Seminar + Speaker Archive

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Seminar + Event Speaker Archive

Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
01/12/23	Sean Sun	Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University	Role of Water in the Mechanics of Cells and Tissues
01/17/23	Michael Bartlett	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech	Multifunctional Soft Materials for Electronics, Robots, and Adhesives
01/31/23	Michael C. McAlpine	Kuhrmeyer Family Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota	3D Printing Active Electronic Devices
02/07/23	Samantha McBride	Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University	Designing interfacial phenomena for water, energy, and sustainability
02/21/23	Nathaniel J. Wei	Ph.D. Candidate in Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology	Leveraging Unsteady Flows for Enhanced Performance in Wind-Energy Systems
02/23/23	Teng Cui	Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University	Mechanics for Energy Sustainability: From Fatigue of 2D Materials to Dendrites in Solid-state Batteries
02/28/23	Victor Venturi	Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Solid Interfaces in Electrochemical Devices
03/02/23	SooJean Han	Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology	Control of Jump Stochastic Systems by Learning Recurrent Spatiotemporal Patterns
03/03/23	Alissa Johnson	Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania	Predicting and Reducing High-Speed Jet Noise
03/14/23	Yunus Alapan	Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Georgia Institute of Technology	Bioinspired Microrobotic Systems for Interfacing with Cells and Tissues
03/21/23	Elham Davoodi	NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology	Additive Manufacturing: Future of Healthcare
03/28/23	Sungmin Nam	Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University	Multiscale Mechano-Medicine: from Mechanobiology to Tissue-Interfacing Stimulating Medical Devices
04/04/23	Daniel J. Preston	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University	Material-Enabled Technologies for Soft and Fluidic Robots
04/18/23	L. Catherine Brinson	Sharon C and Harold L Yoh III Professor of Engineering and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department at Duke University	Nano and Polymers and Mechanics and Data
04/25/23	Marcus Hultmark	Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University	Laboratory Investigations of Wind Turbine Wakes at Field Reynolds Numbers

2022 - 2023

Summer 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
5/24/2022	Rossiny Beaucejour	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Aluminum Scandium Nitride Films for Microelectromechanical Systems Resonator’s Next-Generation Cellular Technology
6/21/2022	Daniel Mox	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mobile Wireless Infrastructure on Demand in Robot Teams
6/28/2022	Gnana Saurya Vankayalapati	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Enhancing Strength and Toughness Via Reinforcement with Nanocellulose Fibers
7/5/2022	Ranjiangshang Ran	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mixing with Activity: Transport of Swimming Microorganisms in Complex Flows
7/12/2022	Bryan Torres Maldonado	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Sedimentation of Active Suspensions: Hindrance and Phase-separation
7/19/2022	Gedaliah Knizhnik	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Modboats: Building an Aquatic Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic System out of Underactuated Modules
7/26/2022	Alexander Spinos	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Motion Planning for a Variable Topology Truss Robot
8/2/2022	Jake Floyd	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Neural Network Assisted Open Boundaries for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
8/9/2022	Shenglin Huang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Data-Driven Model Discovery for Non-equilibrium Processes via Stochastic Thermomechanics
8/16/2022	Diego Caporale	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Toward Agile Legged Locomotion in a Novel Quadrupedal Robot with an Axially Twisting Spine
8/23/2022	Georgios Kissas	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Disease Indicator Prediction in Vascular Flows via Physics-Informed Deep Learning
8/25/2022	David Levine	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	High-performance Electroadhesives for Materials and Robots with Programmable Stiffness

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
09/06/22	Teng Li	Keystone Professor in the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland	Mechanics Design in Cellulose-Enabled High-Performance Materials toward a Sustainable Future
09/15/22	Jianping Fu	Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan	Synthetic Embryology for Constructing Human Embryo and Organ Models
09/20/22	Emma Lejeune	Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Boston University	Open Access Benchmark Datasets and Metamodels for Problems in Mechanics
09/27/22	Mark Devlin	Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Pennsylvania	Development of Astronomical Instrumentation to Study the Birth and Evolution of the Universe
09/29/22	Jie Yin	Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NC State University	Harnessing Physical Intelligence for High-Performance Soft Robots
10/04/22	Xiaoyun Ding	Bruce S. Anderson Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado Boulder	Manipulation of Micro/Nano Particles Using Acoustic Waves
10/11/22	Nicolas Argibay	Staff scientist and group leader at the US DOE Ames National Laboratory in the Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering	Materials and Manufacturing Solutions for Sustainable Energy
10/18/22	Tetyana Morozyuk	Head of the department “Exergy-Based Methods for Refrigeration Systems” at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany	Exergy-based Methods as a Promising Modern Thermodynamic Evaluation and Optimization Tool
10/25/22	Daniel Bodony	Blue Waters Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Associate Dean for Graduate, Professional, and Online Programs in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Predicting and Reducing High-Speed Jet Noise
11/01/22	Chung-Yuen Hui	Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University	Mechanical Behavior of Self-healing Hydrogels with Chemical and Physical Cross-links: Theory and Experiments
11/08/22	Melany L. Hunt	Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at California Institute of Technology	Mixing of Granular Materials, Inertial Suspensions, and Cement
11/15/22	Karen Kasza	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University	Cell Packings and Tissue Flows in Developing Embryos
11/29/22	Venkat Viswanathan	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University	The Challenges and Opportunities of Battery-Powered Flight
12/6/22	Jordan R. Raney	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Nonlinear Mechanical Behavior of Kirigami-inspired Architected Materials

2021 - 2022

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/07/2021	Alberto Rodriguez	Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT	The Role of Manipulation Primitives in Building Dexterous Robotic Systems
9/14/2021	Carmel Majidi	Clarence H. Adamson Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University	Soft-Matter Engineering for Robotics and Wearables
9/21/2021	Kathleen Stebe	Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Active Colloids in Nematics for Micro-robotics and Reconfigurable Systems
9/28/2021	Shu Yang	Joseph Bordogna Professor and Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Kirigami: Programming Cutting and Folding from Microscale to Meter Scale
9/30/2021	Jose Cotelo	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	A Differential Homogenization Framework for Precipitation-Strengthened Metals
10/04/2021	Bryan Chem	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Dynamic Behavior of Periodic Media and Elastic Metamaterials
10/05/2021	Christoph Kammer	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Analytical Homogenization Estimates for the Effective Properties and Field Statistics of Viscoplastic Composites and Particle Suspensions
10/05/2021	Pradeep Sharma	M.D. Anderson Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston	Electrets, Magnetics and Deformation in Soft Materials
10/19/2021	Charbel Farhat	Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures, and Chairman, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University	Computational Mechanics for Landing on Mars
10/26/2021	Cecilia Laschi	Professor of Control & Mechatronics, National University of Singapore	Robotics Goes Soft: Challenges and Achievements, for New Robotics Scenarios
11/02/2021	Kirstin H. Petersen	Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University	Designing Robotic Systems with Collective Embodied Intelligence

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/18/2022	Sharon Glotzer	Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering and Professor, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor	Assembly Engineering of Patchy Particles into Complex Structures, and Beyond
1/25/2022	Debbie G. Senesky	Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University	Tiny-but-tough’ GaN- and Graphene-based Nanoelectronics for Extreme Harsh Environments
1/25/2022	Chengyang Mo	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Accelerated Design of Architected Materials with Geometric Heterogeneity for Enhanced Failure Characteristics
2/1/2022	Yasharee Kulkarni	Bill D. Cook Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston	Mechanistic Insights into Crystalline Interfaces via Thermal Fluctuations
2/8/2022	Christopher Rycoft	John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University	Uncovering the Rules of Crumpling with a Data-Driven Approach
2/15/2022	Claudia Brunner	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University	The Unsteady Aerodynamics of Wind Power Generation
2/17/2022	Fabrizio Sergi	Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware	Robot-assisted Imaging of Neuromuscular Function: New Insights on the Neural Substrates of Motor Control
2/22/2022	Michela Geri	Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT	Understanding Particulate Soft Materials: An Integrated Approach for Novel Energy and Environmental Solutions
2/25/2022	Huiwen Bai	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Microfluidic Devices with Capillary Circuits for User-friendly, Low-cost, Multiplexed Point-of-care, Molecular Diagnostics
3/1/2022	Aashutosh Mistry	Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Laboratory	Unknown Unknowns in Designing Porous Intercalation Electrodes for Batteries
3/22/2022	Ronald S. Fearing	John William MacKay, Jr. Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Univiversity of California at Berkeley	Agile Maneuver with Under-Actuated Millirobots
3/29/2022	Michael S. Triantafyllou	Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering, MIT	Biomimetic Design of Marine Robots and Sensors
4/5/2022	Francois Barthelat	Professor, Paul M. Raddy Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder	From Mollusk Shells to Dense Architectured Materials to Granular Crystals: How Building Blocks and Weak Interfaces Create High Mechanical Performance
4/6/2022	Yibo Yang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Deep Learning and Uncertainty Quantification: Methodologies and Applications
4/7/2022	Huiwen Bai	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	User-friendly, Low-cost, Microfluidic Devices with Capillary Circuits for Multiplexed, Isothermal, Point-of-care Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests
4/11/2022	Kevin Larry Galloway	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Relationships Between Structure, Dynamics, and Flow in Sheared Amorphous Materials
4/12/2022	Douglas J. Durian	Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania	The Statistical Mechanics of Granular Clogging
4/12/2022	Min Wang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Metal and Air Generate Power for Robots
4/12/2022	Russell Spiewak	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanical Properties of Fibrous Network Materials
4/14/2022	Ariella Mansfield	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Exploiting Environmental Fields for Orienteering and Planning Problems
4/21/2022	Chuanpeng Sun	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Some Investigations of Phase Transitions in Rod-like Macro-molecules and Fibrous Gels
4/26/2022	C. Karen Liu	Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University	Towards Personalized Predictive Human Models
4/29/2022	Michael J. Sobrepera	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Social Robot Augmented Telepresence for Remote Assessment and Rehabilitation of Patients with Upper Extremity Impairment

2020 - 2021

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/08/2020	Nicole Zander	Research Chemist, Manufacturing Science and Technology Branch, US Army Research Laboratory (ARL)	U.S. Army Additive Manufacturing Materials and Technologies
9/15/2020	Sandra LeBlanc	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University	Tackling Energy Sector Challenges with Interdisciplinary Research and Education Initiatives
9/22/2020	Michelle Johnson	Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania	Robots and Mechatronic Systems Can Help us Identify, Assess, and Treat Motor and Cognitive Impairment after Brain Injury
9/23/2020	Aoyi Luo	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Control of Dry Adhesion Via Mechanics and Structuring
9/29/2020	Troy Olsson	Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Aluminum Scandium Nitride Microdevices for Next Generation Nonvolatile Memory and Microelectromechanical Systems
10/06/2020	Eric Young	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Delivering Expressive and Personalized Fingertip Tactile Cues
10/06/2020	Karen Wilcox	Director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin	Operator Inference: Bridging Model Reduction and Scientific Machine Learning
10/13/2020	Hessam Babaee	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh	Real-Time Reduced Order Modeling using Time-Dependent Basis: Applications in Turbulent Flows and Combustion
10/20/2020	Jeremy Cannon	Associate Professor of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania	Engineering Solutions for Tough Problems in Trauma: From Occlusion Ballons to Decision‐Support
10/27/2020	Krishna Garikipati	Director, Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE), and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, University of Michigan	Data-driven Physics Discovery and Scale Bridging in Materials
11/03/2020	Justin Yim	Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University	Saltatorial Locomotion on Terrain Obstacles
11/10/2019	Xuanhe Zhao	Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Merging Human-Machine Intelligence with Soft Materials Technology
11/12/2020	Ani Hsieh	Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	How to Make Your Ocean Smarter
11/13/2020	Akshay Ananthakrishnan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	All-Passive Hardware Architectures for Neuromorphic Computation
11/17/2020	Michael Posa	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Bilevel Optimization for Control, Learning, and Multi‐contact Robotics
12/01/2020	Thanh Duc Nguyen	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut	“Smart” Biodegradable Polymer at Nano and Micro Scales for Medical Applications
12/08/2020	Paris Perdikaris	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Bridging Physical Models and Observational Data With Physics-informed Deep Learning
12/17/2020	Wei-ju Tseng	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Structural and Mechanical Response to Intermittent Parathyroid Hormone Treatment, Discontinuation, and Cyclic Administration Regimens

