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Spring 2009
Spring 2009 Seminars
Seminars are held on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. in 337 Towne Bldg.,
220 S 33rd St., unless otherwise noted.
Friday, January 16, 10:00 am
Towne 337 |
Enablers for Probe-Based Nanoscale Technologies
Harish Bhaskaran,
Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Zurich |
| January 22 |
Oriented assembly of anisotropic particles by capillary interactions
Kathleen J. Stebe, Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Goodwin Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania
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| January 29 |
Nanomechanics of biological systems - -what can we learn from nature about the principles of hierarchical materials?
Huajian Gao , Walter H. Annnenberg University Professor, Brown University |
Friday, January 30, 3:00 pm
Towne 229-C |
Doctoral Defense
Guided Assembly of Nanostructures
Yucun Lou, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
| February 5 |
Fully resolved simulation of immersed bodies: Macro– to micro– scales
Neelesh Patankar, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Northwestern University |
Friday, February 12
319 TB
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Contact and Adhesion in a Microswitch - Ductile and Brittle Separation
George G. Adams, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor; Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
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| February 19 |
Size and Risk: Scaling of Quasibrittle Structure Strength and Lifetime Based on Atomistic Fracture Mechanics
Zdenek P. Bazant, McCormick Institute Professor and W.P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science, Northwestern University |
Tuesday, February 24
10:30 a.m., 229-C TB
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Doctoral Defense
Carbon-Based Nanoprobes for Cell Nanosurgery and
Biological Applications
Mr. Michael G. Schrlau,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania |
| February 26 |
Field Directed Assembly for Nanomanufacturing and Nanoscale Device Integration Benjamin Yellen, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department, Duke University |
Tuesday, March 3,
10:30 a.m. |
Energy Transport and Conversion in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials
Jonathan A. Malen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley |
| March 5 |
Image-guided Surgical Robotics: From Macro-scale to Meso-scale Jaydev P. Desai, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Maryland |
Friday. March 6, 3 PM
Towne 319 |
Doctoral Defense
Problems of Orthotropic Plastic Constitutive Models:
Non-Associated Flow and Evolution of Anisotropy
Haizhen Pan, Ph.D. Student, MEAM, UPenn |
| March 19 |
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| March 26 |
Progress towards a functional NEMS sensor: Understanding NEMS dissipation in fluids
Kamil L Ekinci,
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University; Visiting Scientist,
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST |
| April 2 |
Interface Mechanics of Microtransfer Printing and Direct Bonding Processes
Kevin Turner, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| April 9 |
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| April 16 |
Modeling Soft Multifunctional Materials
Luis Dorfmann, Associate Professor of Engineering, Tufts University |
| April 23 |
Characterizing the resistance generated by a molecular bond as it is forcibly separated
L. Ben Freund,
H. L. Goddard University Professor and Professor of Engineering, Brown University |
| April 30 |
Steady Shapes, Speeds, and Internal Circulation of Small Water Drops Falling through Air
Arne J. Pearlstein, Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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