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2009 Seminars

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Woodruff Distinguished Lecture
11:00 a.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
A reception will be held after the lecture. To learn more about this lecture, go to www.me.gatech.edu/news/gwwlectures

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Manufacturing & Design Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Let’s Include Value in Value Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Harry Cook (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Monday, November 30, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Modeling and Applications of Vibration Energy Harvesting Using Piezoelectric Transduction
Speaker: Mr. Alper Erturk (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA)

Friday, November 20, 2009

Fluid Mechanics Seminar
1:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Topological Behavior of Rotating Two-Fluid Interfaces
Speaker: Prof. Yasushi Takeda (Hokkaido University, Division of Energy and Environmental Systems)

Thursday, November 19, 2009

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Design Features of IRIS, an Advanced Integral Pressurized Water Reactor
Speaker: Dr. Bojan Petrovic (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Friday, November 13, 2009

Non-ME Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Klaus Building Building, Room KACB 1116W
Title: Evolving Efficiencies in Data Center Design and Operation-- Please note corrected time change**
Speaker: Mr. Scottt Noteboom (Yahoo, Sr. Director of Data Center Engineering and Operations)

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Open Forum on Energy and the Environment: The Impact of CO2 on Global Climate Change --
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ford ES&T Building, Room L1255
Title: Feasibility and Technology Options for CO2 Capture From Transportation and Distributed Sources
Speaker: Andrei Fedorov (Woodruff School of ME, Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

NRE/MP Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Wardlaw Center Building, Room Gordy Room
Title: Key Challenges Currently Faced by the NRC and the Nuclear Industry
Speaker: Chairman Gregory Jaczko (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

Gegenheimer Lecture on Innovation
11:00 a.m.
Ferst Center Building, Room Theater
Title: NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Speaker: Mr. David Phelps (CreoSalus, Inc.)

Friday, October 30, 2009

Guest Speaker
1:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 201
Title: SET-BASED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN EXPLORATION
Speaker: Dr. Carolyn Conner Seepersad (The University of Texas at Austin)

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Manufacturing Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Multiscale Manufacturing and Dynamics Laboratory: An Overview
Speaker: Prof. O. Burak Ozdoganlar (Carnegie Mellon University,Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering)

NRE 8011/8012 and MP 6011/6012 Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: A New Single-Crystal Filtered Beamline for Neutron Capture Therapy Research
Speaker: Dr. David Nigg (Idaho National Laboratory)

Monday, October 26, 2009

Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi
2:00 p.m.
College of Computing/Klaus Building, Room 1116E
Title: Half a Century of Control Theory: A Personal Perspective
Speaker: Dr. Petar Kokotovic (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Thursday, October 15, 2009

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Dynamic Micro Multi Leaf Collimator Dosimetry
Speaker: Mr. George Andl (Elekta)

Thursday, October 8, 2009

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Simulation Tools for Computational Continuum Mechanics and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Speaker: Dr. Emilio Baglietto (CD-ADAPCO)

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Open Forum on Energy and the Environment: The Impact of CO2 on Global Climate Change --
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ford ES&T Building, Room L1255
Title: A New CO2 Capture Platform: Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials for Gas Treatment
Speaker: Sunho Choi (Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Advanced Variance Reduction Methods and Their Implementation
Speaker: Dr. Douglas Peplow (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Friday, September 25, 2009

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Effects of Panel Stiffness on Slamming Responses of Composite Hull Panels
Speaker: Dr. Mark Battley (Centre for Advanced Composite Materials, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Acoustics & Dynamics Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: S-matrices, Localization and Mesoscopics in Structures and Rooms
Speaker: Dr. Richard Weaver (University of Illinois)

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: NSF Opportunities for Thermal Transport Researchers
Speaker: Dr. Theodore (Ted) Bergman (National Science Foundation)

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room Auditorium
Title: Standing in balance: translating motor intentions into motor commands in animals, humans, and robots
Speaker: Dr. Lena Ting (Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

