Professor George "Bud" HomsyThe second installment of the 2011-12 Disquisitiones Mechanicae lecture series was held December 1 and 2, featuring guest presenter Professor George “Bud” Homsy from the University of British Columbia. He is an alumnus of the University of Illinois, where he earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering.
Written by By William Bowman
Professor George "Bud" Homsy
The second installment of the 2011-12 Disquisitiones Mechanicae lecture series was held December 1 and 2, featuring guest presenter Professor George “Bud” Homsy from the University of British Columbia. He is an alumnus of the University of Illinois, where he earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering.
In his perspective lecture on December 1, Homsy presented “Multimedia Fluid Mechanics: A Remarkable Confluence of Teaching and Research.” This lecture served as a guided tour through Homsy’s Multimedia Fluid Mechanics software package, which has become the definitive multimedia tool for teaching and learning fluid mechanics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also highlighted how the University of Illinois fluid mechanics community played a key role in the software’s creation.
In his fluid mechanics seminar on December 2, Homsy presented “Interfacial Flow: New Twists on an Old Subject.” Outside of his lectures, Homsy used his time at Illinois meeting with a diverse crowd of engineering faculty and learning about the broad range of mechanics research being conducted at Illinois.
“UIUC has a long tradition of excellence in applied mechanics research,” Homsy said.“It was enjoyable for me to connect with the many senior faculty I knew from before, and a revelation to meet the younger faculty and learn about the outstanding work they are doing."
Disquisitiones Mechanicae continues in February with guest speaker Howard Stone, a renowned professor from Princeton University. On February 9, Stone will present a perspective lecture, “Fluid Mechanics and Biofilms—Interplay between Flow and the Movement and Organization of Surface-Attached Bacteria,” followed on February 10 with a fluid mechanics seminar titled “Elastocapillary Dynamics.”
Faculty and students from all areas of campus are invited to attend. For more details, please visit the Disquisitiones Mechanicae web page.