Seminar Spring 2010-Mechanical Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Seminar Spring 2010


January 22

Baker Hall A-51

11:30 - 12:30 PM

Joint with ME, CEE, MSE

Cyber-enabled Predictive Science-based Continuum Mechanics for Multiscale Fracture Process Discovery

Wing Kam Liu

Walter P. Murphy Professor

Northwestern University

February 19

Baker Hall A-51

11:30 - 12:30 PM

Linking Mechanics to Biochemistry in Molecular and Cellular Behavior through Nano- and Micro-technology

Philip LeDuc

Associate Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

February 26

Baker Hall A-51

11:30 - 12:30 PM

Design, Analogy and Creativity

Ashok K. Goel

Associate Professor of Computer Science & Cognitive Science

School of Interactive Computing

Georgia Institute of Technology

March 8

Doherty Hall 2210

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Joint with BME, ME

Micro Implants

Yu-Chong Tai

Professor

Departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and

     Bioengineering

California Institute of Technology

March 19

Baker Hall A-51

11:30 - 12:30 PM

Joint with ME, BME

Cytokinesis through Biochemical-Mechanical Feedback Loops

Douglas N. Robinson

Associate Professor

Departments of Cell Biology, Phamacology and Molecular Sciences,

      and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

April 2

Baker Hall A-51

11:30 - 12:30 PM

Boundary-Layer Noise Due to Small Surface Irregularities

Meng Wang

Associate Professor

Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

University of Notre Dame

April 9

Baker Hall A-51

11:30 - 12:30 PM

Miniature Mobile Robots Down to Micron Scale

Metin Sitti

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

April 19

Doherty Hall 1212

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Extracting Order from Chaos: Dissecting Turbulent Motion

Ronald J. Adrian

Professor

School of Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Arizona State University

April 30

Baker Hall A-51

11:30 - 12:30 PM

Computational Modeling and Analysis of Complex Biological Flows

Rajat Mittal

Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Whiting School of Engineering

Johns Hopkins University