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 |