Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Spring 2022
January 31st (Monday)
Speaker: Dr. Basilio Lenzo (University of Padua)
Title: Torque Vectoring for Electric Vehicles
Zoom: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/82336999611?pwd=cWdXN3pyblRkVWNOcUJTL1V4QXBXd...
Flyer PDF: Seminar Flyer (Dr. Basilio Lenzo)
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Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Fall 2022
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Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Fall 2021
Seminars take place from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Fridays through zoom.
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:
Seminar Flyer (Dr. Ning Ye)
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:
Seminar Flyer (Dr. Jun Xu)
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)
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)
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Fall 2020
August. 28 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Bruce J. West, CCDC Army Research Laboratory
Title: Complexity and the Dunbar Hypothesis
Sep. 4 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. John Dr. Bolten, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title: Mapping the Blue Marble: Using Space-Based Observations for Improved Global Water Security and Sustainability.
Sep. 11 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Amartya Banerjee (UCLA)
Title: Symmetry, Deformations and the Search for Unprecedented Materials from First Principles
Sep. 18 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Steven L. Brunton (University of Washington)
Title: Data-Driven Discovery and Control of Complex Systems: Uncovering Interpretable and Generalizable Nonlinear Models
Sep. 25 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Alison Dunn (UIUC)
Title: TBA
Oct. 2 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Shelly Miller (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Title: TBA
Oct. 9 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Eva Gabriela Baylon (UTSW)
Title: TBA
Oct. 16 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Derya Baran (KAUST)
Title: TBA
Oct. 23 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Kenric Nelson
Title: TBA
Oct. 30 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Jon Klassen (San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District)
Title: TBA
Nov. 6 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Yat Li (UCSC)
Title: TBA
Nov. 13 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Mehmet Baykara (UCM)
Title: TBA
Nov. 20 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Gazanfer Ünal (Bahcesehi University)
Title: TBA
Dec. 4 (Friday)
Speaker: Claudia Cháves Villareal (Tecnológico de Costa Rica)
Title: TBA
Dec. 11 (Friday)
Speaker: Christina Davis (UC Davis)
Title: TBA
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Mechanical Engineering Seminars — Fall 2019
Seminars take place from 2:00 to 3:20 p.m. Fridays at CLSSRM 110 unless otherwise noted.
August. 30 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Sara Dadras, Ford Motors
Title: Automated Driving Applications
Sep. 6 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Matt Wraith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Career Possibilities at LLNL and Metals Additive Manufacturing
Sep. 11 (1:30 pm, Wednesday)
Speaker: Prof. Robert Carpick, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Nanoscale Mechanisms Controlling Friction, Adhesion, and Lubrication Using in situ Approaches
Sep. 20 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Min Hwan Lee, UC Merced
Title: Atomic/Nano-scale Engineering for Fuel Cell Catalysis
Sep. 27 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Michael Pettes, Los Alamos National Lab
Title: Strain and Isotopic Effects in Two-Dimensional WSe2
Oct. 4 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Frank Talke, UC San Diego
Title: Materials, Mechanics, and Design Problems in Medical Device Technology and Information Storage
Oct. 11 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Om Agrawal, Southern Illinois University
Title: Fractional Derivatives and Their Applications
Oct. 18 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Yoonjin Won, UC Irvine
Title: Thermal Material Architectures at the Nanoscale
Oct. 25 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Michal Bajdich, Stanford Linear Accelerator Lab (SLAC)
Title: Computational Electrochemistry and Machine Learning for Sustainable Energy
Nov. 1 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Albert C.J. Luo, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Title: Analytical Periodic Motions to Chaos in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Nov. 8 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Xiaochun Li, UCLA
Title: Nanotechnology Enabled Metals Manufacturing
Nov. 15 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Prabir Barooah, University of Florida
Title: Capacity of flexible residential loads to provide battery-like services to help mitigate volatility of renewable energy sources
Nov. 22 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Yongjie Hu, UCLA
Title:
Dec. 6 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Bolin Liao, UC Santa Barbara
Title:
Dec. 13 (Friday)
Speaker: Prof. Pang-Chieh Sui, University of Victoria, Canada
Title:
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Fall 2018
August. 31 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor Barbaros Çetin, Bilkent University
Title: Microfluidic Systems for Bio-particle Manipulation
Sep. 7 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor Amir Ghazanfari, San Jose State University
Title: Freeform Fabrication: From Freezing to Firing
Sep. 14 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor Guillermo Aguilar, University of California, Riverside
Title: Some of the many things we can do with laser light aimed at biological tissue
Sep. 21 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor Chen Li, University of South Carolina
Title: Some Highlights of Research in Microchannel Flow Boiling
Sep. 28 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor Timothy Fisher, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Practice Your Scales! Thermal, Energy, and Bio Nanomaterials for Fast Processes
Oct. 5 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor Yong Shuai, Harbin Institute of Technology
Title: Simultaneous reconstruction of the 3D temperature field and radiative properties of flame using the light-field imaging technique
Oct. 13 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor Zhen Li, Brown University
Title: Theory of Coarse-Graining and Mesoscopic Methods Applied to Multiscale Problems
Oct. 19 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Juhao Wu, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Title: Thermal-Mechanical-Optical Effects in Free Electron Laser X-Ray Pulse Interacting with Thin-Layer Crystal
Oct. 26 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor David Jassby, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Electrochemistry at the Membrane/Water Interface
Nov. 2 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Yeh-Hung Lai, General Motors
Title: Automotive PEM Fuel Cell Technology – an Industrial Research Perspective on the Durability of Proton Exchange Membranes
Nov. 9 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor Daniel Cooper, University of Michigan
Title: TBA
Nov. 16 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Ali Erdemir, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: Frontiers of Novel Nanomaterials and Coatings for Friction and Wear Control
Nov. 30 (Friday)
Speaker: Professor Suneel Kodambaka, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: TBA
Dec. 7 (Friday)
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Urban, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: TBA
Fall 2017
Sep. 1 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Barbara Linke, UC Davis
Title: Controlling manual grinding operations with applications for food processing equipment
Sep. 8 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Junmin Wang, Ohio State University
Title: Smart Mobility: Vehicle Energy Efficiency and Driving Safety Enhancements through Intelligence
Sep. 15 (Fri)
Speaker: Dr. Myeong-Lok Seol, NASA Ames Research Center
Title: Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Next-Generation Mechanical Energy Harvesting
Sep. 22 (Fri)
Speaker: Dr. Xi Wang, UC Berkeley
Title: Dynamically tunable optical devices
Sep. 29 (Fri)
Speaker: Dr. Danny Perez, Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Lab.
