Eames, Mechanical Engineering, University College, London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Shear banding and demixing in complex and biologically active fluids

Suzanne Fielding, Department of Physics, Durham University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Capillary effects on the dynamic sequestration of CO2

Adrian Farcas, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 October 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Modelling wave run-up and sediment transport

D. Pritchard Mathematics, Strathclyde University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

New approaches in reconstructing the oxygen isotopic composition of the ocean over Earth history

S. Turchyn Earth Sciences.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

BPI Research Colloquia

M Marrion/L Goering, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Ablation -and maybe growth - at the base of floating ice sheets

D. Hatton, ITG.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

About charge effects and depletion zones: Interactions of proteins in solution and with interfaces

F. Schreiber, Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Cracking during lateral drying of alumina suspensions

Dr W. J. Clegg, from the Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

About charge effects and depletion zones: Interactions of proteins in solution and with interfaces

F. Schreiber, Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Monday 20 April 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Silent Secrets of a Seemingly Simple System: Segregation in Particle-Laden Rimming Flow

Prof Peter Thomas, School of Engineering, University of Warwick.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Internal wave beams: Transport and attractors.

Jeroen Hazewinkel, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Hilbert-Huang transform - A new method of analyzing unsteady, nonlinear turbulent flow data

Julien Landel, BPI & DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The treatment of turbulence in engineering simulations

Paul Tucker, CUED.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

BPI Research Colloquia

Lotty Gladstone, Michael O'Sullivan, Maynard Marrion - BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Delamination of thin sheets from sticky substrates

Dominic Vella, ITG.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Colloidal interfaces in confinement

Dirk Aarts, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Ventilation: Is it just a lot of hot air

Shaun Fitzgerald, BPI & e-stack.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

A Lagrangian Computational Method for Viscoelastic Flow: Simulations of inkjet printing & particle migration in 3D viscoelastic flow

Neil Morrison, Department of Mathematics, University of Leeds..

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Stretching, droplets & instabilities in non-newtonian flow: The role of visco-elasticity

Jerry Gollub, Department of Physics, Haverford College.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Solution properties and rheology of telechelic associating polymers based on poly(ethylene glycol)

Rob English, Centre for Water Soluble Polymers, Glyndwr University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

BPI Seminar Series

Extrusion of industrial pastes: A health warning

Milan Patel, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Snowflakes: Letters from the sky and scientific messages from far beyond.

Professor John Wettlaufer, Bateman Professor of Geophysics & Physics, Yale University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Dynamics of fluid-filled gelatin cracks

Onno Bokhove, Department of Mathematics, University of Twente.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Capillary waves as a label-free detection tool of biomolecules: Perspective for a droplet-based lab on a chip

Cyril Picard, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Magma mixing in channels and chambers under Iceland: Observations in dire need of models

John Maclennan, Department of Earth Sciences.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Turbulent jets with off-source heating

Andy Aspden, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The dynamics of Vulcanian plumes: Insights from laboratory analogue experiments

The talk will be followed by a bread and cheese lunch

Jerry Phillips, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Bounds on mixing efficiency and Richardson number in stably stratified turbulent shear flow

Colm-cille Caulfield, BPI & DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 26 September 2008, 14:45-15:45

BPI Seminar Series

Global shear instabilities in flames and their effect on the response to acoustic forcing.

Matthew Juniper, CUED.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 26 September 2008, 13:45-14:45

BPI Seminar Series

The role of convective chimneys in the Greenland Sea

Peter Wadhams, DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 26 September 2008, 11:45-12:45

BPI Seminar Series

The role of angular momentum conservation in rotating turbulence

Peter Davidson, CUED.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 26 September 2008, 10:45-11:45

BPI Seminar Series

Interfacial mixing by horizontal vortices and shear turbulence

Jan-bert Flor, LEGI Grenoble.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 26 September 2008, 09:30-10:30

BPI Seminar Series

On the energetics of turbulent mixing in stratified fluids

Remi Tailleux, Meteorology, University of Reading.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 September 2008, 16:00-17:00

BPI Seminar Series

Interaction of natural convection and chemical kinetics

Silvana Cardoso, Chemical Engineering.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 September 2008, 14:45-15:45

BPI Seminar Series

Maximal mixing efficiency

Stuart Dalziel, DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 September 2008, 13:45-14:45

BPI Seminar Series

Mixing in oceanic (and laboratory) overflows

Claudia Cenedese, WHOI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 September 2008, 11:45-12:45

BPI Seminar Series

Some transient studies in stratified flow with horizontal shear

Cristobal Arratia, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 September 2008, 10:45-11:45

BPI Seminar Series

Mixing by turbulent plumes

Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 September 2008, 09:30-10:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

Tej Bhinde and Seung Yeon Lee, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

An adaptive numerical method for multi-scale problems arising in phase-field modelling of solidification

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

Prof Peter Jimack, Computational PDEs Unit, University of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Microbiological Responses and Population-Adaptation to Chemical Stress

Lunch afterwards in the Open Plan Area

Sujata Ray, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Encapsulation by microcapsules

