Seminar Schedule
Fall 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
John Foster – University of Texas at Austin
From Pore-Filling Reactions to Multicomponent Reservoir Mechanics: A Finite-Deformation Mixture Theory
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
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
Fall 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Oscar Lopez-Pamies – University of Illinois
Towards a Complete Theory of Fracture
Thursday October 26, 2023
Scott Grutzik – Sandia National Laboratories
Kinetic Aspects of Subcritical Fracture of Silicate Glasses
Tuesday November 28, 2023
Shawn A. Chester – New Jersey Institute of Technology
Inelasticity in Soft Materials