Title: Massively-Parallel Techniques for Atomistic Simulations over Long Timescales
Oct. 6 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Dave Auslander, UC Berkeley
Title: Physics (Mechanics) for Engineers: What Century Are We In?
Oct. 13 (Fri)
Speaker: Dr. Shibing Liu, Hyperloop One Co.
Title: Hyperloop One -A New Mode of Transportation
Oct. 20 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Gregory Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Stochastic Models in Robotics
Oct. 27 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Satish Kandlikar, Rochester Institute of Technology
Title: New understanding of the heat transfer mechanisms during pool and flow boiling and its application in boiling enhancement
Nov. 3 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Yuwen Zhang, University of Missouri
Title: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Selective Laser Sintering
Nov. 17 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Benedetto Marelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Structural biopolymers – using Nature’s building blocks as an inspiration for advanced manufacturing
Nov. 30 (Thur, SE2-224)
Speaker: Prof. Sandip Mazumder, Ohio State University
Title: Size Effects on Thermal Conductivity
Dec. 1 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Bill Goodwine, Univerisity of Notre Dame
Title: TBA
Fall 2016
Dec. 9 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Van P. Carey, UC Berkeley
Title: TBD
Nov. 28 (Mon, 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm, SE2-302)
Speaker: Prof. Baowen Li, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: Heat Control by Phononic Thermal Circuits and Thermal Metamaterials
Nov. 18 (Fri)
Speaker: Prof. Wojciech Lipinski, Australian National University, Canberra
Title: Advances in high-temperature solar energy conversion
Nov. 10 (Thur, 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm, SE2-302)
Speaker: Prof. Peter Hosemann, UC Berkeley
Title: Small scale mechanical testing evaluating structural materials for nuclear application: Challenge and opportunity
Nov. 7 (Mon, 11:00 pm - noon, SE2-220)
Speaker: Harish Charan
Title: An Atomistic study of driven-dissipative strongly coupled dusty plasmas
Nov. 4 (Fri)
Speaker: Dr. Ravi Prasher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Science and Engineering of Thermal Energy Materials and Devices: From Solid-State Engines to High-Energy Density Thermal Storage
Oct. 27 (Thur; COB 129, 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Dellacorte, NASA Glenn Research Center
Title: NiTi Alloys for Tribological Applications: In Situ Nanotechnology
Oct. 21(Fri)
Speaker: Prof. N. Sukumar, University of California, Davis
Title: "Partition of unity finite element method for ab initio electronic-structure calculations"
Oct. 14
Speaker: Dr. Adam Weber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: TBA
Oct. 7
Speaker: Prof. Michael Jenkins, California State University, Fresno
Title: Next generation nuclear power and the need for test standards, design codes, and data bases for ceramic matrix composites
Sep. 23
Speaker: Dr. Kan Zha, Sandia National Laboratory
Title: Optical Diagnostics in Direct-Injection, Swirl-Supported Diesel Engines
Sep. 16
Speaker: Dr. Fan Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Heat Transfer in Strongly Correlated Metals and Nanomaterials
Sep. 9
Speaker: Prof. Igor Podlubny, Tech Univ of Kosice, Slovakia
Title: Fractional-Order Modelling: Advances and Challenges
Aug. 26
Speaker: Prof. Shihua Li, Southeast University, China
Title: Theory and Application on Disturbance Observation and Compensation Based Motion Control Method
Spring 2016
Apr. 22
Speaker: Prof. Roland Winston, University of California, Merced
Title: Concentrating light with strings and flow-lines
Apr. 15
Speaker: Prof. Chris Santangelo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Title: The mechanics of origami
Mar. 4
Speaker: Prof. David Steigmann, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Coupled-field problems in the mechanics and physics of lipid bilayers
Spring 2015
Dec. 4
Speaker: Prof. James Chagdes, Miami University
Title: A nonlinear dynamics perspective on maintaining balance under destabilizing effects
Nov. 20
Speaker: Prof. Tina Katopodes Chow, University of California Berkeley
