Fall 2001 Mechanical Engineering
Department Seminar Series

All seminars, unless otherwise noted, will be held in room 2233 GGBrown
starting at 12:30 p.m.

Date
Seminar
Host
Sept. 7 Oded Gottlieb (Technion, Israel)
Nonlinear dynamics and stability of noncontacting microbeams in atomic force microscopy
Noel Perkins
15 John Halloran (U/M Dept. of MSE)
Ceramic Solid Free Form Fabrication for Conventional and "Designed" Materials
Suman Das
21 CJ Kim's talk has been postponed to March 8, 2002 due to the current restrictions on air travel.  Katsuo Kurabayashi
28 Roderic Lakes (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Deformation of negative Poisson's ratio materials and other extreme composites
Alan Wineman
Oct. 5 Robert Krasny (U-M Mathematics Department)
Computation of Vortex Sheet Roll-Up
William Schultz
12 Tresa Pollock (U-M Dept. of MSE)
High Temperature Structural Materials: New Alloys, New Processes
Ellen Arruda
19 Mark Lusk (Col. School of Mines)
Grain Boundary Kinetics of Granular Media
Krishna Garikipati
26 Giorgio Rizzoni (Ohio State)
The evolution of hte modern passenger car Diesel engine, and challenges to its widespread introduction in the North American Market
Loucas Louca
Nov. 2 Ali Nayfeh (VA Polytechnic & State University)
The Engineer Grapples with Nonlinear Phenomena
Noel Perkins
9 Suman Das (U-M Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)
Design of a Multi-Material Deposition System for Laser-Based Solid Freeform Fabrication of Heterogeneous Mutifunctional Objects
N/A
16 No Seminar (ASME/IMECE)

 
23 No Seminar (Thanksgiving Holiday)

 
30 Ed Colgate (Northwestern University)
Cobot Design and Control
Brent Gillespie
Dec. 7 Lorna Gibson (MIT)
TBA
Abstract
Michael Thouless