Seminar Archive 2020-2021

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)

"Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish & Bioinspired Robots for Ocean Exploration (click to see presentation & speaker details)"

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)

"Applications of Optimization and Optimal Control to Some Fundamental Problems in Mathematical Hydrodynamics (click to see presentation & speaker details)"

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)

"Extreme Vortex States and the Hydrodynamic Blow-Up Problem (click to see presentation & speaker details)"

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)

"Computational and Data-Driven Fluid Mechanics for Medicine (click to see presentation & speaker details)"

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)

"Looking into Stroke and Thrombosis from a Flow Physics Perspective (click to see presentation & speaker details)"

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)

"Hypervelocity Spherically-Blunted Cone Flows in Mars Entry Ground Testing (click to see presentation & speaker details)"

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)

"Compact Approach to Fusion with the Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z Pinch (click to view presentation & speaker details)"

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)

"Fast Isochoric Heating of Dense Plasma Core through Multi-Picosecond Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction (click to view presentation & speaker details)"

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)

"On Laser-driven Electron Acceleration in Nanoplate Array Targets (click to see presentation & speaker details)"

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)

"Turbulence, Transport and the Role of Nonlinear Instability in the Large Plasma Device  (click to see presentation & speaker details)"

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