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Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Fall 2023

Fridays -- 10:30-11:45am -- Classroom Office Building 1 - room 110

Date

Speaker's Name

Organization

Seminar Title/Topic

Aug 25

None

None

Introductory meeting

Sep 1

Cristina Riso

Georgia Tech

Predicting and Constraining Aeroelastic Limit-Cycle Oscillations

Sep 8

Natascha Trellinger Buswell

UC Irvine

The who, what, and how of equitable and inclusive engineering classrooms

Sep 15

Alper Erturk

Georgia Tech

Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena: from energy harvesting and bioinspiration to metamaterials and ultrasound delivery

Sep 22

Mesbah Uddin

Univ. N. Carolina at Charlotte

Insight into the Aerodynamics of NASCAR Racers

Sep 29

Postdoc panel

UCM

Panel discussion about postdoc as a career step

Oct 6

James Palko

UC Merced

How porous media enables performance of many engineered systems

Oct 13

James Gibert

Purdue University

Mechanical Metamaterials Seeking Synergy Dynamic Performance and Sensing through Configuration, Composition and Programmability

Oct 20

Alina Alexeenko

Purdue University

Nonequilibrium Flows & Future of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Oct 27

Borys Drach

NMSU

Additive Manufacturing and Biomechanics Research and Outreach Activities at the NMSU CEMMS Lab

Nov 3

Turgut Gür

Stanford Univ.
(ECS President)

High Temperature Ceramic Fuel Cells for Zero-Carbon Power Generation

Nov 10

Veterans Day Holiday

   

Nov 17

Andres F. Arrieta Diaz

Purdue University

The mechanics and applications of hierarchically multistable metastructures: from shape adaptation to information processing

Nov 24

Thanksgiving Holiday

   

Dec 1

Douglas Cook

BYU

Adventures in Multidisciplinary Engineering

Dec 8

TBD

TBD

TBD

 

 

 

 

Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Spring 2022

January 31st (Monday)

Speaker: Dr. Basilio Lenzo (University of Padua)

Title: Torque Vectoring for Electric Vehicles

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82336999611?pwd=cWdXN3pyblRkVWNOcUJTL1V4QXBXd...

Flyer PDF: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Basilio Lenzo)

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Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Fall 2022

 

 

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Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Fall 2021

Seminars take place from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Fridays through zoom.

 

August 27th (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Ning Ye (Western Digital)

Title: Challenges in Mechanical-Thermal Design of Flash Products

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/81567405327

Flyer PDF:

Seminar Flyer (Dr. Ning Ye)

Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Ning Ye)

 

September 3rd (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Maria Thomsen (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

Title: Buoyancy Effects on Material Flammability

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82516784524

Flyer PDF:

Seminar Flyer (Dr. Maria Thomsen)

 

September 8th (Wednesday)

Speaker: (Bilkent University)

Title: Modeling cyber-physical human systems via an interplay between reinforcement learning and game theory

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/88100883795

PDF of Flyers:

Seminar Flyer (Dr. Yildiray Yildiz)

Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Yildiray Yildiz)

 

September 10th (Friday)

Speaker: Jonathan D. Posner (University of Washington)

Title: Human-centered design of a clean, natural draft, cookstove for East Africa

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/83398703496

PDF of Flyer:

Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jonathan D. Posner)

Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jonathan D. Posner)

 

September 17th (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Jun Xu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Title: Multiphysics behaviors of battery safety issues

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/81815102478

PDF of Flyers:

Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jun Xu)

Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jun Xu)

 

September 24th (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Jnaneshwar Das (Arizona State University)

Title: Leveraging Robotics and AI for 4D Assessment of Plant and Soil Health

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/86829469944

PDF of Flyers:

Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jnaneshwar Das)

Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jnaneshwar Das)

 

October 1st (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Jekan Thanga (The University of Arizona)

Title: Advancing Swarms Systems for Mitigating Natural Disasters

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/83046953084

PDF of Flyers:

Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jekan Thanga)

Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jekan Thanga)

 

October 8th (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Wenbing Yun (Sigray, Inc.)

