Seminar Archive 2018-2019

Biomechanics & Mechanobiology Series:

Fall 2018

Tania Morimoto (University of California, San Diego)

"Human-in-the-loop Design and Control of Flexible Robots"

Thursday, October 11, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

Hugo Wioland (Institut Jacques Monod, France)

"Impact of mechanics on actin filament dynamics"

Thursday, December 6, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

Winter 2019

Shrek Chalasani (Salk Institute)

"Non-invasive control of neurons using Sonogenetics"

Thursday, January 10, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

Jerry Jung (University of California, San Diego)

"Learning from Nature: An impact-resistant system on the woodpecker head as a non-traumatic brain injury animal model"

Thursday, January 17, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

James Carothers (University of Washington)

"Synthetic cell systems for scalable bio-production"

Thursday, January 24, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

Andreas Carlson (University of Oslo, Norway)

"Flight of whirling fruits"

Thursday, January 31, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

Gerard Wong (University of California, Los Angeles)

"Innate immunity meets geometry and machine learning"

Thursday, February 7, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

Mike Regnier (University of Washington)

"Computational and Experimental Approaches to Study Heart Disease and Small Molecule Therapy"

Thursday, February 14, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

Shravan Veerapaneni (University of Michigan)

"Scaling up particulate flow simulations: challenges and applications"

Thursday, February 21, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

Klaus Ley (La jolla institute for allergy and immunology)

"Biomechanics of leukocyte rolling"

Thursday, March 14, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

 

Spring 2019

Matthew Akamatsu (UC Berkeley)

"Principles of force generation by the branched actin cytoskeleton during mammalian clathrin-mediated endocytosis"

Thursday, April 25, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, SME 248

Dynamic Systems and Controls Series:

 

Fall 2018

Richard M Murray (California Institute of Technology)

"Biomolecular Feedback Control Systems for Cooperative Behaviors in Engineered Cells"

Friday, September 28, 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Arthur J Krener (Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Applied Mathematics)

"Stochastic HJB Equations and Regular Singular Points"

Friday, October 5, 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Angelia Nedich (Arizona State University)

"Fast Distributed Algorithms for Optimization in Graphs"

Friday, October 19, 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Robyn Woollands (NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory & California Institute of Technology)

"Picard-Chebyshev Numerical Integration and Optimal Control"

Friday, October 26, 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Aaron Ames (California Institute of Technology)

"Safety-Critical Control of Dynamic Robotic Systems"

Friday, November 9, 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Rodolphe Sepulchre (Cambridge University)

"Control theory of switches and clocks"

Friday, November 16, 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Paul MJ Van den Hof (Eindhoven University of Technology)

"Data-driven modeling in linear dynamic networks"

Friday, November 30, 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Saurabh Amin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Transportation Systems Resilience: Capacity-Aware Control and Value of Information"

Friday, December 7, 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Winter 2019

Jean-Michel Coron (Sorbonne Universite)

"Rapid and finite-time stabilization"

Friday, February 15, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

John Baras (University of Maryland College Park)

"Trusted Autonomy and Safe Learning Towards a Rigorous Framework for Model Based Systems Engineering and Applications"

Friday, March 8, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Antonis Papachristodoulou (University of Oxford)

"Exploiting Sparsity in Semidefinite and Sum of Squares Programming"

Friday, March 15, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Spring 2019

Jason L Speyer (University of California Los Angeles)

"Pulsar-Based Deep Space Autonomous Navigation"

Friday, April 12, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Ahmad Bani Younes (San Diego State University)

"Computational Methods and Ground-Based Experiments for Space Operations"

Friday, April 19, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Debbie G Senesky (Stanford University)

"'Tiny-but-tough' Gallium Nitride Nanoelectronics for Extreme Harsh Environments"

Friday, April 26 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Shreyas Sundaram (Purdue University)

"New Approaches to Distributed State Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in Large Scale Networks"

Friday, May 3, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Alejandro D Dominguez-Garcia (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Data-driven Coordination of Assets in Power Distribution Systems for Provision of Ancillary Services"

Friday, May 31, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Fluid Mechanics Series:

