M&AE Departmental Colloquia
Fall 2007

Fall 2007 colloquia are held in Upson B17 on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm, with refreshments served in Upson Lounge at 4:15 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	Speaker & Topic	Location
4 September	"Manipulating thin-film flows: From patterned substrates to evaporating systems." Professor Howard A. Stone, Vicky Joseph Professsor of Engineering & Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Harvard University. **Please note this presentation is at 3:30 in Kimball B11, with a reception at 3:00 in the Upson Hall Lounge**	Kimball B11
11 September	no colloquium
18 September	"The Development Redux of Adult Heart Valve Disease: A Blueprint for Valvular Tissue Regeneration."  Professor Jonathan Butcher, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell Univeristy.	Upson B17
25 September	"Connections: Hooke, Rayleigh, & Optical Fibers."  Professor Peter G. Simpkins, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University.	Upson B17
2 October	"The Theory of Fast & Robust Adaptation."  Professor Naira Hovakimyan, Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.	Upson B17
9 October	no colloquium
16 October	"Thermal Transport at Nanostructure Interfaces."  Professor Jennifer R. Lukes, William K. Gemmill Assitant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.	Upson B17
23 October	no colloquium
30 October	"Heat Transfer Enhancement in Dense Suspensions of Agitated Solids: Theory, Experiments and Implications for Nanofluids."  Professor Michel Louge, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University.	Upson B17
6 November	"Targeted Energy Transfer in Coupled Oscillators: Theory & Applications."  Professor Lawrence Bergman, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.	Upson B17
13 November	"Jet Noise Predictions Using LES." Professor Anastasios Lyrintzis, School of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University.	Upson B17
20 November	"Climate Change: Certainties and Uncertainties."  Dr. Stephen E. Schwartz, Senior Scientist, Atmospheric Division of Brookhaven National Laboratory.	Upson B17
27 November	"Water Waves Around Structures or in Nonuniform Environment."  Professor CC Mei, Mary Upson Visiting Professor, Cornell University.	Hollister 166

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

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