Past Seminars

Friday December 3, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Fracture of 2D Materials – In situ Experiments and ML Parameterized Force Fields
Speaker: Horacio D. Espinosa, Northwestern University
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 2, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Machine learning in solid mechanics: improving modeling and design
Speaker: Miguel Bessa, Delft University of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday November 19, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Microstructural effects during fatigue and fracture of additively manufactured metals
Speaker: John Lambros, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 18, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Granular and particle-laden flow: Novel approaches to characterize avalanches and dunes across scales
Speaker: Nathalie Vriend, University of Cambridge
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday November 12, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Bubble dynamics in a Hele-Shaw cell
Speaker: Anne Juel, University of Manchester
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 11, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Micro-continuum approach for the multi-scale modeling of coupled processes in the subsurface
Speaker: Cyprien Soulaine, Institute of Earth Sciences of Orléans
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday November 9, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Bioscience Industry Day
Location: Chen Breezeway
Friday November 5, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Classical fluid mechanics confronts modern research questions: Virus transport, a novel similarity solution, and an N-body problem
Speaker: Howard Stone, Princeton University
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 4, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Data-driven mechanics – the challenge to model inelastic material behaviour and structures
Speaker: Stefanie Reese, RWTH Aachen University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 29, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Fracture Mechanics of Coilable Ultra-thin Composite Shell Structures
Speaker: Armanj Hasanyan
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 28, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Cellular NeuroMechanics – Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury and the mysterious Havana Syndrome
Speaker: Christian Franck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 22, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Vortex-Wave Interaction Theory: Exact Coherent Structures & Roughness
Speaker: Philip Hall, Monash University
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 21, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Acoustically Levitated Granular Matter
Speaker: Heinrich M. Jaeger, The University of Chicago
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 15, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Iain D. Boyd
Speaker: Iain D. Boyd, University of Colorado – Boulder
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 14, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Earthquake sequence simulations with fault zone fluid flow, pore pressure evolution, and viscoelasticity
Speaker: Eric Dunham, Stanford
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 8, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico
Speaker: Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico, University of Houston
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 7, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
The Mechanics of Slow Slip
Speaker: Kyungjae Im, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday October 1, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Sergio Pellegrino
Speaker: Sergio Pellegrino, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 29, 2021 1:00 PM
"Leading in a New Era of Innovation"
Speaker: Naveed Hussain, Boeing Research & Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday September 13, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Speaker: John Harmon, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 17, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Modeling and Programming Shape-Morphing Structured Media
Speaker: Connor McMahan, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 17, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Instabilities in the Flow Over a Spinning Disk at Angle of Attack
Speaker: Marcus Lee, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday July 22, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Industry Job Talks
Location: Online Event
Wednesday July 21, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Academic Job Talks
Location: Online Event
Tuesday June 29, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Modeling and Parameterization of Basin Effects for Engineering Design Applications
Speaker: Peyman Ayoubi, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday June 23, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Applications of Machine Learning to Finite Volume Methods
Speaker: Ben Stevens, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday June 4, 2021 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
RUN as fast as you can: efficient tape spring analysis
Speaker: Zahra Soltani, Imperial College London
Location: Online Event
Thursday June 3, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Caltech Young Investigators Forum
Location: Online Event
Tuesday June 1, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Numerical Simulation of performance and solar fuel conversion efficiency for photoelectrochemical devices
Speaker: Yikai (Katie) Chen, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday May 28, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Antonio Pedivellano
Speaker: Antonio Pedivellano, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 27, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Machine Learning approaches for predicting Seismic, Acoustic and Atmospheric Data
Speaker: Maria Giselle Fernandez, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Tuesday May 25, 2021 3:30 PM
Reduced Order Model Inspired Robotic Bipedal Walking: A Step-to-Step Dynamics Approximation Based Approach
Speaker: Xiaobin Xiong, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday May 24, 2021 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Theoretical, computational, and experimental characterization of nematic elastomers
Speaker: Victoria (Tori) Lee, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday May 21, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Kunihiko Taira
Speaker: Kunihiko Taira, UCLA
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 20, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Growth, instability, and failure: bringing order into the chaos of natural phenomena
Speaker: Tal Cohen, MIT
Location: Online Event
Friday May 14, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Fabien Royer
Speaker: Fabien Royer, GALCIT
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 13, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Soft materials: from fundamental mechanics to applications
Speaker: Shengqiang Cai, UC San Diego
Location: Online Event
Friday May 7, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Simon Toedtli
Speaker: Simon Toedtli, GALCIT
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 6, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Multi-Resolution Lattice Green's Function Method for High Reynolds Number External Flows
Speaker: Ke Yu, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 6, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Additive Manufacturing of Polymers and Polymer Composites
