Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

Winter 2025

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
01/21/2025	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Justin A. Weibel	Purdue University	Strategies for Enhancement of Two-Phase Immersion Cooling for High-Power AI Chips
01/28/2025	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Allison Beese	Penn State University	Additive Manufacturing: Machine Learning, Mechanics, and Metallurgy
03/25/2025	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Lili Cai	UIUC
04/01/2025	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Yogendra Joshi	Georgia Institute of Technology
04/08/2025	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Avneet Hira	Boston College
04/15/2025	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Robert Landers	University of Notre Dame
04/22/2025	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	David Richter	University of Notre Dame

Fall 2024

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
09/03/2024	4:00 PM	2540 GGB	Katsuyo Thornton	University of Michigan	Diffuse Interface Methods for Modeling Materials: Concepts and Applications	View
09/17/2024	4:00 PM	2540 GGB	Jinhui Yan	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	A mixed diffusive-sharp interface approach for multi-physics modeling and its application to metal additive manufacturing	View
09/24/2024	4:00 PM	2540 GGB	Karthik Duraisamy	University of Michign	Predictive Reduced Order Modeling for Multiscale, Multi-physics Flow Problems	View
10/01/2024	3:00 to 4:00	2150 Dow	Special ME and MICDE Seminar Krishnan Mahesh Speaks on "Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Cavitating Flows"	University of Michigan	Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Cavitating Flows
10/08/2024	4:00 PM	2540 GGB	Hanna Budinoff	University of Arizona	Designer-Centered Approaches to Digital Design for Manufacturing and Sustainability	View
10/22/2024	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Xiaoguang Wang	Ohio State University	Applications of Liquid Crystals Beyond Display Technology
11/05/2024	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	John Palmore Jr.	University of Washington	New Strategies and Results for Modeling Droplet-Laden Turbulent Flows	View
11/12/2024	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Yubing Sun	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Engineered Systems for Understanding Tissue Homeostasis and Neurodevelopment
11/19/2024	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	David Sinton	University of Toronto	Electrocatalytic CO2 Capture and Conversion	View
11/26/2024	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Yang Yang	Penn State University	Advanced Electron Microscopy Imaging of Metals under Extreme Environments
12/03/2024	4:00 PM	2540 GGB	Corey O'Hern	Yale University	Predicting the Glass Forming Ability of Binary Alloys	View

Winter 2024

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
01/23/2024	TBA	TBA	Neil Lin	University of California Los Angeles	Epithelial Cell Variability is Governed by Physics Principles and Has Mechanobiology Impacts
01/30/2024	TBA	TBA	Aimy Wissa	Princeton University
02/06/2024	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Matthew Kasemer	University of Alabama	Toward Understanding Mechanical Failure of Irradiated Metals
03/12/2024	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Zhigang Suo	Harvard University	Tanglemer: A Polymer Network in which Entanglements Greatly Outnumber Crosslinks	View
03/26/2024	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Bozhi Tian	University of Chicago	Deformable Composites: from Photostimulation to Living Bioelectronics	View
04/02/2024	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Matthew Daly	University of Illinois - Chicago	Deformation Mechanisms at the Mesoscale: From 2D Materials to High Entropy Alloys	View
04/09/2024	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Khalid Kadir	University of California - Berkeley	Engineering Justice? Rethinking Engineering and Our Positions as Engineers in Efforts to Make the World a Better Place
04/16/2024	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Xiaochun Li	University of California - Los Angeles	Nanotechnology-Enabled Large-Scale Manufacturing of Metals for Complexity and Sustainability	View

Midwest Mechanics Seminar

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
03/18/2024	4:00 PM	TBA	Alison Marsden	Stanford
10/07/2024	3:00 to 4:00	4231 LEC GM Conference Room	Vikram Deshpande	University of Cambridge	A Reassessment of Rubber Elasticity Via Full-Field X-Ray Measurements
10/09/2023	4:00 PM	LEC Johnson rooms	Dan Henningson	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Large Scale Numerical Experiments of Unsteady Aerodynamic Flows and the Role of Laminar-turbulent Transition	View
11/04/2024	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM	4231 LEC GM Conference Room	Michael Shelley	New York University	Modeling Self-Organization in Active Fluids and Materials	View

