Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Fall 2021
Seminars take place from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Fridays through zoom.
December 3rd
Speaker: Dr. Bihter Padak (University of California, Irvine)
Title: Chemical Looping Combustion for Carbon Capture
Zoom link: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82472487088
Seminar Flyer PDF: ME Seminar Flyer (Dr. Bihter Padak)
Coffee Hour Flyer PDF: Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Bihter Padak)
Past Talks:
August 27th (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Ning Ye (Western Digital)
Title: Challenges in Mechanical-Thermal Design of Flash Products
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/81567405327
Flyer PDF:
Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Ning Ye)
September 3rd (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Maria Thomsen (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)
Title: Buoyancy Effects on Material Flammability
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82516784524
Flyer PDF:
Seminar Flyer (Dr. Maria Thomsen)
September 8th (Wednesday)
Speaker: (Bilkent University)
Title: Modeling cyber-physical human systems via an interplay between reinforcement learning and game theory
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/88100883795
PDF of Flyers:
Seminar Flyer (Dr. Yildiray Yildiz)
Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Yildiray Yildiz)
September 10th (Friday)
Speaker: Jonathan D. Posner (University of Washington)
Title: Human-centered design of a clean, natural draft, cookstove for East Africa
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/83398703496
PDF of Flyer:
Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jonathan D. Posner)
Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jonathan D. Posner)
September 17th (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Jun Xu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Title: Multiphysics behaviors of battery safety issues
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/81815102478
PDF of Flyers:
Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jun Xu)
September 24th (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Jnaneshwar Das (Arizona State University)
Title: Leveraging Robotics and AI for 4D Assessment of Plant and Soil Health
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/86829469944
PDF of Flyers:
Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jnaneshwar Das)
Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jnaneshwar Das)
October 1st (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Jekan Thanga (The University of Arizona)
Title: Advancing Swarms Systems for Mitigating Natural Disasters
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/83046953084
PDF of Flyers:
Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jekan Thanga)
Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jekan Thanga)
October 8th (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Wenbing Yun (Sigray, Inc.)
Title: Holistically Optimized Laboratory XAS Systems
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82563852897
PDF of Flyers: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Wenbing Yun)
October 15th (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Jinkyu Yang (University of Washignton)
Title: Origami and Topology: Two Powerful Ingredients for Designing Mechanical Metamaterials
Location: CLSSRM 110
PDF of Flyers:
Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jinkyu Yang)
Coffee Hour Flyer (Dr. Jinkyu Yang)
October 22nd (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Xianglan Bai (Iowa State University)
Title: Value-added Productions from Low-cost Sustainable Feedstocks
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/83885900853
October 29th (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. SungWoo Nam (University of California, Irvine)
Title: Mechanically-coupled Properties in Van der Waals Materials
Location: CLSSRM 110
Flyer PDF:
Seminar Flyer (Dr. SungWoo Nam)
November 4th (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Lin Fu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Title: Progress on predicting the hypersonic wall-bounded turbulence
Zoom link: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/88444729017
Flyer PDF: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Lin Fu)
November 10th (Wednesday)
Speaker: Dr. Harry E. Martz, Jr. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Title: Overview of and Research at LLNL’s Nondestructive Characterization Institute
Zoom link: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/88444729017
Flyer PDF: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Harry Martz)
November 12th (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Po-Ya Abel Chuang (University of California, Merced)
Title: Electrocatalytic Materials and Design: towards Hydrogen Energy Sustainability
Location: CLSSRM 110
Flyer PDF: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Abel Chuang)
November 19th
Speaker: Dr. Paulo Tabuada (University of California, Los Angeles)
Title: Deep Neural Networks, Universal Approximation, and Geometric Control
Zoom link: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82988326624
Flyer PDF: ME Seminar Flyer (Dr. Paulo Tabuada)