Thomas P. Witelski

Coarsening dynamics of condensing fluid thin films - CCIAM Applied Mathematics Colloquium · November 15, 2023 Lecture UNC-Chapel Hill Dept of Mathematics, UNC-Chapell Hill

Dynamics of thin films of volatile fluids - Fluid mechanics seminar series · December 8, 2022 Lecture University of Nottingham, School of Mathematics,

Moving boundary problems for evaporating fluids - Undergraduate Analysis and PDE seminar series · November 4, 2022 Lecture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

Evaporation vs. condensation in dewetting viscous thin films - OCIAM @ 30 conference · June 24, 2019 Lecture Mathematical Institute, Oxford University

Dynamics of non-conservative fluid thin films - Modelling of Thin Liquid Films – Asymptotics vs. Gradient Dynamics Banff Workshop 19w5148 · May 2, 2019 Lecture Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada

Finite-time rupture in thin films driven by non-conservative effects - Making a Splash: Droplets, Jets and Other Singularities Workshop · March 21, 2017 Invited Talk ICERM, Brown University

Multiscale dynamics of dewetting fluid films - Applied PDE Seminar · November 17, 2016 Lecture Dept of Applied Math, University of Washington,

Web seminar series

Directions for Graduate and Undergraduate Modeling Courses - 2016 SIAM Annual Meeting · July 13, 2016 Lecture SIAM, 2016 SIAM Annual meeting, Boston

Minitutorial session (MT-2) with Jeffrey Humphreys and Rachel Levy

Experimental study of regular and chaotic transients in a non-smooth system - Dynamics Days US 2016 · January 8, 2016 Lecture Durham North Carolina

Nonlinear dynamics of dewetting thin films · May 29, 2014 Lecture Conference on Partial Differential Equations 2014, Novacella Italy

Multiscale dynamics of dewetting fluids · July 1, 2013 Lecture Oxford Conference on Challenges in Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Crowd-dynamics-driven instabilities of bridges · June 11, 2013 Lecture 2013 Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp (GSMMC), Dept of Mathematics, RPI

Basic questions on the design and efficiency of toothbrushes · May 17, 2013 Lecture OCIAM Industrial and Interdisciplinary Workshops, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Modeling studies of the dynamics of read/write heads in computer hard disk drives · July 26, 2012 Lecture 17th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry (ECMI), Lund, Sweden

The influence of surfactants on transient behaviors in forced film thinning - Workshop on Surfactant Driven Thin Film Flows · February 23, 2012 Invited Talk Fields Institute, Toronto

Nonlinear dynamics of driven coupled impacting pendula · January 20, 2012 Lecture Dynamics Days 2012, Baltimore Maryland

Transient and self-similar dynamics in thin film coarsening · July 18, 2010 Lecture Dynamical Systems Session, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS) 2010 Annual Meeting

Transient Stability Analysis for an Inertially-driven Extensional Motion of a Planar Liquid Sheet · May 26, 2010 Lecture MS84 Dynamics of Thin Films of Complex Liquids, SIAM Conference on Materials Science

Transient and self-similar dynamics in thin film coarsening · May 24, 2010 Lecture MS39 Self-similarity and Scaling Models of Materials Science (Part II), SIAM Conference on Materials Science

Mean field model of droplet coarsening · April 17, 2010 Lecture Thin films Day 2010, Department of Mathematics, NCSU

Mean field models and transient effects for coarsening dynamics in fluid films · April 13, 2010 Lecture Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems Seminar Series, Duke University

Coarsening: transient and self-similar dynamics in 1-D · March 12, 2010 Lecture Applied Mathematics Colloquium, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dept of Mathematical Sciences

Perturbation analysis for impulsive differential equations - Duke Math Grad/Faculty seminar · February 12, 2010 Invited Talk Duke

Film coarsening: transient and self-similar dynamics in 1-D · August 11, 2009 Lecture Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics 2009, University of Nottingham

Perturbation Analysis for Impulsive Differential Equations · July 9, 2009 Lecture SIAM 2009 Annual meeting, MS65 Contemporary Applications of Perturbation and Asymptotic Methods - Part I

Coarsening of Dewetting Films I: the Influence of Gravity · July 9, 2009 Lecture SIAM 2009 Annual meeting, MS53 Dynamics of Thin Liquid Films - Part III

On computing solutions of thin film equations · April 4, 2009 Lecture 1048th AMS Meeting, NCSU, Special session on numerical solution of partial differential equations and applications SS 15A

Coarsening: transient and self-similar dynamics in 1-D · April 1, 2009 Lecture North Carolina State University, Dept of Mathematics, Differential Equations Seminar

Coarsening: transient and self-similar dynamics in 1-D · March 23, 2009 Lecture IMA Hot Topics Workshop: Higher Order Geometric Evolution Equations: Theory and Applications from Microfluidics to Image Understanding

Coarsening dynamics of thin fluid films · November 1, 2008 Lecture SEAMS Workshop, 2008 Cha-Cha Days, Dept of Math, UNC-Chapel-Hill

