2003-04 Mechanical Engineering Department Seminar Series
Winter 2004 Schedule

Date Speaker Institution Seminar Title Host
Jan. 2 N/A
Jan. 9 N/A
Jan. 16 CANCELLED CANCELLED Katsuo Kurabayashi
Jan. 23 Eric Shaqfeh Stanford University
"Progress and Prospects in Understanding Single Molecule Polymer Dynamics"
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David Dowling
Jan. 30 Earl Dowell Duke University
"Nonlinear Dynamics of Fluid-Structure Interaction of Very High Dimensional Systems"
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Bogdan Epureanu
Feb. 6 Masayoshi Tomizuka UC Berkeley
"NSF Dynamic Systems, Modeling, Sensing and Control Program and Some Mechatronics Research at the University of California, Berkeley"
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Anna Stefanapolou
Feb. 13 Rod Ruoff Northwestern
"New Materials and Tools & Methods, for Nanoscale Mechanics"
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Katsuo Kurabayashi
Feb. 20 Ann Marie Sastry
Feb. 27 NO SEMINAR -- SPRING BREAK
Mar. 5 Fred Gouldin Cornell University
"Crossed-Plane Imaging Studies of Premixed Turbulent Combustion"
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Volker Sick
Mar. 12 Thomas Daniel U-Washington
"Mechanics of Molecular Motors: Monte-Carlo Models of  Myosins in Muscle"
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Edgar Meyhöfer
Mar. 19 Paul Blumberg
"How Engineering Science and Simulation Led the Way in Emission Controls"
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Dennis Assanis
Mar. 26 George Lauder Harvard University
"How Fishes Swim:  Experimental Hydrodynamics and the Function of Flexible Propulsors"
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Bill Schultz
Apr. 2 Shekhar Subramoney DuPont Central Research and Development
"Industrial Analytical Science - Analysis of Nanostructures of Relevance to Catalysis in DuPont"
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Suman Das
Apr. 9 NO SEMINAR -- EASTER WEEKEND
Apr. 16 John Dennis Rice University
"Optimization Using Surrogates for Engineering Design"
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Michael Kokkolaras
Apr. 23 NO SEMINAR -- FINALS


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