GALCIT Colloquium

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Friday, January 11, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Cavitation in Rubber: An Elastic Instability or a Fracture Phenomenon?
Oscar Lopez-Pamies, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, January 18, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Hollow Vortices
Stefan Llewellyn Smith, Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Friday, January 25, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Optimisation and Learning for Artificial Swimmers
Petros Koumoutsakos, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
Friday, February 1, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Energy-Inconsistent Objective Stress Rates in ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA and Other FE Codes: Magnitude of Errors and How to Correct Them
Zdenek Bazant, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University
Friday, February 8, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

TOSHI KUBOTA LECTURE in Aerospace

Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Ian A. Waitz, Dean of the School of Engineering, the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, February 15, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium (PhD thesis talk)

Simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Flows for Elastic-Plastic Solids in Planar and Converging Geometries Using an Eulerian Framework
Alejandro Lopez-Ortega, Graduate Student, Aerospace, California Institute of Technology
Friday, February 22, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Mean-field and Statistical Thermodynamic Formulation of Models for Dislocation Systems
Bob Svendsen, Chair Professor, Institute for Mechanics of Materials, RWTH Aachen University
Friday, March 1, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Contact
 of 
Particles 
in 
Fluids
Peter Wriggers, Professor, Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University of Hannover
Friday, March 8, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Combustion Dynamics in Propulsion Systems
Vigor Yang, William R. T. Oakes Professor and Chair, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, April 5, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Large Deformations and Instabilities in Soft Materials
Shengqiang Cai, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego
Friday, April 12, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Response of Hypervelocity Boundary Layers to Global and Local Distortion
Joanna Austin, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Monday, April 15, 2013
1:00 pm
Beckman Institute auditorium

Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering

The Right Kind of Crazy: Risk, Reason, and the Physics of Landing
Adam D. Steltzner, Manager of the Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing and the Small Body Access Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Friday, April 19, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Modeling the Biomechanics of Human Cornea
Anna Pandolfi, Associate Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Friday, April 26, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Deformation and Failure Under Extreme Conditions Enabled by Pulsed Laser Loading
Marc Meyers, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego
Friday, May 3, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Measurement of Velocity and Concentration in Complex Turbulent Flows
John Eaton, Professor, Center for Turbulence Research, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Friday, May 10, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

CLARK B. MILLIKAN Lecture in Aerospace

Logarithmic scaling in wall-bound turbulent flows
Alexander Smits, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Friday, May 17, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

A Global Analysis of Tonal-Noise Generation on Airfoils
Peter Schmid, LadHyx, Department of Mechanics, Ecole Polytechnique
Friday, May 24, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Is the Sky Falling?
James Cutler, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Friday, May 31, 2013
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall

GALCIT Colloquium

Planar Reflection of Gaseous Detonations
Jason Damazo, PhD Candidate, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology