Mechanics and Materials Engineering

Academic Year 2002-2003

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June 9, 2003

2:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Charles R. Steele
Mechanics and Computation
Stanford University

“Recent Progress Toward Understanding Hearing”

June 3, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Michael Paukshto, Ph.D.
Optiva, Inc.
South San Francisco, CA
“Cascade Crystallization of Nano-Film Optical Materials”

June 2, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

ProfessorJoanna McKittrick
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
“Surface Studies of Titanium for Implant Applications”

May 19, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Luke L. Hsiung
Chemistry and Materials Science
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
”A Dynamic Dislocation Mechanism for Shock-Induced Displacive Transformations”

May 12, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor H. Thomas Hahn
Raytheon Professor and Chair
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles
”Polymer Nanocomposites

April 21, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Marc Madou
Chancellor Professor, UC Irvine
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
”Nanotechnology: Icarus Revisited ?”

April 14, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor T. I. Zohdi
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University
of California, Berkeley
“Nonstandard inverse problems in micro-macro mechanics”

April 7, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Otis Walton
Grainflow Dynamics
Livermore, California
“Effects of interparticle forces on micron-scale pulmonary pharmaceutical powders”

March 10, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Tim Wright
Army Research Laboratory
"COMPUTATIONAL SOLID MECHANICS FOR IMPACT PHYSICS:  MODELING DAMAGE FOR SHEAR BANDS AND VOIDS"

February 24, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Panayiotis Papadopoulos
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
University
of California, Berkeley
"Experiments and Modeling of the Superelastic Effect in Shape-Memory Alloys"

February 13, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Peter Lomdahl
Theoretical Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Large-scale Parallel Simulations of Phase-transitions in Metals"

February 10, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Peter G. Simpkins
Syracuse University, New York
"Fluid mechanics and optical fiber defects"

February 6, 2003

3:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Ted Belytschko
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University

"Arbitrary discontinuities and level sets in finite elements methods"

January 17, 2003

2:00 p.m.
CMRR
Auditorium

Dr. Robert S. Vecchio
Lucius Pitkin, Inc.
"WORLD TRADE CENTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE"

December 9, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor G. Ravichandran
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories
California Institute of Technology
"Mechanical Behavior of a Bulk Metallic Glass and its Composite Over a Wide Range of Strain Rates and Temperatures"

December 2, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser
Center
of Excellence for Advanced Materials
University
of California San Diego
"Ionic Polymer-metal Composites as Soft Actuators and Sensors:  Experiments and Nanoscale Modeling"

November 25, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Daniel R. Mumm
Princeton Materials Institute
Princeton University

"Cellular metals for lightweight multifunctional structures and platform protection"

November 4, 2002

1:00 p.m.
Reissner Conference Room
SERF 341

David Steigmann
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University
of California, Berkeley
"Modern Developments in E. Reissner's Tension Field Theory"

November 4, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

George T. (Rusty) Gray III
Materials Science and Technology Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Dynamic Deformation and Modeling of Inert and Energetic Materials"

October 28, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya
California Institute of Technology
"Shape-memory alloys: From microstructure to macroscopic properties"

October 21, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Nasr M. Ghoniem
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
UCLA
"DESIGNING MATERIALS WITH POWERFUL COMPUTERS AND THE MULTISCALE MODELING APPROACH"

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"

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