Departmental Seminar (E9500)
Note: Attendance required for full-time graduate students

Lecture Series: The Biot Lecture, The Burmister Lecture, The Mindlin Lecture,
 The DJ Memorial Lecture, Lou Silano Lecture

Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics, 2009

Past Seminars and Lectures

Fall 2008
2:30-3:30 (Tuesday, Mudd 644, unless otherwise stated)
Date
Speakers
Title
remarks
September 26
(Friday)
Prof. Lawrence C. Bank
Program Director, NSF and
  Professor,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

Silano Lecture
Recent Research in FRP Reinforcement and Stay-in-Place Formwork for Bridge Decks

InterSchool Lab
750 CEPSR

October 7
(Tuesday)
Prof. Huiming Yin
CEEM, Columbia University
Magnetomechanical Modeling of Chain-Structured Magnetic Smart Materials
644 Mudd
October 14
(Tuesday)
Prof. Daniel Pradel
Adjunct Associate Professor, UCLA
Numerical Modeling in the Design of Large Dams and Deep Cutoff Walls
644 Mudd
October 16
(Thursday)
Prof. Mircea Grigoriu, Cornell University
Prof. Arvid Naess, Norwegian Institute of Technology
joint seminar
Prof. Deodatis
InterSchool Lab
750 CEPSR

October 21
(Tuesday)
Prof. Haim Waisman
CEEM, Columbia University
Modeling fracture by the eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM)
644 Mudd
October 28
(Tuesday)
Prof. Joseph Wartman
Drexel University
Hurricane Katrina: The Intersection of a Metropolis, Infrastructure and a Natural Hazard
644 Mudd
November 4
Election Day


November 11
(Tuesday)
Prof. David Frost
Georgia Institute of Technology
Burmister Lecture
Insights into Geomaterial Response Based on Optical Microstructure Characterization
InterSchool Lab
750 CEPSR
November 18
(Tuesday)
 Prof. Majid T. Manzari
Department of Civil Engineering
George Washington University
Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering:  Predictive Capabilities
644 Mudd
November 24
(Monday)
Prof. Nicholas Sitar
University of California at Berkeley
Dongju Lee Memorial Lecture
May 12, 2008 Great Wenchuan Earthquake: Observations from Reconnaissance
Davis Auditorium
November 25
(Tuesday)
Prof. Jeffrey Siegel
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental
Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Air Cleaning for Green Buildings: Improving indoor air quality without energy consequences
644 Mudd
December 2
(Tuesday)
Prof. Younane Abousleiman
The University of Oklahoma
Biot Lecture
Electrokinetic and Chemical Effects in Poromechanics Through the Solution of the Inclined Wellbore Problem
644 Mudd


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