Winter 2003 Mechanical Engineering
Department Seminar Series

Date
Seminar
Host
Jan.17 Howie Choset (Carnegie Mellon University)
Robots that Search, Climb and Cover: Coverage and Serpentine Robot Tasks
Jonathan Luntz
21 Leslie Phinney (UIUC)
Processing and characterization challenges for Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
Massoud Kaviany
24 Larry Leifer (Stanford University)
Design-X Accelerating Design Innovation as Pre-requisite for Competency in Bio, Nano, Environmental, and Energy Technology
Deba Dutta
31 Hami Kazerooni (UC Berkeley)
Berkeley Exoskeleton Project
Sridhar Kota
Feb.7 Charles Meneveau (Johns Hopkins University)
Scale-invariance Based Models for Large-eddy Simulation of Turbulent Premixed Combustion
David Dowling
14 Robert Cook (University of Minnesota)
Time-Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Materials at Small Length Scales
 
Michael Thouless
 
21 Walter Silva (NASA)
Development of Reduced-Order Models for Aeroelastic Analysis and Flutter Prediction Using the CFL3Dv6.0 Code
Bogdan Epureanu
28 No Seminar (Spring Break)
 
 
 
Mar. 7 Henry Greenside (Duke University)
Existence and Properties of Spatiotemporal Chaos in a Two-Dimensional Excitable Medium
Bogdan Epureanu
14 Joost Vlassak (Harvard University)
A Contract-mechanics Based Model for Chemical-mechanical Polishing
Wei Lu
21 Ted Belytschko (Northwestern University)
Arbitrary Discontinuities and Level Sets in Finite Elements Methods
Krishna Garikipati
28 Mort Gurtin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Plasticity of Single-crystals at the Micron Level: A Gradient Theory that Accounts for Geometrically Necessary Dislocations
 
Krishna Garikipati
Apr.4 No Seminar

11 Kwang-Chun Park (University of Colorado)
Multi-Physics Modeling of Anchor Loss of MEMS Resonators
Gregory Hulbert