Penner Lecture - Archives
Thursday, December 5, 2019Advancing Test and Analysis Methods to Support Design by Removing Traditional BoundariesMary BakerPresident and Technical DirectorATA Engineering, Inc.,San Diego, CA
Thursday, May 25, 2017Emergence of In Vitro Vascularized Models and their Application to Studies of Metastatic CancerRoger D. KammCecil & Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological & Mechanical EngineeringDept. of Biological EngineeringDept. of Mechanical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, March 3, 2017A New Type of Heat Engine, Using LED’s as RefrigeratorsEli YablonovitchElectrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, May 27, 2016Surprising responses in flows in common geometries: (i) Surface-attached bacteria, biofilms and flow and (ii) Trapping of bubbles in stagnation point flowsHoward A. StoneDonald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon ProfessorChair, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Monday, January 13, 2014Aerial Robot Swarms WATCH NOWVijay KumarUPS Foundation ProfessorSchool of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, February 4, 2013Architectures for control using highly distributed, slow computingRichard M. MurrayControl & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
Monday, October 29, 2012"The DOE SunShot Initiative: Science and Technology to enable Solar Electricity at Grid Parity"Professor R. RameshPurnendu Chatterjee Professor, Materials Science and Engineering & Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Monday, June 4, 2012"Wall Turbulence above the Buffer Layer"Professor Javier JimenezSchool of Aeronautics, Universidad Politecnica, Madrid, Spain
Monday, June 6, 2011"Mechanics of Wall Turbulence"Professor Parviz MoinCenter for Turbulence ResearchDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Monday, February 14, 2011"Mechanical Principles of Hierarchical and Multifunctional Materials Inspired by Nature"Professor Huajian GaoWalter H. Annenberg ProfessorSchool of Engineering, Brown University
Monday, May 17, 2010"The Third Generation of Control Systems"Professor P. R. Kumar, NAEFranklin W. Woeltge ProfessorDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Monday, February 9, 2009"Managing Emissions from Fossil Energy Resources"Professor Klaus LacknerEwing-Worzel Professor of GeophysicsDepartment of Earth & Environmental EngineeringDirector, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy of The Earth InstituteColumbia University Monday, September 29, 2008"Fracture, Fatigue and Aging in Bone: An Issue of Multiple Length Scales"Professor Robert O. RitchieMaterials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryChair, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley Monday, April 14, 2008"System Identification: From Data to Models"Professor Lennart LjungDivision of Automatic ControlDepartment of Electrical EngineeringLinköpings University, Sweden Monday, February 4, 2008"Biological Motility: Molecules and Mechanochemistry"Professor L. MahadevanLola England de ValpineProfessor of Applied MathematicsAffiliate Professor, Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyAffiliate Professor, Systems Biology (Harvard Medical School)Harvard University Monday, May 14, 2007"Energy, Sustainability and Development"Sir Christopher Llewellyn SmithDirector, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Monday, February 12, 2007"Cryogenic Turbulence"K. R. SreenivasanDirector, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy Friday, November 3, 2006"Overcoming Inertia (Measuring Material Response at High Rates of Deformation)"Rodney J. CliftonRush C. Hawkins University Professor, Brown University Monday, May 15, 2006"Multiscale Modeling of Materials: A Challenge in Predictive Science"Michael OrtizDotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology Friday, April 7, 2006"Information and Entropy Flow in Filtering and Control"Sanjoy K. MitterProfessor of Electrical EngineeringLaboratory for Information and Decision SystemsElectrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, February 13, 2006"Explaining the Flow of Elastic Liquids"John HinchDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Monday, May 23, 2005"Mechanical Properties of Nanocrystalline Metals: Strong but Troubled"Julia R. WeertmanWalter P. Murphy Professor EmeritaDepartment of Materials Science a Engineering, Northwestern University Friday, March 4, 2005"The Rheology of Concentrated Suspensions; Latest Variations on a Theme by Albert Einstein"Professor Andreas AcrivosAlbert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, EmeritusThe Levich Institute, City College of CUNY, New York Friday, November 19, 2004"Coordination of Groups of Mobile Autonomous Agents"Professor A. Stephen MorseDudley Professor of Engineering and Computer Science, Yale University Friday, May 7, 2004"Electrospray Wings For Molecular Elephants "John B. Fenn2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Friday, March 5, 2004"Nanomechanics of Single Biological Cells and Some Connections to Human Diseases"Professor Subra SureshFord Professor of EngineeringHead, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday, November 21, 2003"Feedback and the Internet: Control Driving a Rapidly Advancing Technology"Professor Tamer BasarFredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Champaign Monday, April 28, 2003"From Surface Tension Induced Flows to Asymmetric Whirl Combustion - What Motivates a Research Endeavor?"Professor Irvin GlassmanDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Friday, February 28, 2003"The Fill of the Sandwich: Foams, Frames and Lattices"Professor Mike AshbyEngineering Department, Cambridge University October 21, 2002"A Fascination with Fluids"Professor Tony MaxworthyAerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Southern California February 25, 2002"Modeling and Measurements in Line-Focus Acoustic Microscopy for Thin-Film Analysis"Jan B. AchenbachNorthwestern University November 30, 2001"Constrained Control"Graham GoodwinUniversity of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia December 1, 2000"Interfacial Fluid Mechanics"Stephen H. DavisNorthwestern University June 5, 2000"Automatic Control - The Hidden Technology"Karl J. ÅStromLund Institute of Technology, Sweden April 7, 2000"Mechanical Properties of Thin Films"William D. NixStanford University January 24, 2000"Energy Supplies For the 21st Century"Stanford S. PennerUniversity of California, San Diego
