Fast methods for solving partial differential equations
Per-Gunnar J. Martinsson, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder

Thursday, February 7 

Flow through heterogeneous porous media: A stochastic variational multiscale framework
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian - Doctoral Candidate, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aero Engineering, Cornell University

High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Per-Olof Persson, Instructor of Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, March 4, 10:30AM
Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

Thursday, March 6

From Homogeneisation to  Domain  Decomposition  in the Numerical Modelling of Materials
Patrick Le Tallec, Professor of Computational Mechanics and Vice President for Academic Research, École Polytechnique

Simulations of extreme conditions: From tribology to optoelectronic materials
Dr. Martin H. Müser, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CANADA

Thursday, March 27
Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

Tedori-Callinan Lecture Series
Thermo-hydro-mechanics of earthquake rupture
James R. Rice, Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University

Explicit Finite Difference Schemes for Particulate Flows
Mr. Andy Perrin, Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

"Elasto-Capillary Thinning and the Breakup of Complex Fluids"
(or why some things are stickier than others!)
Gareth McKinley, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.S.E. Thesis Defense

3D LADAR-BASED SENSING FOR AUTONOMOUS GROUND VEHICLES
Tully Foote, M.S.E. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, April 10

"Making Viruses, and Virus-like Particles"
William M. Gelbart, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

HAPTICS: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS
Mandayam A. Srinivasan, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Engineers as Entrepreneurs
Alberto Peisach, President of Phoenix Capital, Ltd.

Thursday, April 24

Mechanics of Biologically Inspired Adhesion, Friction and Engineered Surfaces
Pradeep Guduru, Assistant Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University

RECENT ADVANCES IN HIGH-FIDELITY AND REDUCED-ORDER MODELING OF A CLASS OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY FLOW PROBLEMS: TOWARDS NEARREAL TIME COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
Charbel Farhat, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Flow Physics and Computation Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford Unviersity

Friday, May 9
10:30 a.m., Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall

High-order Fast Integral Equation Methods for PDEs with moving interfaces
Shravan Veerapaneni, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania