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Thursday, January 17, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Estimating the Overall Response of Nonlinear Composites via Iterated Microgeometries
Martin Idiart, Professor, Department of Aeronautics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Thursday, January 24, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Locomotion of Microorganisms in Complex Fluids
Roberto Zenit, Professor, Departmento de Mecánica de Materiales y Reologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Thursday, January 31, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

On Measuring the Dynamic Response of Soft Materials
Rodney Clifton, Professor, Engineering, Brown University
Thursday, February 7, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Soft Particle Suspensions Near Jamming: Stresses, Moduli, Diffusion, and Rheology
Craig Maloney, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, February 14, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Highly Turbulent Flames: Another Variation on the Counterflow Theme
Alessandro Gomez, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University
Thursday, February 21, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Engineering Infrastructure Efficiency
Eleni Chatzi, Institut fur Baustatik and Konstruktion
Thursday, February 28, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Stability and Bifurcation in a Simple Model for Shape Changes in Discoidal High-Density Lipoproteins
Eliot Fried, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
Thursday, March 7, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Novel Means for Localization and Identification of Remote Acoustic Sources
David Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Thursday, March 14, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Nanoengineered Surfaces for Efficiency Enhancements in Energy and Water
Kripa Varanasi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, April 4, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Uncertainty Propagation in Structural Dynamics: Physics Based Methods
Sondipon Adhikari, Professor, College of Engineering, Swansea University
Monday, April 8, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Early Warning, Aftershock Reliability, and Life Cycle of Degrading Structures: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering at Three Scales
Iunio Iervolino, Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Strutture per l’Ingegneria e l’Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
10:00 am
206 Thomas

Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

High-Frequency Deterministic Earthquake Simulation: Recent Efforts, Present Challenges, and Future Opportunities
Ricardo Taborda , Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Monday, April 15, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Earthquake Engineering Systems: Where it all Begins
Ting Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Thursday, April 18, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Nitinol: from Magic to Saving Lives
Tom Duerig, Nitinol Devices and Components, Inc.
Monday, April 22, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Characterization of Ground Motions for Assessing Seismic Risk to Infrastructure
Jack Baker, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Monday, April 29, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Integrating Nonlinear Site Effects in Broadband Ground Motion­­­ Simulations
Dominiki Asimaki, Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thursday, May 2, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

A Wireless Cyber-Physical System Framework for Enhancing the Resiliency of Civil Infrastructure Systems
Jerry Lynch, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Michigan
Thursday, May 9, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition Experiments in a Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel
Jerrod Hofferth, Aerospace Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
Thursday, May 16, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Progress and Challenges in Liquid Rocket Combustion Stability
Venke Sankaran, Senior Scientist/ST, AFRL/RQ, Edwards AFB
Thursday, May 23, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Thermal Transport in Nanostructured Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion
Jonathan Malen, Assitant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, May 30, 2013
11:00 am
206 Thomas

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Soft Computing Applications in Simulation-Based Analysis/Optimization of Engineering Systems under Uncertainty
Alexandros Taflanidis, Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame