MIT MechE MMEC Pedro Reis

MMEC SEMINAR SERIES
(Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, Computation)

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spring Semester 2013
Tuesdays, 4:00pm, Room 3-370
Feb 12 Steve Granick UIUC Fun and profit with soft materials
Feb 19 NO SEMINAR (President's day)
Feb 26 Howard Stone Princeton Variations on familiar flows: (i) Marangoni flows with soluble surfactants and (ii) Trapping of bubbles in stagnation point flows
Mar 5 Glaucio Paulino UIUC Stable Topology Optimization: A Barycentric FEM Approach
Mar 12 Dennice Gayme Johns Hopkins Nonlinear mechanisms in turbulent plane Couette flow
Mar 19 Clancy Rowley Princeton Low-order models for control of fluids: balanced models and Koopman modes
Mar 26 NO SEMINAR: Spring break
Apr 2 Sanjeev Chandra University of Toronto Spray Deposition of Liquid Films on Solid Surfaces
Apr 9 Dennis Kochmann Caltech Making positive use of instability in solids and structures to achieve extreme viscoelastic properties
Apr 16 Martin van Hecke Leiden Mechanical Metamaterials
Apr 23 Dionisios Margetis University of Maryland A three-scale perspective of homoepitaxial relaxation
Apr 30 L. Mahadevan Harvard Some bio-inspired optimization problems
May 7 Jeff Morris CUNY Particle pressure and phase migration in suspensions: An osmotic approach

Organizers: Ken Kamrin, Konstantin Turitsyn and  Pedro Reis  Contact Info: Ray Hardin ext. x3-5328.