Dynamic Systems and Controls Series:

Tyler Summers (University of Texas, Dallas)

Friday, May 18, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Kevin Wise (The Boeing Company)

Friday, May 25, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Ketan Savla (University of Southern California)

Friday, June 8, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Dejan Popovic (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Lana Maneski Popovic (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Friday, June 22, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Joint MAE/NE/CER Energy Series:

Inigo de la Parra (Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain)

Wednesday, May 16, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Tammy Ma (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Wednesday, May 30, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Shannon K. Yee (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Fluid Mechanics Series:

Fokion Egolfopolous (University of Southern California)

Monday, May 21, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Gennady Shvets (Cornell University)

Monday, May 21, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Mechanics & Materials Series:

Andrew Minor (University of California Berkely) New modes of imaging for in situ TEM nanomechanical testing

Monday, May 7, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Shane Cybart (University of California Riverside) High-Transition Temperature Josephson Junctions

Monday, May 14, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Shimon Rubin (University of California San Diego) Interaction of surface plasmon polaritons with thin liquid dielectric films

Monday, June 4, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

Todd Squires (University of California Santa Barbara) Sculpting and visualizing micro-chemical environments: tracking mass transport, probling chemical kinetics, and manipulating suspensions

Monday, April 30, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Laurent Pilon (University of California Los Angeles) Interfacial and Transport Phenomena in Electrochemical Capacitors

Monday, April 23, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Rama Yedavalli (The Ohio State University) New Stability and Robustness Results for Linear State Space Systems using Qualitative Principles with Applications

Friday, April 20, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room 479

Sarah Tolbert (University of California San Diego) Using nanoscale architecture to improve performance in batteries and pseudocapacitors

Monday, April 16, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Yonggang Huang (Harvard University) Mechanics-guided terministric 3D Assembly

Monday, April 9, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Insect Inspiration from the bombardier beetle

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 11 a.m., EBU II 479

Andy McIntosh

Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene: Implications for Orthopedic Implants Design

Monday, March 12, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Lisa Pruitt

Mixing Water, Transducing Energy, Shaping Membranes: Autonomously Self-regulating Giant Vesicles

Thursday, March 8, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, SME, Room 248

Atul Parikh (University of California, Davis)

Lithium for Fusion - What is Needed to Make it Work

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 11 a.m., EBU II 479

David Ruzic

Power Allocation Games on Networks

Friday, March 2, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room 479

Yuke Li (Yale University)

Description: Prime Movers of Cell Biology: The most ancient molecular motors and how they work

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, SME, Room 248

Dyche Mullins (University of California, San Francisco)

"Runaway electrons"

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 11 a.m., von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Boris Breizman

TBA

Monday, February 26, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Cengiz Ozkan

Analysis and Control of Dynamic Functional Connectivity via Synchronization Patterns in Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators

Friday, February 23, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Fabio Pasqualetti (University of California, Santa Barbara)

The elastoplasticity of extracellular matrix

Thursday, February 22, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, SME, Room 248

Bo Sun (Oregon State University)

Modeling Traffic Flow as System of Conservation Laws

Friday, February 16, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room 479

Michael Zhang (University of California, Davis)

Navigating turbulent environments

Thursday, February 15, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, SME, Room 248

Massimo Vergasola (University of California, San Diego)

Multiscale Computational Modeling of Nanomaterials

Monday, February 12, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Wenwu Xu

The proximal augmented Lagrangian method for nonsmooth composite optimization

Friday, February 9, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room 479

Mihailo Jovanovic (University of Southern California)

The proximal augmented Lagrangian method for nonsmooth composite optimization

Abstract: Several problems in the design of networks can be formulated as non-smooth composite optimization problems in which the objective function is given by the sum of a differentiable term and a non-... more

The outer membrane is an essential load-bearing element in Gram-negative bacteria

Thursday, February 8, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, SME, Room 248

K.C. Huang (Stanford University)

Oxidation Behavior of Aerospace Materials at High Temperatures using High Enthalpy Flows

Monday, February 5, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Erica Corral

TBA

Friday, February 2, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room 479

Benjamin Seibold (Temple University)

CANCELLED

Monday, January 29, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Jin Sun

TBA

Friday, January 26, 2018, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room 479

Gregory Chirikjian (Johns Hopkins University)

TBA

Thursday, January 25, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, SME, Room 248

Christoph Haselwandter (University of southern California)

Universality of the logarithmic velocity profile restored

Monday, January 22, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Paolo Luchini

Mechanics of cell-nanomaterial interactions

Monday, January 22, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, CMRR Auditorium