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/21/2021	Sebastian Huber	Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich	Wave Engineering: From Geometry to Fragility
2/02/2021	Chad M. Landis	M.J. Thompson Regents Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin	Modelling the Behavior of Shape Memory Alloy Structures
2/04/2021	Christopher J. Hernandez	Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Microbes and Biomechanics
2/09/2021	Haim Bau	Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Target: SARS-Cov-2 Towards a Home Test
2/18/2021	Kathryn Jablokow	Program Director, Engineering Design & Systems Engineering Program, Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division, National Science Foundation	NSF Program Overview: A Vision for Design Research
2/23/2021	Samuel Graham	Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. Professor and Chair, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology	Engineering Interfaces to Improve The Thermal Performance of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
3/02/2021	Michelle Lee	Ph.D Candidate, Stanford University	Fusion for Robot Perception and Controls
3/02/2021	Vasileios Vasilopoulos	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Reactive Planning with Legged Robots in Unknown Environments
3/09/2021	Aditi Chakrabarti	Postdoctoral Fellow, John A. Paulson School of Engineering, Harvard University	Understanding and Controlling Pattern Formation in Soft Materials
3/16/2021	Beverley J. McKeon	Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology	Control of Turbulent Wall Shear Flows and the Potential for ‘Designer Turbulence’
3/23/2021	Jorge Salinas	Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida	Exploring the Structure of Sediment-Laden Turbidity Currents
3/26/2021	Nadia Figueroa	Postdoctoral Associate, Interactive Robotics Group, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Towards Safe and Efficient Learning and Control for Physical Human Robot Interaction
3/30/2021	Ottman Tertuliano	Stephen Timoshenko Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University	Breaking Bones In situ: Multiscale Bioinspired Functional Materials
4/2/2021	Martin N. Webster	Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Lubrication and Tribology Trends and Challenges in Passenger Electric Vehicles
4/06/2021	Jan S. Hesthaven	Professor of Mathematics, and Chair of Computational Mathematics and Simulation Science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	Nonintrusive Reduced Order Models Using Physics Informed Neural Networks
4/13/2021	Michael Tolley	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California at San Diego	Design, Fabrication, and Control of Biologically Inspired Soft Robots
4/20/2021	Laurence Brassart	Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, United Kingdom	Micromechanics of Near-ideal Polymer Networks
4/30/2021	Xingyu Du	MSE Candidate, Penn	Inkjet Printed Neuromorphic Inference Circuits with Memristor‐Based Neuron Network

Summer 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
6/01/2021	Zhimin Jiang	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Surface and Interface Engineering in Manipulation and Fabrication of Colloid-Based Sub-Microporous Hierarchical Materials and Their Applications
6/08/2021	Zakaria H’Sain	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Room-Temperature Electrochemical Healing of Structural Metals
6/15/2021	Russell Spiewak	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanical Properties of Fibrous Network Materials
6/22/2021	Bryan Chem	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Dynamic Response of Resonant Metamaterials and Other Composites
6/29/2021	Andrew Specian	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Towards Manipulation of Large Objects by Robotic Edge Rolling with Quori, an Affordable Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot
7/06/2021	Gnana Saurya Vankalayapati	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Nanocellulose Fibers as Reinforcement to Improve Strength and Toughness in Structural Materials
7/09/2021	Zhiyuan Yang	MSE Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Design and Characterization of an Origami-Inspired Robot that Swims via Jet Propulsion
7/13/2021	Caio Mucchiani	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	From Deployments of Elder Care Service Robots to the Design of Affordable Low‐Complexity End‐Effectors and Novel Manipulation Techniques
7/13/2021	Devin Carroll	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	A Methodology for Self-Replicating Robots from Ice
7/15/2021	Chao Liu	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Modular Robots Morphology Transformation and Task Execution
7/19/2021	Gavin Kenneally	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Design of Proprioceptive Legged Robots
7/20/2021	Christoph Kammer	Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Rheological Behavior and Field Statistics of Suspensions of Rigid Particles in Yield Stress Fluids

2019 - 2020

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/10/2019	Joseph Kuehl	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware	Dynamical Systems Approach to Geophysical and Aerospace Flows
9/17/2019	Victor M. Bright	Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Colorado at Boulder	Engineering Microdevices Using Atomic Layer Deposition and Electrowetting
10/01/2019	Thomas J.R. Hughes	Peter O’Donnell Jr. Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics; and Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics University of Texas at Austin	Isogeometric Analysis
10/08/2019	James Watkins	Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst	Scalable Fabrication of Nanostructured Energy Storage Systems
10/11/2019	Joshua Furer	Ph.D. Candidate, Applied Math and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania	Problems in Nonlinear Homogenization: Bounds, Estimates, Macroscopic Instabilities, and Post‐Bifurcation Response
10/22/2019	Haneesh Kesari	Assistant Professor of Engineering, Brown University	Architecture in Biological Materials: A Template for Toughness Enhancement, or a Siren Song?
10/29/2019	Krishnan Mahesh	Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota	The Simulation and Modeling of Turbulent Flows
10/31/2019	Jinzhao Song	Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Smartphone-based Mobile Detection Platform for Molecular Diagnostics: from Infectious Diseases to Cancer
11/05/2019	Sergio Pellegrino	Joyce and Kenta Kresa Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology	Multi-Stable Morphing Structures
11/11/2019	Nick Eckenstein	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	High-Dimensional Design Evaluations for Self-Aligning Geometries
11/12/2019	M. Ani Hsieh	Research Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Achieving the Perfect Null Set
11/19/2019	David Gracias	Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University	Origami Micro, Bio, and Nanosystems
11/26/2019	Jonathan Singer	Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University	Micro/Nanomanufacturing of 3D Functional Coatings via Self-Limiting Electrospray Deposition
12/03/2019	George Em Karniadakis	The Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University	Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for Physical Problems & Biological Problems
12/03/2019	Wei-Ju Tseng	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Differences in Material Properties of Trabecular Bone Tissue from Modeling- and Remodeling-Based Bone Formation in Rats
12/10/2019	Tolga Özaslan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Estimation, Mapping and Navigation with Micro Aerial Vehicles for Infrastructure Inspection

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/14/2020	Eleni Katifori	Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania	Confined Curved Shells and their Elaborate Conformations
1/21/2020	Igor Bargatin	Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Plate Mechanical Metamaterials and their Applications
1/28/2020	Jaspreet Singh	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Applications of a Double‐stranded Elastic Rod Model to DNA
1/28/2020	Kaushik Bhattacharya	Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology	Liquid Crystal Elastomers
2/04/2020	Alina Alexeenko	Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Department of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University	Microdevices Enabled by Rarefied Flows
2/11/2020	Yi Ming	Deputy Head, Atmospheric Physics Division, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA	Recent Evolution of Climate Science: From Greenhouse Gases and Temperature to Aerosol Particles and Precipitation
2/18/2020	Linda Petzold	Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara	Cell Polarization and Growth
2/25/2020	Clément Gosselin	Director, Robotics Laboratory, Université Laval, Québec, Canada	Robot Design Concepts for Intuitive Physical Human-Robot Interaction
3/03/2020	Vamsi Spandan	George Carrier Fellow in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University	Multiscale Interactions in Multiphase Turbulent Flows: Fundamentals to Applications
3/10/2020	Bianca Giovanardi	Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Scalable Algorithms for the Computational Modeling of Complex Multi-Physics Systems
3/17/2020	Michael F. Howland	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University	Wind Farm Dynamics and Power Optimization in Realistic Atmospheric Boundary Layer Conditions
4/07/2020	Nanshu Lu	Temple Foundation Endowed Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin	Mechanics and Manufacture of Multimodal E-Tattoos
4/23/2023	Madeline Griffith	MSE Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Understanding the Effect of Acoustic-startling Pre-stimulus, Sex, Age, and Secondary Task on Driver Kinematics During Take-over in a Low-acceleration Sled Simulating a Pre-crash Scenario in an Autonomous Vehicle
4/29/2020	Elizabeth Beattie Hunter	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Microscale Robotic Wetware for Synthetic Biology
5/13/2020	Siyao “Nick” Hu	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Modulating Physical Interactions in Human-Assistive Technologies
5/21/2020	Mickey Whitzer	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Coordinating Multi‐Robot Teams in the Presence of Motion Constraints and Heterogeneity

Summer 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
6/23/2020	Larry Galloway	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Understanding the Origins of Mechanical Properties of Glass from Studies of Jammed Colloid
7/07/2020	Chao Liu	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Addressing Tasks Through Dextrous Morphology Transformation
7/14/2020	Wujoon Cha	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Lightweight Structures Enabled by Microfabrication
7/20/2020	Shuvrangsu Das	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Analytical Homogenization Estimates for the Transient and Steady-state Response of Elasto-viscoplastic Polycrystals
7/21/2020	Aoyi Luo	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Structured Adhesives for Enhanced Dry Adhesion
7/28/2020	Michael Sobrepera	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	The Design of Lil’Flo, a Socially Assistive Robot for Upper Extremity Motor Assessment and Rehabilitation Via Telepresence
8/11/2020	Mohsen Azadi	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Controlled Light-driven Levitation and Its Applications at Sea Level, Near-space, and Surface of Mars!
8/18/2020	Zijian Yang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	The Design of Devices for the High Throughput Extracellular Vesicle-based Diagnosis of Disease
8/31/2020	Bruno Teles Gabrich	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Flying Modular Robots: From Self-Assembling Structures in Mid-Air to Embedding Grasping Capabilities

