Seminars
Mechanical Engineering Seminars typically occur on Wednesdays at 2:30P in Mason Laboratory, Room 107. Upcoming seminars and an archive of previous speakers are given below.
Spring 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Prof. Klaus Schulten, Department of Physics and Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: TBA
Friday, February 6, 2009
Dr. Luca Giomi, Department of Physics, Syracuse University
Title: Defective ground states of toroidal crystals
Friday, January 9, 2009
Dr. Jun Soo Kim, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: The consequences of macromolecular crowding on biochemical reactions: A computational and theoretical study
Fall 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Dr. Ranjit Ranbhor, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University
Title: Stereochemical effects in protein folding and de novo design
Friday, October 17, 2008
Dr. Robert Hoy, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: What can coarse-grained simulations tell us about the mechanics and dynamics of polymers?
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Prof. Jasna Brujic, Center for Soft Matter Research, Department of Physics, New York University
Title: Revisiting protein folding at the single molecule level
Spring 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Prof. M. Scott Shell, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Folding peptides and proteins with all-atom physics: Methods and applications
Fall 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Prof. Dave Thirumalai, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland
Title: RNA folding: From the simple to the complex
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Prof. Venkat Ganesan, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Equilibrium and dynamics in polymer-nanoparticle mixtures
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Prof. Robert Leheny, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Slow, non-diffusive dynamics in glassy soft-matter
Spring 2007
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Prof. Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Title: Cellular Matter: Bubbles and Beyond
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Prof. David Egolf, Department of Physics, Georgetown University
Title: Far From Equilibrium: Close to a Theory?
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Dr. Mattias Schroter, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Statistical Mechanics of Static Granular Media
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Prof. Karen Daniels, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University
Title: Force Chains in Granular Materials: Failure and
Acoustics
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Dr. Olivia White, Department of Physics, MIT
Title: Toward Real Spin Glasses: dynamics, length scales and
ground states
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Prof. Mo Li, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: In Search of Microscopic Mechanisms of Deformation in
Amorphous Solids
Fall 2006
Monday, Dec. 4, 2006
Dr. Wouter Ellenbroek, Department of Physics, Leiden University
Title: Critical Scaling in Linear Response of Jammed Granular Media
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Dr. Craig Maloney, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins
University
Title: From Flow to Fracture: A Discrete Perspective on Material Failure
Spring 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Professor Thomas Truskett, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin
Title: Thermodynamics Predicts How Confinement Modifies the Dynamics of Simple Equilibrium Fluids
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Professor Frank Stillinger, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
Title: Inventing Particle Interactions for Targeted Self-assembly
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Professor Arshad Kudrolli, Department of Physics, Clark University
Title: Particle Shape and Dynamics of Granular Matter
Monday, January 16, 2006
Dr. Patrick Charbonneau, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University
Title: "Selected Studies on Colloids with Short-range Interactions"
Monday, January 9, 2006
Dr. Gregg Lois, Department of Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: "Granular Shear Flow"
Fall 2005
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Dr. Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Colloids in an External Field
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Professor Pablo Debenedetti, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Princeton University
Title: "Thermodynamic and kinetic perspectives on the glass transition"
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Professor Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Department of Physics, Clark University
Title: "Mechanics of Red Blood Cell Shapes"
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Professor Daniel Lacks, Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western
Reserve University
Title: "Energy landscapes and dynamics in materials and proteins under
stress"