Speaker: Mehran Tehrani, The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 5, 2021 3:30 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches
Speaker: Wenlong Ma, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday May 3, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Speaker: Qi Lei, Princeton
Location: Online Event
Friday April 30, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Yashwanth Nakka
Speaker: Yashwanth Nakka, GALCIT
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 29, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Speaker: Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT
Location: Online Event
Monday April 26, 2021 1:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Dielectric metasurfaces for integrated imaging devices and active optical elements
Speaker: Hyounghan Kwon, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday April 23, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Aditya A. Paranjape
Speaker: Aditya A. Paranjape, Imperial College London (starting in summer 2021)
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Creating a Dynamic Virtual Presence
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
The Viscoelastic Behavior of a Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Speaker: Thao (Vicky) Nguyen, Johns Hopkins
Location: Online Event
Friday April 16, 2021 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Speaker: Bhavini Singh, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Coping with Trauma: Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Speaker: Nil Gurel
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Misbehavin': anomalous atoms in solids and the extremes of thermal transport
Speaker: Prof. Austin J. Minnich, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday April 9, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Mitul Luhar
Speaker: Mitul Luhar, University of Southern California
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Speaker: Ramina Ghods, Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Strength of materials under high dynamic pressures
Speaker: Dr. Suraj Ravindran, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday April 5, 2021 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Speaker: Melinda Perkins, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Friday April 2, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Shyam Bhaskaran
Speaker: Shyam Bhaskaran, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 1, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Phase-field modeling and simulation in biomechanics: cell migration and other applications
Speaker: Dr. Adrian Moure, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 11:00 AM
Imaging Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87's Black Hole
Speaker: Monika Mościbrodzka, Radboud University
Location: Online Event
Monday March 22, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Reducing Computational Costs for Many-Body Physics Problems
Speaker: Erika Ye, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday March 12, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Chiara Daraio
Speaker: Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 10, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Identifying New CFC Emissions Through Joint Inference of Banks and Lifetimes, with Impacts on the Ozone Layer and Climate
Speaker: Megan Lickley
Location: Online Event
Friday March 5, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in Equatorial Atmosphere and Oceans
Speaker: Harindra Joseph Fernando, University of Notre Dame
Location: Online Event
Friday February 26, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Sustainability in Space and on Earth: Research Initiatives of the Space Enabled Research Group
Speaker: Danielle Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 25, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Capturing (and Keeping!) Attention on Zoom
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 23, 2021 5:00 PM
IDEAS Lecture Series: Innovation and Discovery in Engineering and Applied Science
How Do You Like Your Materials – with Multi-functionality and Reconfigurability or Just Lightweight? Additive Manufacturing of 3D-Architected Materials
Speaker: J.R. Greer
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 23, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Towards Learning Robotic Dynamics: Application to Multirotor Takeoff and Landing
Speaker: Daniel Pastor Moreno, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday February 22, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion: From Hybrid Zero Dynamics to Control Lyapunov Functions via Experimentally Realizable Methods
Speaker: Jenna Reher, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday February 19, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Eric Lauga
Speaker: Eric Lauga, University of Cambridge
Location: Online Event
Friday February 12, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Lunar Trailblazer: A small satellite mission for lunar water and lunar geology
Speaker: Bethany Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday February 5, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Dancing flames and singing tubes: predicting thermoacoustic instability
Speaker: Aimee Morgans, Imperial College London
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 4, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Resolvent Modeling of Turbulent Jets
Speaker: Ethan Pickering, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday January 29, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Structure Genome: a Unified Multiscale Approach to Bridging Materials Genome and Structural Analysis
Speaker: Wenbin Yu, Purdue University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event
Friday January 22, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
The hydrodynamics of rowing
Speaker: Jerry Westerweel, Delft University of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday January 15, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Speaker: Xichen Shi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 13, 2021 5:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: How it Works and What it Means for the Future
Speaker: Yisong Yue, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday January 11, 2021 4:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Reconciling our Biases with our Values
Speaker: Dr. Hanna Song, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday January 8, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Numerical simulations of turbulent flows over rough walls
Speaker: Ugo Piomelli, Queen's University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 22, 2020 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Designing Hysteresis Free High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications
Speaker: Iwnetim Abate, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 15, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
"Assuring Safety under Uncertainty in Learning-Based Control Systems"
Speaker: Richard Cheng, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 15, 2020 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
"Multiscale, data-driven and nonlocal modeling of granular materials"
Speaker: Konstantinos Karapiperis, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 10, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Microstructure-Enabled Plasticity in Nano-to-Microscale Materials
Speaker: Haolu (Jane) Zhang, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday December 7, 2020 5:00 PM
IDEAS Lecture Series: Innovation and Discovery in Engineering and Applied Science
Point of Care, Everywhere!