2018 - 2019

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/11/2018	Tamer Zaki	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University	Harbingers of Turbulence in Boundary Layers
9/13/2018	Tarik Tosun	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Reconfigurable Robots: Systems that Transform Themselves and Their Environments
9/18/2018	Nanshu Lu	Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin	Mechanics, Manufacture, and Validation of Soft Bioelectronics
9/25/2018	Lian-Ping Wang	Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware	Boltzmann Equation-based Computational Fluid Dynamics
10/5/2018	Yuejun Yan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Combustion Irreversibility Analysis and Reduction
10/8/2018	Sikang Liu	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Motion Planning for Micro Aerial Vehicles
10/9/2018	James Hilbert	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Understanding and Improving the Environmental Dependent Tribology and Thermal Stability of Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon by Using Silicon and Oxygen as Dopants
10/9/2018	Ralph Izzo	Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.	The Future of Energy
10/10/2018	J. Brandon McClimon	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Tribological Response of Silicon Oxide-containing Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon, Probed Across Lengthscale
10/16/2018	Yong Zhu	Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University	From Single Nanowire to Nanowire Network: Mechanics and Application in Stretchable Electronics
10/23/2018	Richard D. James	Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota	Atomistically Inspired Origami
10/26/2018	Roger T. Howe	William E. Ayer Professor of Engineering, Stanford University	Broad-Spectrum Electronic Biomolecular Sensing
10/29/2018	Lisa Mariani	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanical Characterization of Printed Cellulose Nanofibril Thin Films
10/30/2018	Nicholas Zabaras	Viola D. Hank Professor of Computational Science and Engineering, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Notre Dame University	Bayesian Deep Learning for Predictive Scientific Computing
11/5/2018	Sarah Tang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Control, Planning, and Coordination for Dynamic Aerial Manipulation with Robot Teams
11/6/2018	Yu Sun	Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano Engineering Systems and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto	Medical Robotics: Manipulation of Cells and Intracellular Structures
11/7/2018	Ruiyuan Ma	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Examination of Callaway-Holland-Based Thermal Conductivity Calculation for Nano-Phononic Crystals
11/13/2018	Thomas Cassel	Practice Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	What Employers Really Want To Learn From Your Interview
11/19/2018	Paul Barclay	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Condensation and Mobility Studies of Fluid Interfaces
11/20/2018	Chris Fang-Yen	Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania	Aging and Automation in a Model Roundworm
12/4/2018	Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy	Asa Whitney Professor of Dynamical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Multiscale Modeling of Nanoparticle Transport: Applications to Targeted Drug Delivery
12/20/2018	Zac Milne	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	The Role of Sliding Contact in Nanoscale Tribochemistry
12/20/2018	Masahiro Narasaki	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Thermal Transport in Structurally-Modified Nanocarbon Materials: Studies on Carbon Nanotube, Carbon Nanofiber, and Graphene

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/3/2019	Luis Guerrero Bonilla	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Resiliant Formations of Robots
1/15/2019	Pierre E. Dupont	Edward P. Marram Chair and Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Surgery, Harvard School of Medicine	Stretching the Boundaries of Medical Robotics
1/22/2019	Douglas J. Jerolmack	Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Penn	Viewing Earth’s Surface as a Soft Matter Landscape
1/25/2019	Howie Choset	Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University	Geometric Biologically Inspired Robots that Span Industries from Medical to Manufacturing
1/29/2019	Robert Shepherd	Assistant Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Elastomeric Materials for Autonomic Force Transmission, Optoelectronic Sensing, and 3D Printing Soft Robots
2/5/2019	Anette Peko Hosoi	Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Hairy Hydrodynamics
2/12/2019	Charles Meneveau	Louis M. Sardella Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University	Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence in Extended Wind Farms
2/15/2019	Monroe D. Kennedy III	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Modeling and Control for Robotic Assistants: Single and Multi-Robot Manipulation
2/26/2019	Pedro Saenz	Instructor in Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Interfacial Soft Matter
3/19/2019	John C. Bischof	Carl and Janet Kuhrmeyer Chair, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota	Nanoparticle Heating for Therapeutics, Regenerative Medicine and Diagnostics
3/26/2019	Jacob Notbohm	Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison	Force, Shape, and Motion in Collective Cell Migration
4/2/2019	Christopher M. Spadaccini	Director, Center for Engineered Materials and Manufacturing, Engineering Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Additive Manufacturing and Architected Materials
4/8/2019	John Cortes	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Light-Driven Levitation of Ultralight Macroscopic Plates
4/9/2019	James K. Guest	Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University	Integrating Manufacturing and Topology Optimization for the Design of Architected Materials and Components
4/16/2019	Jorn Dunkel	Associate Professor of Physical Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Wrinkles, Spaghetti & Knots
4/17/2019	Harish Bhaskaran	Professor of Applied Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, UK. Co-founder of Bodle Technologies	Scalable Functional Phase Change Materials for Displays and Photonic Non-von Neumann Computing
4/23/2019	J. Nathan Kutz	Robert Bolles and Yasuko Endo Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington	Data-driven Discovery of Governing Physical Laws in Engineering, Physics and Biology
4/30/2019	Farhan Gandhi	Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr Chair in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Fault-Tolerant Control on VTOL Aircraft
5/15/2019	Martin N. Webster	Lubricants Technology, ExxonMobile Research and Engineering	Tribofilms at the Asperity Scale
5/23/2019	Xiaoguai Li	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Coarse-graining of Atomistic Models to the Continuum Scale with Applications to Elastodynamics and Diffusive Processes

2017 - 2018

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/12/2017	Larry L. Howell	Associate Dean and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University	Origami Art and Engineering? Surprising Opportunities for Systems with Unprecedented Performance
9/19/2017	Guy Genin	Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis	Unification Through Disarray at the Attachment of Tendon to Bone
9/26/2017	Changchun Liu	Research Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania	Towards Instrument-Free Inexpensive Point of Care Molecular Diagnostics
10/3/2017	Gang Chen	Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering & Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	“Innovations in Materials and Devices for Efficient Solar and Thermal Energy Utilization
10/10/2017	Katia Bertoldi	Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mechanics, Harvard University	Architected Materials: From Reconfigurability to Nonlinear Waves
10/13/2017	Dawei Song	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Constitutive Modeling of Viscoplastic Porous Single Crystals and Polycrystals
10/17/2017	Sarah Bergbreiter	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park	Microsystems-Inspired Robotics
10/19/2017	Stephan Wulfinghoff	Engineer-in-Chief, Institute of Applied Mechanics, RWTH Aachen University	Challenges in Material Modeling on Different Scales
10/24/2017	Daniel Steingart	Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University	Exploring and Exploiting Often Unwanted Coupling in Closed Electrochemical Energy Cells
10/31/2017	David Issadore	Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania	Diagnosing Disease on a Microchip: Scaling Up Micro- and Nano-Scale Diagnostics
11/6/2017	Jimmy Paulos	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Rotorcraft Blade Pitch Control Through Torque Modulation
11/14/2017	Satwindar S. Sadhal	Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California	Singular Perturbation Analysis of Drops in Acoustic Levitation Fields
11/28/2017	Jay D. Humphrey	John C. Malone Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University	Mechanics of Arteries in Health and Disease
12/1/2017	R. Andrew Goodwin	Research Environmental Engineer, Cognitive Ecology & Ecohydraulics Team, Environmental Laboratory, US Army Research and Development Center (ERDC)	Reverse Engineering 4-D Fish Movement Behavior in Rivers to Aid Underwater Autonomy for Inland Waterways: Takeaways from 10,000 hours analyzing 50 data sets of trajectories with coincident hydraulics
12/5/2017	Randy H. Ewoldt	Associate Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagn	Sticky Droplets and Sinking Bubbles: Curious Physics of Yield-stress Fluids

Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/16/2018	Joel D. Boerckel	Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania	“Reverse-Engineering Skeletal Development
1/18/2018	Boyang Qin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Elastic Turbulence & Ciliary Kinematics in Viscoelastic Fluids: Nonlinearity at Low Reynolds Number
1/23/2018	Aaswath Raman	Assistant Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Thermal Nanophotonics: Controlling the heat and light that surrounds us
1/30/2018	Gretar Tryggvason	Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Department Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University	Direct Numerical Simulations of Complex Multiphase Flows
2/1/2018	Justin W. Wilkerson	Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, and Assistant Professor & James J. Cain Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University	The Role of Crystallographic Defects in Impact Failure
2/20/2019	Hadi T. Nia	Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School	Solid Stress and Elastic Energy as New Measures of Tumor Mechanopathology
2/21/2018	Ismail Hameduddin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University	The Theoretical Approach in Viscoelastic Turbulence
2/27/2018	Michael Ortiz	Frank and Ora-Lee Marble Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology	The Anomalous Yield Behavior of Fused Silica Glass
3/20/2018	Mahesh M. Bandi	Assistant Professor, Collective Interactions Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University	Applying Higher-order Turbulence Spectra from Energy to UAV
3/27/2018	David L. McDowell	Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing and Regents’ Professor of Mechanics of Materials, Georgia Institute of Technology	Microstructure-sensitive Multiscale Crystal Plasticity Modeling
3/29/2018	Marc Miskin	Kavli Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Nanoscale Science, Cornell University	Making Machines the Size of Cells
4/3/2018	Tim Rupert	Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Irvine	Promoting Beneficial Grain Boundary Phase Transitions with Segregation Engineering
4/5/2018	Yufeng (Kevin) Chen	Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory	Multimodal and Multiphase Locomotion in Biologically Inspired, Insect-scale Robots
4/9/2018	Chen Lin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Microstructures and Mechanical Metamaterials for Energy Conversion and Other Applications
4/10/2018	Evelyn Wang	Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Nanoengineered Structures for Advanced Energy and Water Technologies
4/12/2018	Yu Sun	Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto	Robotic Manipulation of Cells, Molecules, and Nanomaterials
4/17/2018	Nikolas Martelaro	Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Design Research, Stanford University	The Needfinding Machine: Understanding Users with Interactive Devices and Designers in the Loop
4/23/2018	Cunjiang Yu	Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston	Manufacturing, Materials, and Device Innovations for Soft and Curvy Electronics
4/24/2018	Mark Alan Fogel	Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	“3D Printing, Surgical Planning and 4D Imaging in Congenital Heart Disease
4/25/2018	Angela Pitenis	Postdoctoral Associate, The Tribology Laboratory and Soft Matter Engineering Center, University of Florida	Soft Matter Engineering: Cells, Gels, and Shear
4/27/2018	Zdenek P. Bazant	McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University	Design of New Materials and Structures to Maximize Strength at Probability Tail: A Neglected Challenge for Quasibrittle and Biomimetic Materials
5/17/2019	Joel Lefever	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Atomic Force Microscopy-based Investigation of Plastic Deformation Mechanisms in Disordered Nanoparticle Packings
5/30/2018	Maziar Raissi	Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University	Hidden Physics Models: Machine Learning of Non-linear Partial Differential Equations

Summer 2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
6/6/2018	Zac Milne	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Sliding and Stress Modulate Nanoscale Adhesion of Silicon-Silicon and Silicon-Diamond Contacts
6/27/2018	Boyang Qin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Flow Behavior and Instabilities in Viscoelastic Fluids: Physical and Biological Systems
7/9/2018	Mohammed Asaduzzaman	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Interfacial Wave Dynamics of Core-annular Flow of Two Fluids
7/17/2018	Chenchen Liu	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Dynamic Behavior of Elastic Metamaterials: Multiscale modeling, Simulation, and Design
7/24/2018	Gavin Kenneally	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Actuator Transparency and Legged Robot Design
8/2/2018	John Cortes	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Knudsen Pump Powered Micro-Hovercrafts
8/14/2018	Teboho Nchaba	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Synoptic Drivers of Wind Speeds Over Southern Africa

2016 - 2017

Fall 2016

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/13/2016	Kenneth Kamrin	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Mechanics with Two Temperatures?
9/15/2016	Alison E. Patteson	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Particle, Polymer, and Phase Dynamics in Living Fluids
9/20/2016	Roseanna Zia	Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University	Phase Mechanics’ of Arrested Colloidal Gels: A New Paradigm for Yielding and Phase Transitions in Soft Matter
9/22/2016	M. Ani Hsieh	Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department, Drexel University	The Human-Ocean Interface: Autonomous Systems for Marine Earth Sciences
9/27/2016	Christian Franck	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brown University	High Resolution, Large Deformation 3D Traction Force Microscopy
10/4/2016	Jayathi Y. Murthy	Dean and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles	Topology Optimization for Thermal-Fluid Problems Using Unstructured Finite Volume Schemes
10/10/2016	Joel D. Boerckel	Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame	Developmental Mechanobiology and Regeneration
10/11/2016	Igor Bargatin	Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Plate Mechanical Metamaterials
10/18/2016	George Gogos	Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Femtosecond Laser Formation of Self-Organized Micro/Nanostructures on Metallic Surfaces and their Thermal/Fluids Applications
10/25/2016	Aaron Wemhoff	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University	Quantifying Nano-Enhancement in Organic Phase Change Materials
11/1/2016	Yale Goldman	Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanics and Material Properties of Dynein, the Cell’s Spindly, Multi-Functional Cargo Carrier
11/15/2016	John Pollard	Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona	Why Do We Gather Students Together? An Interactive Story of Curricular and Instructional Transformation in STEM
11/15/2016	Matthew Picolli	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Passive Stability and Actuation of Micro Aerial Vehicles
11/29/2016	Andreas Polycarpou	Meinhard H. Kotzebue ’14 Professor and James J. Cain Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas A&M	Nanomechanical Behavior of Polymer Nanocomposites
12/6/2016	Eric Loth	Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor and Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia	Morphing Rotor for Extreme Scale Wind Turbines
12/15/2016	Yijie Jiang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Adhesion and Wear of Nanoscale Polymer Contacts
12/19/2016	Denise Wong	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Actuation, Sensing and Control for Micro Bio Robots
12/21/2016	Justin Thomas	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Grasping, Perching, and Visual Servoing for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Spring 2017

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/10/2017	Xiang I. A. Yang	Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University	The Fluctuating Wall Stress in Wall-Bounded Turbulence
1/13/2017	Nathan Ip	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Experimental Investigation of Polymer Adhesion Mechanics Using a Blister Contact Test
1/31/2017	Celia Reina	William K. Gemmill Term Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: Some Challenges and New Perspectives
2/7/2017	George I. Park	Engineering Research Associate, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University	Wall Modeling in Large-Eddy Simulation
2/14/2017	Paris Perdikaris	Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Data-driven Probabilistic Modeling and High-Performance Computing: Algorithms and Applications to Physical and Biological Systems
2/17/2017	Christian Linder	Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University	Beyond inf-sup: Stability Estimates for Multi-field Variational Principles
2/21/2017	Abtin Rahimian	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Courant Institute of Mathematics, New York University	Fast Algorithms for Fluid-Structure Interation in Stokes Flow
2/22/2017	Helen Minsky	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Composite Posts for Enhanced and Tunable Adhesion
2/28/2017	Michael Posa	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Optimization for Control and Planning of Multi-Contact Dynamic Motion
3/21/2017	Francis D. Lagor	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland	Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Robotic Fish and Ocean Sampling Vehicles in Uncertain Flow Fields
3/24/2017	Carmel Majidi	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University	Soft-Matter Machines & Electronics with Liquid Metal
4/6/2017	Xiaojun Liang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanics of Fluctuating Elastic Plates and Fiber Networks
4/18/2017	Howard A. Stone	Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University	Seeking Simplicity in the Flows of Complex Fluids
4/25/2017	Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara	Entrainment Models for Wind Farms and Other Arrays of Obstacles, Enabling an Ideal Limit for Wind Farm Performance
4/28/2017	James R. Rice	Mallinkrodt Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University	Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes Stabilizing Antarctic Ice Stream Shear Margins
5/12/2017	Naomi Fitter	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Design and Evaluation of Interactive Hand-Clapping Robots

Summer 2017

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
6/6/2017	Seok Kim	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Transfer Printing for LEGO-like Microassembly and Nanomaterial Integration
6/13/2017	Paul Barclay	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Molecular Dynamic Study on Fluid Flow and the Fluid-Fluid Interfacial Mobility
6/15/2017	Ting Yue	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Thermodynamic Analysis for Improving Uunderstanding and Performance of Hybrid Power Cycles Using Multiple Heat Sources of Different Temperatures
6/20/2017	James Hilbert	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Carbon coatings under extreme conditions: Understanding and addressing the thermal instability and humidity-dependent tribology of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films by using silicon and oxygen as dopants
6/27/2017	Chenchen Liu	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Multiscale Modeling and Design of Acoustic Metamaterials
6/28/2017	Thomas C. Hull	Associate Professor of Mathematics, Western New England University	Self-foldability and Rigid Origami
7/11/2017	Ruiyuan Ma	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Thermal Conductivity Calculation in Nano Phononic Crystals
7/18/2017	Mohammed Asaduzzaman	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Interfacial Wave Dynamics of Core-Annular Flow of Two Fluids
7/20/2017	Sarah Tang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Trajectory Generation for Agile Aerial Robot Teams
7/25/2017	Monroe D. Kennedy III	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Human-Robot Cooperative Carrying
7/28/2017	Sikang Liu	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Search-based Motion Planning for Micro Aerial Vehicles
8/1/2017	Mickey Whitzer	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Formation Control and Coordination for Teams of Nonholonomic Robots
8/15/2017	Yuejun Yan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Gaseous Fuel Combustion Irreversibility Analysis and Reduction
8/22/2017	Xiaoguai Li	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Non-equilibrium Material Behavior: From Particles to Continuum Description
8/28/2017	Chen Lin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Microstructures and Mechanical Metamaterials for Energy Conversion and Other Applications
8/29/2017	Dawei Song	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Homogenized Response of Porous Single Crystals and Polycrystals

2015 - 2016

Fall 2015

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/1/2015	Jaydev Desai	Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park	Flexible Meso-scale Robotic Systems for Image-Guided Neurosurgery
9/14/2015	Rebecca Pierce	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Increasing Transparency and Presence in Teleoperation Through Human-Centered Design
9/15/2015	Ron Schoff	Technology Innovation Program, Electric Power Research Institute	Power System Transformation in an Era of Increasing Distributed Generation, Dynamic Power Delivery, and Interactive Use of Electricity
9/22/2015	David L. Goldsby	Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania	Experimental Constraints on the Flow of Ice: Evidence from Greenland and Ganymede
9/29/2015	Piotr Marszalek	Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University	The Nanomechanics of Polysaccharides, Nucleic Acids, and Proteins Beyond the Entropic Elasticity Regime
10/6/2015	Guruswami Ravichandran	John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aerospace and Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology	Adhesion: Elasticity, Heterogeneity, and Peeling
10/13/2015	Jamal Yagoobi	George I. Alden Professor and Department Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Electrohydrodynamically Driven Two-Phase Heat Transport Devices for Space and Ground Applications
10/20/2015	Patrick Phelan	Emerging Technologies Program Manager, Building Technologies Office, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, United States Department of Energy	DOE’s Building Technologies Office: R&D Directions and Opportunities
10/27/2015	David Hu	Associate Professor, Department of Fluid Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology	Ants That Can Flow Like A Fluid, or Spring Back Like A Solid
10/30/2015	John Martin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Nanofibrous Disc-Like Angle Ply Structures for Total Disc Replacement in a Small Animal Model
11/3/2015	Jeffrey Kysar	Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University	Two-Dimensional Materials: Mechanical Stiffness, Strength, and Reliability
11/19/2015	Josue Sznitman	Assistant Professor, Department of Biofluids, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	Unravelling the Mysteries of Respiratory Flows in Deep Pulmonary Airways
12/8/2015	Robert J. Webster III	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University	Can Needle-Sized Robot Tentacles Help Surgeons Save Lives?

Spring 2016

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/11/2016	James Pikul	Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Design and Fabrication of High Power Microbatteries and High Specific Strength Cellular Solids from Mesostructured Hierarchical Materials
1/26/2016	Cynthia Sung	PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Computational Tools for Robot Design: A Composition Approach
1/28/2016	Arthur W. Mahoney	Postdoctoral Fellow in the Medical Engineering and Discovery Laboratory at Vanderbilt University	Wireless Magnetic Devices and Needle-sized Tentacles Inside the Body: Robots That Help Surgeons Save Lives
2/2/2016	Rodrigo A. Bernal	Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanical and Electromechanical Properties of Nanowires for Sensors and Electronics
2/8/2016	Jordan R. Raney	Postdoctoral Fellow,Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University	Mechanics By Design: 3D Printing Architected Engineering Materials With Unprecedented Control of Mechanical Properties
2/16/2016	Jeremy D. Brown	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Smart Haptic Displays for Dextrous Manipulation of Telerobots
2/18/2016	Christopher Boyce	Post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University in the Multiphase Flow Group in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering	Tomographic Imaging and Computational Modeling of Fluid-Particle Flow Systems
2/25/2016	Hunter Gilbert	research assistant and PhD candidate, Medical Engineering and Discovery Lab, Vanderbilt University	Tentacle Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Model-based Analysis and Design
3/3/2016	Luigi Perotti	Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Modeling Cardiac Mechanics and Electrophysiology
3/10/2016	Daniel Chenet	Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University	Van der Waals Heterostructures of 2D Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, & Applications
3/24/2016	Anirudha Majumdar	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Control of Agile Robots in Complex Environments with Formal Safety Guarantees
4/4/2016	Sheng Mao	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Continuum and Computational Modeling of Flexoelectricity
4/12/2016	David L. Burris	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware	New Insights into Joint Lubrication, Health, and Replacement
4/14/2016	Qingze Zhao	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Phase Boundary Propagation in Mass Spring Chains and Long Molecules
4/19/2016	Albert P. Pisano	NAE, Walter J. Zable Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego	Dry Nanoprinting
4/26/2016	John Hart	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Scalability and Flexibility: Key Principles for Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education
4/28/2016	David M. Warsinger	Post Doctoral Researcher, Lienhard Research Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Saving Lives with Thermodynamics: Thermofluids and Nanoengineering for the Water-Food-Energy Nexus
5/13/2016	Reza Malek-Madan	Program Officer, Code 31, ONR and Department of Mathematics, US Naval Academy	Mathematical Modeling of Sea Ice

Summer 2016

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
6/13/2016	James Keller	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Path Planning for Persistent Surveilance Applications Using Fixed-Wing Uninhabited Aerial Systems: A Constructive Solution Using B-spline Parametric Polynomials
6/15/2016	Denise Wong	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Actuation, Sensing, and Control for Micro Bio Robots
7/19/2016	Yijie Jiang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Characterization of Nanoscale Adhesion and Wear at UNCD–PMMA Interfaces
7/28/2016	Justin Thomas	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Autonomous Grasping and Perching for Micro Aerial Vehicles
8/2/2016	Liang Xiaojun	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	A Fluctuating Elastic Plate Model for Lipid Membranes and Graphene
8/4/2016	Tolga Ozaslan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Micro Aerial Vehicles for Safe Autonomous Inspection of Critical Infrastructure
9/9/2016	Naomi Fitter	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Social Motor Coordination
8/16/2016	Tarik Tosun	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Accomplishing Tasks with Modular Robots

2014 - 2015

Fall 2014

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/11/2014	Bradley Nelson	Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH-Zürich	MicroRobotics and NanoMedicine
9/16/2014	Eric Dufresne	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials, Yale University	Surface Tension and the Mechanics of Soft Solids
9/23/2014	Cullen R. Buie	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT	Microfluidic Bacterial Electrophenotyping for Biotechnology
9/30/2014	David Lentink	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University	Unraveling the Biofluidynamics of Flight as an Inspiration for Design
10/7/2014	Charles Matson	Chief Scientist, Air Force Office of Scientific Research	Space, the Cluttered Frontier
10/14/2014	John Leonard	Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, MIT	A Long-term View of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Mobile Robots
10/23/2014	Taher Saif	Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	From synchrony to swimming through long range cell-cell interactions
10/28/2014	Kenneth Liechti	Zarrow Centennial Professorship in Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas, Austin	Selective Mechanical Transfer of Graphene
11/4/2014	Nadine Aubry	Dean, College of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University	Moving Particles in Microfludics
11/11/2014	Mehdi Bakhshi Zanjani	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Computational Modeling of Nanocrystal Superlattices
11/18/2014	Meyya Meyyappan	Chief Scientist for Exploration Technology, NASA	Nanotechnology: Development of Practical Systems and Nano-Micro-Macro Integration
12/9/2014	James W. Baish	Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering, Bucknell University	Vascular Architecture: Relating Form to Function
12/16/2014	Michael Wald	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Indentation-Based Characterization of the Mechanical and Adhesion Properties of Soft Materials

