This is the Spring 2006 MEMS
department seminar listing. Seminars listed on
Wednesdays are the required seminars for the M.S.
and Ph.D. students registered for MECH 606 or MSCI
500/501. We will put additional seminars here as they are
announced. Be sure to check back often for the next
scheduled seminar.
All seminars are held in DH 1064 unless indicated
elsewhere.
JANUARY 18 -
John J. Bertin, Rice University
Title: "Using the "Data" and Observations from Flight
STS-107 to Explain the Fatal Re-entry of the Columbia Orbiter OV-102"
Location and Time: DH 1064, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
JANUARY 23 -
Pulickel M. Ajayan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: "Controlled Assembly of Carbon Nanotube
Architectures"
Location and Time: DH McMurtry Auditorium, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
FEBRUARY 1 -
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, Rice University
Title: "Cartilage Engineering"
Location and Time: DH 1064, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
FEBRUARY 15 -
Philip B. Bedient, Rice University
Title: "Severe Storm Prediction in the Gulf Coast
Advanced Modeling Systems"
Location and Time: DH 1064, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
FEBRUARY 22 -
Thomas N. Farris, Purdue University
Title: "Fretting Fatigue of Aerospace Structures"
Location and Time: DH 1064, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
MARCH 1 -
Michael M. Carroll, Rice University
Title: "Theories of Competitive Running"
Location and Time: ME 123, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
MARCH 2 -
George Lykotrafitis, California Institute of Technology
Title: "Experimental Study of Dynamic Frictional Sliding
Modes Along Incoherent Interfaces"
Location and Time: DH 1075, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
MARCH 6 -
Teng Li, Harvard University
Title: "Micro/nano Mechanics of Flexible
Macroelectronics"
Location and Time: RL 201, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
MARCH 8 -
Brent Gillespie, University of Michigan
Title: "Robot with Cookie: Got Brains?
Location and Time: DH 1064, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
MARCH 22 -
Masami Nakagawa, Colorado School of Mines
Title: "The Moon as a Beach of Fine Powders"
Location and Time: DH 1064, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
MARCH 24 -
Thomas J.R. Hughes, University of Texas-Austin
Title: "Isogeometric Analysis: CAD, Finite Elements,
NURBS, Exact Geometry and Mesh Refinement"
Location and Time: DH 1064, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
MARCH 29 -
Suhada Jayasuriya, Texas A&M University-College Station
Title: "Scalable, Decentralized Algorithms for
Cooperative Control"
Location and Time: DH 1064, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
MARCH 30 -
David J. Srolovitz, Princeton University
Title: "Understanding Crystal Growth Morphology"
Location and Time: To be announced
APRIL 13 -
Andrew M. Minor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: "Examining the Initial Stages of Plasticity
Through in situ Nanoindentation in a TEM"
Location and Time: DH 1075, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