GT Courtesy Listing
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Phase Equilibrium in the Pd-Hydrogen System
Speaker: Dr. Ricardo B. Schwarz (Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Robotics - A Transformative Technology
Speaker: Dr. Henrik Christensen (Georgia Tech, College of Computing)

Friday, September 18, 2009

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Condensation in Microchannels
Speaker: Prof. John Rose (Queen Mary University, London UK)

Thursday, September 17, 2009

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: Toward Adaptive Radiation Therapy
Speaker: Dr. Lei Zhu (GA Institute of Technology, Medical Physics)

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room Auditorium
Title: Working for a Start-Up: Real World Experiences
Speaker: Dr. Rebeccah Brown (Spine Medica LLC)

Monday, September 14, 2009

GT Courtesy Listing
3:00 p.m.
Student Services Building, Auditorium Building, Room 117
Title: Math at Top Speed (Exploring and Breaking Myths in the Drag)
Speaker: Dr. Richard Tapia (Rice University)

GT Courtesy Listing
2:00 p.m.
Molecular Science and Engineering Building Building, Room 3201A
Title: Job Creation in the Nuclear Renaissance
Speaker: Christine Todd Whitman (CASEnergy Co-Chair, Former EPA Administrator and New Jersey Governor)

Thursday, September 10, 2009

NRE/MP Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2404
Title: The MC21 Monte Carlo Code, and its use in Comparing Models for Bound Hydrogen Scattering
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Sutton (Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory)

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Open Forum on Enegy and the Environment: The Impact of CO2 on Global Climate Change --
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ford ES&T Building, Room L1255
Title: A new CO2 Capture Platform: Hollow Fiber Sorbents for Post-Combustion Recovery
Speaker: R. Lively (Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Phonon Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices
Speaker: Prof. Alan McGaughey (Carnegie Mellon University)

Friday, August 21, 2009

Mechanics of Materials Seminar
1:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Validation of Multi-Variable Design Equations for Strain Based Design of Gas Pipelines
Speaker: Dr. Karel Minnaar (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas, USA)

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MARC Building, Room 114
Title: Towards PLM systems that support the emergence of product definition in engineering design
Speaker: Dr. Nadège Troussier (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France)

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Love Building, Room 210
Title: Suppression of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Photovoltaic Nanomaterials towards Efficiency Enhancement
Speaker: Prof. Xiulin Ruan (School of Mechanical Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana)

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

GT Courtesy Listing
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Room 1128
Title: Translational Research Capabilities at SJTRI and
Speaker: Jai Pal Singh (St. Joseph’s Translational Research Institute)

NRE Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: “Research in Basic and Applied Nuclear Detection for Nuclear Security and Safeguards Applications”
Speaker: Dr. Jason P. Hayward (University of Tennessee(Knoxville, TN)/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Acoustics & Dynamics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 109
Title: Bright and Dark Zone Control of Sound and its Recent Applications, Including Personal Audio System
Speaker: Dr. Yang Hann Kim (Kaist University)

Monday, June 29, 2009

Mechanical Engineering
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Understanding Generation and Mitigation of Underwater Noise from Pile Driving
Speaker: Dr. Mardi Hastings (Ohio State University)

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Benchmarking the Competitiveness of the United States in Mechanical Engineering Basic Research
Speaker: Ward Winer (Georgia Tech)

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: The Fundamental Properties of Magneto Rheological (MR) Fluids in Squeeze Mode
Speaker: Mehdi Ahmadian (Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Friday, May 22, 2009

Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Polonium-210 in Cigarettes
Speaker: Dade W. Moeller (Professor Emeritus, Harvard School of Public Health, Dade Moeller technical Services)

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Advanced Micro-Mechanical Systems for Audio, Ultrasound, and Nanoscale Science and Technology
Speaker: Levent Degertekin (Georgia Tech)

