Fall 2003 Mechanical Engineering
Department Seminar Series

Date Speaker Institution Seminar Title Host
Sept. 12 Aleksey Drozdov West Virginia U
"Finite Viscoplasticity of Semicrystalline Polymers and Hybrid Nanocomposites"
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 		Alan Wineman
Sept. 19 David Rosen Georgia Tech
"The Rapid Tooling Testbed: A Distributed Design-For-Manufacturing System"
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 Suman Das
Sept. 26 Jennifer Lewis U-Illinois
"Colloidal Assembly of Periodic Structures"
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Margaret Woolridge
Oct. 3 Michael Cima MIT
"Drug delivery:  A New Role for Implantable Electronics"
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 Suman Das
Oct. 10 Dave Barnett Stanford
"Non-Radiating Supersonic Dislocations"
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 Ann Marie Sastry
Oct. 17 Mark Grosenbaugh Woods Hole
"Vortex Ring Formation in the Presence of Background Flow with Implications for Squid Propulsion"

Noel Perkins
Oct. 24 Greg Jackson U-Maryland
"From Nanoparticle to Power Plant: Models of Heterogeneous Catalysis for Combustion and Hydrogen Production"
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 Hong Im
Oct. 31 Martin L. Culpepper MIT
"Design of Compliant Mechanisms and Fixtures for Nanometer-level Positioning"
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 Sridhar Kota
Nov. 7 Kal Seshadri UCSD
"Structure and Extinction of Partially Premixed Flames"
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Arvind Atreya
Nov. 14 IMECE    
Nov. 21 IMECE    
Nov. 28 Thanksgiving Break    
Dec. 5 Byron Pipes U-Akron   Ann Marie Sastry