MAE DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

FALL QUARTER, 1998

December 16, 1998

3:30 p.m. 479 EBU-II

Professor Surajit Sen, State University of New York at Buffalo. Soliton-Like Objects in Granular Beds.

December 11, 1998

11 a.m. 479 EBU-II

Professor John Gilman, UCLA. Electronic Basis of the Strength of Materials.

December 4, 1998

1:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Dr. Lieven Vandenberghe, UCLA. Semi-definite Programming Duality and Linear System Theory: Connections and Implications for Computation.

December 3, 1998

2 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Professor Ted Johnson, University College, London, UK. The Boundary Layers and Jets Near Cylinders in Rotating Flow.

December 3, 1998

11:00 a.m. 584 EBU-II

Dr. Enrique Zuazua, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Large-Time Behavior for Scalar Convection-Diffusion Equations.

November 30, 1998

1:00 p.m. 479 EBU-II

Dr. Oleg Yu. Imanuvilov, Iowa State University. Exact Controllability of the Navier-Stokes System.

November 25, 1998

11 a.m. 584 EBU-II

Dr. Stuart Dalziel, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK. Flow-Induced Resuspension.

November 20, 1998

1 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Dr. Victor Shubov, Texas Tech University. Zero-Pole Dynamics and Stability for Boundary Controlled Viscous Burgers Equation.

November 19, 1998

2 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Dr. Chris Jones, DERA, Porton UK. The Importance of Concentration Fluctuations in Atmospheric Dispersion.

November 16, 1998

2:30 p.m. 479 EBU-II

Dr.-Ing. Valery I. Levitas, University of Hannover, Germany. Strain-Induced Chemical Reactions in Shear Band: Continuum Thermomechanical and Kinetic Modeling.

November 13, 1998

1 p.m. 479 EBU-II

Dr. Hiroshi Ito, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. State-Dependent Scaling Design for Nonlinear Robust Control.

November 6, 1998

2 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Dr. Phil Cleaver, British Gas Technology, UK. Hazards Research in BG Technology.

November 6, 1998

1 p.m. 479 EBU-II

Dr. Zhong-Ping Jiang, UC Riverside. Stabilization and Tracking of Mobile Robots – A Backstepping Approach.

October 30, 1998

1 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Professor Ken Mease, University of California, Irvine, Atmospheric Entry Guidance for Earth and for Mars.

October 29, 1998

2 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Dr. Stefan Llewellyn Smith, DAMTP, The University of Cambridge, England. Scattering of Acoustic Waves by a Vortex.

October 26, 1998

2 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Professor M. Yavuz Corapcioglu, Texas A&M University. Sealing Impoundment Leaks by Electrophoresis.

October 23, 1998

1:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Professor J. Karl Hedrick, University of California, Berkeley. Nonlinear Controller Development for Automated Vehicle Applications.

October 16, 1998

12:00 Noon 584 EBU-II

Professor Robert Stengel, Princeton University. Dangerous Encounters of an Aeronautical Kind.

October 12, 1998

2 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Dr. Evgeni Fedorovich, The University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Combining Numerical and Wind-Tunnel Simulation Approaches for Investigation of the Turbulence Structure in a Convective Entrainment Zone with Imposed Shear.

October 2, 1998

3:00 p.m. 479 EBU-II

Professor Hideyuki Hori, The University of Tokyo. Thermomechanics Based Theory of Localization and Analysis of Ultimate Strength of Structures.

October 1, 1998

2 p.m. 584 EBU-II

Professor Sergio E. Serrano, The University of Kentucky. Exploration of Non-Linear Environmental Dynamics with Analytical Decomposition.

September 28, 1998

1:30 p.m. 479 EBU-II

Dr. Paul F. Browning, Solar Turbines, Inc., San Diego. Crack Tip Phenomena in Gas Turbine Alloys.

September 25, 1998

1 p.m. 479 EBU-II

Dr. J.R. Willis, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Influence of Viscoplasticity on Crack Front Disorder.

September 24, 1998

2 p.m. 479 EBU-II

Dr. C.P. Caulfield, The University of Bristol, England. The Life Cycle of Stably Stratified Shear Flow: Instabilities, Transition and Mixing.