MMEC SEMINAR SERIES
(Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, Computation)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall Semester 2018
Tuesdays, 4:00pm, Room 3-370
| Sep 11 | Ankur Singh | Cornell | Ex vivo Immune Organoids and On-Chip Technologies for Immunity, Epigenetics, and Malignancies |
| Sep 18 | Karen E. Kasza | Columbia | Controlling where and when forces are generated during tissue morphogenesis |
| Sep 25 | Kejie Zhao | Purdue | Bridging mechanics and electrochemistry: Experiments and modeling on battery materials |
| Oct 2 | Amit Surana | UTRC | Data Driven Framework for Nonlinear System and Control Applications |
| Oct 16 | David Clarke | Harvard | Dielectric Elastomer Devices |
| Oct 23 | Yuri Bazilevs | Brown | Isogeometric Methods for Solids, Structures, and Fluid-Structure Interaction: From Early Results to Recent Developments |
| Oct 30 | David Lentink | Stanford | Avian Inspired Design |
| Nov 13 | Lisa Fauci | Tulane University |
Swimming of a simple vertebrate: Insights from computational and robotic models |
| Nov 20 | Thomas Angelini | University of Florida | Mechanical Instabilities in Contracting 3D Printed Microtissues |
| Nov 27 | Oleg Lavrentovich | Kent State | Dynamics of Colloids in Liquid Crystals |
| Dec 4 | Narayanan Menon | UMass Amherst | Flexibility and Form: Emergence of Shape in Thin Sheets |
| Dec 18 | Dirk Mohr | ETH | As Strong as It Gets: Mechanics-driven Design of Additively-manufactured Metamaterials |
Organizers: Irmgard Bischofberger, Tal Cohen, Ming Guo, Ken Kamrin, Themis Sapsis, Wim van Rees, Xuanhe Zhao
Contact Info: Christina Spinelli ext. x3-5328