Friday, May 8, 2009

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Guggenheim Building, Room 246
Title: Hierarchy Driven Characterization of Ceramic and Polymer Matrix Composites for Aerospace and Energy Applications
Speaker: Vikas Tomar (University of Notre Dame)

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Open Forum on Energy and the Environment: The Impact of CO2 on Global Climate Change --
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ford ES&T Building, Room L1255
Title: Existing Technologies for CO2 Capture and Sequestration
Speaker: TBA
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermomechanical Reliability Evaluations and Analyses of Microelectronic and Electronic Packages
Speaker: Charles Ume (Georgia Tech)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Stress-Dependent Chemical Potentials and Their Application to Crystalline Solids
Speaker: Jianmin Qu (Georgia Tech)

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Design, Fabrication, and Reliability Challenges for Nano- and Micro-Structures
Speaker: Suresh Sitaraman (Georgia Tech)

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: Predicting Nuclear Proliferation: From Technological Determinism to Strategic Culture
Speaker: Margaret Kosal (Georgia Tech)

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: Neutron Thermalization and VHTR Considerations
Speaker: Ayman I. Hawari (North Carolina State University, Nuclear Engineering)

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Courtesy Joint Appointment Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: A Wave Propagation Approach to Structural Health Monitoring and to the Analysis of Periodic Structures
Speaker: Massimo Ruzzene (School of Aeronautical Engineering, Georgia Tech)

Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: A Wave Propagation Approach to Structural Healt Monitoring and to the Analysis of Periodic Structures
Speaker: Massimo Ruzzene (Georgia Tech)

Monday, April 20, 2009

Seminar
2:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Shape Optimization Using Constructive Representations
Speaker: Jiaqin Chen (General Electric)

Seminar
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Montgomery Knight Building, Room 317
Title: Active Structural Damage-Identification of Time-Varying Rotordynamics Systems
Speaker: Hans DeSmidt (University of Tennessee)

Friday, April 17, 2009

Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 2407
Title: Soft Activie Materials
Speaker: Zhigang Suo (Harvard University)

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Model Based Engineering and Discrete Event Logistics Systems
Speaker: Leon McGinnis (Georgia Tech)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering, Room 3201A
Title: Back to the Future with Nuclear MNAs?: Confronting the Credible Commitment Problem
Speaker: Adam N. Stulberg (Georgia Tech)
Refreshments will be served

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The 2009 George H. and Faye C. Sparks Forum in Ethics and Engineering
3:00 p.m.
Student Center Theater
Title: Humanitarian Engineering Education
Speaker: Deborah J. Goodings (University of Maryland)
There will be a reception after the forum

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Transient Mass Spectrometric Imaging of Submerged Interfaces
Speaker: Peter Kottke (Georgia Tech)

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication (MOX) Facility
Speaker: Clay H. Ramsey (U.S. Department of Energy)

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Open Forum on Energy and the Environment: The Impact of CO2 on Global Climate Change --
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ford ES&T Building, Room L1255
Title: Understanding Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions
Speaker: A. Nenes (School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: Future of Breast Care, Mammographic Screening
Speaker: Kenneth W. Brooks (New Technology Development, Hologic Inc.)

Friday, March 27, 2009

Structural Mechanics Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Fracture Mechanics Assessment of Crack Growth Duringn Offshore Pipeline Installation
Speaker: Hugo Alejandro Ernst (Tenaris-Siderca R&D Center, Argentina)

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: Buildings Energy Efficiency and System Operations
Speaker: Sriram Somasundaram (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

The College of Computing Robotics and Intelligent Machines Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Technology Square Research Building, Room 113
Title: Port-Based Robotics
Speaker: Stefano Stramigioli (IMPACT Institute)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: History and Relevance of the Russian Health Studies Program
Speaker: Barrett Fountos (Ofice of Health, Safety/Security, U.S. Department of Energy)

