Seminar Schedule – Archived
Spring 2016
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Catalin Picu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Mechanics of Random Fiber Networks”
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Ellen Arruda, University of Michigan
“Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Tibiofemoral Cartilages Characterizations and Modeling, and the Role of Constitutive Model Assumptions on Whole Knee Biomechanics”
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Nadine Aubry, Northeastern University
“Directed Organization of Particles in Small Scale Fluid Flows”
Friday, April 15, 2016
Zhigang Suo, Harvard University
“Tough Hydrogels”
Fall 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Dong Yan, Beijing Institute of Technology
“Wrinkling of Microstructured Thin Films”
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Roberto Ballarini, University of Houston
“Structural Testing at the Micro and Nano Scales: Breaking Invisible Specimens with Zero Force”
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Alex Moberg, Denmark
“Crack Front Morphology in Layered Materials”
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 (rescheduled)
Manoj Chaudhury, Lehigh University
“TBD”
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Liping Liu, Rutgers University
“Energy formulations of continuum magneto-electro-elastics with applications”
Friday, October 30, 2015
K. Ramesh, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, INDIA
“Digital Photoelasticity Applied to Implant Dentistry”
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Florin Bobaru, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Peridynamic Modeling of Corrosion Damage”
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Nicolas Triantafyllidis, Ecole Polytechnique (France)
“Stability of Active Materials: The Role of Microstructure”
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Khai Pham, UT Austin (PhD defense)
“Characterization and Modeling of Mixed-mode I+III Fracture in Brittle Materials”
Monday, December 21, 2015
Patrick Le Tallec, Ecole Polytechnique (France)
“Multiscale Modeling of Soft Materials: From Network to Maximal Path Advances and Microspheres”