M&AE Departmental Colloquia
Fall 2009

Fall 2009 colloquia are held in Thurston 205 on Friday at 1:30 pm, with refreshments served in Thurston 206 at 2:30 pm.  The M&AE Colloquia cover a broad range of topics of interest to the mechanical and aerospace engineering communities.  The public is welcome to attend.

Date		Location
September 4	"Flow-through Microporous Media and Nanohole Arrays: Energy and Biomedical Applications" Professor David Sinton, Professor David Erickson, Faculty Host Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria	Thurston 205
September 11	"A Cosserat Rod Model for Carbon Nanotubes" "Strength of Nanoscale Structures" Professors Alan Zehnder and Subrata Mukherjee Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Thurston 205
September 18	"Robotic Grasping and Single Image Depth Perception" Professor Ashutosh Saxena, Professors Hod Lipson and Hadas Kress-Gazit, Faculty Hosts Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University	Thurston 205
September 25	"Diffraction Analysis of Residual and Applied Stress Dr. Thomas Gnaupel-Herold, Professors Matthew Miller and Paul Dawson, Faculty Hosts University of Maryland, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NIST Center for Neutron Research	Thurston 205
September 29	Professor Daniela Rus, Professors Hod Lipson and John Hopcroft, Faculty Hosts Associate Director of CSAIL, Professor EECS Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4:15pm in Upson B17, Refreshments at 3:45pm in Upson 4th Floor Atrium
October 9	"Role of Time-Scales in Modeling the Failure of Fibrous Materials: From Nanoseconds (10-9 s) in Police Body Armor to 200,000 Hours (10-9 s) in Composite Pressure Vessels" Professor Leigh Phoenix Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University	Thurston 205
October 16	"Probing Worm Brains and Manipulating Cells and with Microfluidics" Professor Hang Lu, Professor Brian Kirby, Faculty Host Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology	Thurston 205
October 23	"iRobot Research and the Future of Robotic Systems" Dr. Chris Jones, Professors Hod Lipson and Hadas Kress-Gazit, Faculty Hosts iRobot	Thurston 205
October 30	"BigDog, the rough-terrain robot - What's done, what's next?" Dr. Marc Raibert, Professor Andy Ruina, Faculty Host Boston Dynamic	Thurston 205
November 6	"Gravity Probe B" Dr. William Bencze, Professor Mark Psiaki, Faculty Host Coherent Navigation	Thurston 205
November 13	"Modeling Magneto-Mechanical Interactions in Deformable Solids" Professor Luis Dorfmann, Professor Yingxin Gao, Faculty Host Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University	Thurston 205
November 20	"Tissue Mechanics in Vascular Form and Function" Professor Cynthia Reinhart-King, Professor Marjolein van der Meulen, Faculty Host Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University	Thurston 205
November 27	Thanksgiving	Thurston 205
December 4	"The Meniscus: Is It Just a Pain in the Knee?" Professor Marc Levenston, Professors Marjolein van der Meulen and Lawrence Bonassar, Faculty Hosts Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, Stanford University	Thurston 205

We gratefully acknowledge partial support for the colloquium from the Elmer Lindseth Fund.

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