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Summer 2008
MEAM 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 |
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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
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"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 |
| Monday, July 28, 3 PM |
Doctoral Defense
Explicit Finite Difference Schemes for Particulate Flows
Mr. Andy Perrin,
Ph.D. Candidate,
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 |
| Friday, August 1, 9:30 AM |
Doctoral Defense
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, August 7
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The manipulation and mechanical studies of nano filaments and nano motors
Mark Arsenault, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
| Tuesday, August 12, 2 PM |
Extensional rheometry on a chip
M.A. Alves,
Dept. Chemical Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering,
University of Porto, Portugal
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| Tuesday, August 12,
3:30 PM |
Guided Assembly of Nanostructures
Yucun Lou, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
| Thursday, August 14 |
Planning and Control for Teams of Robots in Complex Environments
Nathan Michael, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
Thursday, August 21
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“Carbon-based nanoprobes and their applications to cell physiology”
Michael Schrlau Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
| Thursday, August 21, 4 PM |
Chemical imaging at 30 nm spatial resolution in 2-d and 3-d
with Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy
Adam P. Hitchcock, Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research,
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Canada |
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