Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

Fall 2009 Schedule, Thursdays at 3:00 p.m.

Hodson Hall 210

Seminar Date	Faculty Host	Speaker/Affiliation	Title of Lecture
September 10	Department	Rich Middlestadt, Terry Kellum, Katy Sanderson	Lab Safety Seminar
September 17	Physics & Atronomy and Mechanical Engineering Colloquium	Dr. L. Mahadevan, Harvard University	Geometric mechanics: from the atomic to the tectonic
September 24	Wang	Dr. Laurie Locascio, NIST	Microfluidics as a tool to enable research and discovery in the life sciences
October 1	Wang	Dr. Rai Winslow, JHU	Multi-Scale Modeling of Cardiac Function in Health and Disease
October 8	Herman	Dr. Jack Gosnell, Formula ZERO EC: Zero Energy, Zero Carbon	Energy Independence In Buildings Fighting Global Warming on the World’s Biggest Battlefield
October 15	Okamura	Dr. Dinesh K. Pai, Univ. of British Columbia	Computational Models of Sensorimotor Biomechanical Systems
October 22	Hemker	Dr. Michael Uchic, Air Force Research Laboratory	Evaluating Mechanical Properties at the Micro-scale
October 29	Katz	Dr. Thomas Degnan, ExxonMobil	The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030
November 5	BELL LECTURE	Dr. Zhigang Suo, Harvard University	Soft Active Materials
November 12	Mittal	Dr. James Tangorra, Drexel University
November 19	Cowan	Dr. Andy Ruina,   Cornell University
November 26	*THANKSGIVING BREAK*
December 3	ME	Charles Meneveau, JHU

Please contact Deana Santoni at x6-6451 or dsantoni@jhu.edu to reserve a date for the Fall ‘09 Seminar Series.