Spring 2015

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/20/2015	Yanfei Gao	Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee	Convoluted Thermal/Spatial Statistics and Scale Effects in Nanoindentation Plasticity
2/10/2015	Nikolaos Aravas	Professor of Computational Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Thessaly, Greece and Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Strain-gradient elasticity: Constitutive Modeling and Numerical Techniques
2/17/2015	Steven Schmid	Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame	Selected Topics in Orthopedic Implant Design
3/3/2015	Denis Cormier	Earl W. Brinkman Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology	Multifunctional 3D Printing
3/5/2015	Mahmut Selman Sakar	Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich	Microrobotic Platforms in Bioengineering and Translational Medicine
3/17/2015	Ellen Kuhl	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering (courtesy), and Cardiothoracic Surgery (courtesy), Stanford University	Neuromechanics of Human Brain Development
3/17/2015	Hiroyuki Fujita	Professor, Institute of Industrial Science and Director, Center for International Research on Micronano Mechatronics (CIRMM), University of Tokyo	In situ TEM Observation Using Active MEMS Devices
3/24/2015	Eric Shaqfeh	Lester Levi Carter Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, NAE	How the Dynamics of Vesicle and Capsule Suspensions in Flow May Affect Your Bleeding Time
3/31/2015	George Adams	College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University	Adhesion and Pull-Off Force of an Elastic Indenter from an Elastic Half Space
4/7/2015	Saverio Spagniole	Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Entrapment, escape, and diffusion of microswimmers in complex environments
4/16/2015	Na Zhang	Research Professor, The Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Perspectives on Sustainable Energy Development in China
4/17/2015	Jinzhou Yuan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Understanding and Manipulating the Locomotion of Undulatory Microswimmers
4/23/2015	Sean Anderson	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Carbon Nanopipettes for Advanced Cellular Probing and Microinjection
4/24/2015	Xin Z. Liu	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanisms Controlling Friction and Adhesion at the Atomic Length-Scale
5/20/2015	Nicholas M. Schneider	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy with the Nanoaquarium: Radiation and Electrochemistry

Summer 2015

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
6/1/2015	Philip Dames	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Multi-Robot Active Information Gathering Using Random Finite Sets
6/2/2015	John Martin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Nanofibrous Disc-like Angle Ply Structures (DAPS) for Total Disc Replacement in a Small Animal Model
6/8/2015	Philip Dames	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Multi-Robot Active Information Gathering Using Random Finite Sets
6/16/2015	Heather Culbertson	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Data-Driven Haptic Modeling and Rendering of Realistic Virtual Textured Surfaces
7/7/2015	Alison Koser Patteson	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Living fluids and their interactions with particles and polymers
7/14/2015	David Gagnon	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Propulsion in Complex Fluids: Living & Artificial Swimmers
7/16/2015	Michael Norton	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Dynamics and Statics of Liquid-Liquid and Gas-Liquid Interfaces on Non-Uniform Substrates at the Micron and Sub-Micron Scales
7/17/2015	Yi Yang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Quantitative Modeling of Oxygen Precipitation in Silicon
7/28/2015	James Paulos	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Underactuated Attitude Control for Rotocraft Micro Aerial Vehicles
8/4/2015	Sheng Mao	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Continuum Modeling of Flexoelectricity
8/11/2015	Nathan Ip	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Characterization of the Adhesion and Separation Behaviors of Elastomers Using a Blister Contact Test
8/18/2015	Helen Minsky	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Composite Posts to Achieve Tunable and Enhanced Adhesion

2013 - 2014

Fall 2013

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/9/2013	Drew Cheney	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Computational Modeling of Geometry Dependent Phonon Transport in Silicon Nanostructures
9/10/2013	Juan C. Lasheras	Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego	The Role of Myosin II Motors and F-actin Dynamics in the Mechanics of Cell Migration and Invasion
9/17/2013	Alberto Cuitino	Professor and Executive Officer, Rutgers University	Multi-scale modeling and simulation of powder compaction processes
9/24/2013	Radhakrishnan “Suresh” Sureshkumar	Department Chair, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University	Plasmonic Fluids: Structure, Rheology and Applications
10/1/2013	Julia Greer	Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics, California Institute of Technology	Nanostructured 3-D Architectures: Mechanics and Physics of Deformation and Fracture in Nanomaterials for Biomimetics, Batteries, and Lightweight Structural Materials
10/8/2013	Sulin Zhang	Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Bioengineering, Pennsylvania State University	Virus-Inspired Design Principles of Nanosized Targets for Cellular Delivery
10/15/2013	Heather Knight	Ph.D. candidate, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon	Charismatic Machines
10/22/2013	Nathan Jacobs	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Validation and Application of an Intervertebral Disc Finite Element Model Utilizing Independently Constructed Tissue-Level Constitutive Formulations that are Nonlinear, Anisotropic, and Time-Dependent
10/29/2013	Michelle Johnson	Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pennsylvania	Bilateral and Unilateral Task-Oriented, Robot Therapy Environments for Patients with Upper Limb Motor Impairment
11/12/2013	Mary C. Boyce	Dean, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor, Columbia University	Mechanics of Wavy Interfacial Layers in Hybrid Material Architectures: Nature-inspired Design to 3D-printed Prototypes
11/14/2013	H. Tom Soh	Ruth Garland Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara	Cell Sorting and Directed Evolution in Microfluidic Systems
11/19/2013	Andrew Alleyne	Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Dynamical Modeling and Control for Building Systems
11/21/2013	Na Zhang	Research Professor, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing	Solar hybrid power system integration with low CO2 emissions
12/3/2013	Irina Marinov	Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania	The Southern Ocean and its critical role in the global carbon and heat cycles: now and under future climate change

Spring 2014

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/28/2014	Jonathon Yoder	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Human Intervertebral Disc Mechanical Function Under Physiological Compression Loading Quantified Non-invasively Utilizing MRI and Image Registration
1/28/2014	Frances Ross	Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	Visualising crystal growth in the transmission electron microscope
2/4/2014	Ladislav Kavan	Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences Department, University of Pennsylvania	Direct Methods for Skeletal Shape Deformation
2/11/2014	Ellad B. Tadmor	Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota	Mapping the Stochastic Response of Nanostructures
2/19/2014	Matthew Turpin	University of Pennsylvania	Scalable Trajectory Computation for Large Teams of Interchangeable Robots Applied to Quadrotor MAVs
2/20/2014	James Hone	Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University	Putting things on top of other things: Fabrication and applications of van der Waals heterostructures
2/25/2014	Ching-Long Lin	Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Iowa	A Multi-scale Imaging-based Statistics-guided Predictive Lung Model
3/17/2014	Hod Lipson	Associate Professor, Creative Machines Lab, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	The future of 3D printing: From analog to digital materials
3/18/2014	Fernando Muzzio	Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University	Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: The late revolution
3/27/2014	Sarah Bergbreiter	Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland	Tiny leaps for robot kind: combining microfabrication and robotics
4/1/2014	Mark Allen	Alfred Fitler Moore Professor, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. University of Pennsylvania	An Electroplating-Based Approach to Volumetric Nanomanufacturing And Its Application to Energy Conversion and Storage
4/15/2014	Pradeep Sharma	M.D. Anderson Chair Professor & Department Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston	Flexoelectricity
4/22/2014	Hod Lipson	Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science, Cornell University	The Robotic Scientist: Distilling Natural Laws from Experimental Data, from cognitive robotics to computational biology
4/25/2014	Chia-Hsing Pi	Master’s Student, University of Pennsylvania	Design, analysis, and applications of stress-engineered 3D microstructures
4/29/2014	Thomas Degnan	Manager, Breakthrough and Leads Generation for ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co	The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040

Summer 2014

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
5/27/2014	Armin Knoll	Researcher, IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland	Thermal Probe Nanolithography: What You See is What You Get
5/29/2014	David Argudo	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	DNA conformational changes and phase transitions induced by tension and twist
5/30/2014	Mahmut Selman Sakar	Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems	Microrobotic Platforms in Biotechnology: From Minimally Invasive Biomanipulation to Biological Robots
6/3/2014	Barukyah Shaparenko	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Thermal Dielectrophoretic Force on a Dielectric Particle
6/10/2014	Michael Norton	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Capillary Surfaces on Non-Uniform Substrates at the Micro- and Nano- Scale
6/17/2014	Nicholas Schneider	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	In Situ Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy with the NanoAquarium: A Study in Electrochemistry and Radiation Chemistry
6/20/2014	Jun Seo	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Grasping and Assembling with Modular Robots
6/23/2014	Matthew Turpin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Safe, Scalable, and Complete Motion Planning of Large Teams of Interchangeable Robots
6/24/2014	Jinzhou Yuan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Microswimmers and Microfluidics: Understanding and Manipulating the Motion of Nematodes such as Caenorhabditis (C.) elegans
7/8/2014	Xin Liu	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanisms Controlling Atomic-Scale Friction and Adhesion of Single-Asperity Contacts on Ideal Materials
7/15/2014	Heather Culbertson	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Modeling and Rendering of Virtual Haptic Textured Surfaces
7/22/2014	Sean Anderson	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Carbon Nanopipettes for Advanced Cellular Probing and Microinjection
7/29/2014	Rebecca Pierce	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Human-Centered Control Interfaces for Teleoperation
8/1/2014	Jun Seo	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Grasping and Assembling with Modular Robots
8/5/2014	Michael Wald	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	TIndentation-Based Characterization of the Mechanical Properties of Soft Materials
8/11/2014	Moeketsi Mpholo	National University of Lesotho and Teboho Nchaba, University of Cape Town	Solar and Wind Resource Assessment in Lesotho
8/12/2014	Mehdi Bakhshi Zanjani	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Computational Modeling of Nanocrystal Superlattices
8/19/2014	Nick Eckenstein	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Concepts and Approaches in Modular Robotic Connector Mechanism Design
8/22/2014	Matthew Piccoli	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Passive Stabilization and Simplification of Micro Aerial Vehicles
8/28/2014	Reza Avazmohammadi	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Overall Mechanical Response of Soft Composite Materials with Particulate Microstructure at Finite Strains
8/29/2014	Morteza Hakimi Siboni	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Dielectric Elastomer Composites: Macroscopic Behavior and Instabilities
8/29/2014	Yi Yang	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Modeling of Defect Evolution in Silicon Substrates for Microelectronics and Photovoltaics