Fall 2018

Jeffrey D. Crouch (Boeing)

"Flow Physics in Airplane Design: Prediction and Control of Flow Instabilities"

Monday, October 8, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Nicholas T. Ouellette (Stanford University)

"Transport of Non-Spherical Particles by Surface Gravity Waves"

Monday, October 15, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Andreas A. Linninger (University of Illinois at Chicago)

"CSF Dynamics and Pharmacokinetics of Intrathecal Drug Administration"

Monday, October 22, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Alejandra Uranga (University of Southern California)

"Boundary Layer Ingestion for Transport Aircraft: Power Balance, Wind Tunnel Tests and Analysis Framework"

Monday, October 29, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Jinzi "Mac" Huang (University of California San Diego)

"Heat and Mass Transfer in Geophysical Fluid-Structure Interactions"

Monday, November 5, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Eric Stefan Garrido Shaqfeh (Stanford University)

"The Microhydrodynamics of Vesicles in Tube and Channel Flow"

Monday, November 26, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Adrian Lozano (Stanford University)

"Universal Dynamics of Wall Turbulence through Causal Analysis"

Monday, December 3, 2018, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Winter 2019

Georgios Rigas (California Institute of Technology)

"Physics-Based Data-Informed Models for Controlling Three-Dimensional Turbulent Flows"

Monday, January 28, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Alban Sauret (University of California Santa Barbara)

"Dry to Wet Granular Media: From Blending to Tsunami Waves Generation"

Monday, February 11, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Bhargav Rallabandi (University of California Riverside)

"Particle Hydrodynamics Near Deformable Interfaces"

Monday, February 25 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Jeffrey R. Koseff (Stanford University)

"The Interaction between Gravity Currents and Breaking Internal Waves"

Monday, March 4, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Spring 2019

Kunihiko Taira (University of California Los Angeles)

"Tackling the complex dynamics of unsteady flows"

Monday, April 1, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Amneet Bhalla (San Diego State University)

"A robust and efficient wave-structure interaction solver for high density ratio multiphase flows"

Monday, April 8, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Joseph Biello (Stanford)

"The nonlinear theory of tropical atmospheric waves: On the equatorial Kelvin Wave and the Madden-Julian Oscillation"

Monday, April 29, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Andrew J. Lucas (University of California San Diego)

"A new mechanism for internal wave breaking in the coastal ocean"

Monday, May 20, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Bruce Cornuelle (University of California San Diego)

"A Regional Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Wave Model for Studying Air-Sea Interactions"

Monday, June 3, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

David Hu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Fluid mechanics of olfaction in elephants, moths and oxide sensors"

Monday, June 10, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Joint MAE/CER Energy Series:

 

Fall 2018

Yu Qiao (University of California San Diego)

"Ultralow-Binder-Content Composite and It's Application"

Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Tajana Simunic Rosing (University of California San Diego)

"Context-Aware Energy Management for the Smart Grid"

Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Sonia Martinez (University of California San Diego)

"Renewables Integration through the Control of Distributed Energy Resources"

Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Greg De Temmerman (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Organization)

"The challenge of putting the sun in a box: plasma-material interaction in ITER"

Wednesday, November 2, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Ahmed Abdullah (University of California San Diego)

"The Sunny Side of Curtailment: Exploiting the Limitations of Renewable Energy Sources for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation"

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Winter 2019

Dennis G. Whyte (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Small, modular & economically attractive fusion enabled by high-field superconductors"

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Michael Campanell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Alternative Plasma-Surface Interaction Regime Under Strong Thermionic Emission: Applications to Divertors & Other Plasma Devices"

Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Guangye Chen (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Implicit Particle-in-Cell Methods"

Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Spring 2019

Arianna Gleason (Stanford, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

"Ultrafast X-ray Studies on the Dynamics of Transitions in Geophysical Materials"

Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Michael Stadler (Xendee Corporation)

"Optimization Based Microgrid and DER Modelling"

Wednesday, October 8, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479

 

Pierre-Alexandre Gourdain (University of Rochester)

"Studying quantum materials using compact pulsed-power drivers: engineering challenges and physical hurdles"

Wednesday, October 8, 2018, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479