Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Series
2008 Spring Schedule, Thursdays at
3:00 p.m.
210 Hodson Hall
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Seminar Date |
Faculty Host |
Speaker/Affiliation |
Title |
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February 7 |
Sun |
Dr. William Klug UCLA |
Modeling the Mechanics of
Viral Capsids |
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February 14 |
Ramesh |
Dr. Susan Trolier-McKinstry |
PIEZOELECTRIC FILMS in MEMS |
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February 21 |
Knio |
Dr. Rupert Klein FU Berlin |
Asymptotics and Numerics
of Sound-proof Models for Atmospheric
Flows |
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February 28 |
Okamura |
Dr. Reza Ghodssi |
Toward Self-Sustaining Integrated Microsystems
for Chemical and Biological Detection |
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March 6 |
Su |
Dr. Michael Webber |
A Critical Look at Green Transportation |
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March 13 |
Pi Tau Sigma Seminar
(Cowan) |
Dr. Sunil Agrawal |
Robotics for Neuro-motor Training - Exoskeletons
for Gait Rehabilitation and Powered Mobility for 4-8 month Old Infants |
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March 20 |
Spring break |
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March 27 |
Christie Lecture |
Dr. Matt Mason Carnegie Mellon |
Exploring Manipulation |
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April 3 |
Cowan |
Dr. Michael Reiser,
Janelia HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus |
Reverse-engineering the Fruit Fly’s Visual Flight
Control System |
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April 10 |
Hemker |
Dr. Rajat Mittal |
High-Fidelity Computational Modeling of
Moving-Boundary and Fluid-Structure Interaction
Problems in Biological Flows |
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April 17 |
Billig-Croft Lecture |
Dr. Michael Griffin Administrator of NASA |
This is Rocket Science |
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April 24 |
Nguyen |
Dr. Brad Boyce Sandia National
Laboratories |
Suppressing Fatigue Failure in Structural Metals
through Stable Nanodomains |
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May 1 |
Nguyen |
Dr. Harry Quigley |
Solving the Biomechanics of Glaucoma |