FiNZ 2013 List of attendees

Plenary speakers - each speaker will give a one-hour introduction to their field followed by a one-hour research seminar, including time for questions and discussion

  • Prof Leslie Yeo (RMIT)
    • Honey I shrunk the lab: microfluidics for lab-on-a-chip devices
    • Surface acoustic wave microfluidics: novel phenomena and applications for biotechnology
  • Prof Jim Denier (Auckland)
    • Singularities in fluid mechanics, from boundary-layer separation to finite-time breakdown (and beyond), Part I
    • Singularities in fluid mechanics, from boundary-layer separation to finite-time breakdown (and beyond), Part II
  • Dr Teo Burghelea (Laboratoire de Thermocinetique, CNRS, University of Nantes)
    • Complex behaviour of structured fluids: a multi-scale story, Part I
    • Complex behaviour of structured fluids: a multi-scale story, Part II
  • Dr Stephane Popinet (NIWA)
    • Adaptive numerical methods for fluid mechanics
    • Applications to multiscale problems from microfluidics to geophysical fluid dynamics

Contributed talks - each speaker will give a 20-minute talk with 10 minutes available for discussion

  • Mr Gulraiz Ahmed (Canterbury) Dynamics of power-law fluid on horizontal substrates
  • Dr Richard Brown (Canterbury) Numerical techniques for large-scale cerebral vasculature simulation
  • Dr John Cater (Auckland) Wind farm simulations using LES
  • Dr Richard Clarke (Auckland) Very long-range hydrodynamic effects within two-dimensional micro-organisms suspensions
  • Dr Rob Connell (Lincoln Agritech) A data driven turbulence model: a future alternative to CFD in complex situations
  • Mr Pavlo Kokhanenko (Canterbury) Modelling silica scale deposition in geothermal systems
  • Mr Johannes Erhardt (Canterbury) Oxygen measurement in droplets (with Dr Volker Nock, Canterbury)
  • Dr Warwick Kissling (IRL) Deep hydrology of the Taupo volcanic zone
  • Dr Johannes Laubach (Landcare Research) Turbulence spectra in the atmospheric surface layer - new scaling concepts (with Prof Keith MacNaughton, Edinburgh)
  • A/Prof Ken Morison (Canterbury) Fluid flow in falling film evaporators
  • Mr Yannick Muller (Canterbury) Self-propelling droplets (with Dr Mathieu Sellier, Canterbury)
  • Dr Scott Post (Bradley) Water surface topography based on translucency
  • Ms Becky Soffe (Canterbury) Droplet microfluidics for lab-on-chip device applications
  • Dr Craig Stevens (NIWA/Auckland) Observations of stratified turbulence in the ocean
  • Mr Colin Whittaker (Canterbury) Modelling of landslide-generated tsunamis
  • Dr Geoff Willmott (IRL) Putting the 'Fluidics' in 'Nanofluidics'

Other attendees

  • Ms Cecile Darcque (Canterbury)
  • Mr Milad Ghorban Ebrahimi (Canterbury)
  • Mr James 'Elf' Eldridge (MacDiarmid Institute)
  • Mr James Hewett (Canterbury)
  • Ms Jamie de Jong (Canterbury)
  • Mr Irshad Khodabocus (Canterbury)
  • Dr Emily Lane (NIWA)
  • Mr Sayyed Masoomi (Canterbury)
  • Dr Maarten McKubre-Jordens (Canterbury)
  • Dr Rua Murray (Canterbury)
  • Prof Roger Nokes (Canterbury)
  • Dr Justin Nijdam (Canterbury)
  • Prof Peter Olsson (Chalmers)
  • Dr Igor Rychkov (Canterbury)
  • Ms Madeleine Smith (Canterbury)
  • Mr Timm Treskatis (Canterbury)
  • Prof Ian Wood (Rtd)
Organising committee:
Latest update: 20130130.