Thursday, May 25, 2017Emergence of In Vitro Vascularized Models and their Application to Studies of Metastatic CancerRoger D. KammCecil & Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological & Mechanical EngineeringDept. of Biological EngineeringDept. of Mechanical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Friday, March 3, 2017A New Type of Heat Engine, Using LED’s as RefrigeratorsEli YablonovitchElectrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, May 27, 2016Surprising responses in flows in common geometries: (i) Surface-attached bacteria, biofilms and flow and (ii) Trapping of bubbles in stagnation point flowsHoward A. StoneDonald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon ProfessorChair, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Monday, January 13, 2014Aerial Robot Swarms WATCH NOWVijay KumarUPS Foundation ProfessorSchool of Engineering & Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, February 4, 2013Architectures for control using highly distributed, slow computingRichard M. MurrayControl & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology
Monday, October 29, 2012"The DOE SunShot Initiative: Science and Technology to enable Solar Electricity at Grid Parity"Professor R. RameshPurnendu Chatterjee Professor, Materials Science and Engineering & Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Monday, June 4, 2012"Wall Turbulence above the Buffer Layer"Professor Javier JimenezSchool of Aeronautics, Universidad Politecnica, Madrid, Spain
Monday, June 6, 2011"Mechanics of Wall Turbulence"Professor Parviz MoinCenter for Turbulence ResearchDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Monday, February 14, 2011"Mechanical Principles of Hierarchical and Multifunctional Materials Inspired by Nature"Professor Huajian GaoWalter H. Annenberg ProfessorSchool of Engineering, Brown University
Monday, May 17, 2010"The Third Generation of Control Systems"Professor P. R. Kumar, NAEFranklin W. Woeltge ProfessorDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Monday, February 9, 2009"Managing Emissions from Fossil Energy Resources"Professor Klaus LacknerEwing-Worzel Professor of GeophysicsDepartment of Earth & Environmental EngineeringDirector, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy of The Earth InstituteColumbia University Monday, September 29, 2008"Fracture, Fatigue and Aging in Bone: An Issue of Multiple Length Scales"Professor Robert O. RitchieMaterials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryChair, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley Monday, April 14, 2008"System Identification: From Data to Models"Professor Lennart LjungDivision of Automatic ControlDepartment of Electrical EngineeringLinköpings University, Sweden Monday, February 4, 2008"Biological Motility: Molecules and Mechanochemistry"Professor L. MahadevanLola England de ValpineProfessor of Applied MathematicsAffiliate Professor, Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyAffiliate Professor, Systems Biology (Harvard Medical School)Harvard University Monday, May 14, 2007"Energy, Sustainability and Development"Sir Christopher Llewellyn SmithDirector, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) Monday, February 12, 2007"Cryogenic Turbulence"K. R. SreenivasanDirector, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy Friday, November 3, 2006"Overcoming Inertia (Measuring Material Response at High Rates of Deformation)"Rodney J. CliftonRush C. Hawkins University Professor, Brown University Monday, May 15, 2006"Multiscale Modeling of Materials: A Challenge in Predictive Science"Michael OrtizDotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology Friday, April 7, 2006"Information and Entropy Flow in Filtering and Control"Sanjoy K. MitterProfessor of Electrical EngineeringLaboratory for Information and Decision SystemsElectrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday, February 13, 2006"Explaining the Flow of Elastic Liquids"John HinchDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Monday, May 23, 2005"Mechanical Properties of Nanocrystalline Metals: Strong but Troubled"Julia R. WeertmanWalter P. Murphy Professor EmeritaDepartment of Materials Science a Engineering, Northwestern University Friday, March 4, 2005"The Rheology of Concentrated Suspensions; Latest Variations on a Theme by Albert Einstein"Professor Andreas AcrivosAlbert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, EmeritusThe Levich Institute, City College of CUNY, New York Friday, November 19, 2004"Coordination of Groups of Mobile Autonomous Agents"Professor A. Stephen MorseDudley Professor of Engineering and Computer Science, Yale University Friday, May 7, 2004"Electrospray Wings For Molecular Elephants "John B. Fenn2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Friday, March 5, 2004"Nanomechanics of Single Biological Cells and Some Connections to Human Diseases"Professor Subra SureshFord Professor of EngineeringHead, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday, November 21, 2003"Feedback and the Internet: Control Driving a Rapidly Advancing Technology"Professor Tamer BasarFredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Champaign Monday, April 28, 2003"From Surface Tension Induced Flows to Asymmetric Whirl Combustion - What Motivates a Research Endeavor?"Professor Irvin GlassmanDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Friday, February 28, 2003"The Fill of the Sandwich: Foams, Frames and Lattices"Professor Mike AshbyEngineering Department, Cambridge University October 21, 2002"A Fascination with Fluids"Professor Tony MaxworthyAerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Southern California February 25, 2002"Modeling and Measurements in Line-Focus Acoustic Microscopy for Thin-Film Analysis"Jan B. AchenbachNorthwestern University November 30, 2001"Constrained Control"Graham GoodwinUniversity of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia December 1, 2000"Interfacial Fluid Mechanics"Stephen H. DavisNorthwestern University June 5, 2000"Automatic Control - The Hidden Technology"Karl J. ÅStromLund Institute of Technology, Sweden April 7, 2000"Mechanical Properties of Thin Films"William D. NixStanford University January 24, 2000"Energy Supplies For the 21st Century"Stanford S. PennerUniversity of California, San Diego