M.I.T., SPRING 2006
Mechanics:
Modeling, Experimentation, Computation
(M
MEC
)
Seminar Series
Tuesdays @ 4:00pm,
Room 3-270
Feb. 7
Andrzej Banaszuk
United Technologies
Research Center
The Role of Control in Design: from Fixing Problems to the Design of Dynamics
Feb. 14
Frans Spaepen
Harvard University
Mechanical Properties of Metallic Glasses
Feb. 21
NO SEMINAR
Presidents Day
Feb. 28
Suraj Deshmukh
HML, MIT
Development, Characterization and Applications of 'Smart' Materials using Field-Responsive Fluids on the Macro to Micro Scale
March 7
Chris Pipe
HML, MIT
Experiments Investigating the Effects of Fluid Elasticity on Laminar Vortex Shedding from a Cylinder
March 14
Fazle Hussain
University of Houston
Transient Growth of Perturbations in a Columnar Vortex
March 21
Tom Mullin
University of Manchester
Observations of the Motion of Heavy Particles in a Viscous Fluid
March 28
NO SEMINAR
Spring Break
April 4
Michael Brenner
Harvard University
On the Evolution of Voltage
Gated Ion Channels
April 11
Pradeep Guduru
Brown University
Mechanics of Detachment of a Rigid
Solid from an Elastic Wavy Surface
April 18
NO SEMINAR
Patriots Day
April 25
Michael Graham
University of Wisconsin
Jiggling Genes and Dancing Bacteria: Two Problems in Biologically-Inspired Hydrodynamics
April 26
Vered Rom-Kedar
Weizmann Institute, Israel
Classifying Chaotic Solutions in Optical Fibers and Surface Waves
May 2
NO SEMINAR
May 9
Robert Behringer
Duke University
Fluctuations, Correlations, and Transitions in Granular Materials: Statistical Mechanics for a Non-Conventional System
Contact Info:
Sean Buhrmester
ext. x3-7952,
Anette Hosoi
ext. x3-4337,
Ray Hardin
ext. x3-5328, or
Thomas Peacock
, x8-0736.
