Biomechanics & Medical Devices Series:
Fall 2020
Alison Marsden (Stanford)
"Patient-specific modeling for virtual treatment planning in pediatric cardiology"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, October 15, 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, ZOOM
Ruy Ribeiro (Las Alamos National Laboratory)
"Viral Dynamics: a tool to study virus biology"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, October 22, 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, ZOOM
Shanglei Liu (Department of Surgery - UC San Diego)
"The Challenges of Collaboration Between Engineers and Physicians"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, December 10, 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Zoom
Winter 2021
Erik Welf (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
"New insights into the mechanism of cell shape change"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, January 21, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Zoom
Jasmine Nirody (The Rockefeller University)
"A tale of two motilities: adaptive biomechanical systems in complex, changing environments"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, February 4, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Zoom
Nicholas Antipa (University of California, San Diego)
"Lensless Computational Imaging using Random Optics"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, February 11, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Zoom
Mark Meacham (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Acoustic field-microswimmer interactions in acoustofluidics: biomedical applications and device performance measurement through use of motile probes"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, February 18, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Zoom
Cristina Marchetti (UC Santa Barbara)
"Viscoelastic control of active turbulence"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, February 25, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Zoom
Paul Macklin (Indiana University)
"Agent-based modeling of multicellular systems biology with PhysiCell"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, March 11, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Zoom
Spring 2021
TBA
Dynamic Systems & Controls Series:
Fall 2020
Mrdjan Jankovic (Ford Research & Advanced Engineering)
"Collision Free Navigation with Interacting, Non-Communicating Obstacles"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Friday, October 16, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
John Simpson (University of Waterloo)
"Advances in Feedback Control for Power Grid Modernization"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Friday, October 30, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Javier Gonzalez-Rocha (University of California, Riverside)
"Toward Wind Velocity Profiling in the Lower Atmosphere with Multirotor UAS"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Friday, November 6, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Johannes Royset (Naval Postgraduate School)
"Consistent Approximations for the Solution of Challenging Optimization Problems"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Friday, November 13, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Mahnoosh Alizadeh (UC Santa Barbara)
"Learning to optimize demand in safety-critical systems"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Friday, December 4, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Neera Jain (Purdue University)
"Reimagining Thermal Management through Hierarchical Control Co-design"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Lusia at lveksler@eng.ucsd.edu
Friday, December 11, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Spring 2021
TBA
Fluid Mechanics Series:
Fall 2020
Clarence Rowley (Princeton University)
"Finding Simplicity in Complex Fluid Flows (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, October 5, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Nick Moore (United States Naval Academy)
"Anomalous Waves Induced by an Abrupt Depth Change (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, October 12, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Dennice Gayme (John Hopkins University)
"Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Monday, October 26, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Lisa Fauci (Tulane University)
"Hydrodynamically-coupled Oscillators in Biofluids (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, November 2, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Jane Wang (Cornell University)
"Insect Flight: From Newton’s Law to Neurons (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, November 9, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Pavel Popov (San Diego State University)
"Alternatives to the Beta Distribution in Assumed PDF Methods for Turbulent Reactive Flow (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, November 16, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Aditya Nair (University of Nevada, Reno)
"Physics and Data-driven Strategies for Analysis and Control of Unsteady Fluid Flows (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Monday, November 30, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Mark Merrifield & Adam Young (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
"Rain, Waves, and Seacliff Erosion (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, December 7, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Winter 2021
Nicole Xu (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, January 25, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Charles Doering (University of Michigan)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, February 1, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Bartosz Protas (McMaster University)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, February 8, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Spencer Bryngelson (California Institute of Technology)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, February 22, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Cristina Marchetti (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Viscoelastic Control of Active Turbulence"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Thursday, February 25, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Debanjan Mukherjee (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, March 1, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Joanna Austin (California Institute of Technology)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, March 8, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Spring 2021
TBA
Joint MAE/CER Energy Series:
Fall 2020
Uri Shumlak (University of Washington)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, October 7, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez (University of California, San Diego)
"Learning and Control Systems for the Integration of Renewable Energy into Grids of the Future (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, October 21, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Amy Rose (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
"Improving the Representation of Energy Storage in Long-Term Power System Planning Models (click to view presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, November 4, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Shinsuke Fujioka (Osaka University)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Monday, November 18, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Winter 2021
Andrei Smolyakov (University of Saskatchewan)
"Plasma Flow in the Magnetic Nozzle (click to see presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Rebecca Masline (University of California, San Diego)
"Simulations of Divertor Plasmas with Inverse Sheaths (click to see presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Elena Belova (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
"Energetic Particle Effects on FRC Stability (click to see presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Alexey Knyazev (University of California, San Diego)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Roman Smirnov (University of California, San Diego)
"Stirring the Dust in Fusion Devices (click to see presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Troy Carter (University of California, Los Angeles)
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Yanzeng Zhang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Neutrals Impact on Anomalous Edge Plasma Transport (click to see presentation & speaker details)"
Seminar Recording is available upon request. Contact Jake at jblair@eng.ucsd.edu
Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Spring 2021
TBA
Mechanics & Materials Series:
Fall 2020
Sossina Haile (Northwestern University)
"Relaxing in a time of crisis: extracting material properties from relaxation experiments"
Friday, October 9, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Leslie Abdul-Aziz (University of California, Riverside)
"Thanos vs. Iron: The development of dynamic nickel-iron catalysts to usher in a cabon waste end game"
Friday, October 16, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Rosario Gerhardt (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"The digitization of materials and investigators"
Friday, October 23, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Trinitat Pradell (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
"Back to the future: Time travel to the ancient nanoworld of beautiful materials"
Friday, October 30, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Mary Scott (University of California, Berkeley)
"I, Microscopist: Artificial Intelligence for electron microscopy data interpretation"
Friday, November 6, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Andrea M. Hodge (University of Southern California)
"Making films in LA starring nano- and micro-structures"
Friday, November 13, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Elizabeth Dickey (North Carolina State University)
"Harnessing disorder in metal oxides: Making Gibbs and Boltzmann proud"
Friday, November 20, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Halyan Wang (Purdue University)
"The art of layering apples and oranges: Hybrid material designs toward multifunctionality"
Friday, December 4, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Frances Ross (Massachussets Institute of Technology)
"Funny microscope videos: transmission electron microscopy in motion"
Friday, December 11, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Winter 2021
Yoonjin Won (University of CA, Irvine)
"Learning Nanoscale Interfacial and Transport Phenomena"
Friday, January 8, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Jason Alicea (Caltech, Pasadena)
"Towards topological quantum computing with magnetic Insulators"
Friday, January 15, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Sarah Kurtz (UC Merced)
"Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) - (A bad idea? Or, tomorrow's mainstream applications?)"
Friday, January 22, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Andrea Armani (University of Southern California)
"Organic small molecule integrated photonics"
Friday, January 29, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, ZOOM
Andre Clayborne (George Mason University )
"Understanding the Properties of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Nanoparticles for Materials Development"
Friday, February 5, 2021, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, ZOOM
Shane Cybart (University of CA, Riverside )
"Ion Beam modification of high-temperature superconductors for nanoscale quantum devices."
Friday, February 12, 2021, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, ZOOM
Aldo R. Boccaccini (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany )
"Bioactive glasses meet 3D bioprinting: advances and challenges for tissue engineering applications"
Friday, February 26, 2021, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, ZOOM
Spring 2021
TBA