May 2023
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
8:00am
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5/9
11:59pm
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Friday, May 5th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Revolutionizing Hypersonic Flow Simulation: Physics-Aware Coarse Graining and Maximum Entropy Principles for Next-Generation Aerothermal Modeling
Marco Panesi,
Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies (CHESS),
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Making Wearable Materials Smarter
Online and In-Person Event
Chiara Daraio,
G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 11th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Additive Manufacturing: Machine Learning, Mechanics, and Metallurgy
Allison M. Beese,
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
Friday, May 12th, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Enabling Robust and User-Customized Bipedal Locomotion on Lower-Body Assistive Devices via Hybrid System Theory and Preference-Based Learning
Maegan Tucker,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Interactions of shock waves and turbulence through numerical simulations
Ivan Bermejo-Moreno,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
Monday, May 15th, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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9:01am
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Wouk Lecture: Gang Chen
Rethinking Evaporation: Thermal and Optical Evaporation from Pure Water and Hydrogels
Gang Chen,
Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, MIT,
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Enabling Functional Outcomes by Programming the Responsivity of Liquid Crystalline Polymer
Tim White,
Gallogly Professor of Engineering,
College of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Friday, May 19th, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Fracture Behavior of Magnesium: Mechanisms and Mechanics
R. Narasimhan,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 22nd, 2023
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Robust Safety-Critical Control: A Lyapunov and Barrier Approach
Andrew Taylor,
Graduate Student,
Control & Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Optimal Design of Soft Responsive Actuators and Impact Resistant Structures
Andrew Akerson,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Physics-based and data-driven computational models of inelastic deformations
Eric Ocegueda,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture: Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Online and In-Person Event
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (PhD '83),
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 25th, 2023
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Flow, transport, and mixing limited processes in confined & heterogeneous media
Pietro De Anna,
Professor,
Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTE),
University of Lausanne (UNIL),
Friday, May 26th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamics and performance of wind-energy systems in unsteady flow conditions
Nathaniel Wei,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, May 29th, 2023
12:00am
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5/30
12:00am
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