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Home > News & Events > Seminars > Summer 2008

MEAM Ph.D. Candidate Seminar Series: Summer 2008

Seminars are held on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. in 337 Towne Bldg., 220 S 33rd St., unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, June 12
Flexible Automation for Micro and Meso-scale Manipulation Tasks with Applications to Manufacturing and Biotechnology
David Cappelleri, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, June 19

"Dendro: A parallel geometric multigrid method for finite element calculations on octree meshes  with billions of unknowns"
Rahul Sampath Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, June 26 Modeling Electrokinetics with Applications to Micro and Nano Fluidic Systems
Hui Zhao, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, July 3 Fast algorithms for inverse problems with elliptic and parabolic PDE constraints: applications to cardiac electrophysiology.
Santi Swaroop Adavani, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, July 10

Plastic Flow Rules with Microstructural Evolution and Effects on Strain Localization
Haizhen Pan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, July 17

"Understanding stress at the atomic scale"
Alan Rosenwinkel, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, July 24 Mechano-chemical Coupling in the Adhesion of Thin Structures to Surfaces with Topography
Richard Springman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, July 31

Configuration Recognition, Self-Reassembly, and Distributed Fault Tolerance Studies with CKBot, a Modular Robotic System
Michael Park, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, August 7

Mark Arsenault, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, August 12, 4 PM Yucun Lou, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, August 14

Nathan Michael, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, August 21

Michael Schrlau Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, August 28

Anuj Chaudhri, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania


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    University of Pennsylvania
    229 Towne Building
    220 S. 33rd Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104-6315
    Phone: 215.898.4825
    Fax: 215.573.6334
    Email: meam@seas.upenn.edu



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