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Fall '07 Seminar Archive

 

Seminars will be held from 2:15-3:15pm in room 3-370.

 

Date

Speaker

From

Seminar

Sept. 14, 2007

 

 

Professor Jean-Jacques Slotine

Professor in Mechanical Engineering & Brain & Cognitive Science
MIT
Modularity, polyrhythms, and what robotics may yet learn from the brain
Sept. 21, 2007

Professor George Barbastathis

Professor in Mechanical Engineering
MIT

Origami assembly of nanophotonic systems

Sept. 28, 2007

Professor Greg Olson

Wilson-Cook Chaired Prof.

Engineering Design

Northwestern U. and Questek

Computational materials scieneering


Oct. 5, 2007

Professor Peter Rhines

Professor in Oceanography & Atmospheric Science

University of Washington

Optical altimetry: a new way to image fluid lab experiments, with applications to ocean/atmosphere circulation and Rossby waves


Oct. 12, 2007

Professor Naomi Leonard

Professor in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Princeton University

Mobile Sensor Networks: Cooperative Sensing and Control


Oct. 19, 2007

Dr. Oana Cazacu

Professor in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

University of Florida

 

On modeling plastic anisotropy and strength differential effects in HCP metals


Oct. 26, 2007

Dr. Taylor Lawrence

Corporate VP of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance at Raytheon

 

Defense and Aerospace Technologies for the Future


Nov. 2, 2007

Dean Subra Suresh

Dean of the School of Engineering

Ford Professor of Engineering

MIT

 

Cell Deformation and Connections to Human Disease States


Nov. 9, 2007

Professor Roger Brockett

Prof. of Comp Sci and Electrical Eng

Division of Egn & Applied Science

Founder of Harvard Robotics Lab

Harvard University

Including Implementation Cost in Control Optimization


Nov. 16, 2007

Professor Clive Dym

Professor

Department of Engineering

Harvey Mudd College

 

Engineering Science => Design Research => Design Pedagogy: A Personal Migration


Nov. 30, 2007

Professor David Beal

Prof. of Mechanical Engineering

NUWC in Newport, RI

 

Flapping Fins for Undersea Propulsion and Maneuvering


Dec. 7, 2007
Research Consultant
Chevron, Energy Technology Company

Deepwater - Challenges, Opportunities, and Hydrodynamics


Dec.14, 2007

Jerry Loe

Senior VP of Sales and Operations

Verari Systems

Keys to Success with New Ventures


 

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