Department of Mechanical Engineering

Events and Seminars

Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series

All seminars will be held from 11 to 11:50 a.m. in 2004 Black Engineering Building unless otherwise noted. For more information, contact Baskar Ganapathysubramanian.

Fall 2009

Date

Speaker

Title

Host

9/8/09

Marit Nielsen-Hamilton, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University

Aptamers: Flexible recognition units with novel applications

Pranav Shrotriya

9/29/09

Russell R. Barton, Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Penn State University

Forward and inverse simulation approximations for customer driven design

Judy Vance

10/6/09

Santosh Devasia, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle

Feedforward control: Theory and applications

Qingze Zou

10/13/09

Kristen A. Fichthorn, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Physics, Penn State University

Atomic scale simulation of colloidal nanoparticle forces and assembly

Shankar Subramaniam

10/20/09

David W. Rosen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Design for additive manufacturing:  Exploiting the unique capabilities of additive manufacturing processes

Judy Vance

10/27/09

Igor Efimov, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Electrical re-engineering of the heart: New treatments of arrhythmias

Song Zhang

11/3/09

H. S. Udaykumar, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,
University of Iowa

A general framework for simulation of high-speed multimaterial flows

Mike Olsen

11/10/09

Sanjeevi Sivasankar,
Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University

Manipulating and detecting single biomolecules: Resolving cadherin interactions at the single molecule level

Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

11/17/09

Ronald G. Larson, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan

Microfluidic methods for manipulating biopolymers

Shankar Subramanian

11/24/09

Thanksgiving break - No seminar