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August 16, 2004
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2:00
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479 EBU-II
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Prof. Dr. Mehdi Farshad
Polymers/Composites Laboratory
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research
EMPA, Switzerland
“Magnetoactive
Polymer Composites”
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June 21, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor Atul H. Chokshi
Department of Metallurgy
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
*Currently on sabbatical leave at Caltech
“Criteria for Optimum Forming of Bulk
Metallic Glasses”
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May 24, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor Nicolas Triantafyllidis
Aerospace Engineering Department
The University of Michigan
“Bifurcation and Stability of Multi-lattices
with Applications to Martensitic Transformations in
Shape Memory Alloys”
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May 17, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor Frederick Milstein
Mechanical & Environmental Engineering &
Materials
University of California,
Santa Barbara
“Atomic Pattern Formation at the Onset
of Stress Induced Elastic Instability: Fracture or Phase Change?”
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May 10, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor Luis Dorfmann, Ph.D., P.E.
Institute of Structural Engineering
Vienna
“Modelling the
Mechanical response of Elastomers: Elasticity, Inelasticity and Magnetoelasticity”
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May 3, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor Lallit Anand
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Superelasticity of Crystalline Shape
Memory Materials: Application to Ti-Ni Polycrystals”
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April 28, 2004
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2:00
p.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor J. Tinsley Oden
Associate Vice President for Research
Director, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences (ICES)
Cockrell Family Regents' Chair #2 in Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
“ESTIMATION AND CONTROL OF MODELING AND
APPROXIMATION ERROR IN MECHANICS: Applications to Multiscale Models of
Heterogeneous Materials”
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April 19, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor Nicholas Kioussis
Department of Physics
Computational Materials
Theory Center
California State University
Northridge
“Effect of chemistry on the electronic
and mechanical properties materials: Linking ab initio and continuum approaches"
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April 12, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Assistant Professor Peter
Krysl
Structural Engineering
University of California,
San Diego
“The Big Spin: Integration Algorithms
for Rigid Body Motion”
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April 5, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor Ali S. Argon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Plasticity of Amorphous Silicon: A
Space Network Solid”
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March 15, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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CANCELLED
David H. Lassila
Materials Technology Leader
Engineering Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“Multiscale Studies of bcc Metals:
Simulations and Experiments”
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March 1, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor G. Ravichandran
Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
“Large Electrostrictive Actuation of Ferroelectric
Perovskite Single Crystals”
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February 23, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Erin Rericha
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
University of Texas
at Austin
“Shock Waves in Granular Flows”
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February 17, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Dr. Peter Lomdahl
Los Alamos National Laboratory and
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD
“Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Studies
of Complex Phenomena in Solids and Fluids”
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February 9, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Dr. Robert Lucas
Director of the Computational Sciences Division
Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
University of Southern
California
“Perspectives on Supercomputing: Applications, Programming Tools, and the
Future”
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February 2, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Ricardo B. Schwarz
Structure/Properties Relations Group
Los Alamos National Labs
"Physics of Hydrogen, Deuterium,
and Tritium in Palladium"
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January 26, 2004
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor Shu Chien
Chair of the Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
"Bioengineering at UCSD and
Beyond"
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December 8, 2003
CANCELLED
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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David H. Lassila
Materials Technology Leader
Engineering Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“Multiscale Studies of bcc Metals:
Simulations and Experiments”
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December 1, 2003
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Thomas J. Ahrens
Professor of Geophysics
Seismological Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
"Effect
of Phase Changes on the Attenuation of
Shock Waves and Impact Cratering"
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November 10, 2003
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Arun Majumdar
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University
of California, Berkeley
Materials Science Division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
“Mechanics and Dynamics at the
Interface of Hard and Soft Materials”
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October 20, 2003
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11:00
a.m.
479 EBU-II
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Professor Marc André Meyers
Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California,
San Diego
“GROWTH, STRUCTURE, AND MECHANICAL
RESPONSE OF ABALONE SHELLS”
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