Title: Holistically Optimized Laboratory XAS Systems

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82563852897

PDF of Flyers: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Wenbing Yun)

 

October 15th (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Jinkyu Yang (University of Washignton) 

Title: Origami and Topology: Two Powerful Ingredients for Designing Mechanical Metamaterials

Location: CLSSRM 110

PDF of Flyers:

Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jinkyu Yang)

Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jinkyu Yang)

 

October 22nd (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Xianglan Bai (Iowa State University)

Title:  Value-added Productions from Low-cost Sustainable Feedstocks

Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/83885900853

 

October 29th (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. SungWoo Nam (University of California, Irvine)

Title: Mechanically-coupled Properties in Van der Waals Materials

Location: CLSSRM 110

Flyer PDF:

Seminar Flyer (Dr. SungWoo Nam)

 

November 4th (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Lin Fu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Title: Progress on predicting the hypersonic wall-bounded turbulence

Zoom link: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/88444729017

Flyer PDF: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Lin Fu)

 

November 10th (Wednesday)

Speaker: Dr. Harry E. Martz, Jr.  (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Title: Overview of and Research at LLNL’s Nondestructive Characterization Institute

Zoom link: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/88444729017

Flyer PDF: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Harry Martz)

 

November 12th (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Po-Ya Abel Chuang (University of California, Merced)

Title: Electrocatalytic Materials and Design: towards Hydrogen Energy Sustainability

Location: CLSSRM 110

Flyer PDF: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Abel Chuang)

 

November 19th 

Speaker: Dr. Paulo Tabuada  (University of California, Los Angeles)

Title: Deep Neural Networks, Universal Approximation, and Geometric Control

Zoom link: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82988326624

Flyer PDF: ME Seminar Flyer (Dr. Paulo Tabuada)

 

December 3rd

Speaker: Dr. Bihter Padak  (University of California, Irvine)

Title: Chemical Looping Combustion for Carbon Capture

Zoom link: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82472487088

Seminar Flyer PDF: ME Seminar Flyer (Dr. Bihter Padak)

Coffee Hour Flyer PDF: Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Bihter Padak)

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Fall 2020

August. 28 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Bruce J. West, CCDC Army Research Laboratory

Title: Complexity and the Dunbar Hypothesis

 

Sep. 4 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. John Dr. Bolten, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Title: Mapping the Blue Marble: Using Space-Based Observations for Improved Global Water Security and Sustainability.

 

Sep. 11 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Amartya Banerjee (UCLA)

Title: Symmetry, Deformations and the Search for Unprecedented Materials from First Principles

 

Sep. 18 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Steven L. Brunton (University of Washington) 

Title: Data-Driven Discovery and Control of Complex Systems: Uncovering Interpretable and Generalizable Nonlinear Models

 

Sep. 25 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Alison Dunn (UIUC)

Title: TBA

 

Oct. 2 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Shelly Miller (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Title: TBA

 

Oct. 9 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Eva Gabriela Baylon (UTSW)

Title: TBA

 

Oct. 16 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Derya Baran (KAUST)

Title: TBA

 

Oct. 23 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Kenric Nelson 

Title: TBA

 

Oct. 30 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Jon Klassen (San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District)

Title: TBA

 

Nov. 6 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Yat Li (UCSC)

Title: TBA

 

Nov. 13 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Mehmet Baykara (UCM)

Title: TBA

 

Nov. 20 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Gazanfer Ünal (Bahcesehi University) 

Title: TBA

 

Dec. 4 (Friday)

Speaker: Claudia Cháves Villareal (Tecnológico de Costa Rica)

Title: TBA

 

Dec. 11 (Friday)

Speaker: Christina Davis (UC Davis)

Title: TBA

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Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Fall 2019

Seminars take place from 2:00 to 3:20 p.m. Fridays at CLSSRM 110 unless otherwise noted.

 

August. 30 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Sara Dadras, Ford Motors

Title: Automated Driving Applications

 

Sep. 6 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Matt Wraith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Title: Career Possibilities at LLNL and Metals Additive Manufacturing

 

Sep. 11 (1:30 pm, Wednesday)

Speaker: Prof. Robert Carpick, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Nanoscale Mechanisms Controlling Friction, Adhesion, and Lubrication Using in situ Approaches

 

Sep. 20 (Friday)

Speaker: Prof. Min Hwan Lee, UC Merced

Title: Atomic/Nano-scale Engineering for Fuel Cell Catalysis

 

Sep. 27 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Michael Pettes, Los Alamos National Lab

Title: Strain and Isotopic Effects in Two-Dimensional WSe2

 

Oct. 4 (Friday)

Speaker: Prof. Frank Talke, UC San Diego

Title: Materials, Mechanics, and Design Problems in Medical Device Technology and Information Storage

 

Oct. 11 (Friday)

