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Join us for our February Lunch & Learn where you'll be treated to talks by students from Mechanical Engineering and Global Studies! Enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with grads from across campus. RSVP today!
Join us for our âââââFebruary Lunch & Learn featuring talks from students from Mechanical Engineering and Global Studies! Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the UCSB Library. âFeed your mind and your stomach while socializing with grad students from across the campus! RSVP here.
This Edition: Impurities and Insecurities
âFriday, February 14
Noon-1 p.m.
Library, Room 1312 (map)
*To ensure we have enough food, âplease RSVP*
From Drag Reduction to Maze Solving: The Physics of Surfactants
Fernando Temprano-Coleto
Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
Any liquid, be it in a living organism, an engineering system, or the environment, contains at least trace amounts of surfactants. These substances are natural impurities that tend to migrate to the interfaces between different fluids, where they trigger complex phenomena. For instance, surfactants are, even in very small amounts, a major obstacle for state-of-the-art drag reduction technology, and they also have recently been shown to display fascinating maze-solving behavior which could be harnessed in biomedical applications. I will be speaking about these two subjects of my research, which is aimed to improve our understanding, prediction and utilization of surfactants for technological purposes.
The Pornographic Production of Global Insecurity
âEugene Riordan
Graduate Student in ââGlobal Studies
What are the uses of pornography in identity politics and as a reflection of cultural insecurities? Can these sentiments be taken up by larger projects of power and spectacle in the fulfillment of national goals? By establishing adult films and other erotic literature as evidence, this project looks at several global sites where an examination of such evidence reveals larger projects of power that use insecurities to mask conflict or further violent goals of statemaking.
This event will be moderated byâ âHannah Lawrence, the Assistant Director of Professional Development for the UCSB Graduate Division.
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