This is the Fall 2001 MEMS department seminar listing. Seminars listed on Wednedays 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 MEB 123 unless indicated elsewhere.

  • August 27 - Miriam Zacksenhouse - Technion-Isreal Institute of Technology
    Title: "Characterization, Recognition, and Generation of Manipulative Hand Movements"
    **Joint seminar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    To be held at Duncan Hall room 3076
    more details...

  • September 5 - Enrique Barrera - Rice University
    Title: "Nanotube Continuous Fibers"
    more details...

  • September 12 - Marcia O'Malley - Rice University
    Title: "Implications of Machine Design for the Haptic Display of Detail"
    more details...

  • September 14 - Esin Gulari - Chemical & Transport Systems National Science Foundation and Wayne State University
    Title: "Suppression of Atomization of Liquids with Polymers"
    **Joint seminar with the Department of Chemical Engineering
    To be held at Sewall Hall, room 301
    more details...

  • September 19 - John Red-Horse - Sandia National Laboratories
    Title: "A Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty Quantification with Example Applications"
    more details...

  • September 26 - Michael Carroll - Rice University
    Title: "Some New Solutions in Nonlinear Elasticity"
    more details...

  • October 3 - Gokturk Tunc - Rice University
    Title: "Convective Heat Transfer in Microchannels"
    more details...

  • October 10 - Gregory M. Hulbert - University of Michigan
    Title: "Collaborative Simulation (and Design)"
    more details...

  • October 17 - Ronald S. Rivlin - Lehigh University
    Title: "Continuum Mechanics: The Fundamentals Revisited "
    more details...

  • October 24 - Hamid Johari - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Title: "Near Wake of an Inpulsively Started Disk"
    more details...

  • October 31 - Sanjay Mittal - Rice University
    Title: "Computation of Flow past a Rotating Cylinder"
    more details...

  • November 7 - Arif Masud - University of Illinois, Chicago
    Title: "A Co-rotational Kinematic Framework for Large Deformation Analysis of Laminated Composites"
    more details...

  • November 14 - Meisha Shofner - Rice University
    Title: "Nanofiber Reinforced Polymers Processed by Solid Freeform Fabrication Techniques"
    more details...

  • November 21 - Yoichiro Matsumoto - University of Tokyo
    Title: "Behavior of Micro Bubbles in Ultrasound Field"
    more details...


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