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2013 Seminars

Friday, June 7, 2013

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: On the Dynamics of Electromagnetically-Transduced Microresonators and Associated Arrays
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Rhoads (School of Mechanical Engineering,Birck Nanotechnology Center and Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, Purdue University)

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Nonlinear mechanics, morphology and instability of thin structures: from slap bracelets to the Venus flytrap and beyond
Speaker: Dr. Zi Chen (Washington University in St. Louis)

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Development of the piston noise analysis capability
Speaker: Dr. Fanghui Shi (General Motors Powertrain)

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Fluid Instabilities and Mixing in Variable Density Flows at Extreme Conditions
Speaker: Dr. Devesh Ranjan (Texas A&M)

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Montgomery Knight Bldg Building, Room 317
Title: Performance through Deformation and Instability
Speaker: Prof. Katia Bertoldi (Applied Mechanics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

GT Courtesy Listing
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Distributed and Real Time Linear Predictive Control and Computation
Speaker: Dr. Melanie Zeilinger (University of California-Berkeley, Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Computer Sciences)

Monday, April 29, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: The role of tissue properties and cellular metabolism in bone structure and function
Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline Cole (University of Michigan)

Friday, April 26, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: New Materials for Better Batteries: A New Approach of Materials Design and Manufacturing
Speaker: Dr. Hailong Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Thursday, April 25, 2013

NRE/MP Seminar
8:00 a.m.
Scheller College of Business Building, Room 100
Title: NRE 4232/6401 Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Design Final Presentations
Speaker: Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Senior Design Students (GT - NRE/MP Programs)

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
2:00 p.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 442
Title: Technology Opportunities in the Rotorcraft Industry
Speaker: Mr. Chris Van Buiten (Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation)

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: How Neutrons and Synchrotron X-rays Can Be Used to Understand Microstructural and Mechanical Properties in As-Fabricated Nuclear Fuel Plates
Speaker: Dr. Maria Okuniewski (Idaho National Laboratory)

Friday, April 19, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
10:00 a.m.
SEB Building, Room 316
Title: Cracking Up: Micromechanical and Probabilistic Modeling of Dynamic Failure of Brittle Materials from Concrete to Ceramics
Speaker: Dr. Lori Graham-Brady (Johns Hopkins University)

Thursday, April 18, 2013

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Maintaining High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Capabilities for National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Applications
Speaker: Dr. Steven Wyrick (Dept. of Energy (NNSA))

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: MOOCs 101 (Massive Open Online Courses)
Speaker: Dr. Wayne Whiteman (Senior Academic Professional, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering)

Monday, April 15, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Driving Innovation through Multiscale Analysis: Development of a Novel Coal Feeding System for Gasification-based Plants with Carbon Capture
Speaker: Dr. Cristina Botero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

Thursday, April 11, 2013

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Tensor Framelet based Novel Reconstruction Methods for Better and Faster CT Imaging
Speaker: Dr. Hao Gao (Emory University)

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Mechanical Properties Mapping Using Probe Experiments: Fact and Fiction
Speaker: Dr. Warren Oliver (President Nanomechanics Inc., Oak Ridge TN)

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room Auditorium
Title: The Wisdom of Foolishness: Taking on Nuclear Deterrence
Speaker: Dr. Martin Hellman (Stanford University)

Monday, April 8, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Atomic Layer Deposition for Interfacial Engineering of Solar Energy Conversion Devices
Speaker: Dr. Neil Dasgupta (University of California, Berkeley)

Friday, April 5, 2013

Non-ME Seminar
2:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2443
Title: Multilevel Algebraic Preconditioning Techniques with Applications
Speaker: Dr. Yousef Saad (College of Science & Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota)

Thursday, April 4, 2013

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Local Characterization and Imaging of Materials Using Photoacoustic Techniques
Speaker: Prof. Oluwaseyi Balogun (Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University)

Faculty Candidate Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: The fluid dynamics of disease transmission
Speaker: Dr. Lydia Bourouiba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Strong or weak, quick or slow: interpreting viscoelasticity from large amplitude oscillatory flow
Speaker: Dr. James Swan (University of Delaware)