Title: High-resolution atmospheric boundary layer simulations for wind energy applications
Nov. 13
Speaker: Dr. Neil Benjamin, Lam Research Corporation
Title: Around the world of RF-Plasma generation (in 80 demi-minutes)
Nov. 6
(Joint seminar with Applied Math graduate group and will be held in COB 110, 3:30 – 4:30 pm)
Speaker: Dr. Dan White, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Computational Design of Optimization of Electromagnetic Metamaterials
Oct. 23
Speaker: Dr. Art Wagner, San Jose State University
Title: Control of moving coil actuators in disk drives: c. 1980 to 2015
Oct. 16
Speaker: Dr. Haitao Xiang, The Climate Corporation
Title: Transforming agriculture with data-driven digital tools
Oct. 9
Speaker: Dr. Virginia P. Altoe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: Sliding wear of a single asperity: AFM/TEM based studies
Oct. 2
Speaker: Dr. Scott Wilks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Title: Fast ignition: An alternative route to inertial confinement fusion
Sept. 25
Speaker: Prof. Todd Lillian, Texas Tech University
Title: Simulation reveals the dynamics of supercoiled DNA
Sept. 18
Speaker: Dr. Shankar Sankararaman, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc.
Title: An Efficient Framework for Uncertainty Quantification and Management in Computational Science and Engineering
Sept. 14
(Joint seminar with BEST graduate group and will be held in COB 267, 12:15 – 1:15 pm)
Speaker: Prof. Gregory B. McKenna, Texas Tech University
Title: Nanomechanical Measurements in Polymers: Bubble Inflation and Nanoindentation
Sept. 11
Speaker: Dr. Ankur Agarwal, Applied Materials Inc.
Title: Role of Modeling in Developing Plasma Processing Technologies for Semiconductor Industry
Spring 2014
April 9
Title: "Collaborative Energy Management and Control - An occupant-engaged building control system"
Speaker: Zhen Song, Research Scientist, Siemens Corporate Research
Fall 2013
Dec. 6
Title: Fractional-Order Models of Anomalous Diffusion: Memory, Non-locality and Entropy
Speaker: Richard L. Magin, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
Nov. 22
Title: Finite crystal elasticity of nano and continuum rods
Speaker: Ajeet Kumar, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India
Nov. 15
Title: Colloids near Electrodes: Effects of Electrolyte, Transitions in Order, and Bifurcations in Height
Speaker:William D. Ristenpart, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California Davis
Nov. 1
Title: Consensus in Networks: Coordination and Control of Cyber Physical Systems from Unmanned Vehicles to Energy Efficient Buildings
Speaker: Kevin L. Moore, Dean, College of Engineering and Computational Sciences, Colorado School of Mines
Sept. 27
Title: All-in-One Devices for More than Moore Era
Speaker: Jin-Woo Han, Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center
Fall 2012
Dec. 7
Title: Heat Transfer in Graphene and Nanocrystalline Materials
Speaker: Chris Dames Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Nov. 16
Title: Nanomechanics of Silica Nanowires via Finite Element Method Simulations
Speaker: Miguel Fernando Diaz Moreno (Advisor: Lilian Davila)
Nov. 9
Title: Modeling Thermal Fluctuations of Bio-Filaments with Kirchhoff Rods
Speaker: Nitish Ratan Appanasamy (Advisor: Sachin Goyal)
Nov. 2
Title: Oscillations and Internal Hydrodynamic Flows of a Droplet in AC Electrowetting
Speaker: Dr. Zhen Li (Advisor: Yanbao Ma)
Oct. 26
Title: Atomic Friction on Graphene
Speaker: Mr. Zhijiang Ye (Advisor: Ashlie Martini)
Oct. 19
Title: Modeling and Simulation of Ballistic Heat Transfer
Speaker: Yanbao Ma
Oct. 12
Title: Soft Contact Lens Hydrogel Friction and other Challenging Measurements in Experimental Tribology
Speaker: Daniel J. Dickrell III, University of Florida
Oct. 5
Title: Investigation on Vortex-Induced Vibration Models and Energy Harnessing Possibilities
Speaker: Yousef Naranjani (Advisor: JQ Sun)
Sept. 28
Title: Self-assembly of Carbon Nanotubes, C60 and graphene nanostructures for photovoltaic applications
Speaker: Mr. Chun Tang (Advisor: Ashlie Martini)
Sept. 21
Title: Empirical Model Development and Atomistic Simulation of Silver Tantalate as a Solid Lubricant
Speaker: Mr. Hongyu Gao (Advisor: Ashlie Martini)
Sept. 14
Title: Optimization of the Fuzzy Controller for an Implantable Insulin Delivery System
Speaker: Mr. Yousef Sardahi (Advisor: JQ Sun)
