2017 – 2018 Archive
Date |
Speaker |
From |
Colloquium |
Spring 2018 |
(in 3-270 at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted) | ||
| April 13, 2018 | Prof. Eckart Meiburg |
Distinguished Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara |
Double-Diffusive Sedementation (Ronald F. Probstein Lecture In Engineering Science) |
| April 27, 2018 | Prof. Karthik Ramani |
Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering School of Mechanical Engineering Purdue University |
Smart Interfaces and Interactions for the Physical World (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Design) |
| May 4, 2018 | Prof. Jonathan Hopkins |
Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Los Angeles |
Enabling Engineered Properties via Architectured Materials (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Design) |
Fall 2017 |
(in 3-270 at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted) |
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| October 6, 2017 | Prof. Alexie Kolpak |
Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Atomic-scale engineering of interface phenomena for renewable energy applications (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Micro and Nanotechnology) |
| October 13, 2017 | Prof. Domitilla Del Vecchio |
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Control Theory for Synthetic Biology: From Fundamentals to Application (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Controls, Instrumentation, and Robotics) |
| October 20, 2017 | Prof. Jeehwan Kim |
Assistant Professor Class ‘47 Career Development Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Materials challenges and opportunities in next generation electronics: from non-silicon electronics to artificial neural networks (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Micro and Nanotechnology) |
| October 27, 2017 | Prof. Ken Kamrin |
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Modeling granular materials from fundamentals to applications: Surprising complexity meets surprising simplicity (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Mechanics) |
| November 3, 2017 | Prof. Alexander Smits |
Eugene Higgins Professor Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Princeton University |
Fast and efficient underwater propulsion inspired by biology (Wallace Lecture in Mechanical Engineering) |
| November 17, 2017 | Prof. Konstantin Turitsyn |
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Fragility and Resilience of Modern Power Systems (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Mechanics) |
| December 1, 2017 | Prof. Nicholas Fang |
Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Architectured Metamaterials: Harvesting Light, Tunable Sound Switches and Beyond (Mechanical Engineering Lecture in Micro and Nanotechnology) |
| December 7, 2017 (2:00PM) | Prof. Suhas P. Sukhatme |
Professor Emeritus Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
Can India’s Future Needs of Electricity be met by Renewable Energy Sources? (Rohsenow Lecture in Heat and Mass Transfer) |