MMEC SEMINAR SERIES
(Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, Computation)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spring
Semester 2018
Tuesdays, 4:00pm, Room 3-370
| Feb 13 | Krystyn Van Vliet | MIT | Mechanopriming of stem cells from soft tissues: From molecular mechanisms to manufacturing |
| Feb 27 | Pradeep Sharma | University of Houston | Flexoelectricity and Electrets |
| March 6 | Luis Dorfmann | Tufts University | Modeling of residually stressed materials |
| March 13 | Narayanan Menon | UMass Amherst | Flexibility and Form: Emergence of Shape in Thin Sheets |
| March 20 | Jim Swan | MIT | The Hydrodynamics of Colloidal Gelation |
| April 3 | Shelley Anna | Carnegie Mellon University | Fluid Processing of Particle-Laden Interfaces |
| April 10 | Ely Sachs | MIT | Guided Discovery as a Teaching Method in 1st semester Mechanics and Materials |
| April 24 | Beverley McKeon | Caltech |
Systems analysis of wall turbulence: Characterizing natural and synthetic self-sustaining processes |
| May 1 | David Clarke | Harvard | Rescheduled |
| May 8 | Jay Humphrey | Yale University | Aortic Disease Progression: Experimental and Computational Mechanics |
| May 15 | Robert Leheny | JHU | Microscopic dynamics underlying yielding and stress relaxation of soft glassy materials |
Organizers: Ming Guo, Irmgard Bischofberger, Themis Sapsis, Ken Kamrin, Xuanhe Zhao
Contact Info: Christina Spinelli ext. x3-5328