Speaker: Axel Scherer, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday November 30, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
"Online Learning from Human Feedback with Applications to Exoskeleton Gait Optimization"
Speaker: Ellen Novoseller, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday November 20, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Gas-Liquid Droplet Microfluidics: Fundamentals and Applications
Speaker: Carlos Hidrovo, Northeastern University
Location: Online Event
Friday November 13, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Deployable Robots via Origami-Inspired Design
Speaker: Cynthia Sung, University of Pennsylvana
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 12, 2020 12:00 PM
Chemical Engineering Seminar
A case for integrating solar geoengineering into climate policy
Speaker: David Keith, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 11, 2020 5:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - The Power of Nonlinearities: Unlocking Opportunities for Sensing and Computing with Light
Speaker: Alireza Marandi, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday November 6, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Data-Driven Prediction of Partially Observed Multiscale Systems
Speaker: Krithika Manohar, University of Washington
Location: Online Event
Monday November 2, 2020 4:00 PM
Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Series
Structural Evidence for Nitrogenase Metallocluster Modularity
Speaker: Trixia Buscagan, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday October 30, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Formal Methods for Control Synthesis of Autonomous Systems
Speaker: Tichakorn (Nok) Wongpiromsarn, Iowa State University
Location: Online Event
Friday October 23, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Direct simulation of bubbles, droplets, and energy dissipation in breaking ocean waves
Speaker: Wouter Mostert, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 22, 2020 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Intratumoral Collagen-retained Immunotherapy
Speaker: Noor Momin
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 21, 2020 11:30 AM
"Science Will Lead Us Out of the Pandemic"
Speaker: Naveed Hussain, Boeing Research & Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday October 16, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Photophoretic levitation as a new mechanism of flight
Speaker: Igor Bargatin, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Online Event
Friday October 9, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Dynamic stall onset and the road to recovery
Speaker: Karen Mulleners, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Location: Online Event
Friday October 9, 2020 9:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
"Numerical investigation of compressibility effects in reacting subsonic flows"
Speaker: Guillaume Beardsell
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 8, 2020 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Engineering Glucose-Responsive Insulin Delivery across Length and Time
Speaker: Lisa R. Volpatti
Location: Online Event
Friday October 2, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Unsteadiness boundaries in supersonic flow over double cones.
Speaker: Hans Hornung, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 30, 2020 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Atmospheric Aerosols with Different Origins: Cities, Forests and the Oceans
Speaker: Qing Ye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday August 26, 2020 12:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Presentations in the COVID Era
Location: Online Event
Friday May 29, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Free-shear flow mixing computations: initial conditions, scalar boundedness and subgrid-scale effects
Speaker: Nek Sheran, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Friday May 22, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Future of Aerospace Autonomy: How to Combine Machine Learning with Guidance, Navigation, and Control?
Speaker: Soon-Jo Chung, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday May 15, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Aspects of reduced-order modeling of turbulent channel flows: From linear mechanisms to data-driven approaches
Speaker: Ryan McMullen, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday May 8, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Got Stress? Visualizing and Inferring Film Stresses in patterned Wafers
Speaker: Ares Rosakis, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday May 1, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications
Speaker: Mykel Kochenderfer, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 30, 2020 4:00 PM
Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture Series
CANCELLED: Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture Series, EAS
Speaker: Frances Arnold
Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
Friday April 24, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Vortex-Wall Interactions of Spatially and Temporally Evolving Vortex Pairs
Speaker: Sarah Morris, Cornell University
Location: Online Event
Friday April 17, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
GALCIT Colloquium
Speaker: Michael Ortiz, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday April 10, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Overview of the hypersonic boundary-layer transition (BOLT) flight experiment
Speaker: Daniel Araya, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 8, 2020 4:00 PM
Women in Leadership & Innovation Series
▶︎ CANCELED: An Evening with Ellen Ochoa
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday April 3, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
A Message From the Director
Speaker: Mory Gharib, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday March 13, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Investigations of nonlinear transition stages in high-speed boundary layers using direct numerical simulations
Speaker: Hermann Fasel, University of Arizona
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Wednesday March 11, 2020 7:00 PM
Visual Culture Program Series
New Media Art Show & Public Exhibition
Location: Jorgensen Lobby
Wednesday March 11, 2020 4:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
3D Laser Nanoprinting
Speaker: Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Tuesday March 10, 2020 4:00 PM
3D Chiral Mechanical Metamaterials
Speaker: Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Location: Broad Center Rock Seminar Room
Friday March 6, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Thinking Inside the Box – Microwave Radiometry on CubeSats