Fall 2023

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
09/12/2023	3:30 PM	1200 EECS	Peng Chen	Georgia Institute of Technology	Derivative-informed neural operators	View
09/19/2023	3:30 PM	1200 EECS	Marta C. Hatzell	Georgia Institute of Technology	Electrifying the Synthesis of Nitrogen and Carbon-based Fuels and Fertilizers
09/26/2023	3:30 PM	1200 EECS	Astrid Layton	Texas A&M	How Nature’s Systems Can Guide More Resilient and Sustainable Human Network Design	View
10/10/2023	3:30 PM	1200 EECS	Matthew Eisaman	Yale University	Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal via Electrochemical Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement	View
10/24/2023	3:30 PM	1200 EECS	David Dunand	Northwestern	Extrusion 3D-Printing: from Oxide Inks to Metallic Micro-lattices	View
10/31/2023	3:30 PM	1200 EECS	Michael Graham	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Data, Dynamics, and Manifolds: Machine Learning Approaches for Modeling and Controlling Complex Flows	View
11/14/2023	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Kripa Varanasi	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Innovations at Interfaces: Energy & Sustainability to Biomedical Applications	View
11/28/2023	3:30 PM	1200 EECS	Vikas Srivastava	Brown University	Experiments and model for dynamically crosslinked shear rate stiffening soft polymers	View
12/05/2023	3:30 PM	1200 EECS	Jennifer Rieser	Emory University	Impressive Feats without Feet: The Physics of Limbless Movement in Complex Environments

Winter 2023

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
01/17/2023	4:30 PM	2505 GG Brown	Jian Wang	University of Nebraska - Lincoln	Multiscale Understanding of Confined Volume Enabled Unusual Plasticity in Nanocomposites	View
01/18/2023	4:00 PM	1003 EECS	Ke Cheng	UNC- Chapel Hill	Drug Delivery for Heart and Lung Repair	View
01/23/2023	4:30 PM		Midwest Mechanics Jay Humphrey	Yale University	From Mechanics to Modeling Mechanobiological Regulation of Tissue Structure and Function	View
01/24/2023	4:30 PM	2505 GGB	Daniel Cohen	Princeton University	Adventures in Cell Herding: Engineering and Control of Multi-agent Cellular Swarms	View
01/31/2023	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Simon Sponberg	Georgia Tech	Biophysical Transitions and Unified Dynamics of Periodically Driven (synchronous) and Self-excited (asynchronous) Flapping Flight in Insects and Robots	View
02/07/2023	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Dongbin Xiu	The Ohio State	Data Driven Modeling of Unknown Systems with Deep Neural Networks	View
03/21/2023	CANCELED	1200 EECS	Ming-Wei Chen	Johns Hopkins University
03/27/2023	4:00 PM	LEC Johnson Rooms	George Haller Midwest Mechanics Serminar	ETH Zurich	Data-Driven Nonlinear Reduced-Order Modeling for Solid and Fluid Mechanics
03/28/2023	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Minh-Son Pham	Imperial College London	High Performance Architected Materials for Safety Critical Applications
04/04/2023	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Nenad Miljkovic	University of Illnois Urbana-Champaign	Tailoring Surface Chemistry and Surface Roughness toenable the Long-Term Stable Dropwise Condensation ofSteam and Refrigerant Working Fluids	View
04/11/2023	3:00 PM	1200 EECS	Tony Jun Huang	Duke University	Acoustofluidics: Merging Acoustics and Fluid Mechanics for Biomedical Applications	View

Fall 2022

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
09/27/2022	VIRTUAL ONLY	THIS SEMINAR IS AT 3:00 PM	Cetin Yilmaz	Boğaziçi University	Inertial Amplification in Periodic Structures andElastic Metamaterials	View
10/11/2022	4:00 PM	1010 DOW	Louis Cattafesta	Illinois Institute of Technology	Adaptive Separation Control of a Laminar Boundary Layer using Online Dynamic Mode Decomposition	View
10/25/2022	4:00 PM	VIRTUAL SEMINAR ONLY	Tarasankar DebRoy	Penn State	Digital Twins in Additive Manufacturing – concepts, building blocks, and applications	View
11/01/2022	4:00 PM	1010 HH DOW	Jennifer Dunn	Northwestern	Life Cycle Assessment as a Lighthouse: Guidance Towards a Sustainable Harbor and Away From Peril	View
11/08/2022	4:00 PM	VIRTUAL	Pierre Deymier	University of Arizona	Demystifying the Quantum Paradigm using Acoustic Metamaterials- Phi-bits as Quantum Computing Acoustics Analogues	View
11/15/2022	4:00 PM	1010 HH DOW	Paul Plucinsky	University of Southern California	Programming and Predcting the Effective Shapes of Origami and Kirigami Surfaces	View
12/06/2022	4:00 PM	1010 HH DOW	Sushil Bhavnani	Auburn University	Enhancement of Phase-Change Thermal Management of Microelectronics Using Engineered Surface Structures

