Mechanics and Materials Engineering

Academic Year 2003-2004

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August 16, 2004

2:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Prof. Dr. Mehdi Farshad
Polymers/Composites Laboratory
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research
EMPA, Switzerland
 Magnetoactive Polymer Composites

June 21, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

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”

May 24, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

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”

May 17, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

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?”

May 10, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Luis Dorfmann, Ph.D., P.E.
Institute of Structural Engineering
Vienna
Modelling the Mechanical response of Elastomers:  Elasticity, Inelasticity and Magnetoelasticity

May 3, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Lallit Anand
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Superelasticity of Crystalline Shape Memory Materials: Application to Ti-Ni Polycrystals

April 28, 2004

2:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

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”

April 19, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

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"

April 12, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Assistant Professor Peter Krysl
Structural Engineering
University
of California, San Diego
“The Big Spin: Integration Algorithms for Rigid Body Motion”

April 5, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Ali S. Argon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Plasticity of Amorphous Silicon: A Space Network Solid”

March 15, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

CANCELLED

David H. Lassila
Materials Technology Leader
Engineering Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“Multiscale Studies of bcc Metals: Simulations and Experiments”

March 1, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor G. Ravichandran
Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
“Large Electrostrictive Actuation of Ferroelectric Perovskite Single Crystals”

February 23, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Erin Rericha
Center
for Nonlinear Dynamics
University
of Texas at Austin
“Shock Waves in Granular Flows”

February 17, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

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”

February 9, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

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”

February 2, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Ricardo B. Schwarz
Structure/Properties Relations Group
Los Alamos National Labs
"Physics of Hydrogen, Deuterium, and Tritium in Palladium"

January 26, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Shu Chien
Chair of the Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
"Bioengineering at UCSD and Beyond"

December 8, 2003

CANCELLED

 

 

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

David H. Lassila
Materials Technology Leader
Engineering Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“Multiscale Studies of bcc Metals: Simulations and Experiments”

December 1, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

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"

November 10, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

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”

October 20, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

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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