Seminar
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Transport Problems in Capillary Electrophoresis |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Sandip Ghosal |
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Affiliation: |
Northwestern University |
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When: |
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 11:00:00 AM |
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Where: |
Love Building, Room 311 |
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Host: |
Minami Yoda | |
Abstract Capillary electrophoresis is a basic technique in analytical chemistry for sorting molecules based on their size and charge. It is of fundamental importance in the life sciences and is an essential step in bioanalytical techniques such as DNA sequencing. Physical modeling of the transport processes involved result in interesting mathematical problems that overlap with other disciplines such as the theory of nonlinear waves, the physics of shocks and the shear induced dispersion of tracers. In this lecture some aspects of the the mathematical modeling of capillary electrophoresis will be discussed. |
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Biography Dr. Sandip Ghosal is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. Ghosal received his M.Phil and Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University. He has held post doctoral positions at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University and NASA Ames, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, and has been visiting faculty at the University of Rouen and CNRS-CORIA in France. Dr. Ghosal has worked on a broad range of topics in fluid mechanics including astrophysical and geophysical flows, turbulence modeling, laser plasma interactions and combustion. His current research focus is on the flow of ionic liquids near charged interfaces and its applications to micro and nano scale systems in biology and biotechnology. Dr. Ghosal was a Fellow of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and a NASA ASEE fellow. He has written influential review articles for The Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics Electrophoresis, the Encyclopedia of Micro and Nano-fluidics (Springer), and the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (Springer). |
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Notes |
Refreshments will be served. |
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