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Fall 2008
Fall 2008 Seminars
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. in 337 Towne Bldg.,
220 S 33rd St., unless otherwise noted.
| September 11 |
Safety Seminar, Joe Passante,
CIH, Sr. Industrial Hygienist Environmental Health & Radiation
Safety; Karen Kelley, CIH, Industrial Hygienist, Laser Safety
Officer; Melissa Muth, University Information Security Specialist
; Terry Kientz, Electronic Engineer.
*All first year MEAM graduate students must attend. |
September 18 |
Bi-velocity Hydrodynamics
Howard Brenner, Willard H. Dow Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT |
| September 24 |
Doctoral Defense
Numerical methods for inverse problems constrained by elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations on regular domains
Santi Swaroop Adavani, Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
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September 25 |
Transport and collective dynamics in suspensions of swimming microorganisms
Michael Graham, Chair and Harvey D. Spangler Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering,University of Wisconsin-Madison
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| October 2 |
Doctoral Defense
Modeling Electrokinetics with Applications to Micro and Nano Fluidic Systems
Hui Zhao, Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
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October 9
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Some flows with bubbles and particles
Andrea Prosperetti, Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
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| Monday, October 27 |
Doctoral Defense
Planning and control for teams of robots in complex environments
Nathan Michael, Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
| October 30 |
Simulations of Particulate Flows
Howard H. Hu, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
| November 13 |
Extreme materials: creation of materials with negative or very large values of material properties
Roderic Lakes, Department of Engineering Physics, Engineering Mechanics Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Friday, November 14
Wu & Chen Auditorium |
Dynamics, pattern formation and mixing in active particle suspensions
David Saintillan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| November 20 |
Nanomechanics of Plasticity
Ting Zhu, Assistant Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| November 27 |
No Seminar Today, Thanksgiving Holiday |
| December 4 |
Finding Nano: Cellular Mechanics & Molecular Dynamics
MinJun Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University |
Friday, December 5
Wu & Chen Auditorium |
Lanekeeping Assistance at the Vehicle Handling Limits
J. Christian Gerdes, Design Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
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| December 11 |
Experimental Nanomechanics and Micromechanics – Opportunities in Polymer Science
Mark R. VanLandingham, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Weapons & Materials Research Directorate - Materials Division, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
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