MAE DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

SPRING QUARTER, 1999

April 2, 1999

2:30 p.m.

5101 EBU-I

Professor Jie Chen, UC Riverside. Control-Oriented Validation and Invalidation of Uncertainty Models.

April 7, 1999

11:00 a.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen, NDEAA Technologies. NDE and Advanced Actuators at JPL.

April 9, 1999

11:00 a.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. Demitris Kouris, Arizona State University. Elastic Interaction of Surface Defects.

April 9, 1999

2:00 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Kathryn Logan, Georgia Institute of Technology. Performance Improvements by Control of Microstructure in a Ceramic Matrix Composite.

April 13, 1999

10:00 a.m.

341 SERF

Dr. Lin Ye, The University of Sidney. Optimisation of the Resistance Welding Process of Thermoplastic Composites.

April 15, 1999

2:00 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Drs. Brad Lee Holian, Peter S. Lomdahl and Timothy C. Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Shock Waves at the Multi-Million Atom Scale.

April 16, 1999

2:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Roy Smith, UC Santa Barbara. Modeling Nonlinear Behavior with Linear Fractional Models.

April 21, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. S.S. Sadhal, University of Southern California. Singular Perturbation Analysis of Accoustically Levitated Particles.

April 23, 1999

2:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. James D. Lang, Boeing and USAF (Retired). Unsteady Separating Flows & Dynamic Lift.

April 23, 1999

3:30 p.m.

341 SERF

Dr. Peter Krysl, California Institute of Technology. Computational Solid Mechanics: Algorithms and Applications.

April 28, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Paul K. Newton, University of Southern California. Integrable Vortex Motion on a Sphere.

April 30, 1999

2:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Robert L. Kosut, SC Solutions. Modelling and Control of Atomically Engineered Materials.

May 5, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. P. Ripa, CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico. On the Motion of an Isolated "Shallow Water" Vortex on the Sphere.

May 7, 1999

2:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Mark Erickson, Voyan Technology. Rapid Process Recipe Optimization for Batch Thermal Reactors.

May 14, 1999

2:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Srinivas Adusumilli, Arizona State University. Integrated MIMO Identification and Robust PID Controller Design Through Loop Shaping.

May 14, 1999

2:30 p.m.

341 SERF

Dr. Vitali Volovoi, Georgia Institute of Technology. Elastic Deformation in Composite Beams: Lessons Learned.

May 18, 1999

11 a.m./1 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. Andrei V. Fursikov, Moscow State University. Mini-Course: Approximate Controllability of Navier-Stokes Equations.
May 20, 1999

11 a.m./1 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. Andrei V. Fursikov, Moscow State University. Mini-Course: Approximate Controllability of Navier-Stokes Equations.
May 25, 1999

4:00 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Professor Robert Skelton, Department of AMES, UCSD. System Design: The Absentee in System Theory.

May 26, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Geno Pawlak, University of Washington. Turbulent Mixing, Entrainment and Development of Downslope Flows.

May 27, 1999

2:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Professor Kristin Y. Pettersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Underactuated Ship Tracking Control, Theory and Experiments.
May 27, 1999

3:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Thor I. Fossen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Visiting Professor, Department of AMES, UCSD. Nonlinear Output Feedback Control of Propeller Thrust in Ship Diesel-Electric Systems: Compensation of Propeller Losses Caused by Axial Water Inflow and Water Currents.
May 28, 1999

11 a.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. David M. Barnett, Stanford University. Things You Thought You Knew About Dislocations and About Which You Were Afraid to Ask.
May 28, 1999

2:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Professor Kyle T. Alfriend, Texas A&M University. Space Debris and Collision Avoidance for the International Space Station.
May 28, 1999

11 a.m./ 1 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Andrei V. Fursikov, Moscow State University. Mini-Course: Approximate Controllability of Navier-Stokes Equations.
June 2, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Professor Jean-Marc Chomaz, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. On the Origin of the Pancake Turbulence.
June 9, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. James W. Rottman, AMES Department, UCSD. The Non-Boussinesq Lock Exchange Problem and Related Phenomena.
June 10, 1999

11:00 a.m.

479 EBU-II

Professor William McEneaney, North Carolina State University. Max-Plus Spectral Methods for Nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs.