MIT MechE MMEC Pedro Reis

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

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall Semester 2016
Tuesdays, 4:00pm, Room 3-370

Sep 13 Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou MIT On the fundamentals and simulation of nanoscale kinetic transport
Sep 20 Allan Bower Brown University Models of deformation, transport and phase transformations in battery electrode materials
Sep 27 Eric Vanden - Eijnden New York University Infrequent transitions and large deviations in non-equilibrium systems
Oct 4 Itai Cohen Cornell University Using a Confocal Rheoscope to Investigate Soft Squishy Materials
Oct 11 Columbus Day
Oct 18 Roger Bonnecaze UT Austin MULTI-SCALE MODEL OF MAGNETICALLY-DRIVEN FLOWS IN DEAD-END CHANNELS
Oct 25 Nuno F. Loureiro MIT Magnetic reconnection: explosive energy release via a transition to turbulence in plasmas
Nov 1 Harold Park Boston University Computational Modeling of Electromechanical Instabilities in Dielectric Elastomers
Nov 8 Gianluca Iaccarino Stanford University Uncertainties and Optimization:  aggressive design, multi fidelity analysis and applications
Nov 15 Jeffrey Fredberg Harvard Medical School The jamming transition, physical forces, and cell shape in the confluent epithelial cell layer
Nov 22 Thanks Giving
Dec 6 Ali Mani Stanford University Microscale “Turbulence” induced by Electrochemical Interfaces
Dec 13 Fred Mackintosh Rice University Mechanical phase transitions and the principle of detailed balance in living systems

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Fall Semester 2014

Spring Semester 2014

Fall Semester 2013


Organizers: Ken Kamrin, Pedro Reis, Xuanhe Zhao,
Themis Sapsis

Contact Info: Christina Spinelli  ext. x3-5328; Rebecca Fowler ext. x4-7567