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Advanced Iron Based Cladding to Enhance Safety Margins during Severe Accidents
Speaker: Dr. Kurt Terrani (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Woodruff Annual Distinguished Lecture
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: Mechanical Engineering - Leading the Way to Intelligent System Design
Speaker: Dr. James Truchard
Refreshments to follow

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: High Throughput Nanopatterning with Enabling Applications in Electronics, Energy and Biomedicine
Speaker: Dr. S.V. Sreenivasan (University of Texas at Austin)

Friday, March 29, 2013

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
1:00 p.m.
Instructional Center Building, Room 103
Title: Energy Sustainability and Solar Thermochemical Fuels
Speaker: Prof. Ellen Stechel (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Deputy Director, ASU LightWorks; and Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University)

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
12:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room Atrium/ Auditorium
Title: zSpace - Revolutionizing the way people learn, play, and create
Speaker: Mr. Barton Fiske (zSpace, Director of Systems Engineering, Sunnyvale, CA)

Thursday, March 28, 2013

NRE/MP Seminar
11:30 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Thermodynamic Framework for Damage Poromechanics: Make It or Break It!
Speaker: Dr. Chloé Arson (Georgia Tech, CEE)

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Microfluidic and Nanomedicine Applications in Vascular Disease
Speaker: Dr. Netanel Korin (Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University)

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Simulating the active nonlinear dynamics of the cochlea using a computational multi-physics model
Speaker: Dr. Julien Meaud (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Mechanics and Physics of Shape Memory Polymers
Speaker: Dr. H. Jerry Qi (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Thursday, March 14, 2013

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Using nonlinear ultrasound to characterize radiation-induced damage in nuclear reactor pressure vessel steel
Speaker: Ms. Katie Matlack (Georgia Tech, ME)

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Control of Micro- and Millifluid Dynamics: From Tissue Morphodynamics to Nanomaterial Formulation
Speaker: Dr. YongTae (Tony) Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Thursday, March 7, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
3:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 442
Title: Disruption and Vaporization of Simulated Fuel Droplets under Locally Supersonic Conditions
Speaker: Dr. James C. Hermanson (University of Washington)

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Non-Equilibrium Plasma-Assisted Combustion for Advanced Energy Conversion and Propulsion
Speaker: Dr. Wenting Sun (Princeton University)

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Neutron Detection Refresher Course
Speaker: Dr. Nolan Hertel, P.E. (Georgia Tech, NRE)

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
Title: Targeting, Enhancement and Monitoring of Drug Delivery by Ultrasound
Speaker: Dr. Constantin Coussios (University of Oxford)

Monday, March 4, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Transport Phenomena in Flows of Granular Materials
Speaker: Dr. Ivan Christov (Princeton University)

Friday, March 1, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Microstructure Studies of Metallic Systems under External Stimuli
Speaker: Dr. Djamel Kaoumi (University of South Carolina)

Monday, February 25, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
4:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room Auditorium
Title: Intergrated Experimental and Computational Studies of Energy-Relevant Interfaces
Speaker: Peter Cummings (Vanderbilt University)

Faculty Candidate Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Bio-integrated and Bio-inspired Electronics Demonstrated by Flexible, Stretchable, and Dissolvable Devices
Speaker: Dr. Xian Huang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Friday, February 22, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
10:00 a.m.
Sustainable Education Building (SEB) Building, Room 316
Title: Non-Contact Air-Coupled Sensing for NDT of Concrete Structures
Speaker: Dr. Jinying Zhu (University of Texas at Austin)

Thursday, February 21, 2013

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: National Criticality Experiments Research Center: Capabilities and Experiments
Speaker: Mr. Jesson Hutchinson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

GT Courtesy Listing
11:00 a.m.
Sustainable Education Builiding (SEB) Building, Room 122
Title: Applications of Microwave Nondestructive Testing to Materials Characterization
Speaker: Dr. Kristen Donnell (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