Speaker: Prof. Om Agrawal, Southern Illinois University

Title: Fractional Derivatives and Their Applications

 

Oct. 18 (Friday)

Speaker: Prof. Yoonjin Won, UC Irvine

Title: Thermal Material Architectures at the Nanoscale

 

Oct. 25 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Michal Bajdich, Stanford Linear Accelerator Lab (SLAC)

Title:  Computational Electrochemistry and Machine Learning for Sustainable Energy

 

Nov. 1 (Friday)

Speaker: Prof. Albert C.J. Luo, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Title: Analytical Periodic Motions to Chaos in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

 

Nov. 8 (Friday)

Speaker: Prof. Xiaochun Li, UCLA

Title: Nanotechnology Enabled Metals Manufacturing

 

Nov. 15 (Friday)

Speaker:  Prof. Prabir Barooah, University of Florida

Title: Capacity of flexible residential loads to provide battery-like services to help mitigate volatility of renewable energy sources

 

Nov. 22 (Friday)

Speaker: Prof. Yongjie Hu, UCLA

Title: 

 

Dec. 6 (Friday)

Speaker: Prof. Bolin Liao, UC Santa Barbara

Title: 

 

Dec. 13 (Friday)

Speaker: Prof. Pang-Chieh Sui, University of Victoria, Canada

Title: 

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Fall 2018

August. 31 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor Barbaros Çetin, Bilkent University

Title: Microfluidic Systems for Bio-particle Manipulation

 

Sep. 7 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor Amir Ghazanfari, San Jose State University

Title: Freeform Fabrication: From Freezing to Firing

 

Sep. 14 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor Guillermo Aguilar, University of California, Riverside

Title: Some of the many things we can do with laser light aimed at biological tissue

 

Sep. 21 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor Chen Li, University of South Carolina

Title: Some Highlights of Research in Microchannel Flow Boiling

 

Sep. 28 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor Timothy Fisher, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Practice Your Scales! Thermal, Energy, and Bio Nanomaterials for Fast Processes

 

Oct. 5 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor Yong Shuai, Harbin Institute of Technology

Title: Simultaneous reconstruction of the 3D temperature field and radiative properties of flame using the light-field imaging technique

 

Oct. 13 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor Zhen Li, Brown University

Title: Theory of Coarse-Graining and Mesoscopic Methods Applied to Multiscale Problems

 

Oct. 19 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Juhao Wu, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Title: Thermal-Mechanical-Optical Effects in Free Electron Laser X-Ray Pulse Interacting with Thin-Layer Crystal

 

Oct. 26 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor David Jassby, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Electrochemistry at the Membrane/Water Interface

 

Nov. 2 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Yeh-Hung Lai, General Motors

Title: Automotive PEM Fuel Cell Technology – an Industrial Research Perspective on the Durability of Proton Exchange Membranes

 

Nov. 9 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor Daniel Cooper, University of Michigan

Title: TBA

 

Nov. 16 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Ali Erdemir, Argonne National Laboratory

Title: Frontiers of Novel Nanomaterials and Coatings for Friction and Wear Control

 

Nov. 30 (Friday)

Speaker: Professor Suneel Kodambaka, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: TBA

 

Dec. 7 (Friday)

Speaker: Dr. Jeff Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Title: TBA

 

 

Fall 2017

Sep. 1 (Fri)

Speaker: Prof. Barbara Linke, UC Davis

Title: Controlling manual grinding operations with applications for food processing equipment

 

Sep. 8 (Fri)

Speaker: Prof. Junmin Wang, Ohio State University

Title: Smart Mobility: Vehicle Energy Efficiency and Driving Safety Enhancements through Intelligence

 

Sep. 15 (Fri)

Speaker: Dr. Myeong-Lok Seol, NASA Ames Research Center

Title: Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Next-Generation Mechanical Energy Harvesting

 

Sep. 22 (Fri)

Speaker: Dr. Xi Wang, UC Berkeley 

Title: Dynamically tunable optical devices 

 

Sep. 29 (Fri)

Speaker: Dr. Danny Perez, Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Lab.

Title: Massively-Parallel Techniques for Atomistic Simulations over Long Timescales 

 

Oct. 6 (Fri)

Speaker: Prof. Dave Auslander, UC Berkeley

Title: Physics (Mechanics) for Engineers: What Century Are We In?  

 

Oct. 13 (Fri)

Speaker: Dr. Shibing Liu, Hyperloop One Co.

