报告题目：The New Physics of Fluids
报告人： Prof. Alan Jeffrey Giacomin(Editor-in-Chief of Physics of Fluids；Queen’s University, Canada.)
报告时间：2019年12月18号（周三）上午10:00
报告地点: 明故宫校区A18-529报告厅
主办单位：航空学院、国际合作处，非定常空气动力学与流动控制工业和信息化部重点实验室
报告内容简介：
Professor Giacomin has led Physics of Fluids as its Editor-in-Chief since 2016. This lecture is designed to interest authors, new and old. It tells the story of the journal’s surging success, with special focus on Chinese contributions.
报告人简介：
Dr. Giacomin is Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Queen’s University at Kingston in Canada where he holds the title of Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Rheology. Born in Kingston, Professor Giacomin graduated high school on the island of Montreal. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, before joining the Research Division at DuPont Canada. He then earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from McGill University under Professor John Dealy, his thesis titled “A Sliding Plate Melt Rheometer Incorporating a Shear Stress Transducer.” He joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Texas A&M University. He has been Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, where for twenty years he chaired its Rheology Research Center. He has held visiting professorships at McGill University, the University of Sherbrooke, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the Paris School of Mines, the National University of Singapore, Chung Yuan University near Taipei, Yunlin University, in southern Taiwan, and Shandong University in mainland China. He married Marie, and they have a son David, and daughter, Caroline. David is a civil engineer, and Caroline, a chemical engineer. He speaks English, French and some Mandarin Chinese. His hobbies: Chinese characters, expert witnessing for products liability and patent litigation, and his passions are cycling and ice hockey. He is President of the Canadian Society of Rheology, and a former President of The Society of Rheology. Giacomin serves as sole Editor-in-Chief of Physics of Fluids.