Winter 2022

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
01/18/2022	4:00 PM	1303 EECS	Joshua S. Heyne	University of Dayton	Sustainable aviation fuel requirements and opportunities	View
01/25/2022	4:00 PM	1303 EECS	Michael Haberman	University of Texas at Austin	Non-Reciprocal Acoustics: Theory and Application to Sound Diffusion	View
02/08/2022	4:00 PM	VIRTUAL	Asegun Henry	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Moving the Needle on Climate Change: New Innovations in High Temperture Systems	View
03/22/2022	4:00 PM	1303 EECS	Srinvias Garimella	Georgia Tech	Practical Pathways to Energy Decarbonization, Frugal Water Use, and Food Preservation	View
03/29/2022	4:00 PM	1303 EECS	Peter Hosemann	University of California Berkeley	From materials selection to deployment and degradation. Synergies and differences between different radiationinduced defects and their meaning for performance	View
04/05/2022	4:00 PM	Virtual Seminar	Evelyn Wang	Massachusetts Institution of Technology	Engineering Advanced Materials for Substainable Energy and Water Devices	View
04/12/2022	4:00 PM	1303 EECS	Joel Bernier	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	In Situ Characterization of Polycrystalline Materials at the Mesoscale.	View
04/19/2022	4:00 PM	1303 EECS	Samuel Graham	University of Maryland	Thermal Management Strategies to Enable Ultrawide Bandgap Electronics	View

Fall 2021

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
09/07/2021		Virtual	Xinghang Zhang	Purdue University	Design of materials with unique mechanical behavior and radiation reponses by tailoring nanoscal defects	View
09/21/2021		3150 HH DOW	Rui Ni	Johns Hopkins	Fragmentation in turbulence by small eddies	View
09/28/2021			Matthias Chung	Virginia Tech	Modern Challenges in Inverse Problems	View
10/04/2021		3150 HH Dow	Michael Filler	Georgia Tech	Nano-modular Processing of Electronics	View
10/26/2021	4:00 PM	3150 HH Dow	Adam Weber	Lawrence Berkeley National Lab	Importance of Transport in Electrochemical Energy-Conversion Technologies	View
11/02/2021	4:00 PM	3150 HH DOW	David Hu	Georgia Tech	Fire ant rafts, cubic poop, and the Ig Nobel Prize
11/09/2021	4:00 PM	3150 HH Dow	Ibo Matthews	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Enhancing Process Control in Metal 3D Printing	View
11/16/2021		3150 HH DOW	Hanumant Singh	Northeastern University	Recent Advances in High Resolution Imaging and Mapping for Marine Robotics Applications	View
12/07/2021	4:00 PM	3150 HH DOW	Adriana San Miguel	North Carolina State University	Integrating Microfluidics and Computer Vision for High-content Analysis of Aging	View

Winter 2021

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
01/19/2021			Anthony Rollett	Carnegie Mellon University	3D Printing, Synchrotron X-Ray Experiments and Machine Learning	View
01/26/2021			Timothy S. Fischer	UCLA	Thermal and Energy Storage Nanomaterials for Fast Processes	View
02/02/2021			Lena Ting	Emory University	What does a muscle sense? Multiscale interactions governing muscle spindle sensory signals	View
02/09/2021			Celia Reina	University of Pennsylvania	Continuum mechanics of non-equilibrium phenomena: a journey through space and time scales
03/23/2021			Rick Neptune	University of Texas at Austin	Biomechanical Analyses of Human Movement Aimed at Improving Rehabilitation Outcomes	View
03/30/2021			Mehran Tehrani	University of Texas - Austin	Additively Manufactured Polymer Composites: Mechanics, Materials Science, and Manufacturing	View
04/13/2021			Mahmoud Hussein	University of Colorado	Metadamping in elastic metamaterials: Dissipation engineering by intrinsic resonances	View

