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Spring 2005 MEAM Seminars

Seminars are at 2:00 PM on Thursdays, room 337 Towne Bldg., 220 S 33rd St., unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, January 20, 2005, Doctoral Defense, The role of tension on supraspinatus tendon to bone healing in a newly developed animal model of chronic rotator cuff tears., Mr. Jonathan A. Gimbel, Advisor: Dr. Lou Soslowsky, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McKay Laboratory of Orthopaedic Research, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, February 3, 2005, Materials for the New Hydrogen Economy: Embrittlement Problems and Remediation, Professor P. Sofronis, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, February 10, 2005, Thin rods and sheets in a tight squeeze - From viruses to mitochondria, Dr. Prashant K. Purohit, Posdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

Friday, February, 18, 2005, Optimal decisions: From neural spikes, through stochastic differential equations, to behavior., Dr. Philip Holmes, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University, 2:30 PM, Wu & Chen Auditorium

Thursday, February, 24, 2005, A Mesoscopic Theory of Ferroelectrics, Dr. Jiangyu Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Thursday, March 3, 2005, Mechanochemistry of Biomolecular Motors, Dr. Jung-Chi Liao, Postdoctoral Researcher, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Friday, March 4, 2005, Applied Mathematics & Computational Science Seminar: Inverse scattering and NMR, Prof. Charles Epstein, Math, Univ. of Penn., COSPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY, AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND APPLIED MECHANICSUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Reception to follow seminar

Thursday, March 10, 2005, Chemo-Mechanical Interactions Between Adsorbed Molecules and Thin Elastic Films: Implications for Micro-Device Development, Professor Matthew R. Begley, Structural and Solid Mechanics Program, Department of Civil Engineering & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia.

Monday, March 14, 2005, Doctoral Defense, Martensitic Phase Transformations In Shape-Memory Alloys: Constitutive Modeling And Numerical Simulation, Mr. Carl Jannetti, Advisors: Dr. John L. Bassani & Dr. Sergio Turtletaub, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 307 Levine

Tuesday, March 15, 2005, On the Mechanics of Size Scale Plasticity Relevant to the Design of Micro and Nanodevices, Professor Horacio Espinosa, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3111, USA

Thursday, April 21, 2005, Modeling Contrast Microbubbles for Ultrasound Imaging and Drug Delivery, Dr. Kausik Sarkar
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716.

Friday, May 20, 2005, Doctoral Defense, Protein Sequence Synthesis in Continuous Space by Deterministic Optimization, Mr. Sung Key Koh, Advisor: Dr. G.K. Ananthasuresh, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 9:00am, 315 Levine.

Monday, June 20, 2005, High Reynolds Number Simulation and Drag Reduction Techniques, Dr. Jin Xu, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 11:00am, Heilmeier Hall