Fall 2004 Mechanical Engineering
Department Seminar Series

Date Speaker Institution Seminar Title Host
Sept. 24 John Daily University of Colorado at Boulder
"Bunsen, Armstrong, Air Pollution, Trees and Airplanes"
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 		Volker Sick
Oct. 1 Howard Baum National Institute of Standards and Technology
"A Simple Model of the World Trade Center Fireball Dynamics"
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 		Arvind Atreya
Oct. 8 Professor Mont Hubbard UC-Davis
"Mechanics of Ball Sports"
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 		Noel Perkins & Art Kuo
Oct. 15 Rob Ritchie UC-Berkeley
Mechanistic Aspects of Fatigue and Fracture in "NANO" and "BIO" Materials"
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 		Ann Marie Sastry
Oct. 22 Professor Gang Chen Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion"
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 		Kevin Pipe
Oct. 29 Professor Todd Thorsen Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Addressing Biocomplexity Through Microfluidics: From System Biology to Biological Systems"
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 		Charlie Hasselbrink
Nov. 5 Professor Arvind Atreya University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering
"Radiative Homogeneous Combustion for Improved Efficiency and Reduced Emissions"
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Nov. 12 No Seminar
Nov. 19 No Seminar
Nov. 26 No Seminar
Dec. 3 Professor Karthik Ramani Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering
"At the Heart of it All New Ideas - New Technologies - New Markets - New Research"
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 		Jun Ni
Dec. 10 Michael P. Paidoussis McGill University
"Some Unresolved Issues in Fluid-Structure Interactions"
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 		Bogdan Epureanu
Dec. 17 No Seminar
Dec. 24 No Seminar