Title: Hyperloop One -A New Mode of Transportation 

 

Oct. 20 (Fri)

Speaker: Prof. Gregory Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Stochastic Models in Robotics 

 

Oct. 27 (Fri)

Speaker: Prof. Satish Kandlikar, Rochester Institute of Technology

Title: New understanding of the heat transfer mechanisms during pool and flow boiling and its application in boiling enhancement 

 

Nov. 3 (Fri)

Speaker: Prof. Yuwen Zhang, University of Missouri

Title: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Selective Laser Sintering 

 

Nov. 17 (Fri)

Speaker: Prof. Benedetto Marelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Structural biopolymers – using Nature’s building blocks as an inspiration for advanced manufacturing

 

Nov. 30 (Thur, SE2-224)

Speaker: Prof. Sandip Mazumder, Ohio State University

Title: Size Effects on Thermal Conductivity 

 

Dec. 1 (Fri)

Speaker: Prof. Bill Goodwine, Univerisity of Notre Dame

Title: TBA

 

 

Fall 2016

Dec. 9 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Van P. Carey, UC Berkeley

Title: TBD

 

Nov. 28 (Mon, 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm, SE2-302)
Speaker: Prof. Baowen Li, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: Heat Control by Phononic Thermal Circuits and Thermal Metamaterials

 

Nov. 18 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Wojciech Lipinski, Australian National University, Canberra

Title: Advances in high-temperature solar energy conversion

 

Nov. 10 (Thur, 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm, SE2-302)
Speaker: Prof. Peter Hosemann, UC Berkeley

Title: Small scale mechanical testing evaluating structural materials for nuclear application: Challenge and opportunity

 

Nov. 7 (Mon, 11:00 pm - noon, SE2-220)
Speaker: Harish Charan

Title: An Atomistic study of driven-dissipative strongly coupled dusty plasmas

 

Nov. 4 (Fri)
Speaker: Dr. Ravi Prasher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Title: Science and Engineering of Thermal Energy Materials and Devices: From Solid-State Engines to High-Energy Density Thermal Storage

 

Oct. 27 (Thur; COB 129, 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Dellacorte, NASA Glenn Research Center
Title: NiTi Alloys for Tribological Applications: In Situ Nanotechnology

 

Oct. 21(Fri)
Speaker: Prof. N. Sukumar, University of California, Davis

Title: "Partition of unity finite element method for ab initio electronic-structure calculations"

 

Oct. 14
Speaker: Dr. Adam Weber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Title: TBA

 

Oct. 7
Speaker: Prof. Michael Jenkins, California State University, Fresno

Title: Next generation nuclear power and the need for test standards, design codes, and data bases for ceramic matrix composites

 

Sep. 23
Speaker: Dr. Kan Zha, Sandia National Laboratory

Title: Optical Diagnostics in Direct-Injection, Swirl-Supported Diesel Engines

 

Sep. 16
Speaker: Dr. Fan Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Title: Heat Transfer in Strongly Correlated Metals and Nanomaterials

 

Sep. 9
Speaker: Prof. Igor Podlubny, Tech Univ of Kosice, Slovakia

Title: Fractional-Order Modelling: Advances and Challenges

 

Aug. 26
Speaker: Prof. Shihua Li, Southeast University, China

Title: Theory and Application on Disturbance Observation and Compensation Based Motion Control Method

 

 

Spring 2016

Apr. 22
Speaker: Prof. Roland Winston, University of California, Merced
Title: Concentrating light with strings and flow-lines

 

Apr. 15
Speaker: Prof. Chris Santangelo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Title: The mechanics of origami

 

Mar. 4
Speaker: Prof. David Steigmann, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Coupled-field problems in the mechanics and physics of lipid bilayers

 

 

Spring 2015

Dec. 4

Speaker: Prof. James Chagdes, Miami University

Title: A nonlinear dynamics perspective on maintaining balance under destabilizing effects

 

Nov. 20
Speaker: Prof. Tina Katopodes Chow, University of California Berkeley

Title: High-resolution atmospheric boundary layer simulations for wind energy applications

 

Nov. 13
Speaker: Dr. Neil Benjamin, Lam Research Corporation

Title: Around the world of RF-Plasma generation (in 80 demi-minutes)

 

Nov. 6
(Joint seminar with Applied Math graduate group and will be held in COB 110, 3:30 – 4:30 pm)

Speaker: Dr. Dan White, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Title: Computational Design of Optimization of Electromagnetic Metamaterials