2012 - 2013

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
8/28/2012	Lichao Pan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	A subcritical elastic instability in channel flows at low Reynolds number
9/6/2012	Roger Howe	William E. Ayer Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; Faculty Director, Stanford Nanofabrication Facility; Director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN)	Nano ElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS) Applications in Information Technology and Energy Conversion
9/11/2012	Douglas Durian	Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanics of Granular Impact
9/18/2012	Alexander Smits	Chairman and Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director, Gasdynamics Laboratory, Princeton University	Hydrodynamics of Manta Ray Swimming
9/21/2012	Qiwei Shi	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Diffusional Aggregation in Binary Solids
9/25/2012	Shailendra Joshi	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore	Fortifying Magnesium for Structural Applications
10/2/2012	Robert Howe	Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	Robot Hands for the Real World
10/8/2012	Sefi Givli	Senior Lecturer, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	A theorectical study of lamellipodia dynamics
10/9/2012	Marino Arroyo	Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona, University of Catalunya, Barcelona	Reverse engineering the euglenoid movement
10/16/2012	Dan Negrut	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison	From the Dynamics of Sand to the Dynamics of Tanks: Using High Performance Computing to Advance the Pace of Innovation and Improve Designs in Mechanical Engineering
10/25/2012	Evan Galipeau	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Non-linear homogenization of magnetorheological elastomers at finite strain
10/30/2012	S. “Bala” Balachandar	Chairman and William F. Powers Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida	On the Propagation, Instability and Turbulence of Advancing Material Fronts
11/6/2012	Ronald Larson	George Granger Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering, University of Michigan	From Rheology to Biology: the Application of Polymer Hydrodynamics to Problems in Biology
11/19/2012	Evan Galipeau	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Non-linear homogenization of magnetorheological elastomers at finite strain
11/20/2012	Sergio Pellegrino	Joyce and Kent Kresa Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Civil Engineering, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist, California Institute of Technology	Ultra-thin composite deployable shell structures
11/27/2012	Darryll Pines	Dean and Nariman Farvardin Professor of Engineering, Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland	Evolving to a New Normal in Engineering Education
12/4/2012	Thomas Powers	Professor of Engineering and Professor of Physics, Brown University	Swimming in Viscoelastic Fluids
12/11/2012	Chelsey Simmons	Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University	Dynamic Cell Culture Systems for Stimulation and Assessment of Cardiovascular Cells
12/12/2012	Na Zhang	Research Professor, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences	High-efficiency low emissions hybrid power generation systems integrated with solar thermo- chemical conversion

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/10/2013	Sherry Liu	Assistant Professor Bioengineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania	Micro-imaging and the mechanical modeling of bone – from bench side to bed side
1/15/2013	Vivek Shenoy	Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanotranduction in 3D microtissues: Modeling the role of geometry and stiffness
1/22/2013	Leo Donner	Lecturer, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University	Aerosols, Clouds, and Climate: The Global Modeling Challenge
1/29/2013	Amos Avidan	Bechtel Corporation	Nuclear Power Technology and Construction Trends
2/5/2013	Chang-Hwan Choi	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology	Nature-Inspired Nano-Textured Surfaces: Design, Fabrications, and Applications
2/12/2013	Li Shi	Professor, Myron L. Begeman Fellow in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Texas at Austin	Thermal Transport in Graphene and Other Two-Dimensional Layered Materials
2/13/2013	Xiaoning Shen	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Locomotion of live organisms in complex fluids at low Reynolds number
2/14/2013	Lichao Pan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Complex Fluids In Microchanne Flows at Low Reynods Number: Elastic Instabilities and Rheology
2/21/2013	J. Scott Bunch	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder	Graphene Mechanical Wonders
2/22/2013	Vijay Kumar	UPS Foundation Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Aerial Robot Swarms
2/25/2013	Roland Bennewitz	Senior Group Leader, Nanotribology Group, INM – Leibniz-Institute for New Materials and Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany	Nanoscale friction on gold – from the basics to electrochemical modification
2/26/2013	Harry Swinney	Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chairman and Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Austin	How competing bacterial colonies can survive by killing siblings
3/19/2013	Maria Yang	Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Influence of informal representation in early stage design
3/21/2013	Hugh Fan	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Florida	Microscale Components for Flow Control and Particle Isolation
3/22/2013	Gary Fedder	Director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES), Howard M. Wilkoff Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University	Advanced Manufacturing Institutes – A $2B National Experiment in Government-Industry-University Private-Public Partnerships
3/26/2013	Chang-Jin Kim	Professor, Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing Lab; California NanoSystems Institute Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA	Surface Tension Is Fair Game in Micro-Engineering: Let’s Play
4/2/2013	Nicholas Ouellette	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University	Emergent Dynamics of Laboratory Insect Swarms
4/9/2013	John Sader	Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne	Nanomechanical Systems in Fluid with Applications to Atomic and Molecular Sensing
4/11/2013	William McMahan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Providing Haptic Perception to Telerobotic Systems via Tactile Acceleration Signals
4/11/2013	Horacio Espinosa	James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship; Director; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program, Northwestern University	Atomistic Investigation of Nanomaterials – Seeing the Invisible and Bridging Theory and Experiments
4/16/2013	Lallit Anand	Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	A thermo-mechanically coupled theory for fluid permeation in elastomeric materials: application to thermally-responsive gels
4/17/2013	Vahid Vahdat	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanics of Interactions and Atomic-Scale Wear of Tips in Amplitude Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy Probes
4/18/2013	Wilson Poon	Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh	Bacteria as active colloids
4/25/2013	Emily Carter	Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University	Quantum Mechanics and the Future of the Planet

Summer 2013

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
5/24/2013	Steven Gray	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Motion primitives and planning for robots with closed chain systems and changing topologies
6/18/2013	Drew Cheney	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Computational modeling of geometry dependent phonon transport in nanostructures
6/21/2013	Kush Prasad	MSE Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Optimal Control of Traffic Signals at a Single Intersection
6/21/2013	Soonkyum Kim	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	A Topological Approach to Using Cables to Separate and Manipulate Sets of Objects
6/21/2013	Mengying Li	MSE Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Energy and Exergy Analysis and Thermodynamic Optimization of Deep Engineered Geothermal System Energy Extraction and Power Generation
6/24/2013	David Kim	MSE Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Critical Review of Quantitative Sustainability Analysis with sample case for Reverse Osmosis Desalination
7/1/2013	Steven Gray	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Motion primitives and planning for robots with closed chain systems and changing topologies
7/9/2013	Nathan Jacobs	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Finite Element Predictions of Human Intervertebral Disc Mechanics
7/12/2013	Graham Wabiszewksi	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Interrogation of Single Asperity Electrical Contacts using Atomic Force Microscopy with Application to NEMS Logic Switches
7/30/2013	Jonathon Yoder	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Intervertebral Disc Mechanical Function Under Physiological Loading Quantified Non-invasively Utilizing MRI and Image Registration
8/6/2013	David Argudo	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	The mechanical response of DNA: twisting the molecule
8/16/2013	Soonykum Kim	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Robot Motion Planning Under Topological Constraints
8/20/2013	Morteza Hakimi Siboni	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Electro-active polymer composites: effective response and stability analysis
8/21/2013	Ian Cosden	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	A Hybrid Atomistic-Continuum Model for Liquid-Vapor Phase Change
8/27/2013	Reza Avazmohammadi	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Homogenization of Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric Composites

2011 - 2012

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/13/2011	Gregory S. Chirikjian	Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University	Stochastic Models in Robotics and Structural Biology
9/20/2011	Robert E. Ecke	Director, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Energy Futures: From carbon sequestration to the smart grid of tomorrow
9/27/2011	John J. McGrath	Division Director – Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation	Overview of NSF, the Engineering Directorate & the CBET Division
10/7/2011	Gal deBotton	Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel	Electroactive polymer composites – Mechanical response, stability, wave propagation and Band-gaps
10/18/2011	Kaushik Dayal	Assistant Professor of Mechanics, Materials and Computing, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University	Multiscale methods for Complex Crystals and Nano-/Bio-structures
10/25/2011	Paris R. von Lockette	Associate Professor, Rowan University	Investigating symmetry classes in magneto-rheological elastomers (MREs)
11/1/2011	Noel Perkins	Donald T. Greenwood Collegiate Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan	Wireless Technology for Analyzing Human Motion and Athletic Skill
11/8/2011	Seungmoon Choi	Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director, Haptics and Virtual Reality Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea; Visiting Associate Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Haptic Augmented Reality – Concept and Research Progress
11/22/2011	Julio M. Fernandez	Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University	Mechanical Biochemistry
11/29/2011	Andrea Liu	Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania	Vibrations and Flow defects in Jammed Packings
12/6/2011	Celia Reina Romo	Lawrence Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Modeling and simulation of damage by nucleation and void growth: a multiscale approach
12/20/2011	Changchun Liu	Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Point of Care Diagnostic Devices for Pathogen Detection

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/17/2012	Sumita Pennathur	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara	Electrokinetic characterization of micro- and nano-fluidic channels for bioanalytical applications
1/20/2012	Daniel Mellinger	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Trajectory Generation and Control for Quadrotors
1/23/2012	Subhrajit Bhattacharya	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Topological and Geometric Techniques in Graph-Search Based Robot Planning
1/24/2012	Pradeep Guduru	James R. Rice Associate Professor of Engineering, Division of Engineering, Brown University	On the Role of Mechanics in the Design and Performance of Electrode Materials for Energy Storage
1/26/2012	Cary Pint	Research Scientist, Extreme Technologies Research Group Intel Corporation	Nanocarbon Scaffolds for Efficient Energy Conversion and Storage
1/31/2012	David Erickson	Director, Integrated Nanofluidic Systems Lab, Associate Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Handling the very big and very small: Optofluidics for Nanomanipulation and Energy Application
2/2/2012	Zlatan Aksamija	NSF CI TraCS Fellow, Nanoelectronics Theory Group, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Semiconductor Nanostructures for Efficient Thermo-electric Energy Conversion
2/6/2012	Mona Zebarjadi	Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Thermoelectric transport in nanostructures
2/7/2012	John Hart	Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan	Manufacturing of 3D Carbon Nanotube Surfaces
2/9/2012	Igor Bargatin	Engineering Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University	Hard-boiled Electrons: Using Thermionic Emission for Solar Electricity Generation
2/21/2012	Nicholas Boechler	Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Granular Crystals: Controlling Mechanical Energy with Nonlinearity and Discreteness
2/24/2012	Alan Needleman	Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas; Florence Pirce Grant University Professor Emeritus, Brown University	Porosity Evolution in Ni-based Single Crystals under Creep Loading Conditions
3/20/2012	Douglas Jerolmack	Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania	The science of scenery: how dynamics at the fluid-granular interface creates landscapes
3/22/2012	Subra Suresh	Director, National Science Foundation	Nanoscience as a Pathway to Innovation in Engineering and Biology
3/27/2012	Michael Graham	Harvey D. Spangler Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Segregation phenomena in flowing suspensions of deformable particles: toward an understanding of cell and particle dynamics in blood flow
4/3/2012	Arvind Raman	Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Purdue University	Probing the mechanobiology of cells and viruses at small forces and lengthscales using multi-harmonic Atomic Force Microscopy methods
4/17/2012	Michael Shelley	Lilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics; Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science; Co-Director, Applied Mathematical Laboratory, Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, New York University	Biological Flows and Mechanics
4/24/2012	Michael McAlpine	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University	Biointerfaced Nanodevices

