Seminar Schedule, Spring 2015

1/28/2015 Katrina Hagler, Assistant Director of Graduate Recruiting and Admissions

Written by Katrina Hagler, Assistant Director of Graduate Recruiting and Admissions

MechSE Seminar Series Spring 2015

Tuesday, February 3
Professor Derk Joester

Northwestern University
“Interfaces and Interphases in Biomineralization”
Host: Professor Sascha Hilgenfeldt

Tuesday, February 10
Professor Robert Pitz

Vanderbilt University
“Cellular Tubular Flames: A Model of Preferential Diffusion and Extinction in H2 Fueled Laminar and Turbulent Flames”
Hosts: Professors Moshe Matalon and Nenad Miljikovic

Tuesday, February 17
Professor Kripa Varanasi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Interfacial Engineering for Efficiency Enhancements in Energy-Water-Food”
Hosts: Professors Nenad Miljikovic and Anthony Jacobi

Tuesday, February 24
Dr. Pedro Jordan

Naval Research Laboratory
Stennis Space Center
“Beyond Euler and Navier-Stokes: New Theories of Compressible Flow”
Host: Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

Tuesday, March 3
Professor Michael Aziz

Harvard University
“Organic aqueous flow batteries for massive electrical energy storage”
Host: Professor Kyle Smith

Tuesday, March 10
Professor Robert Carpick
Midwest Mechanics Seminar

University of Pennsylvania
“Friction and wear: New insights from atomic-scale measurements”
Host: Professor Alison Dunn

Thursday, March 19
Professor Gerald Fuller
Arthur Newell Talbot Distinguished Lecture

Stanford University
“The Dynamics of Two Biological Interfaces”
Hosts: Professors Randy Ewoldt and Alison Dunn
NCSA Auditorium (4:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, March 31
Professor Peter Schmid
Midwest Mechanics Seminar

Imperial University, UK
TBA
Host: Professor Matthew West

Tuesday, April 7
Professor Roderic Lakes

University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Extreme physical properties in heterogeneous materials”
Hosts: Professors Sameh Tawfick and Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

Tuesday, April 14
Professor Chang-Jin Kim

University of California, Los Angeles
TBA
Hosts: Professors Seok Kim and William King

Tuesday, April 21
Professor Melissa Grunlan

Texas A&M
“PEO-Silane Amphiphiles to Decrease Biofouling on Silicones”
Hosts: Professors Shelby Hutchens and Iwona Jasiuk

Tuesday, April 28
Professor Charles Meneveau
Midwest Mechanics Seminar

Johns Hopkins University
“Turbulence in wind farm boundary layers”
Host: Professor Jonathan Freund

Tuesday, May 5
Professor Heidi Nepf

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Vegetation Hydrodynamics at Two Scales”
Host: Professor Leo Chamorro

 

 All seminars are at 3:00 p.m. in 190 Engineering Sciences Building, unless otherwise stated. Times, dates and titles are subject to change. Check mechanical.illinois.edu for updated information. Seminars on this list count toward the requirements for ME 590 and TAM 500.


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This story was published January 28, 2015.