News

2024

• October: Ebru Dagdelen, NJIT senior is to present her project at the SIM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science in Atlanta. Congratulations Ebru!

• September: PhD candidates Pedro Barcelo and Zhaoshu Cao are joining the group as of September 2024. Welcome!

• August: Congratulations to Dr. Kondic on his new NSF funding on "Analysis of dense suspension properties and dynamics by network methods" in collaboration with Jeffrey Morris and Hernan Makse from CCNY!

• May: Linda Cummings is to present an invited talk at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science. Congratulations!

2023

• November: Linda Cummings has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Congratulations, well deserved!

• September: Jesus Marcos from the University of Badajos, Spain, will be joining the group for the Fall semester 2023: Welcome Jesus!

• September: Congratulations to Associate Professor Anand Oza on promotion and tenure. Well deserved!

• July: Congratulations to Lauren Barnes on successfully defending her doctoral thesis!

• July: Congratulations to Rituparna Basak on successfully defending her doctoral thesis!

• June: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic (PI) and Prof. Cummings (co-PI) for winning a NJIT Faculty Seed Grant Award for their project "Acoustofluidics for cleaning contaminated fluids."

2022

• September: Dr. Binan Gu has moved to Worcester to take up a position as Postdoctoral Researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute - congratulations, Binan!

• September: Congratulations to Joseph D'Addessa, Mark Fasano and Matt Illingworth on successfully passing their oral Qualifying Exams!

• August: Congratulations to Dr. Cummings and Dr. Kondic on their new NSF funding on "Network models for membrane filtration", in collaboration with Dr. Uwe Beuscher at W.L. Gore & Associates!

• July: Congratulations to Binan Gu on successfully defending his doctoral thesis!

• April: Congratulations to Prof. Cummings (PI) and Prof. Kondic (co-PI) for winning a NJIT Faculty Seed Grant Award, for their project "Assembly of Nanoscale Liquid Metal Alloys."

2021

• November: Congratulations to Lauren Barnes for winning the 8th Annual Student Investigator Space Flight Award at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Science Research (ASGSR) meeting, for her poster presentation entitled "Phase-Field Modeling of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures in Microgravity!

• October: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic on his recent work on frost, featured in APS Physics Magazine!

• September: Dr. Yixuan Sun has started his new position as Industry Engagement Officer & Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. Congratulations, Yixuan!

• September: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on his recent work on loopy fluid dynamics in bird lungs, featured in SIAM news!

• July: Congratulations to Yixuan Sun on his successful doctoral thesis defense!

• June: Photos from the group outing in New Paltz in June 2021!

• June: Ryan Allaire has accepted an assistant professor position at the West Point Academy. Congratulations Ryan!

• June: Congratulations to Ryan Allaire for his successful thesis defense on June 15th.

• April: Congratulations to Chao Cheng for his successful thesis defense on April 21.

• April: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic for the recipient of the 2020 Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal!

• March: Congratulations to Prof. Oza for Editor's Suggestion by PRL and the subject of a Focus story for his PRL paper!

• March: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on press release at NJIT, NYU, APS, NSF respectively for his PRL paper!

• February: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on his featured publication in Physics of Fluids.

• January: Ivana Seric, our alumni, about data revolution in NBA.

2020

• October: Link to Professor Cummings' talk on Mathematical Modeling Seminar at RIT.

• October: Link to Professor Oza's talk at Imperial College.

• April: Congratulations to Yixuan Sun for Editor's Suggestion for his paper in Phys. Rev. Fluids.

• March: Link to Professor Kondic presentation at Granular Matter conference at U. Twente on Quantify particle scale interactions in granular matter.

• February: Link to the post describing launch of Space Station colloids experiment.

• January: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on press coverage for his PRX paper.

2019

• December: Link to Professor Cummings presentation at ESI Workshop in Vienna on Modeling and large-scale simulation of the film liquid crystal flows

• November: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on press coverage in NJIT for his PRX paper.

• October: Link to a PhD project description: Avalanches in granular matter.

• October: Link to a PhD project description: Breakup of multicomponent fluid films.

• August: Here is a link to Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. paper by Prof. Kondic and collaborators.

• June: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic for promotion to the rank of Distinguished Professor.

2018

• November: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic, Prof. Cummings and Dr. Lam on press coverage for their paper on Journal of Fluid Mechanics!

• September: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on press coverage in NYU for his PRL paper!

• July: NJIT reports on a CFSM research project!

• July: Congratulations to Profs. Cummings and Prof. Kondic on new NSF research award for study of Liquid Crystals!

• May: Photos from the 2018 commencement.

• April: Congratulations to Michael Lam for his successful thesis defense on April 24th!

• April: Congratulations to Valeria Barra for her successful thesis defense on April 24th!

• April: Congratulations to Ryan Allaire for winning DOE SCGSR Fellowship. Ryan will spend 3 months at ORNL.

• January: Ivana Seric' paper in Physics of Fluids was elected for Scilight.

2017

• November: Lou Kondic has been awarded Luis Federico Leloir award for his contribution to development of Argentine science.

• October: Linda Cummings has been awarded funds to run an Isaac Newton Institute 4-month programme on "Complex Analysis: techniques, applications and computations".

• October: Lou Kondic has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

• August: Ivana Seric has accepted a position with the Philadelphia 76ers as a Data Scientist in Analytics and Strategy - Congratulations, Ivana!

• August: Ivana Seric defended her thesis on August 1st in Cullimore 611.

• July: Michael Lam spoke at the FUNWAVE-TVD workshop in Newark, DE as part of his internship at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory.

• June: Pejman Sanaei defended his thesis on June 16th in Cullimore 611.

• June: Michael Lam spent summer 2017 as an intern at the Coastal Hydraulics Lab in Mississippi, funded by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education!

• May: Linda Cummings was an invited speaker at the Applied and Computational Complex Analysis workshop to be held at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK.

• April: Nanyi Dong defended his thesis on April 26th in Cullimore 611.

• March: Pejman Sanaei has accepted a position at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NYU, starting September 2017 - Congratulations, Pejman!

• February: Pejman Sanaei organized and spoke in minisymposium on Small-scale flows with industrial applications: Modeling and simulations at the SIAM 2017 CSE meeting.

• February: Michael Lam spoke in Liquid Crystal minisymposium and Ivana Seric spoke in Computational Fluid Dynamic minisymposium at the SIAM 2017 CSE meeting.

2016

• December: Valeria Barra completed an intern at Pixar Studios!

• November: Group members William Batson, Michael Lam, Pejman Sanaei, and Ivana Seric present their work at the 2016 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting.