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
Past
Seminars and Lectures
Fall 2013
October
1 (Tuesday)
2:30-3:30 pm, 253 Engineering Terrace
Mr. Michael Burlingame, NJ Department of Environmental Protection
Novel Geotechnical Challenges for Slope Stability Studies of a Large
Landfill in the New Jersey Meadowlands flyer
October 2 (Wednesday)
2:00-3:00 pm, Davis Auditorium
Prof. Nicos Makris
University of Patras, Greece
Current Challenges and Advances in Modern Seismic Protection
Technologies: From Dynamic Similitude and Wavelet Analysis to Health Monitoring
flyer
October 29 (Tuesday)
2:30-3:30 pm, 313 Fayerweather
Prof. Richard Jardine, Imperial College London
Dongju Lee Memorial Lecture: Advanced Laboratory Testing in Research and
Practice (Recasting the Bishop Honour Lecture) flyer
November 7, 2013 (Thursday)
6:30 - 7:30 pm, Davis Auditorium
Biot Lecture: Persistent Shear Band in Unsaturated Porous Materials flyer
Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja, Stanford University
November 26, 2013 (Tuesday)
2:30-3:30 pm, 253 Engineering Terrace
Dr. Elisabeth Malsch, Thornton Tomasetti
The Cause of the I-35 West Bridge collapse flyer
December 10, 2013
3:00-4:00 pm, Davis Auditorium
Prof. Craig H. Benson
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Burmister Lecture: Infusing Sustainability into Civil Engineering Design:
Value Proposition for Society and Engineering Practice flyer
Spring 2013
1/29
(Tuesday)
Dr. Ching Hung, Columbia University (host: Hoe Ling)
Simulation of excavation in soft cohesive soils using an enhanced
anisotropic bounding surface model flyer
2:30-3:30 pm, 644 Mudd
2/5
Mr. Po-Hua Lee, Columbia University (host: Huiming Yin)
Fabrication, characterization, and modeling of functionally graded materials
for energy efficient buildings flyer
2:30-3:30 pm, 644 Mudd
3/12 (Tuesday)
2:30-3:30 pm, 644 Mudd
Dr.
Emmanouil Chatzis (host: Prof. Andrew Smyth)
The Dynamics of Rigid Bodies on Moving Deformable Support
Media flyer
April 1 (Monday, 2:00-3:00 pm) Davis Auditorium
Prof. Amr Salah Elnashai
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Earthquake Impact on the Built Environment Using Advanced Hazard
Estimation and Structural Hybrid Simulation flyer
2:30-3:30 pm, 834 Mudd
Mengyu Lan (host: Prof. Waisman)
Developments in Extended Finite Element Methods for Extraction of Strain
Energy Release Rates and
Computational Nanomechanics for SWCNT Aggregates flyer
4/16 (Tuesday)
2:30-3:30 pm, 644 Mudd
Prof. Jeong-Ho Kim
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut
Dynamic Response of Corrugated Sandwich Steel Plates: Finite Element
Modeling and Validation flyer
4/22 (Monday) - Burmister Lecture
2:00-3:30 pm, Interschool Lab
Prof. Craig H. Benson flyer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Infusing Sustainability into Civil Engineering Design: Value Proposition
for Society and Engineering Practice
4/25 (Thursday) - Mindlin Lecture
6:30 - 7:30 pm, Davis Auditorium
Prof. Thomas J.R. Hughes
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
Isogeometric Analysis flyer
5/9 (Thursday, 1 pm-, Interschool Lab)
Prof. Adrian J. Lew
Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Universal Meshes: High-order simulation of problems with evolving
geometries flyer
* cross listed with ASCE Met Section Engineering
Mechanics Committee Seminar