M&AE Departmental Colloquia
Spring 2006

Spring 2006 colloquia are held in either 111 Upson or B11 Kimball on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm with refreshments served in Upson Lounge at 3:45pm.  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.

MAE faculty and staff: click here for departmental information about Colloquium administration.

Date	Speaker & Topic	Host
31 Jan	Sanjoy Banerjee, University of California, Santa Barbara "The Water Interface: Turbulence and Scalar Exchange"	Steve Pope
7 Feb	Amy Herr, Sandia National Labs "Rapid Immunoassays for Endogenous Protein in Human Saliva"	Brian Kirby
14 Feb	George Lesieutre, Penn State University "Effects and Uses of Membrane Loads in Structural Dynamics - More than Frequency Shifts"	Mason Peck
21 Feb	Aaron Wheeler, University of Toronto "Channel and Digital Microfluidics for the Analysis of Cells and Proteins"	Brian Kirby
28 Feb	Dawn Elliott, University of Pennsylvania "Intervertebral Disc Mechanics: Structure - Function Relationships in Healthy and Degenerated Tissue"	Larry Bonassar
7 Mar	Philip LeDuc, Carnegie-Mellon "Linking Mechanics to Biochemistry in Biology and Medicine: Understanding Molecular and Cellular Behavior with Nano-/Micro-technology, Controls Approaches and Computational Biology"	David Erickson
14 Mar	No seminar
21 Mar	No seminar--Spring Break
28 Mar	Carlos Pantano, Caltech "Simulation and modeling of nonpremixed flame extinction and reignition"	Steve Pope
4 Apr	Bamin Khomami, University of Washington at St. Louis "Modeling and Simulation of Dynamics of Polymeric Solutions: Progress and Challenges"	Brian Kirby
11 Apr	Cathie Klapperich, Boston University "Disposable Microfluidic Molecular Diagnostics"	Marjolein van der Meulen
18 Apr	Joyce Smith Cooper, University of Washington "Research and  Education in Sustainability and Design for Environment"	Zellman Warhaft
25 Apr	James DeLaurier, University of Toronto "Development of a Full-Scale Flapping-Wing Aircraft"	Ephrahim Garcia
2 May	Howard Hamilton, Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base "Modeling Vehicle Dynamics of Morphing  Aircraft using Hybrid Dynamical Systmes"	Ephrahim Garcia