MMEC SEMINAR SERIES
(Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, Computation)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spring
Semester 2016
Tuesdays, 4:00pm, Room 3-370
| Feb 09 | Franz-Josef Ulm | MIT | The unconventional science and engineering of gas shale |
| Feb 16 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Feb 23 | Qiqi Wang | MIT | Towards aerospace design in the age of extreme-scale supercomputing |
| Mar 1 | Jorn Dunkel | MIT | Pattern formation in soft and biological matter |
| Mar 8 | Todd Squires | UCSB | Sculpting micro-chemical environments to drive particle migration, then teaching particles to do so themselves |
| March 15 | Shmuel Rubinstein | Harvard University | Skating, bouncing and surfing: drops impacting on a surface |
| Mar 22 | NO SEMINAR (Spring Break) | ||
| Apr 5 | KS Kim | Brown University | Molecular engineering with graphene-ruga structures at the bottom |
| Apr 12 | Kamran Mohseni | University of Florida | Observable Gauss and Stokes Theorems: A unified approach for regularization of problems with shocks, turbulence, and sharp interfaces |
| Apr 19 | NO SEMINAR (PATRIOT’S DAY) | ||
| Apr 26 | John Dolbow | Duke University | Computational Models for the Surfactant-Driven Fracture of Particulate Rafts |
| May 3 | Anette (Peko) Hosoi | MIT | |
| May 10 | Ravichandran, Guruswami | Caltech | Adhesion: Elasticity, Heterogeneity and Peeling |
Organizers: Ken Kamrin, Pedro Reis, Xuanhe Zhao, Themis Sapsis
Contact Info: Christina Spinelli ext. x3-5328; Rebecca Fowler ext. x4-7567