Mechanics and Materials Engineering

Academic Year 2003-2004

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May 9, 2005

2:00 p.m.
584 EBU-II

Dr. Dan B. Miracle
Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
An Atomic Structural Model for Metallic Glasses

May 2, 2005

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Sadik Esener
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of California, San Diego
Photonics: A Link from the Micro into the Nanoworld

April 18, 2005

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor David B. Williams
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Lehigh University
Nanometer-scale Analysis of Grain Boundary Segregation in Metals and Alloys

March 28, 2005

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor K. Komvopoulos
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Nanoscale Surface Science and Engineering – The Beginning of a New Era?”

March 2, 2005

1:30 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Eduard Arzt
Deputy Managing Director
Max Planck Institut fuer Metallforschung
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
Biological and Artificial Attachment Devices: Lessons For Materials Scientists From Flies and Geckos

February 14, 2005

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

R. M. Brannon, Ph.D.
Geomechanics
Sandia National Laboratories
Accepted, Rejected, and Questionable Tenets of Phenomenological Plasticity Theory for Brittle Media

February 7, 2005

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor H.T. Soh
Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Department of Mechanical & Environmental Engineering
University of California ­ Santa Barbara
“Searching through 50 Billion Cells Quickly”

January 31, 2005

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Cengiz S. Ozkan
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Co-Faculty of Electrical and Chemical Engineering
Member, Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense
University
of California, Riverside
Nanocarbon Materials for Active Electronics and Bio-Nanotechnology”

January 24, 2005

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser
Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
“A New Horizon in Engineering Sciences: Biomimetic Multifunctional Materials”

January 13, 2005

1:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Kelly Carney
NASA Glenn Research Center
Cleveland, OH
“A Summary of the Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy and the Use of LS-Dyna in the Accident Investigation and Return to Flight Efforts”

January 10, 2005

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Robert Hurt
Division of Engineering
Brown University
“Nature's Minuet in C: Thermal, Catalytic, and Supramolecular Routes to New Carbon Nanomaterials

November 22, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Bill Stronge
Dept. of Engineering
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom

“BOUNCE OF DEFORMABLE BALLS”

November 15, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Ron Gronsky
Materials Science & Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
“Dimensional Restriction for Enhanced Performance:  Thermoelectric Nanowires

November 1, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Neil C. Holmes
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“Shock Compression:  Going Beyond the Equation of State”

October 28, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Prof. Ing. Michele Ciavarella
CNR, Politecnico di Bari
ITALY
“Micro-Mechanics of Contact Interaction: Rough Surfaces and Thermoelastic Stability”

October 25, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

 Professor John Gilman
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Science
“Hardness Rationalized”

October 18, 2004

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”

 

 

 

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