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Fall 2007
Fall 2007 Seminars
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. in 337 Towne Bldg.,
220 S 33rd St., unless otherwise noted.
| September 6 |
Strain localization
and effective medium properties in 2D perfectly-plastic porous
materials: the "dilute" limit
Francois Willot,
Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania |
| September 13 |
Safety Seminar, Joe Passante,
CIH, Sr. Industrial Hygienist Environmental Health & Radiation
Safety; Karen Kelley, CIH, Industrial Hygienist, Laser Safety
Officer; Josh Beeman, University Information Security Specialist
; Terry Kientz, Electronic Engineer.
*All first year MEAM graduate students must attend. |
September 20 |
Homogenization-based constitutive
models for viscoplastic porous media with evolving microstructure
Kostas Danas, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering
and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
September 27 |
Development of Electrostatic Field Induced Inkjet Head
-microscale and nanoscale patterning-
Dr. Doyoung Byun, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department
of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University
of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace
and Information Engineering, Konkuk University, Korea |
October 3 (Wednesday)
9 AM, 229-C Towne Bldg. |
Doctoral Defense
"Interfacial
Characteristics of a Gas Bubble Immersed in a Surfactant
and Protein Lade Fluid: Experimentation and Modeling"
Joshua W. Lampe, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering
and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
October 4
Skirkanich Hall, Berger Auditorium |
Extremes
in Heat Conduction: Pushing the Boundaries of the Thermal
Conductivity of Materials
David G. Cahill,
Donald B. Willett Professor of Engineering, Professor of
Materials Science and Engineering,
Frederick Seitz Materials, Research Laboratory, University
of Illinois |
| October 18 |
"Viscoelastic
effects in glass fiber spinning."
William Schultz,
Director, Fluid Dynamics Program, National Science Foundation,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Michigan |
October 25
Chemistry
Laboratories: 1973 Wing,
Room 102 |
Thermofluidics with nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes:
On their physics and related novel technologies
Dimos Poulikakos, Professor and Director, Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Institute of Energy Technology, ETH Zurich. |
| November 8 |
Constitutive
Modeling and Finite Element Methods for
Trip Steels
Nikolaos Aravas,
Professor and Dean of Engineering, Department of Mechanical
and Industrial Engineering,
University of Thesssaly
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| November 15 |
Thermally Activated Friction
W. Gregory Sawyer, Professor,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida |
November 20, 6 PM
Wu & Chen Auditorium,
Levine Hall
(Reception at 5:30 PM) |
Integrated Product Design Seminar
Extreme
Customer Satisfaction – Maximizing
Loyalty in a Commoditized Market, Rudy Vidal, Director
of Extreme Customer Satisfaction, Panasonic Corporation |
| November 22 |
No Seminar Today, Thanksgiving Holiday |
November 29
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"High-order
Fast Integral Equation Methods for PDEs with moving interfaces"
Shravan Veerapaneni, Ph.D. Candidate, Department
of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University
of Pennsylvania |
December 6
Raisler Lounge
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A conjectured hierarchy of length
scales in a generalization of the Navier–Stokes α equation
for turbulent fluid flow
Eliot Fried,
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Washington University in St. Louis
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| December 7 (Friday) |
Partition
of Unity Finite Elements for Electronic-Structure
Calculations in Molecules and Crystalline Solids*
N. Sukumar,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University
of California, Davis, CA 95616 |
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