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Fall 2009
Fall 2009 Seminars
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. in 337 Towne Bldg.,
220 S 33rd St., unless otherwise noted.
September 10 |
Automotive and Industrial Tribology Challenges
Andrew Jackson, Senior Scientific Advisor, Corporate Strategic Research Laboratory, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company |
September 17 |
Lipid membranes in electric fields
Petia Vlahovska, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College |
9:30 a.m.
Wednesday, September 23 |
Nanomanufacturing for Medicine and Energy
Shaochen Chen, Henderson Centennial Endowed Faculty Fellow and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin; Program Director for NanoManufacturing, National Science Foundation |
| September 24 |
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
*All first year MEAM graduate students must attend. |
October 1 |
'Rational Design of Load Bearing Tissues'
Robert Mauck, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering, McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania |
| October 8 |
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods in Solid Mechanics
Adrian J. Lew, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University |
October 15
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Mechanics of Actomyosin Interaction and the Role of Substrate Stiffness on Actin Network Dynamics
Sean Sun, Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University |
| October 22 |
Two problems in micron-scale fluid mechanics
Kenneth Breuer, Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University |
| October 29 |
Deformation mechanisms and size-dependent mechanical respnse at the nanoscale
Daniel S. Gianola,
Skirkanich Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering |
| November 5 |
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| November 5, 4 PM |
Abstractions, Analysis Techniques, and Synthesis of Scalable Control Strategies for Robot Swarms
Spring Berman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
| November 12 |
Polydomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Kaushik Bhattacharya,
Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology |
| November 19 |
Tedori-Callinan Lecture Series
Micro and Nano Robotics
Bradley Nelson, Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH-Zürich; Founder of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems where he leads the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab. |
| November 26 |
Thanksgiving |
| December 3 |
Microelectromechanical Systems for Biomolecular Sensing and Manipulation
Qiao Lin, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering,
Columbia University
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