The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) seminars are held according to the schedule shown below. Unless indicated otherwise in this schedule, the MAE seminars are held at 10:30-11:30 am on Fridays during the academic year. For more information, please call 949-824-5406.
Friday, January 12 – 10:30 am
Speaker: Natascha Buswell, University of California – Irvine
Title: The who, what, and how of equitable and inclusive engineering classrooms
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Mike McCarthy
Friday, January 19 – 10:30 am
Speaker: Jonathan Hopkins, University of California – Los Angeles
Title: Artificial Intelligent Mechanical Metamaterials that Learn Behaviors
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Ramin Bostanabad
Friday, January 26 – 10:30 am
Speaker: Erfan Nozari, University of California – Riverside
Title: Bridging Neural Dynamics Across Scales: On Averaging and How It Transforms Large Multi-Scale Dynamics
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Solmaz Kia
Friday, February 2 – 10:30 am
Speaker: Ivan Bermejo-Moreno, University of Southern California
Title: Interactions of Shock Waves and Turbulence through Numerical Simulations
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Perry Johnson
Friday, February 9 – 10:30 am
Speaker: Kevin Whitty, University of Utah
Title: Carbon-Negative Hydrogen Production from Biomass and Waste: Two Gasification-Based Approaches
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Bihter Padak
Friday, February 16 – 10:30 am
Speaker: Sylvia Herbert, University of California, San Diego
Title: Blending methods to generate safe controllers: combining data-driven control barrier function approximations with Hamilton-Jacobi reachability analysis
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: David Copp
Friday, February 23 – 10:30 am
Speaker: Joaquim R. R. A. Martins, University of Michigan
Title: Shaping Sustainable Aviation with Design Optimization
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Julian Rimoli
Friday, March 1 – 10:30 am
Speaker: Yangying Zhu, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Microscopic Thermal-Fluids Measurements for Next-generation Energy Systems and Manufacturing
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Yoonjin Won
Friday, March 8 – 10:30 am
Speaker: Carolyn Seepersad, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Design Exploration of Additively Manufactured Metamaterials and Structures
Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (MDEA)
Host: Ramin Bostanabad
Friday, March 15 – 4:30 pm (Distinguished Lecture)
Speaker: Earl Dowell, Duke University
Title: Adventures in Reduced Order Modeling
Location: CALIT2 Auditorium
Host: William Sirignano