Summer 2012

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
5/29/2012	Tong Gao	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Dynamics of soft elastic particles in viscous flows
6/5/2012	Qiwei Shi	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Diffusional Aggregation with Material Anisotropy
6/8/2012	Tong Gao	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Dynamics of soft elastic particles in viscous flows
6/22/2012	Quentin Lindsey	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Robotic Consrtuctuion of Truss-Like Structures
7/17/2012	Vahid Vahdat	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechanics of Interactions and Atomic-Scale War of Tips in Amplitude Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy Probes
7/24/2012	William McMahan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Providing Haptic Perception to Telerobotic Systems via Tactile Acceleration Signals
7/31/2012	Tianxiang Su	Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University	Enhancing stability of a rod by friction and elastic confinement
8/7/2012	Ian Cosden	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	A Hybrid Atomistic-Continuum Model for Non-Isothermal Fluid Flow
8/14/2012	Graham Wabiszewski	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Understanding the Degradation of Nanoelectromechanical Contacts: Gigacycle Interrogation of Platinum Interfaces Using Atomic Force Microscopy
8/21/2012	Xiaoning Shen	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Undulatory Swimming in Complex Fluids
8/28/2012	Lichao Pan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	A subcritical elastic instability in channel flows at low Reynolds number

2010 - 2011

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/16/2010	Ju Li	Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Plumber’s Wonderland Found on Graphene
9/23/2010	Katherine Kuchenbecker	Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Creating Realistic Virtual Textures from Contact Acceleration Data
9/30/2010	Victor Steinberg	Professor of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel	Single vesicle dynamics in various flows: Experiment versus theory
10/5/2010	Mian Qin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Microfluidic pumping with surface tension force and magnetohydrodynamic drive
10/7/2010	T. Sundararajan	Professor, Thermodynamics Combustion Engineering Lab and Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras	Micro- and nano- scale phenomena in heat transfer and fluid flow
10/13/2010	G. Paul Neitzel	Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology	Permanent Noncoalescence and Nonwetting:Science and Applications
10/14/2010	William Klug	Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles	The Solid Mechanics of Fluid Shells: Understanding Structure and Organization in Cell Membranes
10/28/2010	Eric Laug	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego	Synchrony and optimality in cellular hydrodynamics
11/11/2010	Bong Jae Lee	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh	Tailoring Radiative Properties using Nanostructures
11/17/2010	Alexander Morozov	EPSRC CAF Research Fellow, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh	Instabilities in viscoelastic shear layers and their relation to elastic turbulence
11/18/2010	James Feng	Professor and Canada Research Chair, Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada	Interfacial Dynamics in Complex Fluids
11/19/2010	Jack Franklin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Patterning of Alloy Precipitation Through External Pressure
12/2/2010	Lev Truskinovsky	Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, France; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow and Wyss Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Harvard University	Criticality in plasticity
12/9/2010	Hao Lin	Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University	Electric Field Mediated Transport in Lab-on-a-chip and Biological Systems
12/16/2010	Jimmy Sastra	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Using Modular Reconfigurable Robots as a Platform for Dynamic Locomotion Experiments

Spring 2011

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/18/2011	Chris Thorne	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Toward the Design and Analysis of a Gyroscopically Controlled Micro Air Vehicle
1/25/2011	Daeyeon Lee	Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Improving Mechanical Properties of Nanoparticle Thin Films and Bubble Shells
2/1/2011	Mathew Mate	Hitachi San Jose Research Center, San Jose, CA	How new disk drive technologies are pushing the nanoscale limits of materials and mechanics
2/15/2011	Xiulin Ruan	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University	Nanoscale Control of Photon and Phonon Transport for Enhanced Solar Energy Harvesting
2/22/2011	Lance R. Collins	Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Role of Turbulence in the Atmospheric Processing of Clouds
3/1/2011	Kyung-Suk Kim	Professor of Engineering, Brown University	Unusual nanostructural instabilities caused by compressive stresses; graphene fracture operated in CNTs cut by sonication and dislocation motions during ion irradiation
3/22/2011	Timothy J. Healey	Professor, Departments of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics, Cornell University	Stable equilibria of some 2-phase problems of nonlinear elasticity via global bifurcation
3/28/2011	Jason A. Thompson	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Microbead-Based Biosensing in Microfluidic Devices
3/29/2011	Pedro Reis	Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The wonders of thin objects: From torn tape and sinking flowers to graphene ribbons and grabbing water
4/5/2011	Silvia Salinas Blemker	Assistant Professor, Departments of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia	Meso-scale computational models of skeletal muscle provide insights into muscle injuries
4/19/2011	Jun Zhang	Associate Professor, Department of Physics and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University	Reversed flapping flight and inverted hydrodynamical drafting
4/26/2011	Shizhi Qian	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Old Dominion University	Electrokinetic Particle Transport in Micro/Nano-fluidics
3/3/2011	Manu Prakash	Harvard University	Hydraulic constraints on feeding and metamorphosis: the case of a hungry fly
5/6/2011	Nora Ayanian	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Coordination of Multirobot Teams and Groups in COntrained Environments: Modeling, Abstractions and Synthesis of Control Policies
5/17/2011	Tianxiang Su	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Entropic Elasticity of Biopolymers and their Networks

Summer 2011

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
5/17/2011	Tianxiang Su	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Entropic Elasticity of Biopolymers and their Networks
5/31/2011	Paul White	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Miniaturization Methods for Modular Robotics
7/5/2011	Neil Zuckerman	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Propagation and Scattering of Mechanical Vibrations in Semiconductor Materials
7/18/2011	Michael Shomin	MSE Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Penetration-based Grasping for Aerial Robot Perching and Manipulation
7/22/2011	Alan Rosenwinkel	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Understanding Stress at the Atomic Scale Through the Principle of Equivalence of Virtual Work
8/2/2011	Daniel Mellinger	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Control Methods for Quadrotor Helicopters
8/16/2011	Quentin Lindsey	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Robotic Construction of Truss-like Structures
8/23/2011	Subhrajit Bhattacharya	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Topological and Geometric Techniques in Graph-search Based Robot Planning and Exploration Problems
8/30/2011	Joseph Romano	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Enhancing Autonomous Robotic Manipulation via Haptic Perception

2009 - 2010

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/10/2009	Andrew Jackson	Senior Scientific Advisor, Corporate Strategic Research Laboratory, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company	Automotive and industrial tribology challenges
9/17/2009	Petia Vlahovska	Assistant Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College	Lipid membranes in electric fields
9/23/2009	Shaochen Chen	Program Director for Nanomanufacturing, US National Science Foundation; Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin	Nanomanufacturing for medicine and energy
10/1/2009	Robert Mauck	Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering, McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania	Rational design of load bearing tissues
10/8/2009	Adrian J. Lew	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University	Discontinuous Galerkin methods in solid mechanics
10/15/2009	Sean Sun	Associate Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University	Mechanics of actomyosin interaction and the role of substrate stiffness on actin network dynamics
10/22/2009	Kenneth Breuer	Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University	Two problems in micron-scale fluid mechanics
10/29/2009	Daniel S. Gianola	Skirkanich Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania	Deformation mechanisms and size-dependent mechanical response at the nanoscale
11/5/2009	Joachim L. Grenestedt	Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, Lehigh University	Lightness and speed: The future of boats, airplanes and land vehicles
11/5/2009	Spring Berman	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Abstractions, analysis techniques, and synthesis of scalable control strategies for robot swarms
11/12/2009	Kaushik Bhattacharya	Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology	Polydomain liquid crystal elastomers
11/19/2009	Bradley Nelson	Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich	Micro and nano robotics
12/1/2009	James Hone	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and NSEC, Columbia University	Nanomechanics of nano-carbon
12/3/2009	Qiao Lin	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University	Microelectromechanical systems for biomolecular sensing and manipulation

Spring 2010

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/21/2010	Martin I. Idiart	Area Departmental Aeronáutica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina	A realizable constitutive model for viscoplastic porous media
1/28/2010	Timothy Fisher	Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University	Exploiting the collective behavior of carbon nanotubes
2/4/2010	Howard A. Stone	Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University	Surprises in viscous flows: from charged drops to bacteria in curved channel flows
2/8/2010	Sheri D. Sheppard	Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director, Center for Design Research Stanford University	What we have learned about educating engineers: A field report from the Carnegie Study
2/15/2010	Qiang Lin	California Institute of Technology	Manipulating motion with light: Cavity optomechanics in nanophotonic structures
2/18/2010	Richard D. James	Russell J. Penrose Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota	Viscometry of bulk materials and atomic structures
2/25/2010	Cameron Riviere	Associate Research Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University	Micron: An active handheld micromanipulator
3/2/2010	Kevin T. Turner	Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Ultracompliant single-crystalline silicon substrates: Mechanics and manufacturing
3/4/2010	Yonggang Huang	Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University	Mechanics of stretchable electronics
3/11/2010	Sanjay Govindjee	Professor of Civil Engineering and Chancellor’s Professor, University of California at Berkeley	Macroscopic models for transforming systems and mathematical relaxation
3/18/2010	Mo Li	Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University	Nanomechanics meets nanophotonics: harnessing optical forces on a silicon chip
3/25/2010	Gang Bao	Professor and Robert A. Milton Chair in Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology	Engineering nano-probes for living-cell imaging of biomolecules
4/1/2010	Udo D. Schwarz	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University	A focus on friction: From atomically resolved static forces to scaling laws for superlubric sliding
4/8/2010	Ying Sun	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University	Transport Phenomena Associated with Inkjet Printing of Colloidal Drops for Printable Electronics Fabrication
4/12/2010	Nandan Nerurkar	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Integrating theoretical and experimental methods for multi-scale tissue engineering of the annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc
4/16/2010	Spring Berman	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Abstractions, Analysis Techniques, and Synthesis of Scalable Control Strategies for Robot Swarms

Summer 2010

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
5/13/2010	Mihalis Agora	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Homogenization methods for multi-scale viscoplastic composites and applications to semi-crystalline polymers
6/10/2010	Joe Grogan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	The Nanoaquarium: a nanofluidic platform for in situ electron microscopy in liquid media
6/17/2010	Mian Qin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Utilizing Surface Tension Force and Magneto-Hydrodynamic Drive to Pump Fluid in Microfluidic Devices
6/21/2010	Kevin C. Galloway	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
7/8/2010	Ritwik Raj	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Moving Interfaces as Agents for Conformational Change in Rod-like Macromolecules
7/15/2010	Nora Ayanian	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Automated synthesis of feedback policies for multi-robot teams and groups from high-level specifications
7/22/2010	Jack Franklin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	The Patterning of Surface Precipitation of Al-Cu Alloys via Localized External Loading
8/12/2010	Jason Thompson	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Microbead-Based Systems for Biosensing in Lab-On-Chip Devices
8/19/2010	Nipun Sinha	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Aluminum Nitride (AlN) Based Piezoelectric MEMS/NEMS Switches for Mechanical Logic
8/26/2010	Neil Zuckerman	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Vibrations in Silicon: Wave scattering and heat propagation, from the nanometer to the micrometer scale

2008 - 2009

Fall 2008

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/18/2008	Howard Brenner	Willard H. Dow Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Bi-velocity hydrodynamics
9/24/2008	Santi Swaroop Adavani	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Numerical methods for inverse problems constrained by elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations on regular domains
9/25/2008	Michael D. Graham	Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Transport and collective dynamics in suspensions of swimming microorganisms
10/2/2008	Hui Zhao	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Modeling electrokinetics with applications to micro and nano fluidic systems
10/9/2008	Andrea Prosperetti	Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; The Berkhoff Professor of Fluid Dynamics, Department of Applied Sciences and Burgerscentrum, University of Twente, The Netherlands	Some flows with bubbles and particles
10/27/2008	Nathan Michael	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Planning and control for teams of robots in complex environments
10/30/2008	Howard H. Hu	Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Simulations of particulate flows
11/13/2008	Roderic Lakes	Department of Engineering Physics, Engineering Mechanics Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Extreme materials: creation of materials with negative or very large values of material properties
11/14/2008	David Saintillan	Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Dynamics, pattern formation and mixing in active particle suspensions
11/20/2008	Ting Zhu	Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology	Nanomechanics of plasticity
12/4/2008	MinJun Kim	Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University	Finding nano: Cellular mechanics & molecular dynamics
12/5/2008	J. Christian Gerdes	Design Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University	Lanekeeping assistance at the vehicle handling limits
12/11/2008	Mark R. VanLandingham	U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Weapons & Materials Research Directorate – Materials Division, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland	Experimental nanomechanics and micromechanics: Opportunities in polymer science

