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Fall 2008 Seminars

Seminar Date Seminar Details
September 3
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Susan Daniel (Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University)
Title: The Motion of Liquid Drops on Surfaces Under the Influence of Vibration

Host: Herbert Hui
September 4
4:00 PM
205 Thurston Hall
SPECIAL SEMINAR - Ryan S. Elliott (Department of Aerospace and Mechinical Engineering-University of Minnesota)
Title: Atomistic Modeling of Martensitic Transformation on Shape Memory Alloys: Theoretical and Computational Techniques

Host: Tim Healey
September 10
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Spandan Maiti (Department of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University)
Title: Materials Design Principles for Toughness and Strength: Lessons from Biological Threads

Host: Subrata Mukherjee
September 17
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
James T. Jenkins (Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University)
Title: Wind-Blown Sand

Host: Herbert Hui
September 24
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Assad Oberai (Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Title: Biomechanical Imaging
Host: Wilkins Aquino
October 1
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Gang Bao (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Technical Institute)
Title: TBA

Host: Herbert Hui
October 8
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
John W. M. Bush (Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title: TBA

Host: Steve Strogatz
October 15
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Martin Z. Bazant (Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title: TBA

Host: Jane Wang
October 22
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Prashant Mehta (Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign)
Title: TBA

Host: Tim Healey
October 29
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Ralph D. Lorenz (Space Department, Applied Physics Lab., Johns Hopkins University)
Title: TBA

Host: Joe Burns
November 5
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Noah J. Cowan (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University)
Title: Computing the Shape of a Pair of Concentric, Pre-curved, Super-elastic Tubes: A Coordinate-Free Energy Formulation

Host: Andy Ruina
November 12
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Nimisha Srivastava (Biosystems Research, Sandia National Laboratories)
Title: TBA

Host: Sachin Goyal
November 19
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis (School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University)
Title: TBA

Host: Herbert Hui
December 3
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Mark Campbell (Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University)
Title: TBA

Host: Andy Ruina