"DSMC: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective", G.A. Bird Plenary Lecture, 33rd International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Gottingen, Germany, July 15-19, 2024 (Slides)
"Fluctuating Hydrodynamics for Fun and Profit", 22nd Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 24-28, 2024 (Slides)
"A Numerical Scheme for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics of Multispecies Gas Mixtures", 4th European Conference on Non-equilibrium Gas Flows - NEGF23, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, March 29-31, 2023 (Slides)
"Five Surprising Results from Direct Simulation Monte Carlo", Inst. Multiscale Thermofluids, Univ. Edinburgh, Scotland, March 9, 2020 (Slides)
"Suppression and Distortion of Non-Equilibrium Fluctuations by Transpiration", DSMC19 workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, September 22-25, 2019 (Slides)
"Mechanics and Optics in Game Engines and in Game Design", American Association of Physics Teachers 2019 Summer Meeting, Provo, Utah, USA, July 20-24, 2019 (Slides)
"Fluctuating Hydrodynamics of Flow through Porous Membranes", International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Valencia, Spain, July 15-19, 2019 (Slides)
"Low Mach Number Fluctuating Hydrodynamics for Electrolytes", Twentieth Symposium On Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, USA, June 24-29, 2018 (Slides)
"Fluctuating Hydrodynamics of Reactive Liquid Mixtures", Twentieth Symposium On Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, USA, June 24-29, 2018 (Slides)
"Fluctuations in Non-equilibrium Fluids", keynote talk at the 3rd European Conference on Non-Equilibrium Gas Flows (NEGF18), in Strasbourg, France, 28th February – 2nd March, 2018 (Slides)
"Algorithm Refinement: 20 Year Retrospective", keynote talk for the Special Session Multi-scale Modeling with PDEs in Computational Science and Engineering: Algorithms, Simulations, Analysis, and Applications at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, California, January 10-13, 2018 (Slides)
"How I Broke DSMC", 25th International Conference on Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics (DSFD 2016), Shenzhen, China, July 4-8, 2016 (Slides, Sketchbook)
"Fluctuating Hydrodynamics for Electrolytes" Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Soft-Matter Simulations, Prato, Italy, February 9-12, 2016 (Slides: PDF)
"Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and Hydrodynamic Fluctuations" Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Soft-Matter Simulations, Prato, Italy, February 9-12, 2016 (Slides: PDF)
"How I Broke DSMC: A Cautionary Tale", Direct Simulation Monte Carlo 2015: Theory, Methods, and Applications (DSMC15) Conference, Kauai, Hawaii USA, September 14, 2015 (Slides: PDF)
"Modeling of Thermal Fluctuations in Multicomponent Reacting Systems",
2013 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science Philadelphia, USA, June 9-12, 2013
(Slides: PDF)
"Is Mathematics More Art than Science?", The Tech Museum, San Jose, Calf., USA,
December 16th, 2012
(Video: YouTube)
"The Physics of Animation", The Tech Museum, San Jose, Calf., USA,
September 16th, 2012
(Video: YouTube)
"Principles of Animation Physics", SIGGRAPH 2012, Los Angeles, California, USA, Sunday, August 5th, 2012 (Course Notes: PDF Annotated Slides: PDF)
"Fluctuating Hydrodynamics and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo",
28th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Zaragoza, Spain, July 9-13, 2012
(Slides: PDF)
"Enhancement of Diffusive Transport by Non-equilibrium Thermal Fluctuations", Direct Simulation Monte Carlo 2011: Theory, Methods, and Applications (DSMC11), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, September 28th, 2011 (Slides: PowerPoint, PDF)
"Direct Simulation Monte Carlo: theory, methods, and open challenges", RTO-AVT-VKI Lecture Series, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Brussels, Belgium, January 25th 2011 (Slides: PowerPoint, PDF)
"Surprising Hydrodynamic Phenomena Discovered by DSMC", RTO-AVT-VKI Lecture Series, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Brussels, Belgium, January 24th 2011 (Slides: PowerPoint, PDF)
Hydrodynamic Fluctuations and Algorithm Refinement, presented at Workshop on Novel Simulation Approaches to Soft Matter Systems, MPIPKS Dresden, Germany, September 20 - 24, 2010 (Slides: PowerPoint, PDF)
Short Course on Direct Simulation Monte Carlo,
presented at DSMC09 - Direct Simulation Monte Carlo: Theory, Methods, and Applications,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; September 13, 2009
(Viewgraphs [PowerPoint]
Talk on Physics of Animation project presented at Winter 2009 meeting of Am. Assoc. Physics Teachers (Slides Only, Slides and Movies)
Oberwolfach Talk, Fluctuations in Direct Simulation Monte Carlo, November 17th, 2008.
(Viewgraphs [PowerPoint]
Third Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) workshop; Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; September 30-October 3, 2007. (Viewgraphs [PowerPoint]) (workshop website)
Fluid Mechanics Seminar, Three Surprising Hydrodynamic Results Discovered by Direct Simulation Monte Carlo, The Univ. of Texas, Austin, March 30th, 2006.
(Viewgraphs [PowerPoint]
School in Multiscale Modelling and Simulation, Zurich, Switzerland, October 16-28th, 2005.
(Viewgraphs [PowerPoint]
DSMC: Theory, Methods and Applications, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), September 25-28, 2005.
(Viewgraphs [PowerPoint]).
"Fluctuations in DSMC",
Direce Simulation Monte Carlo: The Past 40 Years and the Future,
Milan, June 5, 2003
(Viewgraphs [PowerPoint]).
"Mesh and Algorithm Refinement",
LBL Math Seminar, July 1, 1998
(Viewgraphs [PDF]).
"Stochastic Particle Algorithms: From DSMC to CUBA",
7th International Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluids,
Oxford, July 17, 1998
(Viewgraphs [PDF]).
"Mesh and Algorithm Refinement using DSMC",
21st International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics,
Marseille, July 29, 1998
(Viewgraphs [PDF]).