MMEC SEMINAR SERIES
(Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, Computation)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall Semester 2012
Tuesdays, 4:00pm, Room 3-370
| Sep 11 | Joe Goddard | UC San Diego | Edelen's dissipation potentials and the viscoplasticity of particulate media |
| Sep 18 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Sep 25 | Nicholas Guttenberg | University of Chicago | Rippling in the granular jet: hydrodynamic instability or memory? |
| Oct 2 | Chiang C. Mei | MIT | Water waves through an emergent forest or over a canopy |
| Oct 9 | NO SEMINAR: Columbus day | ||
| Oct 16 | Sergio Pellegrino | Caltech | Ultra-thin composite deployable shell structures |
| Oct 23 | K. Ravi-Chandar | UT Austin | Multiscale experiments on ductile failure in polycrystalline materials |
| Oct 30 | Igor Mezic | UC Santa Barbara | A New Systems Analysis Framework |
| Nov 6 | Jason Nassios | University of Melbourne | Asymptotic analysis of the Boltzmann-BGK equation for oscillatory gas flows with applications to nanoscale devices |
| Nov 13 | David Gracias | Johns Hopkins University | Self-folding materials and devices |
| Nov 20 | NO SEMINAR: Thanksgiving | ||
| Nov 27 | Alfred Crosby | UMass Amherst | Hierarchical Materials Mechanics |
| Dec 4 | John Bassani | University of Pennsylvania | TBA |
Organizers: Ken Kamrin, Konstantin Turitsyn and Pedro Reis Contact Info: Ray Hardin ext. x3-5328.