M&AE Departmental Colloquia
Spring 2007

Spring 2007 colloquia are held in Kimball B11 or 111 Upson 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.

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

Date	Speaker & Topic	Location
23 Jan	Karen J.L. Burg, Ph.D., Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor of BioEngineering, Clemson University.  "Ex Vivo Tissue Test Systems: Expanding the Domain of Regenerative Medicine."  CU Associate Professor Marjolein van der Meulen, Host.	Kimball B11
30 Jan	Mark Rosheim, Founder and President of Ross-Hime Designs, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  "Leonardo's Lost Robots". CU Professor Francis Moon, Host.	Kimball B11
6 Feb	*Dr. Rozaliya Barabash, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  "Microdiffraction Analysis of Local & Near Surface Hierarchical Dislocation Organization."  CU Associate Professor Matthew Miller, Host.  *presentation is at 2:00* Dr. Barabash will also be speaking at the CHESS journal club (http://jclub.chess.cornell.edu/index.html)	Kimball B11
13 Feb	Professor Krishnan Mahesh, University of Minnesota.  "Turbulent Jets in Crossflow." CU Professor Stephen Pope, Host.	Kimball B11
20 Feb	Faculty Candidate	Kimball B11
22 Feb	Faculty Candidate	Upson B17
27 Feb	no colloquium
6 March	Professor Gerard Lachapelle, CRC/iCORE Chair in Wireless Location, Department of Geomatics Eng, University of Calgary.  "GPS Carrier Phase Measurements and High Accuracy Applications."  CU Professor Mark Psiaki, Host.	Kimball B11
13 March	Dr. Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center.  "A Wave-top Tour Through Emerging Technologies and Their Potential Applications and Implications."  CU Professor Sid Leibovich, Host.	Kimball B11
15 March	Faculty Candidate	Kimball B11
26 March	Faculty Candidate	Kimball B11
2 April	Faculty Candidate	Kimball B11
3 April	Faculty Candidate	Kimball B11
5 April	Faculty Candidate	Kimball B11
10 April	Professor Oleg Vasilyev, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Mechanical Engineering.  "Stochastic Coherent Adaptive Large Eddy Simulation (SCALES) Methodology."  CU Professor Stephen Pope, Host.	Kimball B11
11 April	Faculty Candidate	Upson B17
17 April	Professor Neil Gershenfeld, MIT.  "Bits & Atoms."  CU Assistant Professor Hod Lipson, Host	Kimball B11
19 April	Faculty Candidate	Kimball B11
20 April	Professor Stephen Davis, Northwestern University.  "The Solidification of Metallic Foams."  Joint colloquium with the Center for Applied Mathematics / MAE Prof Sid Leibovich, Host.	655 Rhodes Hall 3:30 pm
23 April	Faculty Candidate	Upson B17
24 April	Dr. Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute.  "The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems; Universal Scaling Laws from Cells to Cities." CU Assistant Professor Hod Lipson, Host.	Upson B17
25 April	Faculty Candidate	Upson B17
1 May	Faculty Candidate	Kimball B11

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

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