 

Oct. 23
Speaker: Dr. Art Wagner, San Jose State University

Title: Control of moving coil actuators in disk drives: c. 1980 to 2015

 

Oct. 16
Speaker: Dr. Haitao Xiang, The Climate Corporation

Title: Transforming agriculture with data-driven digital tools

 

Oct. 9
Speaker: Dr. Virginia P. Altoe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Title: Sliding wear of a single asperity: AFM/TEM based studies

 

Oct. 2
Speaker: Dr. Scott Wilks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Title: Fast ignition: An alternative route to inertial confinement fusion

 

Sept. 25
Speaker: Prof. Todd Lillian, Texas Tech University

Title: Simulation reveals the dynamics of supercoiled DNA

 

Sept. 18
Speaker: Dr. Shankar Sankararaman, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc.

Title: An Efficient Framework for Uncertainty Quantification and Management in Computational Science and Engineering

 

Sept. 14
(Joint seminar with BEST graduate group and will be held in COB 267, 12:15 – 1:15 pm)

Speaker: Prof. Gregory B. McKenna, Texas Tech University

Title: Nanomechanical Measurements in Polymers: Bubble Inflation and Nanoindentation

 

Sept. 11
Speaker: Dr. Ankur Agarwal, Applied Materials Inc.

Title: Role of Modeling in Developing Plasma Processing Technologies for Semiconductor Industry

 

 

Spring 2014

April 9

Title: "Collaborative Energy Management and Control - An occupant-engaged building control system"

Speaker: Zhen Song, Research Scientist, Siemens Corporate Research

 

 

Fall 2013

Dec. 6

Title: Fractional-Order Models of Anomalous Diffusion: Memory, Non-locality and Entropy

Speaker: Richard L. Magin, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Nov. 22

Title: Finite crystal elasticity of nano and continuum rods

Speaker: Ajeet Kumar, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India

 

Nov. 15

Title: Colloids near Electrodes: Effects of Electrolyte, Transitions in Order, and Bifurcations in Height

Speaker:William D. Ristenpart, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California Davis

 

Nov. 1

Title: Consensus in Networks: Coordination and Control of Cyber Physical Systems from Unmanned Vehicles to Energy Efficient Buildings

Speaker: Kevin L. Moore, Dean, College of Engineering and Computational Sciences, Colorado School of Mines

 

Sept. 27

Title: All-in-One Devices for More than Moore Era

Speaker: Jin-Woo Han, Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center

 

 

Fall 2012

Dec. 7

Title: Heat Transfer in Graphene and Nanocrystalline Materials

Speaker: Chris Dames Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

 

Nov. 16

Title: Nanomechanics of Silica Nanowires via Finite Element Method Simulations

Speaker: Miguel Fernando Diaz Moreno (Advisor: Lilian Davila)

 

Nov. 9

Title: Modeling Thermal Fluctuations of Bio-Filaments with Kirchhoff Rods

Speaker: Nitish Ratan Appanasamy (Advisor: Sachin Goyal)

 

Nov. 2

Title: Oscillations and Internal Hydrodynamic Flows of a Droplet in AC Electrowetting

Speaker: Dr. Zhen Li (Advisor: Yanbao Ma)

 

Oct. 26

Title: Atomic Friction on Graphene

Speaker: Mr. Zhijiang Ye (Advisor: Ashlie Martini)

 

Oct. 19

Title: Modeling and Simulation of Ballistic Heat Transfer

Speaker: Yanbao Ma

 

Oct. 12

Title: Soft Contact Lens Hydrogel Friction and other Challenging Measurements in Experimental Tribology

Speaker: Daniel J. Dickrell III, University of Florida

 

Oct. 5

Title: Investigation on Vortex-Induced Vibration Models and Energy Harnessing Possibilities

Speaker: Yousef Naranjani (Advisor: JQ Sun)

 

Sept. 28

Title: Self-assembly of Carbon Nanotubes, C60 and graphene nanostructures for photovoltaic applications

Speaker: Mr. Chun Tang (Advisor: Ashlie Martini)

 

Sept. 21

Title: Empirical Model Development and Atomistic Simulation of Silver Tantalate as a Solid Lubricant

Speaker: Mr. Hongyu Gao (Advisor: Ashlie Martini)

 

Sept. 14

Title: Optimization of the Fuzzy Controller for an Implantable Insulin Delivery System

Speaker: Mr. Yousef Sardahi (Advisor: JQ Sun)