Fall 2020

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
09/08/2020			Michael Posa	University of Pennsylvania	Bilevel optimization for control, learning, and multi-contact robotics	View
09/15/2020			Evros Loukaides	University of Bath	Forming and Morphing Without Waste	View
09/29/2020	2:00 PM		Sophia Haussener	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Modelling, experimentation and scaling of photo-electrochemical fuel processing devices	View
10/06/2020			Kelsey Hatzell	Vanderbilt University	Engineering Interfaces and Interphases for All Solid State Batteries	View
10/13/2020			Jake Socha	Virginia Tech	How flying snakes glide: turning the body into a wiggling wing	View
10/27/2020			Ian Wong	Brown University	Beyond 2D: Self-Organizing Patterns in Nanomaterials and Cancer	View
11/03/2020			Katia Bertoldi	Harvard University	Multistable structures - from energy trapping to morphing	View
11/10/2020			Peter Schmid	Imperial College London	Synchronization effects in n-periodic fluid systems	View
11/17/2020			Janine Mauzeroll	McGill University	"The Wonderful World of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM)"	View
12/01/2020	2:00 PM		Carlotta Mummolo	New Jersey Institute of Technology	State-Space Characterization of Balance Capabilities in Biped Systems	View
12/08/2020			Charles Meneveau	Johns Hopkins University		View

Winter 2020

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
01/14/2020		TBA	Martin Z. Bazant	MIT	Control of Interfacial Stability in Electrochemical Systems
01/21/2020		EECS 1500	Matthew McDowell	Georgia Institute of Technology	In Situ Investigation of Chemo-Mechanical Phenomena in Batteries
01/28/2020		EECS 1500	Eric R. Masanet	UCSB	Industrial decarbonization and the role of emerging technologies
02/18/2020		EECS 1500	Prabhakar Bandaru	UCSD	Thermal metamaterials – for efficient directing, harvesting, and dissipation of heat
04/07/2020		CANCELLED	Jake Socha	Virginia Tech
04/14/2020		CANCELLED	Lynden Archer	Cornell University
04/21/2020		CANCELLED	Katia Bertoldi	Harvard University

Fall 2019

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
10/22/2019		2147 GGB	Paul Korinko	Savannah River National Laboratory	An Introduction to Metals Additive Manufacturing
10/29/2019		2147 GGB	Sherry Xain Chen	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Mesomechanics experimental mechanics: dual beam-shear differential interference contrast microscopy
11/05/2019		2147 GGB	Michael D. Sangid	Purdue	Coupling microstructure-sensitive modeling and in situ experiments to understand and predict fatigue behavior: Towards the rapid qualification of additive manufactured materials
12/03/2019		2147 GGB	Stefano Gonella	University of Minnesota	Topology Meet Phononics Wave Manipulation on Edges and Interfaces
12/10/2019	2147 GG B	2147 GGB	Jianxun Wang	Notre Dame	Data-driven forward and inverse modeling of fluid dynamics with "small data"

Winter 2019

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
01/15/2019	4:00 - 5:00 PM	2540 GGB	Robert McCormick	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Development of Sustainable Fuels for High-Efficiency Spark-Ignition and Mixing-Controlled Compression-Ignition Engines: Storage Stability and Effects of Fuel Properties on Engine Performance and Emissions
01/22/2019	10:00 AM	Johnson Rooms, LEC	Neville Hogan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	How do we do it? The puzzle of human performance
01/29/2019	4:00 - 5:00 PM	DOW 1017	L.S. Fan	The Ohio State University	Chemical Looping Combustion, Gasification and Reforming Technology and CO2 Capture
03/26/2019	4:00 - 5:00 PM	EECS 1500	Pradeep Sharma	University of Houston	Flexoelectricity and Electrets
04/02/2019	4:00 - 5:00 PM	EECS 1500	Kejie Zhao	Purdue University	Bridging mechanics and electrochemistry: Experiments and modeling on battery materials
04/16/2019	4:00 - 5:00 PM	EECS 1500	Elsa Olivetti	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Linking Materials Synthesis to Manufacturing Scalability
04/23/2019	4:00 - 5:00 PM	EECS 1500	Christine Hrenya	University of Colorado	Attractive couples break up unexpectedly

