Title: Study of Thermal and Magnetic Transport in Functional Materials Enabled by Ultrafast Optical Metrology Abstract: Transport phenomena play an important role in designing and engineering materials with tailored functionalities. This is especially true for materials with reduced dimensions. Thermal conductivity and…

Virtual Cartilage: Toward Translational Applications David M. Pierce, Ph.D. Associate Professor Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering & Mathematics University of Connecticut Osteoarthritis (OA) is a debilitating disease that afflicts nearly 20% of people in the US, costing more than $185.5 billion a…