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

Grace Yow, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The world in a bowl of mush: solidification and fluid flow from the inner core to the Arctic Ocean

Lunch will be in the open plan area at 12.30

Dr Jerome Neufeld, ITG.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Buckling of elastic plates: theory and experiment

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

Prof Richard Craster, Imperial College Dept. of Mathematics.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Pattern formation in permafrost

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

Dr Lucas Goehring, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Lunch in open plan area

WY Chow, I Stöcker, L Foley and C Smith.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Transport in heterogeneous porous media

Lunch in open plan area

Dr Diogo Bolster, Dept. of Geotechnical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalunya.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Stratified flows: From the lab to the ocean

Lunch in the open plan area

Professor Tom Peacock, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

How oscillating collapsible tubes extract energy from a viscous flow

Lunch afterwards in the Open Plan Area

Professor Matthias Heil, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Manchester.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 12:00-01:00

BPI Seminar Series

Soft, self-assembled systems: structure and flow properties

Lunch will be provided after the talk

Dr Erika Eiser.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Plume dynamics associated with volcanism: atmospheric flows; submarine flows and lake eruptions

Lunch is in the Open Plan Area afterwards

Andy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Internal solitary waves in shallow water

Lunch in the Open Plan Area afterwards

Professor Peter Davies, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The challenge of consumer products: the prediction of complex fluid flow behaviour in both the consumer and industrial manufacturing processes: today's challenges and tomorrow's needs

There will be lunch after the talk

Dr Mark Meili, Proctor & Gamble.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Streaming potentials generated by a two-phase flow in capillary

Lunch will be in the open plan area afterwards

Etienne Lac.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Life at High Peclet Numbers

Lunch will be provided after the seminar

Professor R. Goldstein, DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Numerical models for dam-break flows at the intitial stage

Lunch will be provided after the seminar

Dr Dongfang Liang, Engineering, Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Stirring the Cahn-Hilliard fluid

Lunch will be provided after the seminar

Dr Lennon O'Naraigh, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Segregation in Frictional Granular Flows

Lunch will be provided

Dr Jim McElwaine DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Microcapsules with liquid cores and solid shells for pressure-release applications

Lunch will be provided after the seminar

Dr Michael O'Sullivan BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Separation Control in Over-expanded Supersonic Nozzles: Improving the Performance of Ballistic Drug and Vaccine Delivery Devices

Lunch will be provided after the seminar

Dr Maynard Marrion BPI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 11 October 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Improving Waterflood Oil Recovery: Understanding the Habitat and Targetting Recovery of Remaining Oil

Cliff Black, BP Senior Advisor Waterflood Management & IOR.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 July 2007, 14:00-15:00

BPI Seminar Series

Ice and Ice cream

Dr Martin Izzard Unilever.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 15 June 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Development of anisotropy of permeability in expanding vesicular magma

Ed Llewellin, Earth Sciences, University of Durham.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 08 June 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Migrating and interacting solid particles in a Brinkman fluid

Antoine Sellier LadHyX.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 01 June 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Long wave transition to instability of flows in horizontally extended domains of porous media

Professor Andrej Il'ichev, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Science and Professor George Tsypkin, Institute for Problems in Mechanics.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 31 May 2007, 10:30-11:30

BPI Seminar Series

Dam-break flows of visco-plastic and granular materials

Dr Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 25 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

BPI Seminar Series

Fundamentals and applications of complex phase behaviour from a molecular perspective

Amparo Galindo, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 18 May 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Numerical simulation of the dynamics of a sailing boat

Matteo Lombardi.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 11 May 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Oil spill detection and prediction in the Mediterranean Sea

Jose M Redondo, Dept. Fisica Aplicada, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Monday 07 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

BPI Seminar Series

Professor Andy Woods

sandwiches at 12.30

Professor AW Woods, BP Institute.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 04 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Large-scale simulation technique for shock and blast loaded structures

Dr Fehmi Cirak CUED.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 27 April 2007, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

The prize for integrating Time Lapse seismic and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Greg Walker BP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Tuesday 03 April 2007, 12:30-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Yield stress liquids

Professor Richard Buscall, MSACT Consulting: Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne and Leeds; formerly of ICI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 06 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

BPI Seminar Series

Yield stress liquids

Professor Richard Buscall, MSACT Consulting: Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne and Leeds; formerly of ICI.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 06 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

BPI Seminar Series

Hydrodynamic modes of resuspension

Dr Stuart B. Dalziel, GK Batchelor Laboratory & DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 02 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

BPI Seminar Series

The collapse of granular columns

Professor Rich Kerswell, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 26 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

BPI Seminar Series

Soft particle liquids

Dr David Heyes, Division of Chemistry, University of Surrey.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 19 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

BPI Seminar Series

Lattice-kinetic approach to microfluidics

Professor Sauro Succi, IAC-CNR, Rome.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 12 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

BPI Seminar Series

Colloids and coatings for colours

Dr Andrew M. Howe, Kodak European Research, Cambridge.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Friday 05 May 2006, 11:00-12:00