Coarsening dynamics of dewetting fluid films · September 6, 2008 Lecture Duke Center for Theory and Mathematical Sciences, Inaugural Retreat, Thomas Center

Service to the Profession

Committee chair : Gene Golub SIAM Summer School Committee · January 2018 - December 2018 Committee Service Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM),

Faculty Mentor - Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp 2017 (GSMMC) · June 14, 2017 - June 17, 2017 Event/Organization Administration Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept of Math, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Main organizer - 2016 Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) Workshop · June 13, 2016 - June 17, 2016 Event/Organization Administration Duke University, Math Dept, Duke University

Member of organizing committee - Dynamics Days 2016 US · January 7, 2016 - January 10, 2016 Event/Organization Administration Duke University, Durham North Carolina

Member of the editorial board - Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies · 2016 Editorial Activities

Associate Editor - Journal of Engineering Mathematics · 2016 Editorial Activities

Associate Director - Statistics and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) · July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2017 Event/Organization Administration SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Member of board of Series Editors - Springer Texts in Applied Mathematics · 2014 Editorial Activities Springer Publishing,

Member of organizing committee - Flows and Patterns: The Physics of Fluids, Granular Materials, and Soft Matter · October 12, 2013 - October 13, 2013 Event/Organization Administration Duke University, Duke University, French Sciences Building

Conferences Organized ; An interdisciplinary conference marking the 65th birthday of Bob Behringer

Faculty Mentor - Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp 2013 (GSMMC) · June 11, 2013 - June 14, 2013 Event/Organization Administration Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept of Math. , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept of Math

Member of organizing committee - BIRS workshop 12w5035: Thin liquid films and fluid interfaces: models, experiments and applications · December 9, 2012 - December 14, 2012 Event/Organization Administration Banff International Research Station

Conferences Organized

Faculty Mentor : Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp 2011 (GSMMC) · June 11, 2011 - June 12, 2011 Event/Organization Administration Dept of Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Member of organizing committee : Dynamics Days 2011 · January 5, 2011 - January 8, 2011 Event/Organization Administration

Main guest editor : FAN (Fluid Dynamics, Analysis, Numerics) proceedings/ JT Beale Special issue DCDSB · January 2011 - January 2012 Editorial Activities Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B

co-Editor-in-Chief : Journal of Engineering Mathematics · January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2015 Editorial Activities

continuing to present as Associate Edtior

Committee member : Gene Golub SIAM Summer School Committee · January 1, 2011 - December 2017 Committee Service Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM),

Chair, organizing committee : FAN2010: Fluid dynamics, Analysis and Numerics (A conference in honor of Thomas Beale) · June 28, 2010 - June 30, 2010 Event/Organization Administration Duke University, Searle Center

Faculty mentor/problem presenter - 2nd UK Graduate Modelling Camp · April 6, 2010 - April 9, 2010 Event/Organization Administration University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute, OCCAM Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics,

Member of organizing committee : CTMS Workshop: Theory and Applications of Multiscale Modeling · September 11, 2009 - September 12, 2009 Event/Organization Administration Duke Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences

Minisymposium sessions co-organizer : SIAM 2009 Annual meeting, MS65/MS76 Contemporary Applications of Perturbation and Asymptotic Methods I/II · July 9, 2009 - July 10, 2009 Event/Organization Administration

Division Editor : Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications · July 2009 - December 2014 Editorial Activities

Faculty Mentor - Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp (GSMMC) · June 9, 2009 - June 12, 2009 Event/Organization Administration Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mathematics,

Associate Editor - Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, series B · 2006 Editorial Activities

(2006-present...)

Associate Editor - European Journal of Applied Mathematics · 2004 Editorial Activities

(2004 to present...)

Service to Duke

Local organizing committee . TriCAMS: Triangle Computational and Applied Mathematics Symposium 2023 · November 10, 2023 - November 12, 2023 Event/Organization Administration Duke University, Dept of Math, Duke University and NCCU

Director of Graduate Studies · July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023 Other Duke University Department of Mathematics,

Library 2030 Initiative Faculty Steering Group (University) · April 2021 - June 2021 Committee Service Duke Libraries,

Chair of Teaching Committee (Department) · May 2020 Committee Service Dept of Mathematics,

Liaison to Masters Programs · August 2019 Other Duke Mathematics Department,

Self-Study document for external review (Department) · February 2018 Committee Service Duke Mathematics Department,

Oral exam committees for students (MA, PhD) (Department) · January 2018 - December 2018 Committee Service

1 Math, 10 Engineering (qual, prelim, thesis defenses)

Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty (ECGF) (University) · August 2017 - May 2019 Committee Service Duke Graduate School,

Library Council (University) · 2013 - 2019 Committee Service Duke University,

Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty (ECGF) (University) · September 1, 2010 - April 1, 2012 Committee Service

Director of Graduate Studies (Department) · July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011 Committee Service Duke Mathematics Department,

Director of Graduate Studies (Department) · January 2005 - August 2005 Committee Service Duke Mathematics Department,

Academic Council (University) · April 2002 - April 2004 Committee Service