The Stanford S. and Beverly P. Penner Distinguished
Lectures in the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
Sciences
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Previous Lectures:
- Monday, April 14, 2008 3:00 p.m. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"System Identification: From Data to Models "
Professor Lennart Ljung
Division of Automatic Control
Department of Electrical Engineering
Linköpings University
Sweden
- Monday, February 4, 2008 3:00 p.m. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"Biological Motility: Molecules and Mechanochemistry"
Professor L. Mahadevan
Lola England de Valpine
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Affiliate Professor, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Affiliate Professor, Systems Biology (Harvard Medical School)
Harvard University
- Monday, May 14, 2007 3:00 p.m. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"Energy, Sustainability and Development"
Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith
Director
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
- Monday, February 12, 2007
, 3:00 p.m. in
the CMRR Auditorium
"Cryogenic Turbulence"
K. R. Sreenivasan
Director
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Trieste, Italy
- Friday, November 3, 2006, 3:00 p.m. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"Overcoming Inertia
(Measuring Material Response at High Rates of Deformation)"
Rodney J. Clifton
Rush C. Hawkins University Professor
Brown University
- Monday, May 15, 2006, 3:00 p.m. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"Multiscale Modeling of Materials: A Challenge in Predictive Science"
Michael Ortiz
Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
- Friday, April 7, 2006, 3:00 p.m. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"Information and Entropy Flow in Filtering and Control"
Sanjoy K. Mitter
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Monday, February 13, 2006 3:00 P.M. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"Explaining the Flow of Elastic Liquids"
John Hinch
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge
- Monday, May 23, 2005, 2:00 p.m. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"Mechanical Properties of Nanocrystalline Metals: Strong but Troubled"
Julia R. Weertman
Walter P. Murphy Professor Emerita
Department of Materials Science a Engineering
Northwestern University
- Friday, March 4, 2005, 2:00 p.m. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"The Rheology of Concentrated Suspensions;
Latest Variations on a Theme by Albert Einstein"
Professor Andreas Acrivos
Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, Emeritus
The Levich Institute
City College of CUNY, New York
- Friday, November 19, 2004, 2:00 p.m. in the CMRR
Auditorium
"Coordination of Groups of Mobile Autonomous Agents"
Professor A. Stephen Morse
Dudley Professor of Engineering and Computer Science
Yale University
- Friday, May 7, 2004 3:00 P.M.:
"Electrospray Wings For Molecular Elephants "
John B. Fenn
2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Friday, March 5, 2004 3:00 P.M.:
"Nanomechanics of Single Biological Cells and Some Connections
to Human Diseases"
Professor Subra Suresh
Ford Professor of Engineering
Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Friday, November 21, 2003 3:00 P.M.:
"Feedback and the Internet: Control Driving a Rapidly Advancing Technology"
Professor Tamer Basar
Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Champaign
- Monday, April 28, 2003 3:00 P.M.:
"From Surface Tension Induced Flows to Asymmetric
Whirl Combustion - What Motivates a Research Endeavor?"
Professor Irvin Glassman
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
- Friday, February 28, 2003 3:00 P.M.:
"The Fill of the Sandwich: Foams, Frames and Lattices"
Professor Mike Ashby
Engineering Department, Cambridge University
- October 21, 2002 3:00 P.M.: "A Fascination with
Fluids"
Professor Tony Maxworthy
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Southern California
- February 25, 2002: "Modeling and Measurements in
Line-Focus Acoustic Microscopy for Thin-Film Analysis"
Jan B. Achenbach, Northwestern University
- November 30, 2001: "Constrained Control"
Graham Goodwin, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- December 1, 2000: "Interfacial Fluid Mechanics"
Stephen H. Davis, Northwestern University
- June 5, 2000: "Automatic Control - The Hidden
Technology"
Karl J. ÅStrom, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- April 7, 2000: "Mechanical Properties of Thin
Films"
William D. Nix, Stanford University





