{"id":268,"date":"2013-09-28T19:17:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T03:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=268"},"modified":"2013-09-28T19:21:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T03:21:59","slug":"october-cafe-scientifique-with-bud-homsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2013\/09\/28\/october-cafe-scientifique-with-bud-homsy\/","title":{"rendered":"October Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Bud Homsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on <strong>Tuesday October 29th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club<\/strong>. Our speaker for the evening will be <strong>Prof. Bud Homsy<\/strong>. The title of his talk is:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Fluid mechanics &#8211;\u00a0What do the Red Spot of Jupiter and the flagellar motion of e.coli have in common?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fluid mechanics &#8211; the study of the motion of fluids when acted upon by forces &#8211; is capable of describing fluid flows on a very wide range of length and time scales, including the Red Spot (roughly three Earth diameters in size), the Earth&#8217;s weather system, locomotion of trains, planes and automobiles, and swimming of fish, sperm, and microorganisms on the smallest scale.\u00a0 It is safe to say that almost every aspect of human existence depends on fluids and their flow properties.\u00a0 This talk will illustrate all the flows listed above (and more!) with movies and discussion of the mathematics and physics behind their description and understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on Tuesday October 29th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Prof. Bud Homsy. The title of his talk is: Fluid mechanics &#8211;\u00a0What do the Red Spot of Jupiter and the flagellar motion of e.coli have in common? Fluid mechanics &#8211; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}