Presented by Dr. Adam Dempsey, an assistant professor at Marquette University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Prior to joining Marquette, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Caterpillar Inc. and a postdoctoral researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Hongyi Xiao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, will deliver a lecture titled "Deformation of granular matter: emerging dynamics and implications for locomotion." Then, Rohini Bala Chandran, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, will deliver a lecture titled "Hot, Flowing, and Reacting Particles, Oh My!"