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 (discontinued)
Past Seminars and Lectures



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FALL 2016

Date: Friday, September 2
Title: "Epistemic Uncertainties in Engineering Analysis"
Speaker: Michael Beer, Leibniz Universitat Hannover
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: 644 Mudd

Date: Tuesday, September 6
Title: "Principal Stress Trajectories in Numerical Solid Mechanics An Algorithm for the Visualisation of Structural Element’s Stress States in Two and Three Dimensions"
Speaker: Bernd W. Zastrau, Technische Universitat Dresden, Institute of Mechanics and Shell Structures
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: To Be Determined


Date: Tuesday, October 4
Title: "From Micro-Scale Variations to Structural Failure: The Case for Stochastic Mechanics"
Speaker: Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: 750 Schapiro CEPSR


Date: Monday, October 17

Biot Lecture
Title: "21st Century Cement Technology: Addressing Sustainability Throuh Innovation"
Speaker: Prof. Kimberly E. Kurtis, Georgia Institute of Technology
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 750 Schapiro CEPSR


Date: Thursday, October 27
Title: "Cementing Our Future Through Innovation: Creating the Next Generation of Concrete Materials"
Speaker: Prof. Raissa Ferron, University of Texas at Austin
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Schapiro CEPSR

Date: Tuesday, November 1

Mindlin Lecture
Title: "Urban Physics: Is New York a Liquid or a Solid? A New Quantitative Engineering Mechanics Approach to Cities"
Speaker: Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: 750 Schapiro CEPSR


Date: Wednesday, November 9
Title: "Modeling of Dynamic Behavior of Materials at the Atomic Scales and the Mesoscales"
Speaker: Prof. Avinash Dongare, University of Connecticut
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Schapiro CEPSR

Date: Friday, November 11
Title: "Concrete Under Nanoscope"
Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Sobolev, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: 825 Mudd



Date: Tuesday, July 26
Title: "Geotechnical Model Testing with 3D Printing: A Curved Soil Retaining Wall"
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Speaker: Prof. Jui Pin Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: 750 Schapiro CEPSR (Costa Engineering Commons)


SPRING 2016


Date: Thursday, February 18
Title: "Natural and Man-Made Geohazards in Kazakhstan"
Speaker: Askar Zhussupbekov, Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 233 Mudd

Date: Tuesday, March 1 (cancelled)
Title: "The Sharq Crossing Programme: A Coming Together of Art, Architecture, and Engineering"
Speaker: Micael Calatrava, Calatrava Mideast LLC
Time: 2:00PM-3:00PM
Location: Davis Auditorium, 4th Floor, Schapiro CEPSR

Date: Wednesday, March 9
Title: "Modeling Soil-Structure-Interaction (SSI) effects by Means of the Macroelement Approach"
Speaker: Diana Salciarini, University of Perugia, Italy
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 414 Schapiro CEPSR

Date: Thursday, March 10
Title: "A New Theory of Deformable Solids with Microstructure Based on Finsler Differential Geometry"
Speaker: John D. Clayton, Army Research Laboratory and University of Maryland
Time: 10:30AM-11:30AM
Location: 963 Schermerhorn Extension
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March 28
2:30-3:30 pm, Davis Auditorium
Prof. J. Tsinley Oden, University of Texas - Austin
Foundations of Predictive Computational Science: Selection and Validation of Models of Complex Systems in the Presence of Uncertainty

March 29
Title: "Integrated Monitoring and Maintenance Planning for Infrastructure Systems"
Speaker: Prof. Matteo Pozzi, Carnegie Mellon University
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 834 Mudd

Date: Thursday, April 7
Title: "Discrete Analysis of Water Phase Evolution within Unsaturated Soil"
Speaker: Prof. Simon Salager, Joseph Fourier University
Time: 2:10PM-3:10PM
Location: 327 Mudd

April 12
2:00-3:00 pm, Davis Auditorium
Burmister Lecture
Prof. James K. Mitchell, Virginia Tech
Lessons From The Lives of Two Dams

Date: Tuesday, April 26
Title: "Design, Adapt, Rehabilitate: Three Case Studies in Structural Engineering"
Speaker: Emily Appelbaum, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 834 Mudd