Past Seminars

Friday May 17, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
A Global Analysis of Tonal-Noise Generation on Airfoils
Speaker: Peter Schmid, Ecole Polytechnique
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday May 14, 2013 4:00 PM
Advances in combustion and aerospace propulsion applications
Speaker: Sebastien Candel, Ecole Centrale Paris
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Monday May 13, 2013 1:00 PM
General Atomics - A Diverse Technology Company
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday May 10, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Logarithmic scaling in wall-bound turbulent flows
Speaker: Alexander Smits, Princeton University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday May 7, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday May 6, 2013 1:00 PM
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission for Earth Systems Monitoring
Speaker: Dr. Dana Entekhabi, MIT
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday May 3, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Measurement of Velocity and Concentration in Complex Turbulent Flows
Speaker: John Eaton, Stanford University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 30, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday April 29, 2013 1:00 PM
The Juno Mission to Jupiter
Speaker: Dr. Steve Matousek, JPL
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday April 26, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Deformation and Failure Under Extreme Conditions Enabled by Pulsed Laser Loading
Speaker: Marc Meyers, University of California San Diego
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 23, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday April 22, 2013 1:00 PM
Developing New Materials & Manufacturing Processes for Aerospace Applications
Speaker: Dr. Douglas Hofmann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday April 19, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling the Biomechanics of Human Cornea
Speaker: Anna Pandolfi, Politecnico di Milano
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 16, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday April 15, 2013 1:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
The Right Kind of Crazy: Risk, Reason, and the Physics of Landing
Speaker: Adam D. Steltzner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Friday April 12, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Response of Hypervelocity Boundary Layers to Global and Local Distortion
Speaker: Joanna Austin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 9, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday April 8, 2013 1:00 PM
On a Path to Electric Propulsion Immortality: Magnetic Shielding of Hall-effect Plasma Accelerators
Speaker: Dr. Ioannis G. Mikellides, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday April 5, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Large Deformations and Instabilities in Soft Materials
Speaker: Shengqiang Cai, University of California San Diego
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 2, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday March 25, 2013 8:00 AM
2013 Caltech Space Challenge
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday March 12, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday March 11, 2013 1:00 PM
Careers in Industry
Speaker: Dr. Jackie Gish
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday March 8, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Combustion Dynamics in Propulsion Systems
Speaker: Vigor Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday March 5, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday March 4, 2013 4:00 PM
Bioengineering Lecture Series
"Engineering Stem Cells"
Speaker: Peter Zandstra, University of Toronto
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Monday March 4, 2013 1:00 PM
Investigation of an Explosion in a Polymer Manufacturing Plant
Speaker: Erik Christiansen, Exponent, Failure Analysis Associates
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday March 1, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Contact
 of 
Particles 
in 
Fluids
Speaker: Peter Wriggers, Leibniz University of Hannover
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 26, 2013 4:00 PM
Towards control of waves and mixing in two-fluid flows
Speaker: Dr. Outi Tammisola, Cambridge University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday February 22, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Mean-field and Statistical Thermodynamic Formulation of Models for Dislocation Systems
Speaker: Bob Svendsen, RWTH Aachen University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 19, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday February 15, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Flows for Elastic-Plastic Solids in Planar and Converging Geometries Using an Eulerian Framework
Speaker: Alejandro Lopez-Ortega, California Institute of Technology
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 12, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday February 11, 2013 1:00 PM
JPL Spacecraft Formation Control Testbed
Speaker: Dr. Carl Seubert, JPL
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday February 8, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Speaker: Ian A. Waitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 5, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday February 4, 2013 1:00 PM
The James Webb Space Telescope: Exploration Beyond the Mighty Hubble
Speaker: Dr. Rolf Danner, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday February 1, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Energy-Inconsistent Objective Stress Rates in ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA and Other FE Codes: Magnitude of Errors and How to Correct Them
Speaker: Zdenek Bazant, Northwestern University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 29, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday January 25, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Optimisation and Learning for Artificial Swimmers
Speaker: Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 22, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday January 18, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Hollow Vortices
Speaker: Stefan Llewellyn Smith, University of California, San Diego
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 15, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday January 11, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Cavitation in Rubber: An Elastic Instability or a Fracture Phenomenon?
Speaker: Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 8, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday December 7, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Technology Advancements
Speaker: Robert D. Braun, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday November 30, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Swelling Structures that Bend, Buckle, Twist and Snap their way to Functionality
Speaker: Douglas P. Holmes, Virginia Tech
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday November 16, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Unfolding Spiral Vortex Breakdown as a Codimension-3 Global Bifurcation
Speaker: Jean-Marc Chomaz, Ecole Polytechnique
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday November 13, 2012 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Speaker: Jason Damazo, "Investigating the Boundary Layer Induced by Gaseous Detonations"
Speaker: Rashad Moarref, "Model-based scaling and prediction of streamwise energy spectrum at high Reynolds numbers"
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday November 9, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Metamaterials from Rods and Pivots
Speaker: Graeme Milton, University of Utah
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
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