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2008 Seminars

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Structural Mechanics Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Trabecular Bone as a Hierarchical Structural Composite Material
Min Zhou, ME, MSE
Speaker: Iwona Jasiuk (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Monday, April 28, 2008

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Molecular Biomechanics: New Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker: Gang Bao (Georgia Tech)

Friday, April 25, 2008

Structural Mechanics Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Experimental Techniques to Assess the Role of Microstructure in the Very High Cycle Fatigue Behavior of Structural Alloys
David L. McDowell
Speaker: J. Wayne Jones (University of Michigan)

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Introduction to the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System
Speaker: Jeff Portell and Matthew McGinnis (Accuray, Inc.)

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Aerospace Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 442
Title: Highly Nonlinear Solitary Waves in Granular Systems
Speaker: Chiara Daraio (Caltech)

Monday, April 21, 2008

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 311
Title: Modeling and Simulation in Design
Speaker: Mahesh Mani (National Institute of Standards Technology)

Friday, April 18, 2008

Structural Mechanics Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Dynamics of Highly Flexible Structures Including Post-Buckling
Aldo A. Ferri, ME
Speaker: Lawrence Virgin (Duke University)

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Nolecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Positron Emission Tomography in Drug Development
Speaker: Jonathon A. Nye (Emory University)

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Materials Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Interactive Substrates: What Polymer Grafted Layers Can Do?
Speaker: Igor Luzinov (Clemson University)

Monday, April 14, 2008

Woodruff Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: Mechanical Engineering in Micro/Nano System Revolution
Speaker: Liwei Lin (University of California)

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Non-Invasive Real-Time Molecular Imaging of Cancer in Vivo Using Conjugated Quantum Dots
Speaker: Sunil Krishnan (The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Geometric Modeling in Computer-Aided Nano-Design
Speaker: Yan Wang (University of Central Florida)

Friday, April 4, 2008

Manufacturing Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: Small-Scale Nanopositioners for Nano-Scale Research and Manufacturing
Speaker: Martin L. Culpepper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Gold Nanoparticle-Aided Radiation/Thermal Therapy: Basic Concepts and Current Development
Speaker: Sang Hyun Cho, (Georgia Tech)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermocapillary Convection During Evaporation
Speaker: Fei Duan (University of Toronto, Canada)

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Materials Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Basic Science of Liquids and Glasses: Understanding the Glass Transition
Speaker: Dr. Takeshi Egami (University of Tennessee)

Friday, March 28, 2008

CAE/Design Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 201
Title: Continuum and Atomic-scale Modeling of Self-positioning Nanostructures
Speaker: Dr. G. P. Nikishkov (University of Aizu, Japan)

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Linear Scaling Enriched Finite Element Solution of the Coulomb Problem in Solids
Speaker: N. Sukumar (University of California)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Integrated Design of Multilevel Systems with Applications to Materials and Products Design
Speaker: Jitesh H. Panchal (Georgia Tech)

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Structural Mechanics Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Materials for Energy
Speaker: Edgar Lara-Curzio (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Structural Mechanics Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Materials for Energy
Speaker: Edgar Lara-Curzio (ORNL)

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Snakes on a Plane
Dr. David Ku
Speaker: David Hu (The Courant Institute)

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Medical Physics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MS&E Buillding, Room 3201A
Title: Multimodal Imaging of Breast Cancer in Genetically Engineered Mouse Models
Speaker: Minghua Xu (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201-A
Title: Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Simulation Methodologies for Large-Scale Computational Models
Speaker: Hany S. Abdel-Khalik (North Carolina State University)

Monday, February 25, 2008

Nuclear Engineering Seminar
2:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Modeling of Multiphysics Problems in Nuclear Reactors
Speaker: Pablo Rubiolo (Westinghouse Electric Company)

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: History of the Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor - Mapping Its Role in the Evolving Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
Speaker: Eric Loewen (GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Medical Physics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Environmental Science & Technology Building, Room L-1114
Title: Circular Reconstruction and Scatter Correction in X-ray Cone-Beam CT
Speaker: Lei Zhu (Stanford University)

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Complex Fluids Under Confinement and Flow
Speaker: Amy Shen (Washington University)

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Managing Patient Motion in Image Guided Radiation Therapy
Speaker: Eduard Schreibmann (Emory University School of Medicine)

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Materials Science Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Nanotechnology for Cheaper and More Durable Fuel Cells
Speaker: Yushan Yan (University of California - Riverside)

NRE/MP Seminar Series
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Radiobiology and Toxicology of Po-210
Speaker: Richard Toohey (Health Physics Society)

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Woodruff Seminar
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Physics of Coalescing Drops at Planar Interfaces
Minami Yoda
Speaker: H. Pirouz Kavelpour (University of California)

NRE/MP Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: CSA Laser Scanning in the Nuclear Industry
Speaker: Amadeus M. Burger (CSA, Inc.)

Aerospace Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series
11:00 a.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 442
Title: Futures of Energetics
Speaker: Dennis Bushnell (NASA Langley Research Center)

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: The State of Diagnostic Medical Physics Today - aka Market Forces 101
Speaker: W. Geoffrey West (West Physics Consulting)

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Woodruff Seminar
2:00 p.m.
MRDC Building,, Room 4211
Title: Critical Heat Flux, Hotspots and Diabatic Flow Pattern Map for Boiling in Microchannels
Dr. Srinivas Garimella
Speaker: John R. Thome (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)

Woodruff Colloquium
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: Interfacial Fluid Mechanics: Past, Present and Future (The 2004 APS Fluid Dynamics Prize Talk)
Dr. Paul Neitzel
Speaker: G. M. Homsy (UCSB)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): Application to Small Animal Heart Models
Speaker: Tom C-C Hu (Medical College of Georgia)

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

DLS Seminar
2:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 1116 West
Title: 100 Years of Digital Data
Speaker: Fran Berman (University of California, San Diego)

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