https://test.classicalmechanic.net/tags/bio/Recent content in bio on Shoebox of essaysHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright &copy; 2020 Madhusudhan Venkadesan. All rights reserved.Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:57:31 +0000https://test.classicalmechanic.net/about/Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:57:31 +0000https://test.classicalmechanic.net/about/<h2 id="purpose">Purpose</h2> <p>Published papers are rarely complete products. They often raise a lot of new questions. Some of these questions may propel fruitful new directions and others remain rhetorical. Nevertheless, all of these questions often enrich our intellectual process. The objective of this collection of essays is to examine these questions, whether scientific in nature or not.</p> <h2 id="about-the-author">About the author</h2> <p>The author of these essays, <a href="https://mvlab.yale.edu">Madhusudhan Venkadesan</a>, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. He studies the mechanics and control of how animals move. Problems being pursued include locomotion in animals, the geometry of joints, the topology of shape-changing skins, and the dynamics of muscle. The motivation for and application of his work include biomedical sciences, evolutionary biology, robotics, and plain curiosity about everyday observations.</p> <h2 id="contact">Contact</h2> <form name="contact" method="POST" data-netlify="true"> <p> <label>Your name: <input type="text" name="name" style="border:0.01em solid black;" /></label> </p> <br /> <p> <label>Your email: <input type="text" name="email" style="border:0.01em solid black;" /></label> </p> <br /> <p> <label>Message: <br /> <textarea name="message" style="border:0.01em solid black;" ></textarea></label> </p> <br /> <div data-netlify-recaptcha="true"></div> <br /> <p> <button type="submit" class="colorfulbutton">Send</button> </p> </form> <style> .colorfulbutton { border:0.01em solid #028760; /*color:black;*/ padding:0.2em 1.2em; text-align:center; display:inline-block; margin:4px 2px; background-color:white } </style>