Seminars 2010-2011

The Mechanical Engineering Department hosts a variety seminars throughout the year. They cover a broad range of topics and bring together highly regarded faculty from many disciplines. See below for the current list for the 2009-2010 school year. Unless otherwise noted, all seminars take place Fridays at 11 am in room 245 at 110 Cummington Street.

2010-2011 Schedule

Date	Seminar
May 13	Tyrone Porter Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Acoustic stimulation of colloids for diagnostic and therapeutic applications
April 29	Katherine Zhang Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University The Importance of Elastin to the Mechanics of Artery
April 22	Sean Andersson Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Studying dynamics in nanometer-scale systems through tracking
April 21	Michael Chertkov Los Alamos National Laboratories Intermittency in fluid flow and power flows
April 15	Harold Park Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Atomistic and multiscale modeling of mechanical and electromechanical phenomena in crystalline nanostructures
April 8	John Cohn IBM Kids today, engineers tomorrow? : Inspiring the next generation to build a smarter planet
April 4	Daniel Attinger Columbia University Multiscale engineering of solid-liquid interfaces
March 31	Emily Ryan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sustainable energy, fueling the future: Numerical modeling of reactive transport in energy systems
March 28	M.-Reza Alam MIT Bragg resonance of water waves and ocean renewable energy
March 22* (Tuesday)	Yonggang Huang Northwestern University Mechanics of stretchable electronics
March 21	Chuanhua Duan Berkeley Enhanced ion transport in nanoscale
March 11	Nader Motee California Institute of Technology Structural properties of spatially distributed dynamical systems
March 7	Yun Young Kim Northwestern University Ordered self-assembly of nanopatterns on thin-films
March 4	Mac Schwager University of Pennsylvania Multi-robot systems for monitoring and controlling large scale systems
February 25	Fumin Zhang Georgia Institute of Technology Bio-inspired exploration and marine autonomy
February 18	Ketan Savla Massachusetts Institute of Technology Control policies for dynamical queues and flow networks
February 11	Karen A. Thole Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, Penn State Evolution of turbine vane endwalls
February 10	Meredith Silberstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology Micromechanics of polymer electrolyte membranes in low temperature fuel cells
February 4	Ken Visser Clarkson The DAWT: A Niche wind turbine or just another passing fancy
February 3	Liangbing Hu Stanford University On the hierarchical structure of turbulent wall-flows
January 31	Austin Minnich Massachusetts Institute of Technology On the hierarchical structure of turbulent wall-flows
January 28	Ufuk Topcu California Institute of Technology Building robust and sustainable systems: Synthesis of embedded control protocols
January 21	Clifford Goudey Resolute Marine Fusion of fisheries,aquaculture, and ocean-based renewable energy
December 10	Joseph Klewicki University of New Hampshire, Mechanical Engineering Department On the hierarchical structure of turbulent wall-flows
December 3	Andrew Norris, Felsen Lecture Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University Cloaking of acoustic and elastic waves
November 19	Cara Lewis College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, Boston University Using a robotic hip exoskeleton for gait modification
November 12	Dan Cole Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Electromechanical bending of carbon nanotube fabric for logic and memory applications
November 5	Glynn Holt Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Laser-nucleated, shock-controlled bubble cloud dynamics in a high-pressure spherical resonator
October 29	Katepalli R. Sreenivasan Department of Physics, New York University Some cool stuff at cold temperatures
October 22	Melik Demirel Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State Bio-inspired nano-coatings for medical and renewable energy applications
October 15	Uriel Frisch The National Center For Scientific Research (CNRS), France The extended self-similarity procedure for turbulence and its potential applications
October 8	Mark L. Kachanov Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University Micromechanics of heterogeneous materials and the interconnections between their material properties
September 24	J. Gregory McDaniel Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Biologically inspired sensing in acoustics and vibrations
September 17	Xin Zhang Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Spying on cells: polymeric micro/nanosystem for cellular force measurements
September 10	Calin Belta Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Formal approaches to motion planning and control
September 3	ME Faculty Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University Sampled snapshots of research at the Department of Mechanical Engineering