Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
A Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Seminar + Event Speaker Archive
Summer 2023
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Talk Title |
| 5/23/2023 | Mathew Halm | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Addressing Sensitivity-Induced Challenges in Modeling Rigid-Body Systems with Frictional Impacts |
| 5/30/2023 | Shane Rozen-Levy | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Progress on Templates for Spined and Tailed Legged Robots |
| 6/6/2023 | Justin P. Cooke | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Computational Study on the Influence of Roughness at Low and Very-High Reynolds Numbers |
| 6/20/2023 | Laura Jarin-Lipschitz | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Computationally-constrained Dynamically-feasible Search-based Motion Planning |
| 6/27/2023 | Walker Gosrich | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Multi-robot Coordination Via Graph-based Computation |
| 7/11/2023 | Xu Liu | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Semantic Localization, Mapping, and Exploration by Multiple Aerial Robots |
| 7/18/2023 | Konstantinos Garyfallogiannis | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Hydrogel (fracture) Mechanics with Applications to the Study of Blood Clots |
| 7/25/2023 | Jessica Weakly | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Bistable Robots: Leveraging Task Features for Actuator Reduction |
| 8/1/2023 | Sumukh Shankar Pande | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Mechanics- Informed Optimization for Enhanced Adhesion and Toughness |
| 8/8/2023 | Imran Hayat | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Wall-modeled Large-eddy Simulation of Non-Equilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layers |
| 8/15/2023 | Jake Welde | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Hierarchical Methods for Geometric Control of Underactuated, Free-Flying Robotic Systems |
| 8/22/2023 | Tom Celenza | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania | Photophoretic Levitating Structures Enabling Mesospheric and Martian Exploration |
2022 - 2023
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 |
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 |