Fall 2018

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
10/02/2018	3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	2153 GGB	Amos Winter	MIT	Coupling Insights into Emerging Markets with Engineering Science to Create High-Performance Low-Cost, Global Technologies
10/17/2018	10:30 - 11:30 am	2000A Phoenix Memorial Lab	Satish Kumar	Georgia Tech	Electro-Thermal Transport in Electronics Materials and Their Devices
10/19/2018	10:00 - 11:00 am	1680 IOE	Haoxiang Luo	Vanderbilt University	Computational Fluid-structure Interaction for Biological and Biomedical Applications
10/23/2018	3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	2153 GGB	Craig Arnold	Princeton University	Piezoelectrochemistry in Li-ion Batteries: Coupling Mechanics and Electrochemistry
11/06/2018	3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	2153 GGB	Greg Jackson	Colorado School of Mines	Reactive and Inert Oxide Particles for Capturing and Storing Solar Energy
11/13/2018	3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	2153 GGB	Tim Colonius	Cal Tech	Flutter Instabilities with Application to Energy Harvesting
11/27/2018	3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	2153 GGB	Eduardo J. Izquierdo	Indiana Unversity	Towards a Brain-Body-Environment Computational Model of a Living Organism
12/04/2018	3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	2153 GGB	Glenn Daehn	The Ohio State University	Impulse Welding and Manufacturing: Methods and Opportunities
12/11/2018	3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	2153 GGB	Jacob Notbohm	University of Wisconsin	Mechanical Response of Fibrous Materials to Local Contractile Loads

Winter 2018

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
01/16/2018		1500 EECS	Renkun Chen	University of California San Diego	Thermal Transport and Management in Nanostructured Materials
01/26/2018		1200 EECS	Yunzhi Wang	The Ohio State University	An Integrated Experimental and Computational Approach to Microstructure-Property Relationships in Structural Materials
01/30/2018		1500 EECS	S.K. Gupta	University Southern California	Smart Robotic Assistants for Small Volume Manufacturing

Fall 2017

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
10/31/2017	4:00PM	1200 EECS	Kristin Myers	Columbia University	The Biomechanical Evaluation of Soft Tissue Stress and Stretch in Pregnancy
11/07/2017	4:00PM	1200 EECS	Ovijit Chaudhuri	Stanford University
11/14/2017	4:00 PM	1200 EECS	John Sutherland	Purdue University
11/28/2017	4:00 PM	1200 EECS	J. Christian Gerdes	Stanford University
12/12/2017	4:00PM	1200 EECS	Arumugam Manthiram	University of Texas, Austin	Electrical Energy Storage: Next Generation Battery Technologies

Winter 2017

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
01/10/2017		1200 EECS	Mark Campbell	Cornell University	Perceiving Complex Scenes for Autonomous Driving
01/17/2017		1200 EECS	Kristin Myers	Columbia University	The Mechanical Environment of Pregnancy
01/24/2017		1200 EECS	Hope Michelsen	Sandia National Laboratories	The Intriguing Mystrery of Soot Formation: Developing the Tools to Solve It
01/31/2017		1200 EECS	Jeff Eldredge	UCLA	Low-Order Modeling of Agile Flight
03/21/2017		1200 EECS	Catalin Picu	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
03/28/2017		1200 EECS	Raziel Riemer	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
04/04/2017		1200 EECS	John Rogers	Northwestern University
04/11/2017		1200 EECS	Wiliam King	University of Illinois
04/14/2017		1200 EECS	Roger Kamm	MIT

Fall 2016

Date	Time	Room	Speaker	Institution	Abstract Title	Recording
09/16/2016		2505 GGB	Tresa Pollock	University of California, Santa Barbara
09/27/2016		1200 EECS	Jaal Ghandhi	University of Wisconsin
10/11/2016		1200 EECS	Andreas Polycarpou	Texas A&M University
10/25/2016		1200 EECS	Muhammad Ashar Alam	Purdue University
11/03/2016		1018 HH Dow	Michael Wehner	Harvard University
11/08/2016		1200 EECS	Jeff Wolfenstine	Army Research Lab
11/15/2016		1200 EECS	Larry Howell	Brigham Young University
11/29/2016		1200 EECS	Yong Chen	University of California, Los Angeles
12/06/2016		1200 EECS	Chris Dames	University of California, Berkeley
12/13/2016		1200 EECS	SongWoo Nam	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign