DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS

2:30-3:30 pm (unless otherwise stated)
some of our seminar guests are pictured

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November 16, 2006
Interschool Lab, Schapiro Center
Biot Lecture
Prof. Van C. Mow
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
The Role of Biomechanics in Cartilage Tissue Engineering

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November 21, 2006
Interschool Lab, Schapiro Center
Burmister Lecture
Prof. Andrew Whittle, MIT
Role of Soil Modeling in Geotechnical Predictions
 [Sponsored by the Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers]

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November 29, 2006 (Wed)
Room 414, Schapiro Center
Prof. Arvid Naess (host: Prof. Deodatis)
Department of Mathematical Science, Norweigian University of Science and Technology
New Strategies for Efficient Estimation of Extreme Structural Response by Direct Monte Carlo Simulation

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December 14, 2006
Room: 834 Mudd
Prof. Chung-Yuen (Herbert) Hui  (host: Prof. Chen)
Department of Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, Cornell University
Bio-inspired Fibrillar Interfaces for Contact and Adhesion: Theory and Experiments

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September 21, 2006
Interschool Lab, Schapiro Center
Dr.-Ing. Will Laufs (host: Prof. Meyer)
Executive Vice President, WernerSobekNewYork
Innovative Structural Engineering Design - Recent Working Examples

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September 28, 2006
Room 414, Schapiro Center
Joint Civil-Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Prof. Bernard Halphen
Department of Mechanics, Ecole polytechnique, France
Cyclic Loadings in Plasticity ; Application to Fatigue

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October 9, 2006
Room 414, Schapiro Center
Prof. Mehdi Farshad (host: Prof. Testa)
Department of Materials and Systems for Civil Engineering
EMPA, Switzerland
Computation Technology in Pipelines

3:30-
Prof. Chi-Chang Lin
Dean, College of Engineering, National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan)
Earthquake Engineering Research at the Environmental Restoration and Disaster Reduction Research Center

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October 12, 2006
Room 834 Mudd
Dr. Eve Hinman (host: Prof. Meyer)
The President, Hinman Consulting Engineers
Anti-Terrorist Design of Office Buildings

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November 1, 2006
Room 414, Schapiro Center
Dr. Yehuda Bock  (host: Prof. Smyth)
Director, Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC)
Director, California Spatial Reference Center (CSRC)
University of California at San Diego
Very-High Rate GPS Measurements for Structural and Natural Hazards Monitoring

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November 2, 2006
Room 414, Schapiro Center
Dr. Ing. Hans Schober  (host: Prof. Meyer)
The President, Schlaich Bergermann and Partner LP, NY
Innovative Lightweight Structures

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Spring 2006
Speech given by Raymond Daddazio (currently President and CEO of Weidlinger Associates) during the 2002 Annual Faculty-Student-Alumni Dinner

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February 8 (Wednesday): Prof. Heinrich Rothert
University of Hannover, Germany
Spatial Structures at Nanoscale
(host: Prof. Meyer)

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Dongju Lee Memorial Lecture
February  20 (Monday): Prof. Dov Leshchinsky
University of Delaware
Case Histories of Failed MSE Structures
Interschool Lab
(host: Prof. Ling)

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March 22 (Wednesday): Prof. Katerina Papoulia
Cornell University
(host: Prof. Smyth)

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.March 29 (Wednesday): Prof. Yoji Shimazaki
Tokai University, Japan
Vibration Absorber : Rotary Cylinder Type
(host: Prof. Smyth/Vaicaitis)

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April 12 (Wednesday): Geotech Student Seminar
Geotechnical centrifuge Modeling at Columbia University
Logan Brant (advsior: Hoe Ling)
Centrifuge Modeling of Pile Subjected to Lateral Load
&
Min-hao Wu (advisor: Hoe Ling)
Two-Dimensional Slope Failure in the Centrifugal Field

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April 13 (Thursday): Prof. Guilherme Melo
University of Brasilia, Brazil
Punching Shear of Flat Plates
(host: Prof. Meyer)
Room 627
 

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April 19 (Wednesday): Jieh-Jiuh Wang
Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
Rapid Needs Assessment for Typhoon-Triggered Debris Flow in Taiwan
(Advsior: Hoe Ling)

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April 26 (Wednesday): Dr Bérangère Lartigue
Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
Multiscale Heat Transfer: From Nano-Porous Silica-Aerogels to Building Envelopes
(host: Prof. Meyer)

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