GT Courtesy Listing
11:00 a.m.
Sustainable Education Building, Room 122
Title: Applications of Microwave Nondestructive Testing to Materials Characterization
Speaker: Dr. Kristen M. Donnell (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Monday, February 18, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Multiscale Electrical and Thermal Contact Resistance
Speaker: Dr. Robert Jackson (Auburn University)

GT Courtesy Listing
10:00 a.m.
TSRB Auditorium Building, Room
Title: Biological analogies and environmental lead-user insights as sources of ideas for conceptual design
Speaker: Dr. Li Shu (University of Toronto)

Thursday, February 14, 2013

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Integral Inherently Safe Light Water Reactor (I2S-LWR)
Speaker: Dr. Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Tech, NRE)

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: A Modular Design Architecture for Application to Photovoltaic Reverse Osmosis Systems
Speaker: Dr. Amy Bilton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermal and Thermoelectric Transport in Low-Dimensional Carbon and Topological Insulator Materials
Speaker: Dr. Michael Pettes (University of Texas at Austin)

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Uncertainty Analysis: Epistemic, Aleatory, or Bayes?
Speaker: Dr. Laura Swiler (Sandia National Laboratories)

Monday, February 4, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Semiconductor Nanostructures for Efficient Thermo-electric Energy Conversion
Speaker: Dr. Zlatan Aksamija (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Friday, February 1, 2013

Lecture
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: From Jumping Drops to Thermal Diodes
Speaker: Dr. Chuan-Hua Chen (Duke University)

Thursday, January 31, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
3:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 442
Title: How GPS Changes Everything
Speaker: Ms. Penina Axelrad (University of Colorado Boulder)

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Visualization and Manipulation of Swimmers and Fluids at Microscopic Scale
Speaker: Dr. Bian Qian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Modeling the Mechanical Behavior and Deformed Microstructure of Irradiated bcc Materials Using Continuum Crystal Plasticity
Speaker: Mr. Anirban Patra (Georgia Tech, MS&E)

Monday, January 28, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
12:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 114
Title: Lightweight Carbon Nanotube Buckypaper Material for Multifunctional Applications
Speaker: Mr. Chuck Zhang (H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering)

Thursday, January 24, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
3:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 442
Title: Adaptive Energy Absorption Systems Using Magnetorheological Fluids
Speaker: Mr. Norman Wereley (University of Maryland)

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: What can one do with electron backscatter diffraction? Illustration through case studies
Speaker: Dr. Gwenaelle Proust (School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia)

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Fundamental Understanding of Oxide Nuclear Fuels Using Atomistic Simulations
Speaker: Dr. Rakesh Behera (Georgia Tech, NRE)

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Woodruff School Graduate Women (WSGW) Tech Talks
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 101
Title: The Feasibility of Thermoelectric Power Generation: Linking Materials, Systems, and Cost
Speaker: Dr. Saniya LeBlanc (Stanford University)

Faculty Candidate Seminar
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Enhancing Microfluidics Sample Preparation with 3D Carbon electrodes and Electric Fields
Speaker: Dr. Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Thursday, January 17, 2013

GT Courtesy Listing
3:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room G442
Title: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Aerospace Propulsion Systems
Speaker: Paul Adams (Pratt & Whitney)

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Towards Polymer-Hybrid Thermoelectric Energy Conversion: The Promise of Harvesting Waste-Heat for Power Generation
Speaker: Dr. Shannon Yee (University of California Berkeley)

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Boggs Building, Room 3-47
Title: Antineutrinos for reactor safeguards: effect of fuel loading and burnup on the signal
Speaker: Dr. Anna Erickson (Georgia Tech, NRE)

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Models of Cellular Mechanobiology, from Focal Adhesions to Nuclear Pores
Speaker: Prof. Mohammad R. K. Mofrad (University of California Berkeley)

Monday, January 14, 2013

Faculty Candidate Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Closing the Loop on Uncertainty Propagation and Autonomous Systems Control
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Rogers (Texas A&M University)
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