Speaker: Boon Lim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday February 28, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Particle hydrodynamics near deformable interfaces
Speaker: Bhargav Rallabandi, UC Riverside
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday February 21, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Pulsatile Flow: Surface Protuberance, Curved Pipe and Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
Speaker: Michael Plesniak, George Washington University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday February 14, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Micro-mechanics of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibre composites
Speaker: Vikram Deshpande, University of Cambridge
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday February 7, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
The quest to observe the Turbulent Cascade in real time
Speaker: Michael Brenner, Harvard University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday January 31, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Analysis of meteoroid ablation, from ground simulation to observation
Speaker: Thierry Magin, von Karman Institute
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday January 24, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Revisiting and modeling the law of the wake & LES of flows with slender wings/blades and wakes
Speaker: Gregoire Winckelmans, UCLouvain
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday January 21, 2020 4:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
From inverse design to implementation of practical (quantum) photonics
Speaker: Jelena Vučković, Stanford University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Friday January 17, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Optimal perturbations in linear stability of two fluid columns of different densities subject to gravity
Speaker: Carlos Pantano, University of Southern California
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday January 10, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Theoretical analysis of bio-inspired stealth flight
Speaker: Peter Baddoo, Imperial College London
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday January 9, 2020 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Academic Job Talks
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday December 12, 2019 3:30 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Figure Design for Presentations
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday December 6, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Solid-Liquid Impact Phenomena
Speaker: Rouslan Krechetnikov, University of Alberta
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday November 22, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Machine Learning and Sparse Optimization for Modeling, Sensing, and Controlling Fluid Dynamics
Speaker: Steve Brunton, University of Washington
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday November 15, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Flight Testing of Supersonic Parachutes for Entry, Descent & Landing on Mars
Speaker: Clara O'Farrell, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday November 12, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Integrated Chi(2) Nonlinear Photonics
Speaker: Hong Tang, Yale University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Friday November 8, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Turbulent Boundary Layers Developing Over Rough Surfaces: From the Laboratory to Full-Scale Systems
Speaker: Nick Hutchins, University of Melbourne
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday November 7, 2019 1:00 PM
Celebrating innovation in the science and technology of sustainability
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Wednesday November 6, 2019 8:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - Opportunities in Atomic-Scale Legoland: From Novel Electronic Phases to Quantum Devices
Speaker: Stevan Nadj-Perge, Caltech
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Friday November 1, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
From Apollo to Artemis: Computation and Aerospace Guidance in 50 Years
Speaker: Ping Lu, San Diego State University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday October 29, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Lithium Niobate Nanomechanical Devices: New classical and quantum opportunities
Speaker: Amir Safavi-Naeini, Stanford University
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday October 25, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Exomars 2016 Entry Flight and Achievements of its Aerothermal Instrumentation Package COMARS+
Speaker: Ali Guelhan, DLR
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 18, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
On the Interaction between Mechanics and Chemistry: Two Studies in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Heterogeneous Catalysis
Speaker: Pradeep Guduru, Brown University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 11, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Active Particles in Complex Fluids
Speaker: Gwynn Elfring, University of British Columbia
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 4, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Quantifying Inflow and Turbulence Model Uncertainties in Urban Flow Simulations
Speaker: Catherine Gorle, Stanford University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday September 10, 2019 4:00 PM
Aerospace Engineering Seminar Series
You Will Change the World
Speaker: Dr. Greg Hyslop
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday August 8, 2019 12:00 PM
Faculty Search Panel EAS/PMA
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tuesday July 30, 2019 8:00 AM
SMC-IT 2019: 7th IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology
Location:
Tuesday July 30, 2019 8:00 AM
2019 IEEE Space Computing Conference (SCC)
Location:
Sunday July 21, 2019 5:00 PM
Eighth International School for Materials for Energy and Sustainability
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tuesday July 2, 2019 12:00 PM
Landing a Faculty Position 2019 - EAS-PMA
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Friday May 31, 2019 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Dynamics of flat plates in a fluid environment: Inverted flags and flapping propellers
Speaker: Cecilia Huertas Cerdeira, California Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday May 30, 2019 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Bubbles as Leaky Pistons: Particle Separation by Size from Suspensions
Location: Gates-Thomas 135