Seminar Schedule
Fall 2026
Friday, December 4, 2026
Vikram Deshpande – Cambridge University
TBD
Thursday, December 3, 2026
Chenglin Wu – Texas A&M University
MXenes from Atomic Motion to Intelligent Sensing: Diffusion, Mechanics, and Functional Interfaces
Thursday, November 19, 2026
Ganbin Chen – UT Austin
PhD defense: Theoretical and numerical studies on the mechanics of pressurized blisters of elastic membranes
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Andrew Lee – Johns Hopkins University
TBD
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Ricardo Lebensohn – Los Alamos National Labs
TBD
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Rong Long – University of Colorado Boulder
Controlling fracture, contact and adhesion in soft materials through structural design
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Robert Buarque de Macedo – Sandia National Laboratories
Impact of Particle Shape on Granular Mechanics
Thursday, October 22, 2026
William F Schneider – Lockheed Martin Skunkworks
Structural Dynamics: Real World Applications
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
John Foster – University of Texas at Austin
From Pore-Filling Reactions to Multicomponent Reservoir Mechanics: A Finite-Deformation Mixture Theory
Summer 2026
July 27, 2026
[Thesis Defense] Jianing Xie – University of Texas at Austin
Exploration of Ductile Failure in Pure Metals and Alloys
June 16, 2026
[Thesis Defense] Jinlong Guo – University of Texas at Austin
On Crack Nucleation and Propagation in Elastomers
Spring 2026
April 21, 2026
Julian Rimoli – University of California, Irvine
Discontinuous Compression Structures: From Tensegrity Planetary Landers to Failure-resistant Metamaterials
April 20, 2026
Zhigang Suo – Harvard University
Developing Polymer Networks for High Crack Resistance
April 14, 2026
Francesco Vicentini – University of Texas at Austin
Variational Phase-Field Modeling of Crack Nucleation and Propagation: From Brittle to Cohesive Fracture
April 07, 2026
Binbin Ying – University of Texas Southwestern
Soft Medical Devices for Hard Health Problems in Extreme Body Environments
April 02, 2026
Tom Seidl – Sandia National Laboratories
Calibration Of Anisotropic Elastic-Plastic Constitutive Models From Full-Field Data
March 26, 2026
Renee Zhao – Stanford University
Simple Mechanics for Life-Saving Technologies: Milli-Spinner Thrombectomy for Stroke Treatment
March 24, 2026
Carlos Cesnik – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Load Alleviation for High-Aspect-Ratio-Wing Aircraft
March 19, 2026
Manoj Dhadwal – San Diego State University
Enabling Flexible and Deployable Aerospace Structures: A Computational and Experimental Journey
March 10, 2026
Deepika Gupta – University of Texas at Austin
Tracing the Birth of a Dead Zone: Lessons From in Situ Analysis of Tool-Workpiece Interactions
March 03, 2026
Yunlan Zhang – University of Texas at Austin
Designing Architected Instability-based Metamaterials (AIMs) with Tunable Multistability and Deployability
February 24, 2026
[Thesis Defense] Zhengjie Li – University of Texas at Austin
Electromechanics of Soft Porous Capacitive Pressure Sensors: A Unified Framework Across Material, Frequency, and Deformation
February 17, 2026
Yonggang Huang – Northwestern
Bioelastic State Recovery for Haptic Sensory Substitution (CAEE seminar)
January 29, 2026
[Thesis Defense] Emile Naous – University of Texas at Austin
Instability of Mechanically Lined Pipe Under Cyclic Bending and Full-Scale Reeling
January 20, 2026
Qing Tu – Texas A&M University
Mechanics of 2D Metal Halide Perovskites
January 13, 2026
Xin (Cindy) Yee – University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Data-Driven Koopman Linear Quadratic Regulator Control of Microbubble Bubble Oscillations