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Designing Bulk Metallic Glass Matrix Composites with High Toughness and Tensile Ductility
Speaker: Douglas C. Hofmann (Cal Tech)

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Energy Conversion in Nanomaterials
Speaker: Li Shi (University of Texas at Austin)

Friday, March 13, 2009

CSE Seminar
2:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: PDE Models and Wavelet Inpainting
Speaker: Haomin Zhou (Georgia Tech)

Thursday, March 12, 2009

The Strategic Energy Institute/Woodruff School Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Challenges in America's Energy Future - the Role of Universities and National Laboratories
Speaker: Sidney M. Gutierrez (Director, Nuclear Energy & Global Security Technology, Sandia National Labs)

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Multi-Scale Approaches to Exploring the Active Regulation of Lymphatic Function
Speaker: James Brandon Dixon (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Monday, March 9, 2009

HPC Seminar
1:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 1116W
Title: Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Mammalian Genomes
Speaker: Jian Ma (University of California at Santa Cruz)

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Open Forum on Energy and the Environment: The Impact of CO2 on Global Climate Change--
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ford ES&T Building, Room L1255
Title: A Plaeoclimate Perspective on Global Warming
Speaker: K. Cobb (School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: The Politcal Geography of the AQ Khan Network and Implications of the Non-Proliferation Regime
Speaker: Justin Hastings (Georgia Tech)

Friday, February 27, 2009

Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Nonlinear Analysis of Laminated Composite Structures Using A Refined Shell Finite Element
Speaker: J. N. Reddy (Texas A&M University)

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Faith, Hope and Innovation
Speaker: Dennise L. Riddle

Manufacturing Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Auditorium
Title: An Overview of the Research at the Samll Scale Systems Integration and Packaging (S3IP): A New York Center of Excellence
Speaker: Bahgat Sammakia (Binghamton University)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Room 114
Title: The Increased Dose Exposure to the US Population from Diagnostic Procedures and Its Issues
Speaker: Randall Mill (Northeast Georgia Medical Center)

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Materials Science
3:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: The Chemorheology of Resins Undergoing Conversion and Its Effect on Stratification in Resin Composites: Lay Title: Keeping The Bananas Suspended in the Jello
Speaker: Brian J. Love (The University of Michigan)

Thursday, February 19, 2009

IBB Director Candidate's Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Enabling Biotechnologies for Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration
Speaker: Robert E. Guldberg (Georgia Tech)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Research and Development Activities to Support the Expansion of Nuclear Energy
Speaker: Robert (Bob) Wham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Mechanical Engineering Seminar
10:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Toward Numerical Simulations of Compressible Multiphase Flows with Applications to Shockwave Lithotripsy and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
Speaker: Eric Johnsen (Stanford University)

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MSE Building, Room 3201A
Title: Overview, Applications, and Ongoing Development of the SCALE Code System
Speaker: Cecil Parks (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

IBB Director Candidate's Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Convergence of Biology and Biomechanics in the Pathogenesis of Vascular Disease
Speaker: W. Robert Taylor (Emory University School of Medicine)

Friday, February 6, 2009

CSE Seminar
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: Parallel Discrete Event Simulation on Metacomputing Systems
Speaker: Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech)

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Open Forum on Energy and the Environment: the Impact of CO2 on Global Climate Change--
4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Ford ES&T Building, Room L1255
Title: Global Climate Change and Its Impacts on Georgia
Speaker: J. Curry (School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech)
Food and beverages will be provided. For more information, contact christopher.jones@chbe.gatech.edu

Structural Mechanics Seminar
3:00 p.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Multiscale Modelling of Dynamic Damage by Micro-Voiding: Application to Impact Tests on Tantalum
Speaker: Alain Molinari (Paul Verlaine University, Metz, France)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Molecular Science & Engineering Building, Room 3201A
Title: Heat Triggered Drug Release From Thermally Sensitive Liposomes: Implications for Drug Delivery and Tumor Physiology
Speaker: Ashley Manzoor (Duke University)

