MMEC SEMINAR SERIES
(Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, Computation)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall
Semester 2015
Tuesdays, 4:00pm, Room 3-370
| Sep 15 | Gerath McKinley | MIT | "Painting with Numbers": Spraying and Air-Assisted Atomization of Complex Fluids.” |
| Sep 22 | Changxi Zheng | Columbia University | Making the Future Sound Better: Physics-Based Sound Synthesis and Beyond |
| Sep 29 | Manoj Chaudhury | Lehigh University | Directed Motion of drops with Interfacial Contact |
| Oct 6 | Bob Behringer | Duke University | Falling Into Sand: What Are the Dynamics that Occur When an Object Strikes a Granular Material? |
| Oct 13 | Tom Solomon | Bucknell University | Experimental studies of reaction front barriers in laminar flows |
| Oct 20 | John Hutchinson | Harvard University | Topics in soft materials: Mechanics of wrinkle/ridge transitions, and the role of surface tension in soft material deformation and stability |
| Oct 27 | Sai Ravela | MIT | Non-Parametric Perceptual Organization and Ensemble Learning for Geophysical Inference |
| Nov 3 | Rick James | U Minnesota | Compatibility, hysteresis and the direct conversion of heat to electricity |
| Nov 10 | NO SEMINAR (Veteran’s day) | ||
| Nov 17 | Francois Gallaire | EPFL | Too big to grow and too small to persist: the amplitude equation approach |
| Nov 24 | Dimos Poulikakos | ETH Zurich | Peculiar Behaviour of Cold Water Drops on Superhydrophobic Surfaces and Intrinsic Icephobicity |
| Dec 1 | Roberto Ballarini | University of Houston | Cracking the conch conundrum: tough ceramics at the seashore |
| Dec 8 | Christian Linder | Stanford University | Soft matter materials – An emerging field with unprecedented opportunities but a challenge for solid and computational mechanics |
Organizers: Ken Kamrin, Konstantin Turitsyn, Pedro Reis, Xuanhe Zhao, Themis Sapsis
Contact Info: Christina Spinelli ext. x3-5328; Rebecca Fowler ext. x4-7567