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