M.I.T., SPRING 2006
Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, Computation (MMEC)
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.