Mechanics and Materials Engineering

Academic Year 2001-2002

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September 23, 2002

2:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Michael Paukshto, Ph.D.
Optiva, Inc.
South San Francisco, CA
"New Nano-Film Crystal Optical Materials"

August 29, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

E.M. Bringa
Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Simulating shock-induced plasticity in single crystal Cu"

August 19,2002

2:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Neil K. Bourne
Royal Military College of Science
Cranfield University, Shrivenham, UK
"DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS AT RMCS"

July 29, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Jack Shlachter
Hydrodynamics and X-Ray Physics
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Cylindrical Implosion Experiments on the Atlas Pulsed Power Facility"

May 24, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Samuel G. Paikowsky, Sc.D
Geotechnical Engineering Research Laboratory
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Massachusetts
"The Application of Grid-Based Tactile Pressure Technology to Discontinuous Materials"

May 20, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

H.G. Georgiadis
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
(Visiting Researcher, California Institute of Technology)
"Problems of Wave Propagation and Fracture in Materials with Microstructure Governed by Gradient Elasticity"

May 13, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Mark Tillack
Center for Energy Research
University of California, San Diego
"A Joule of Light:  Laser-matter interactions near the ablation threshold"

May 6, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

John J. Gilman
Materials Science & Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
"The Role of Plasmons in the Mechanical Behavior of Solids"

April 23, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Joseph Zarka
École Polytechnique, France
"Fatigue of Structures under Multi-parameter and Variable Amplitude Loadings"

April 22, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Peter M. Pinsky
Division of Mechanics and Computation
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
"A Krylov subspace projection method for simultaneous solution of Helmholtz problems at multiple frequencies"

April 15, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Carlos N. Tomé
Materials Science and Technology Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"POLYCRYSTAL MODELS AND THEIR TECHNOLOGIC APPLICATIONS"

April 8, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Frank W. Zok
Materials Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
"POROUS-MATRIX ALL-OXIDE CERAMIC COMPOSITES"

March 4, 2002

3:30 p.m.
479 EBU-II

J. W.  Ju, Professor and Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
"Micromechanics-Based Effective Elastoplastic and Damage Modeling of Particle-Reinforced Metal-Matrix Composites"

February 20, 2002

2:00 p.m.
CMRR Conference Room

George M. Whitesides
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
"Self-Assembly and Its Applications"

February 4, 2002

1:25 p.m.
341 SURF

Dr. Frank K. Ko
Professor of Materials Engineering
Director, Fibrous Materials Research Center
Drexel University
"Electrospinning – a pathway to Multifunctional Nanofibers"

January 18, 2002

2:30 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Nikilesh Chawla
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Arizona State University
"Mechanical Behavior of Discontinuously Reinforced Aluminum Alloys"

November 19, 2001

3:30 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Dennis E. Grady
Applied Research Associates, Inc.
"Dynamic Fragmentation and the Theories of N.F. Mott"

October 24, 2001

3:30 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Thomas J.R. Hughes
Division of Mechanics and Computation
Stanford University
"Computing Noise Generated by Low Mach Number Turbulent Flows"

October 19, 2001

9:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Sungho Jin
Agere Systems/Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs)
"Design of New Materials for Engineering Applications"

September 26, 2001

2:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Mehdi Farshad
EMPA, Dübendorf, Switzerland 
"End-Anchorage of Fiber Reinforced Composites in Tension"

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