Past Seminars

Friday February 15, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Flows for Elastic-Plastic Solids in Planar and Converging Geometries Using an Eulerian Framework
Speaker: Alejandro Lopez-Ortega, California Institute of Technology
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 12, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday February 11, 2013 1:00 PM
JPL Spacecraft Formation Control Testbed
Speaker: Dr. Carl Seubert, JPL
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday February 8, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Speaker: Ian A. Waitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 5, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday February 4, 2013 1:00 PM
The James Webb Space Telescope: Exploration Beyond the Mighty Hubble
Speaker: Dr. Rolf Danner, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday February 1, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Energy-Inconsistent Objective Stress Rates in ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA and Other FE Codes: Magnitude of Errors and How to Correct Them
Speaker: Zdenek Bazant, Northwestern University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 29, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday January 25, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Optimisation and Learning for Artificial Swimmers
Speaker: Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 22, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday January 18, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Hollow Vortices
Speaker: Stefan Llewellyn Smith, University of California, San Diego
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 15, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday January 11, 2013 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Cavitation in Rubber: An Elastic Instability or a Fracture Phenomenon?
Speaker: Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 8, 2013 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday December 7, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Technology Advancements
Speaker: Robert D. Braun, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday November 30, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Swelling Structures that Bend, Buckle, Twist and Snap their way to Functionality
Speaker: Douglas P. Holmes, Virginia Tech
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday November 16, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Unfolding Spiral Vortex Breakdown as a Codimension-3 Global Bifurcation
Speaker: Jean-Marc Chomaz, Ecole Polytechnique
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday November 13, 2012 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Speaker: Jason Damazo, "Investigating the Boundary Layer Induced by Gaseous Detonations"
Speaker: Rashad Moarref, "Model-based scaling and prediction of streamwise energy spectrum at high Reynolds numbers"
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday November 9, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Metamaterials from Rods and Pivots
Speaker: Graeme Milton, University of Utah
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday November 6, 2012 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Speaker: Alejandro López Ortega, "Numerical simulations of Richtmyer-Meshkov flow in multi-material problems"
Speaker: Jason Rabinovitch, "A Proposed Vertical Expansion Tunnel"
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday November 2, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Bio-inspired Hierarchical Materials: Micromechanics, GPU-Based Simulation and 3D Printing
Speaker: Matthew Begley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday October 30, 2012 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Speaker: Dr. Paul Dimotakis, "Progress in atmospheric CO2 concentration vertical-profile estimation methodology, with embedded sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification"
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday October 26, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Low-order Models for Control of Fluids: Balanced Models and Koopman Modes
Speaker: Clarence W. Rowley, Princeton University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday October 23, 2012 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Speaker: Jeff Eldredge, UCLA, "Improving vortex models via optimal control theory"
Speaker: Indrat Aria, "Impact behavior of water droplet on a superhydrophobic surface"
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday October 19, 2012 3:00 PM
Ernest E. Sechler Lecture in Aerospace
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday October 16, 2012 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Speaker: Nick Parziale, "Hypervelocity Boundary Layer Transition"
Speaker: Jeesoon Choi, "Dynamics and Energy Extraction in Surging / Plunging Airfoils"
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Monday October 15, 2012 1:00 PM
Mars Science Laboratory: Robot at work
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday October 12, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamics of Nanoscale Mechanical Devices in Fluid with Applications to Atomic and Molecular Sensing
Speaker: John E. Sader, University of Melbourne
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday October 9, 2012 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Speaker: Sebastian Liska Cabrera, "An Immersed Boundary Method for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations Based on the Lattice Green's Function Method"
Speaker: Joe Jewell, "Transition within a hypervelocity boundary layer on a
Location: 202 Guggenheim Laboratory
Friday October 5, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Linear and Non-linear Viscoelastic Behavior of Rigid Polymers
Speaker: Wolfgang Knauss, Caltech
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday October 2, 2012 4:00 PM
Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Speaker: Manuel Lombardini : Progress in the spherically converging Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
Speaker: Prakhar Mehrotra : Experimental investigation of inclined-jet injection into supersonic cross-flow , and its effect on downstream separated-flow mixing
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday June 1, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Numerical simulation of stratified turbulence
Speaker: Georgios Matheou, JPL
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday May 29, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum control of diamond defects for quantum information and bio-imaging
Speaker: Peter Maurer, Harvard University
Location: 107 Annenberg
Friday May 25, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Spacecraft Parachutes
Speaker: Tayfun Tezduyar, Rice University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday May 18, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Lessons for Bio-Inspired Design: Fluid Dynamics of Embryonic Heart
Speaker: Mory Gharib, Caltech
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday May 11, 2012 3:00 PM
Technological and Engineering Challenges in Robotic Space Exploration
Speaker: Speaker: Charles Elachi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Friday May 4, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Adaptive Aeroelastic Tailoring using Variable Stiffness Approaches
Speaker: Paolo Ermanni, ETH Zurich
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday April 27, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Large-eddy Simulation of Flat-plate Turbulent Boundary Layer at Large Reynolds Numbers
Speaker: Michio Inoue , Caltech
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday April 20, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Examples of Fluid-Structure Interactions in Biology
Speaker: Christophe Eloy, Aix-Marseille University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday April 13, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Recent Experience Applying Advanced Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification to Spacecraft Integrated Modeling
Speaker: Lee Peterson, JPL
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday April 6, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Clefted Equilibrium Shapes of Superpressure Balloon Structures
Speaker: Xiaowei Deng, Caltech
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Monday April 2, 2012 1:00 PM
Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope
Speaker: Irwin Alber, Boeing
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday March 23, 2012 2:00 PM
Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Scientific Research and Education: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Subra Suresh, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Location: Cahill Center, Hameetman Auditorium
Thursday March 15, 2012 3:00 PM
Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Special Lecture in Engineering Education
Location: 206 Thomas
Friday March 9, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Progress with Our Understanding of Rayleigh‐Taylor Driven Mixing
Speaker: Malcolm Andrews, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday March 2, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
3D Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Wind Turbines at Full Scale
Speaker: Yuri Bazilevs, University of California, San Diego
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday February 24, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Nonlinear Gravity-Capillary Wave Patterns Generated by a Slow-Moving Pressure Source
Speaker: James Duncan, University of Maryland
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 21, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The complexity of the Local Separable Hamiltonian Problem lem
Speaker: André Chailloux, University of California, Berkeley
Location: 107 Annenberg
Friday February 17, 2012 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium
Analytical & Experimental Studies on Layered Multiferroic Materials (Macro-Nano)
Speaker: Greg Carman, UCLA
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 14, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Unforgeable noise-tolerant quantum tokens
Speaker: Fernando Pastawski, Max-Planck Institute
Location: 107 Annenberg
Department of Aerospace (GALCIT)