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

IBB Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Towards an Abiotic Biology
Speaker: Andrew D. Ellington (Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Bioengineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Functional Materials in Regenerative Medicine and Immunotherapeutics
Speaker: Jeff Hubbell (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

Friday, January 30, 2009

Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Seminar
2:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 2447
Title: Quantum Computers and the Future of Quantum Chemistry
Speaker: Ken Brown (Georgia Tech)

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Clark-Atlanta University Physics Department Seminar
3:00 p.m.
McPheeters-Dennis Hall, Room 143 (Clark-Atlanta University)
Title: High Resolution Coherent 2D Spectroscopy
Speaker: Peter C. Chen (Spelman College)

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Mechanical Engineerging Seminar
11:00 a.m.
MRDC Building, Room 4211
Title: Analysis of Phonon Transport in Polyethylene Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Speaker: Asegun S. Henry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Materials Science and Engineering Seminar
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Love Building, Room 183
Title: Non-Spherical Colloids Under Confinement:: A Structural Diversity Approach to Photonic Materials
Speaker: Chekesha M. Liddell (Cornell University)

Bioengineering Seminar
11:00 a.m.
IBB Building, Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Title: Toward Predictive Models of Multicellular Dynamics
Speaker: Anand R. Asthagiri (California Institute of Technology)

SIAC Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
Executive Classroom
Title: Research in Healthcare and Public Health Surveillance
Speaker: Kwok Tsui (Georgia Tech)

Monday, January 26, 2009

HPC Seminar
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Klaus Building, Room 1116 East
Title: Automatic Performance Analysis for Terascale Systems
Speaker: Michael Gerndt (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
12:00 p.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: The Nuclear Energy Institute's Clean Energy America
Speaker: Amy Roma and Andrew Dewey (Clean Energy America)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: The Global Nuclear Future Realities and Opportunities
Speaker: Thomas L. Sanders (President Elect of the American Nuclear Society & Sandia National Laboratories)

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Woodruff Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Programs Seminar Series
11:00 a.m.
MS&E Building, Room 3201A
Title: Next Generation Safeguards Initiative
Speaker: Greg Cefus, Ben Cross and Jeff Jay (Savannah River National Laboratory)

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The 2008 Gegenheimer Lecture On Innovation
11:00 a.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
Title: Noise in Hospitals: Effects and Cures
Speaker: Jim West (Johns Hopkins University)
A reception will be held after the lecture in the Galleries of the Ferst Center. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Woodruff Distinguished Lecture
11:00 a.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
Title: The Roles of Engineers in Poverty Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Amadei, Founder of Engineers Without Borders
(This lecture was rescheduled from April 2008) there will be a reception following the lecture in the Galleries of the Ferst Center. This lecture is free and open to the public

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Annual Woodruff Distinguished Lecture
11:00 a.m.
CANCELLED
Due to illness this lecture has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled at a later date.

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Gegenheimer Lecture on Innovation: Chris Miller, Director of Shrek 3
3:00 p.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
Reception after the lecture in the Ferst Center gallery. More details will be available soon.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Woodruff Distinguished Lecture
1:30 p.m.
Van Leer (ECE) Auditorium
Speaker: Dr. Steve Koonin, (Chief Scientist of BP)
A reception will follow the lecture. More information about this event will be posted as it becomes available

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Woodruff School Zeigler Outstanding Educator Lecture
11:00 a.m.
MaRC Building, Auditorium
Title: The Biotech Century and Mechanical Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Robert Nerem
Lunch in the atrium after the lecture

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Annual Harold W. Gegenheimer Lecture on Innovation
3:00 p.m.
Ferst Center for the Arts
Title: Development of the Boeing 787: Customers, Composites and Collaboration
Speaker: Mr. Mark Jenks (Wing Design Team Leader, Boeing Company)
Reception will be held after lecture in the Ferst Center
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