Spring 2009

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/16/2009	Harish Bhaskaran	Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Zurich	Enablers for probe-based nanoscale technologies
1/22/2009	Kathleen J. Stebe	Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Goodwin Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania	Oriented assembly of anisotropic particles by capillary interactions
1/29/2009	Huajian Gao	Walter H. Annnenberg University Professor, Brown University	Nanomechanics of biological systems: What can we learn from nature about the principles of hierarchical materials?
1/30/2009	Yucun Lou	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Guided assembly of nanostructures
2/5/2009	Neelesh A. Patankar	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University	Fully resolved simulation of immersed bodies: Macro to micro scales
2/12/2009	George G. Adams	College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University	Contact and adhesion in a microswitch: Ductile and brittle separation
2/19/2009	Zdenek P. Bazant	McCormick Institute Professor, W.P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science, Northwestern University	Size and risk: Scaling of quasibrittle structure strength and lifetime based on atomistic fracture mechanics
2/24/2009	Michael G. Schrlau	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Carbon-based nanoprobes for cell nanosurgery and biological applications
2/26/2009	Benjamin Yellen	Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department, Duke University	Field directed assembly for nanomanufacturing and nanoscale device integration
3/3/2009	Jonathan A. Malen	Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley	Energy transport and conversion in organic-inorganic hybrid materials
3/5/2009	Jaydev P. Desai	Director, Robotics, Automation, Manipulation, and Sensing (RAMS) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park	Image-guided surgical robotics: From macro-scale to meso-scale
3/6/2009	Haizhen Pan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Problems of orthotropic plastic constitutive models: Non-associated flow and evolution of anisotropy
3/26/2009	Kamil L. Ekinci	Mechanical Engineering Department, Boston University; Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, NIST	Progress towards a functional NEMS sensor: Understanding NEMS dissipation in fluids
4/2/2009	Kevin T. Turner	Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Interface mechanics of microtransfer printing and direct bonding processes
4/16/2009	Luis Dorfmann	Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University	Modeling soft multifunctional materials
4/23/2009	L. B. Freund	Division of Engineering, Brown University	Characterizing the resistance generated by a molecular bond as it is forcibly separated
4/30/2009	Arne J. Pearlstein	Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Steady shapes, speeds, and internal circulation of small water drops falling through air

Summer 2009

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
5/14/2009	Anuj Chaudhri	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Dissipative particle dynamics for mesoscopic particle-based thermal-fluid simulations
7/8/2009	Mustafa-Ali Arat	MSE Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	Brushless DC motor position controller for modular robotics applications
8/6/2009	Kevin C. Galloway	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Developments toward passive variable compliance for dynamic legged robots
8/7/2009	Ethan Stump	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Control for localization and visibility maintenance of an independent agent using robotic teams
8/24/2009	Anuj Chaudhri	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Dissipative particle dynamics for mesoscopic particle-based thermal-fluid simulations

2007 - 2008

Spring 2007

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/18/2007	Jianmin Qu	Professor, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology	An electrochemomechanical theory of point defects in ionic solids
1/25/2007	Chuan-Hua Chen	Teledyne Scientific Company; Assistant Professor, Duke University	Physicochemical hydrodynamics in micro and nano-systems
1/29/2007	John Hutchinson	Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Harvard University	Recent developments in thin film mechanics
2/8/2007	Jianping Fu	PhD Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Nanofluidic devices for rapid biomolecule analysis
2/15/2007	Paulo E. Arratia	Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania	Complex fluids in microfluidic systems
2/22/2007	Ongi Englander	University of California, Berkeley	Localized synthesis, assembly and integration of one-dimensional nanostructures
2/26/2007	Mark O. Robbins	Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University	Contact and friction: Connecting atomic interactions to macroscopic behavior
3/1/2007	Thomas Cubaud	Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles	Dynamics of viscous threads in microfluidics
3/15/2007	Pramod Sangi Reddy	PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley	Thermoelectric effects in metal-molecule junctions: Application to energy conversion
3/22/2007	Jennifer R. Lukes	William K. Gemmill Term Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Thermal transport at nanostructure interfaces
3/26/2007	Youssef Marzouk	Sandia National Laboratories	Uncertainty and Bayesian inference in inverse problems
4/5/2007	Igor Pivkin	Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University	Multiscale modeling of biological flows
4/10/2007	Vikranth Racherla	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Non-associated plastic flow and effects on macroscopic failure mechanisms
4/16/2007	Ulrich Hetmaniuk	Post-Doctoral Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories	Eigenspace computations in linear structural dynamics
4/19/2007	Joshua Lampe	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Interfacial characteristics of a gas bubble immersed in a surfactant and protein laden fluid: Experimentation and modeling
5/3/2007	Ani (Mong-ying) Hsieh	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Towards the development of robotic swarms for real world applications
5/4/2007	Itzhak Green	Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology	On the contact mechanics of rough surfaces
6/6/2007	Shamik Sen	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	The interplay of cell tension, elasticity, and adhesion: From the simple red cell membrane to differentiation and signaling muscle cells

Fall 2007

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
9/6/2007	Francois Willot	Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Strain localization and effective medium propertiesin 2D perfectly-plastic porous materials: the ‘dilute’ limit
9/20/2007	Kostas Danas	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Homogenization-based constitutive models for viscoplastic porous media with evolving microstructure
9/27/2007	Doyoung Byun	Visiting Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania (Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea)	Development of electrostatic field induced inkjet head: Microscale and nanoscale patterning
10/3/2007	Johsua W. Lampe	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Interfacial characteristics of a gas bubble immersed in a surfactant and protein lade fluid: Experimentation and modeling
10/4/2007	David G. Cahill	Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois	Extremes in heat conduction: Pushing the boundaries of the thermal conductivity of materials
10/8/2007	William Schultz	Director, Fluid Dynamics Program, National Science Foundation; Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan	Viscoelastic effects in glass fiber spinning
10/25/2007	Dimos Poulikakos	Professor and Director, Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Institute of Energy Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Thermofluidics with nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes: On their physics and related novel technologies
11/8/2007	Nikolaos Aravas	Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, GREECE	Constitutive modeling and finite element methods for trip steels
11/15/2007	W. Gregory Sawyer	Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida	Thermally activated friction
11/29/2007	Shravan Veerapaneni	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	High-order fast integral equation methods for PDEs with moving interfaces
12/6/2007	Eliot Fried	Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Washington University	A conjectured hierarchy of length scales in a generalization of the Navier–Stokes-α equation for turbulent fluid flow
12/7/2007	N. Sukumar	Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis	Partition of unity finite elements for electronic-structure calculations in molecules and crystalline solids

Spring 2008

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
1/17/2008	Per-Gunnar J Martinsson	Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder	Fast methods for solving partial differential equations
1/31/2008	Krishna Garikipati	Mechanical Engineering and Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan	A theoretical study of the thermodynamic driving forces and kinetics of focal adhesion dynamics
2/7/2008	Baskar Ganapathysubramanian	PhD candidate, Materials Process Design and Control Laboratory, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Flow through heterogeneous porous media: A stochastic variational multiscale framework
2/25/2008	Per-Olof Persson	Instructor of Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	High-order discontinuous galerkin methods for fluid and solid mechanics
2/28/2008	Amy Shen	Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis	Complex fluids under confinement and flow
3/4/2008	Katia Bertoldi	Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Microstructures in solids: Their critical role in governing material mechanical behavior
3/6/2008	Patrick Le Tallec	Professor of Computational Mechanics and Vice President for Academic Research, École Polytechnique	From homogeneisation to domain decomposition in the numerical modeling of materials
3/7/2008	Kostas Danas	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Homogenization-based constitutive models for viscoplastic porous media with evolving microstructure
3/20/2008	Martin H. Müser	Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, Canada	Simulations of extreme conditions: From tribology to optoelectronic materials
3/27/2008	James R. Rice	Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University	Thermo-hydro-mechanics of earthquake rupture
3/28/2008	Andy Perrin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Explicit finite difference schemes for particulate flows
4/3/2008	Gareth H. McKinley	Director, Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, M.I.T.	Elasto-capillary thinning and the breakup of complex fluids (or why some things are stickier than others!)
4/9/2008	Tully Foote	MSE Candidate, University of Pennsylvania	3D ladar-based sensing for autonomous ground vehicles
4/10/2008	William M. Gelbart	Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles	Making viruses and virus-like particles
4/17/2008	Mandayam A. Srinivasan	Director, The Touch Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Haptics: Science, technology and applications
4/21/2008	Alberto Peisach	President, Phoenix Capital, Ltd.	Engineers as entrepreneurs
4/24/2008	Pradeep R. Guduru	Division of Engineering, Brown University	Mechanics of biologically inspired adhesion, friction and engineered surfaces
5/1/2008	Charbel Farhat	Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University	Recent advances in high-fidelity and reduced order modeling of a class of multidisciplinary flow problems: Towards near real-time computational mechanics
5/9/2008	William Paul King	Kritzer Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Thermomechanical probes at the nanometer scale
5/27/2008	Shravan Veerapaneni	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	High-order fast integral equation methods for PDEs with moving interfaces

Summer 2008

Date	Speaker	Institution	Talk Title
6/12/2008	David Cappelleri	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Flexible automation for micro- and meso-scale manipulation tasks with applications to manufacturing and biotechnology
6/19/2008	Rahul Sampath	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Dendro: A parallel geometric multigrid method for finite element calculations on octree meshes with billions of unknowns
6/26/2008	Hui Zhao	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Modeling electrokinetics with applications to micro and nano fluidic systems
7/3/2008	Santi Swaroop Adavani	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Fast algorithms for inverse problems with elliptic and parabolic PDE constraints: applications to cardiac electrophysiology
7/10/2008	Haizhen Pan	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Plastic flow rules with microstructural evolution and effects on strain localization
7/17/2008	Alan Rosenwinkel	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Understanding stress at the atomic scale
7/24/2008	Richard M. Springman	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Mechano-chemical coupling in the adhesion of thin structures to surfaces with topography
7/28/2008	Andy Perrin	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Explicit finite difference schemes for particulate flows
7/31/2008	Michael Park	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Configuration recognition, self-reassembly, and distributed fault tolerance studies with CKBot, a modular robotic system
8/1/2008	David Cappelleri	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Flexible automation for micro- and meso-scale manipulation tasks with applications to manufacturing and biotechnology
8/7/2008	Mark Arselault	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	The manipulation and mechanical studies of nano filaments and nano motors
8/12/2008	M.A. Alves	Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal	Extensional rheometry on a chip
8/12/2008	Yucun Lou	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Guided assembly of nanostructures
8/14/2008	Nathan Michael	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Planning and control for teams of robots in complex environments
8/21/2008	Michael G. Schrlau	Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania	Carbon-based nanoprobes and their applications to cell physiology
8/21/2008	Adam P. Hitchcock	Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario	Chemical imaging at 30 nm spatial resolution in 2-d and 3-d with scanning transmission x-ray microscopy