Professor & Associate Chair Wei Hong

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR: 7/5, 11am, Featuring Prof Wei Hong “Scaling laws on mechanical properties of ploymeric gels
Affiliation: Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
Location: 38-138 Engineering IV Learn More

Dr. Jacob B Khurgin

SEMINAR: 6/14 10am, E4 37-124 featuring Dr. Jacob B Khurgin “Why do the refractive indexes of different materials differ so little and are also so difficult to change?”
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Location: 37-124 Engineering IV Learn More

Dr. Tania Morimoto

SEMINAR: 6/7 12pm, Klug Conference Room (BH 8500) Featuring Dr. Tania Morimotot: “Enabling advancements in medical care through the design of soft robots and haptic interfaces”
Affiliation: University of California, San Diego
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Dr. Howard A. Stone

MAE Department Seminar: 5/31 12:00 PM, BH 8500/Klug Room featuring Dr. Howard Stone “Thin-film flows: From similarity solutions to new insights in molecular biology”
Affiliation: Princeton University
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Dr. Xiaoming Mao

MAE Department Seminar: 5/24 12:00 PM, BH 8500/Klug Room featuring Dr. Xiaoming Mao “Topological mechanics in Maxwell lattices”
Affiliation: University of Michigan
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Dr. Enoch Yeung

MAE Department Seminar: 5/16 12:00 PM, Eng. IV 38-138 featuring Dr. Enoch Yeung ” Discovering Genetic Drivers of Perturbed Transcriptional Response in Soil Bacteria Exposed to Pesticides”
Affiliation: Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara
Location: 38-138 Engineering IV Learn More

Dr. Hayk Harutyunyan

SEMINAR: 4/29 10:00am, Engineering IV, 37-124 Dr. Hayk Harutyunyan “Efficient nonlinearities in meta-surfaces enabled by bound states in the continuum”
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Emory University
Location: 37-124 Engineering IV Learn More

Dr. Annika Raatz and her team

SEMINAR: 4/19 11:30am, Boelter Hall 8500/Klug Room featuring Dr. Annika Raatz and her team “Soft Material Robotics – Facing Reality”
Affiliation: Institute of Assembly Technology and Robotics Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Dr. Daniel J Cohen

MAE SEMINAR: 4/12 12pm, Boelter hall 8550/Klug Room featuring Dr. Daniel Cohen “Adventures in cell herding: engineering and control of multi-agent cellular swarms”
Affiliation: Princeton University
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Dr. Mingming Wu

MAE Department Seminar: 4/1 12:00 PM, Eng. IV 38-138 featuring Dr. Dr. Mingming Wu “Biophysical force regulation in tumor mechanics and invasion”
Affiliation: Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Location: 38-138 Engineering IV Learn More

Dr. Kyle Yoshida

MAE Department Seminar: 3/14 12:30 PM, BH 8500/Klug Room featuring Dr. Kyle Yoshida “Advancing Community-Driven Innovation in Haptics and Soft Robotics Research”
Affiliation: School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Dr. Ramathasan Thevamaran

MAE Department Seminar: 3/12 12:00 PM, Eng. IV 38-138 featuring Dr. Ramathasan Thevamaran “Engineered Damping: From Impact Mitigation to Enhanced Actuation”
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: 38-138 Engineering IV Learn More

Dr. Laura Valencia

MAE Department Seminar: 3/11 11 AM, featuring Dr. Laura Valencia “Parametric Up-Conversion Imaging in Nonlocal Resonant Metasurfaces”
Affiliation: Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University
Location: 37-124 Engineering IV Learn More

Dr. Charles Dorn

MAE Department Seminar: 2/29, 12:50 PM, 8500 BH featuring Dr. Charlie Dorn “Elastic Wave Guidance in Spatially Graded Metamaterials”
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering ETH Zurich
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Dr. Vatsa Gandhi

MAE Department Seminar: 2/26, 12:50 PM, 8500 BH featuring Dr. Vatsa Gandhi “Novel Techniques for Multi-Scale Characterization of Materials under Extreme Dynamic Loading”
Affiliation: University of Cambridge
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Dr. Aashrith Saraswathibhatla

MAE Department Seminar: 2/22, 12:50 PM, 8500 BH featuring Dr. Aashrith Saraswathibhatla “Collective cell behavior in epithelial monolayers and breast cancer invasion”
Affiliation: Stanford University
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Prof. Jonathan How

SEMINAR: 2/2 12pm, Klug Conference Room (BH 8500) Featuring Prof. Jonathan How: Efficient, Agile, Data-driven Vision-Based Onboard Autonomy under Uncertainties
Affiliation: MIT
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Prof. Antonio DeSimone

SEMINAR: 1/19 4PM, E4 47-124 featuring Prof. Antonio DeSimone “Morphing and shape control, with applications to biological and bio-inspired motility”
Affiliation: SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies in Italy
Location: 47-124 Engineering IV Learn More

Dr. Jian Zhu

SEMINAR: 1/19 3pm, E4 47-124 featuring DR. Jian Zhu “Soft Actuators and Soft Robots”
Affiliation: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Location: 47-124 Engineering IV Learn More

Professor Joseph Tischler

MAE Department Seminar: 12/15, 12pm, 8500 BH featuring Prof Joseph Tischler “Mapping Phonon Polaritons with Visible Light”
Affiliation: University of Oklahoma
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Dr. Jeff Delaune

MAE SEMINAR: 12/8, 12pm, 8500 BH featuring Dr. Jeff Delaune “Vision-Based Navigation for Mars Helicopters and Other Planetary Applications”
Affiliation: NASA - JPL
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Professor Assad Oberai

DEPT SEMINAR: 11/17, 12pm, 8500BH featuring Prof Oberai ” Solution of Physics-Driven Forward and Inverse Problems via Machine Learning”
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Professor Geoffrey Spedding

MAE FLUID MECHANICS SEMINAR: 11/7, 1pm, 8500 BH featuring Geoffrey Spedding “Aerodynamics at small scale”
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Professor Dennice Gayme

MAE SEMINAR 11/3, 12pm, 8500 BH featuring Dennice Gayme “Wind Farm modeling and control”
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More

Professor Jon Aurnou

FLUID MECHANICS SEMINAR: 10/31, 1pm, 8500 BH, featuring Jon Aurnou “Liquid metal convective turbulence: A window into planetary magnetic field generation”
Affiliation: UCLA
Location: 8500 Boelter Hall Klug Memorial Room Learn More