Winter 2008 Mechanical Engineering
Department Seminar Series

Note: All seminars are from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in 2211 GG Brown, unless otherwise noted.

Date	Speaker	Institution	Seminar Title	Host
Jan 11	Thomas J.R. Hughes	Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas-Austin	Isogeometric Analysis	Krishna Garikipati
Jan 18	Mario Romero-Ortega	Plastic Surgery, Neurology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced Neurointerfacing	John Hart
Feb 1	Y. Lawrence Yao	Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University	Anisotropy and Heterogeneity in Micro-Scale Laser Shock Peening	Elijah Kannatey-Asibu Jr.
Feb 8	Daniel Fletcher	Bioengineering & Biophysics, UC-Berkeley	Reverse Engineering Cell Mechanics	Margaret Wooldridge
Feb 15	Jay Guo	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan	Nanoimpringint Technology and its Applications	Shorya Awtar
Feb 22	Michael Ortiz	Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology	Nonconvex Plasticity and Microstructure	Vikram Gavini
Mar 7	Hugh Herr	Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Importance of Neuromechanical Limb Models in the Design of Leg Prostheses and Orthoses	Kathleen Sienko
Mar 14	Issac Harari	Tele Aviv University	Direct Computation of Inverse Potential Problems with Interior Data
Mar 28	Ron Hanson	Stanford University	Shock Tube Studies of Ignition Delay Time at Low Temperatures and Tunable Diode Laser Sensors for Combustion and Propulsion
Apr 4	Kevin Craig	Marquette University	Engineering Education for the 21st Century	Shorya Awtar