Bourns Hall

Department Seminars 2004-2005

A265 Bourns Hall (unless a different room is indicated below)
Wednesdays, 10:10am-11:00am or Fridays, 3:10pm-4:00pm
Refreshments served at 10:00am or 3:10pm

Fall 2004

Date	Speaker	Title
October 13, 2004	Steven G. Buckley UC San Diego	Particulate Matter and Gas Composition Measurements Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Design
October 20, 2004	Todd Bjerke Army Research Lab	Research Frontiers in Terminal Ballistics
October 27, 2004 (Surge 284)	Feimeng Zhou Cal. State Univ.	Surface and kinetic studies of biomolecular reactions at the solid/solution interface
Nov. 3, 2004	Mike Mellow Intel, Inc.	A Survey of micro-electronic packaging challenges with emphasis on current metrology gaps in the area of stress validation and material property testing
Nov. 10, 2004	J. Rafael Pacheco Arizona State Univ.	Efficient and rapid mixing in a slip-driven three-dimensional flow in a rectangular channel
Nov. 17, 2004	Kimberly L. Turner UC Santa Barbara	Using nonlinear dynamics for performance enhancement in micro and nano-scale sensors
Nov. 24, 2004	Derek Dunn-Rankin UC Irvine	PORTABLE POWER SYSTEMS – advanced energy technologies to enhance human autonomy
Dec. 1, 2004	Steven L. Jacques Oregon Health Sciences University	Biomedical optics: imaging and characterizing tissues

Winter 2005

Date	Speaker	Title
Jan. 14, 2005	Xuan Zhang Jing Yuan UCR	Guided Neurite Growth on Patterned Carbon Nanotubes Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on Dispersion in Urban Environments
January 19, 2005	Anthony G. Evans UC Santa Barbara	Design and demonstration of high authority shape morphing structures
Jan. 26, 2005	Santiago Camacho Lopez CICESE	Ultrafast Laser Materials Processing: Physics and Some Applications
Feb. 16, 2005	Rui Huang University of Texas at Austin	Time-dependent Mechanical Behavior in Thin Films
February 23, 2005	Vijay Dhir UC Los Angeles	From Nano to Micro to Macro Scale in Boiling

Spring 2005

Date	Speaker	Title
April 6, 2005 Wed.	Nancy R. Sottos UIUC	Mechanics of self-healing materials systems
April 15, 2005 Fri.	David Steigman UC-Berkeley	Puncturing a thin elastic sheet.
April 20, 2005 Wed.	Sia Nemat-Nasser UC San Diego	Towards Creating Biomimetic Composites
April 29, 2005 Fri.	Nadia Lapusta Caltech	Earthquakes as dynamic frictional cracks: modeling and simulations
May 13, 2005 Fri.	Ted Russell Georgia Institute of Technology	Who's Doing What To Whom: Methods for Source Apportionment of Air Pollutants
May 18, 2005 Wed.	Alice Agogino UC-Berkeley	The Engineer of 2020: Global Visions of Engineering in the New Century
May 27, 2005 Fri.	Thomas E. Milner University of Texas at Austin	Optical Probing and Imaging the Structural and Functional Properties of Tissue
June 1, 2005 Wed.	Jana Milford Univ. Colorado-Boulder	Uncertainty in Photochemical Air Quality Modeling

For questions regarding the seminars, please contact Prof. Junlan Wang @ 951-827-6429, or Sally Tavizon in the ME Departmental Office @ 951-827-2409.