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Spring 2007
Spring 2007 Seminars
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. in 337 Towne Bldg.,
220 S 33rd St., unless otherwise noted.
| January 18 |
An
Electrochemomechanical Theory of Point Defects in Ionic
Solids
Prof. Jianmin Qu, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology |
| January 25 |
Physicochemical
Hydrodynamics in Micro and Nano-Systems
Chuan-Hua Chen, Ph.D., Teledyne Scientific Company |
January 29 (Monday)
Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall |
Tedori-Callinan Lecture Series
"Recent
Developments in Thin Film Mechanics"
John Hutchinson, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering,
Harvard University |
| February 8 |
Nanofluidic
Devices for Rapid Biomolecule Analysis
Jianping Fu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| February 15 |
Complex Fluids
in Microfluidic Systems
Paulo E. Arratia, Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. Physics & Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania |
| February 22 |
Localized
Synthesis, Assembly and Integration of One-Dimensional
Nanostructures
Ongi Englander, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
February 26
(Monday, 10 AM) |
Contact and
Friction: Connecting Atomic Interactions to Macroscopic
Behavior
Mark O. Robbins, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Johns
Hopkins University |
| March 1 |
Dynamics of
Viscous Threads in Microfluidics
Thomas Cubaud, Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles |
| March 15 |
Thermoelectric
Effects in Metal-Molecule Junctions: Application to Energy
Conversion
Pramod Sangi Reddy, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California,
Berkeley |
| March 22 |
Thermal Transport at Nanostructure
Interfaces
Jennifer Lukes, William K. Gemmill Term Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of
Pennsylvania |
March 26
(Monday, 11 AM)
2000 Vagelos |
Uncertainty
and Bayesian inference in inverse problems
Youssef Marzouk, Sandia National Laboratories
in Livermore, CA. |
| April 5 |
Multiscale
Modeling of Biological Flows
Igor Pivkin, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University |
April 10
Tuesday, 1 PM
( 212 Moore Bldg.) |
Doctoral Defense
Non-Associated
Plastic Flow and Effects on
Macroscopic Failure Mechanisms
Vikranth Racherla , Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical
Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
April 16
Monday, 11 AM
(307 Levine Hall) |
Eigenspace Computations
in Linear Structural Dynamics
Dr. Ulrich Hetmaniuk, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Sandia National
Laboratories |
April 19 |
Interfacial
Characteristics of a Gas Bubble Immersed in a Surfactant
and Protein Laden Fluid: Experimentation and Modeling
Joshua W. Lampe, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical
Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
| May 3 |
Towards
the development of robotic swarms for real world applications
Ani (Mong-ying) Hsieh, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical
Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
May 4
Friday, 2 PM
(Berger Auditorium, Room 13, Skirkanich
Hall) |
ON THE CONTACT MECHANICS OF ROUGH
SURFACES
Prof. Itzhak Green,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
Georgia Institute of Technology |
June 6
Wednesday, 12 noon
309 Towne Bldg.
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Doctoral
Defense
The interplay
of cell tension, elasticity, and adhesion:
from the simple red cell membrane to differentiation
and signaling muscle cells
Shamik Sen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical
Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
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