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 SEMESTER
Date: Tuesday, September 5
Title: "Ocean Waves: Theoretical Modelling, Field Experiments and Energy Exploitation"
Speaker: Felice Arena, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 411 Hamilton Hall

Date: Tuesday, October 10
Title: "Use of Cross and/or Buttress Walls to Protect Adjacent Buildings in a Deep Excavation"
Speaker: Dr. Chang-Yu Ou, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 411 Hamilton Hall

Date: Friday, October 13
Title: "Assessing Travel Behavior Responses to Transit Network Disruptions Using Innovative Data Collection Methods"
Speaker: Dr. Shanjiang Zhu, George Mason University
Time: 10:30AM - 11:30AM
Location: To Be Determined

Date: Friday, October 27
Title: "Effect of Polycarboxylate Ethers Superplasticizer (PCE) on Dynamic Yield Stress, Thixotropy and Flocculation State of Fresh Cement Pastes in Consideration of the Critical Micelle Concentration (CMC)"
Speaker: Dr. Ye Qian, Ghent University
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: 311 Fayerweather

Date: Friday, November 3
Title: "Multigrid Development in MueLu for Hypersonic Flow Simulations"
Speaker: Dr. Luc Berger-Vergiat, Sandia National Laboratories
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: 329 Pupin

November 28
Structural Health Monitoring: Case of the Indian River Inlet Bridge
Professor Harry "Tripp" Shenton, University of Delaware

December 7
Biot Lecture
Compaction Localization, Permeability Evolution and Effective Stress Behavior of Porous Rock
Professor Teng-fong Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
3-4 pm
750 Schapiro CEPSR

Date: Tuesday, December 12
Title: "Durability of Low Embodied Carbon Concrete"
Speaker: Dr. Arnaud Castel, University of New South Wales, Australia
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Schapiro CEPSR



SPRING SEMESTER

Date: Tuesday, January 31
Title: "Micromechanics-Based Models for Asphalt Pavement Materials"
Speaker: Zhanping You, Michigan Technological University
Host: Huiming Yin
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Pupin


Date: Tuesday, February 7
Title: "Physically-Based Modeling of Sediment Transport in Surface Flows: From 'Deterministic' to 'Stochastic'"
Speaker: Christina Tsai, National Taiwan University
Host: Hoe Ling
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Pupin

Date: Tuesday, February 14
Title: "Spatial and Temporal Multiscale Models for Advancing the Integrated Computational Structure-Materials Engineering Initiative"
Speaker: Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Haim Waisman
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Pupin

Date: Tuesday, February 28
Title: "Future Prospects of Mass Dampers for High-Rise Buildings'"
Speaker: Atsushi Kubo, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Pupin

Date: Friday, March 3
Title: "A General Overview on Multiple Necking and Fragmentation Problems in Ductile Solids Subjected to High Strain Rates"
Speaker: Jose A. Rodriguez-Martinez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Time: 11:00AM-12:00PM
Location: 834 Mudd

Date: Friday, March 24
Title: "Integrated Travel Behavior and Dynamic Traffic Models for Real-Time Applications on Large-Scale Networks'"
Speaker: Lei Zhang, University of Maryland
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: 825 Mudd

Date: Tuesday, April 4
Title: "Innovative SHM Solutions for Earthquake Engineering: Advances in Vibration-based Systems and Smart Nanocomposite Materials'"
Speaker: Filippo Ubertini, University of Perugia, Italy
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Pupin

Date: Tuesday, April 11
Title: "Electromagnetic-Wave Induced Healing of Asphalt Materials Containing Conductive Additives'"
Speaker: Qingli Dai, Michigan Technological University
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Pupin

April  18, 2017 (Burmister Lecture)
Dr. Yoshinori Iwasaki
Geo-Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
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