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Department Seminar Schedule
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Spring 2007
Date:
  
Speaker/Event
Wednesday,
January 17, 2007		    
Wednesday,
January 24, 2007		   Kaushik Bhattacharya, Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, "Stress-induced Transformation in Polycrystalline Shape-memory Alloys"
Wednesday,
January 31, 2007		   Matthew Spenko, Stanford University, "Design, Planning, and Control of Dynamic Robots in Challenging Environments"
Wednesday,
February 7, 2007		   Fumin Zhang, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, "Collaborative Exploration Using Robotic Sensor Platforms"
Wednesday,
February 14, 2007		   Jan Gou, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Alabama, "Carbon Nanopapers and Nanocomposites: Manufacturing, Properties and Applications "
Wednesday,
February 21, 2007		   Hui Yu, Boston University, "Microfabricaton for Biomedical Applications"
Monday,
February, 26, 2007		   Benxin Wu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, "Numerical Modeling and Experimental Investigations of Laser-Matter Interactions in Laser-Based Manufacturing and Materials Processing"
Wednesday,
February 28, 2007		   Petros Voulgaris, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Structured and Distributed Control for Multiagent Systems"
Wednesday,
March 7, 2007		   James Patton, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, "Recent Thrusts in Therapeutic Robotics"
Wednesday,
March 14, 2007		   No Seminar! Spring Break.
Wednesday,
March 21, 2007		   No Seminar.
Monday,
March 26, 2007		   Manish Kumar, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, "Collective Perception and Control in Large Scale Dynamic Systems"
Wednesday,
March 28, 2007		   Kenneth Breuer, Department of Engineering, Brown University, "The Aeromechanics of Bat Flight"
Wednesday,
April 4, 2007		   Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, "Algorithms for Multi-Sensor Navigation Systems"
Wednesday,
April 11, 2007		   Satyandra K. Gupta, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, "Towards Automated Micro and Nanoscale Assembly Using Optical Tweezers"
Monday,
April 16, 2007 		  Seebany Datta-Barua, Stanford University, "GPS Augmentation System Integrity Throughout Anomalous Ionosphere Conditions"
Wednesday,
April 18, 2007		   Guangyong Li, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, "Nano-robotic Manipulation and Assembly by Atomic Force Microscopy"
Wednesday,
April 25, 2007		   L. Mahadevan, Harvard University, "Surface tension shorts: from A(phids) to Z(ippers)"
Wednesday,
May 2, 2007		   Sean Garrick, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, "Modeling and Simulation of Nanoparticle Formation & Growth in Turbulent Reacting Flows"

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