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January 23
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Active Control of Separated Flow
Luis Cattafesta
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
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February 13
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Nonlinear Control and Bioinspired Underwater Vehicle Systems
Kristi A. Morgansen
Assistant Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
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February 20
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Impact of Sea-Salt Aerosol on the Weekend Effect
Donald Dabdub
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
and
Advanced Power and Energy Program
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA
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February 27
|
Prospects for Very Large Space Telescopes: How Mass Scales
with Structural Requirements
Lee Peterson
Professor
Gary L. Roubos Endowed Chair
Department Chair (on sabbatical)
Director, Center for Aerospace Structures
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
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March 5
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Inside Polymer Nanocomposites Interphases and Percolation
Cate Brinson
Professor and Chair
Mechanical Engineering Department
and
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Department
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
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March 12
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Development of Upconversion Nanophosphors for Bioimaging and
Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer Treatment
Yiguang Ju
Professor
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
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March 14
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Micro and Miniature Technologies of Advanced Energy and Thermal Systems
(Fuel Cells and Heat Pipes)
Amir Faghri
United Technologies Endowed Chair Professor in
Thermal-Fluids Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
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March 19
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Spring Break—No Seminar
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April 2
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Electronically Tunable Nanomaterials
Horst Hahn
Professor
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Institute for Nanotechnology and Joint Research
Laboratory Nanomaterials
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany
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April 9
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NanoRobotic Systems
Lixin Dong
Senior Research Scientist, Head of NanoRobotics Group
The Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
ETH
Zürich, Switzerland
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April 16
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Novel Nanoscale Materials for the National Ignition Facility
Juergen Biener
Nanoscale Synthesis and Characterization Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA
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April 23
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Long Actuator Delays - Extending the Smith Predictor
to Nonlinear Systems
Miroslav Krstic
Harold W. Sorenson Professor of Control Systems
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA
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April 30
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Towards Dislocation Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Elif Ertekin
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
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