Huajian Gao

Planning and Decision Making for Autonomous Spacecraft and Space Robots

Friday, January 19, 2018, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Marco Pavone (Stanford University)

The Cellular Interstate System: Mechanisms of Microtubule-Based Transport

Thursday, January 18, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, SME, Room 248

Samara Reck-Peterson (UC San Diego)

Delay Compensation in Control Systems

Friday, January 12, 2018, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Michael Malisoff (Louisiana State University)

Cilia-driven flows: from mechanics to biological functions

Thursday, January 11, 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm, SME, Room 248

Eva Kanso (University of Southern California)

Applications of Edelen's dissipation potentials to mechanics and transport phenomena

Monday, January 8, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Joe Goddard (UC San Diego)

No GPS, No Problem: Exploiting Signals of Opportunity for Resilient and Accurate Autonomous Vehicle Navigation

Friday, December 8, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Zak Kassas (University of California, Riverside)

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Fate of Internal Waves on a Shallow Shelf

Monday, December 4, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Kristen Davis, (UC Irvine)

Magnetized ICF

Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 11 am - 12 pm, EBU II von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

John D. Moody (LLNL)

Turbulence, Convection and Clouds in Weather and Climate Models

Monday, November 27, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Joao Teixeira (JPL)

Isogeometric Analysis of Solids, Structures, and Fluid-Structure Interaction: From Early Results to Recent Developments

Monday, November 20, 2017, 11:00 to 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room (EBUII, Room 479)

Yuri Bazilevs (University of California, San Diego)

Fusion In A Staged Z-pinched

Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 11 am - 12 pm, EBU II von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Hafiz Radman (Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technology Inc.)

Surface Nanodroplets

Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Detlef Lohse (UC Irvine)

Extreme Materials Behavior in Laser-Induced Shock

Monday, November 13, 2017, 11:00 to 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room (EBUII, Room 479)

Marc Meyers (University of California, San Diego)

Electric Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames

Monday, November 6, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Derek Dunn-Rankin (UC Irvine)

The Mechanics and Mathematics of bodies described by implicit constitutive equations

Monday, November 6, 2017, 11:00 to 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room (EBUII, Room 479)

Kumbakonam Rajagopal (Texas A & M University)

Observability of Dynamical Systems and Optimal Sensor Placement

Friday, November 3, 2017, 3 p.m., EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room 479

Wei Kang (Naval Postgraduate School)

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Energy Efforts on UCSD Campus

Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 11 am - 12 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Byron Washom (UCSD)

TBA

Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Michael Zhang (University of California, Davis)

Soft materials: from fundamental mechanics to engineering applications

Monday, October 30, 2017, 11:00 to 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room (EBUII, Room 479)

Shengqiang Cai (University of California, San Diego)

Fluctuating Hydrodynamic Approaches For Mesoscopic Simulation: Applications in Soft Materials and Fluidics.

Monday, October 23, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Paul Atzberger (UC Santa Barbara)

Wonders of graphene crinkle as novel bio-molecular zipper for 'from genomics to phonemics'

Monday, October 23, 2017, 11:00 to 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room (EBUII, Room 479)

Kyung-Suk Kim (Brown University)

Theory of the Dense Plasma Focus as Fusion Device and Experimental Results

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 11 am - 12 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Eric Lerner (SDSU)

Mid-infrared laser absorption spectroscopy for energy and propulsion flows

Monday, October 16, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Mitchell Spearrin, Assistant Professor

Mechanics, Materials and Design Problems in Medical Device Technology and Information Storage

Monday, October 16, 2017, 11:00 to 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room (EBUII, Room 479)

Frank Talke (University of California, San Diego)

From Cartilage Biomechanics to Chondrocyte Mechanobiology: Polymer Dynamics and Central Energy Metabolism"

Thursday, October 12, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Ron June (University of Montana)

"The science of autonomy: A "happy" symbiosis among learning, control and physics."

Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 11:00 am - 12 :00 pm, Atkinson Hall Auditorium

Evangelos Theodorou (Georgia Tech)

Electrokinetic response of elastic surfaces and porous particles to electric fields: from basic principles to applications.

Monday, October 9, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Shimon Rubin

Damage- Tolerance in Engineering and Biological Materials

Monday, October 9, 2017, 11:00 to 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room (EBUII, Room 479)

Robert O. Ritchie (University of California, Berkeley)

Bio-inspired Aerodynamics: Flapping Wings and Winged Seeds

Monday, October 2, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, EBUII von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479

Manuel Garcia-Villalba (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Spain)