Latest Colloquia

Past Colloquia

• 2018-2019

  Fall 2018	Winter 2019	Spring 2019
  September 28: No seminar October 5: Mihailo Jovanovic (USC)  October 12: Francesco Sorrentino (UNM)  October 19: Panagiotis Artemiadis (ASU) October 26: Roopali Kukreja (UC Davis) November 2: Vijay Gupta (Notre Dame) November 09: Beverley McKeon (Caltech) November 16: Albert Dato (Harvey Mudd)  November 23: Thanksgiving Holiday November 30: Jaeyun Moon (UNLV) December 7: TBD	January 11: Ryan M. Gerdes (Virginia Tech) January 25: Diran Apelian (Worchester Polytechnic Institute) February 1: Wayne King (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) February 8: Seminar Cancelled March 1: Ann R. Karagozian	April 12: Joseph J. Beaman (UT Austin April 19: Hyowon Lee (Purdue University) April 26: Jose M.F. Moura (CMU) May 10: Yongjie Hu (UCLA) May 17: Patricia Juarez (CICESE) May 31: Olivia A. Graeve (UCSD) June 7: David M. Pierce (University of Connecticut)

• 2017 -2018

  Fall 2017	Winter 2018	Spring 2018
  October 13: Giuseppe Romano (MIT) October 20: Andrei Shkel (UCI) October 27: Eva Kanso (USC) November 3: Sung-Yong Park (NUS) November 10: Veterans Day holiday November 17: Marta Pozuelo (UCLA) November 24: Thanksgiving holiday December 1: Ivan Bermejo Moreno (USC) December 8: Douglas Hofmann (Caltech-JPL)	January 19: Aidan Taylor (UCSB) January 26: TBD February 2: TBD  February 9: Chiara Daraio (Caltech) February 16: Ethan Cho (Post-Doc, UCR, Cybart Lab) February 23: Sabah Bux (JPL) March 2: Elfi Ertikin (UIUC) March 9: Jaime Kruzic  (UNSW) March 16: John A. Notte	April 6: TBD April 13: Vaibhav Katewa (UCR) April 20: Scott Beckman (WSU) April 27: Jinxiang Xi (Cal Baptist) May 4: Marco Bernardi (Caltech) May 11: Irene Beyerlein (UCSB) May 18: Shanghao Li (MP Biomedicals)  May 25: MSEA June 1: Pramod Reddy (UMICH) June 8: Juan Hernandez-Cordero (UNAM)

   

• 2016-2017

  Fall 2016	Winter 2017	Spring 2017
  September 30: Dr. CJ Kim (UCLA) October 7: Dr. Matthew Mecklenburg (USC) October 14: Dr. Richard Wilson (UCR) October 21: Dr. Monica Martinez (UCR) October 28: Dr. Patrice Klein (Ifremer/Caltech) November 4: Dr. Andrew Alleyne (Illinois) November 11: Veterans Day Holiday November 18: Dr. Prabhakar Bandaru (UCSD) November 25: Thanksgiving Holiday December 2: Dr. Shuichi Takayama (U Mich)	January 20: Dr. Tetsuya Iwasaki (UCLA) January 27: Dr. Marcella Gomez (UCB) February 3: Dr. Kari Moran (SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific) February 10: Dr. Jeffrey Eldredge (UCLA) February 17: Dr. Sinisa Coh (UCR) February 24: Dr. Raymundo Arroyave (TAMU) March 3: Dr. Diletta Giuntini (Hamburg Uni of Tech) March 10: Dr. Jose E. Andrade (CalTech) March 17: Dr. Chen Li (UCR)	April 21: Dr. Chen Li (UCR) April 28: Dr. Sinisa Coh (UCR) May 5: Dr. Kaustav Banerjee (UCSB) May 12: Paul Yager (Univ. of WA) May 19: Dr. Chris Lynch (UCLA) May 26: TBD June 2: TBD June 9: TBD

• 2015-2016

  Fall 2015	Winter 2016	Spring 2016
  September 25: EH&S Training October 2: Dr. Gaurav Arya, Associate Professor, NanoEngineering, UCSD October 9: Dr. Alex Greaney, Assistant Professor, ME, UCR October 16: Dr. Richard W. Roberts, Professor and Chair, CE & MSE, USC October 23: Dr. Laurent Pilon, Professor, ME, UCLA October 30:Dr. Daniel Maynes, Professor and Chair, ME, BYU November 6: Dr. Richard Murray, Professor, Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering, Caltech November 13: Dr. Ashwin Gopinath, Post-Doc, Caltech November 20: Dr. Deborah Kuchnir Fygenson, Physics, UCSB November 27: No Seminar (Holiday) December 4: Dr. Andrew Teel, Professor, EE & CE, UCSB	January 8: Dr. Bruce J. Tromberg, Professor UCI January 15: Dr. Raul Rangel-Rojo, Senior Researcher, CICESE January 22: Dr. Mo Li, Professor, Georgia Tech	April 1: Dr. Hee-Koo Moon, Solar Turbines April 8: Dr. Sumita Pennathur, UCSB April 15: TBD April 22: TBD April 29: Dr. Jorge Alvarado, TAMU May 6: Dr. Donghyun Rim, Penn State May 13: Dr. Andrea Hodge, USC May 20: Dr. Megan Valentine, UCSB May 27: Dr. Michael J. Gordon, UCSB June 3: Dr. Ali Yousefiani, Boeing

• 2014-2015

  Fall 2014	Winter 2015	Spring 2015
  October 3: EH&S Training October 10: Suveen Mathaudhu, UCR, Mechanical Engineering Department October 17: Kiran Solanki, ASU, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy October 24: Xiaochun Li, UCLA, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering October 31: Monica Wilhelmus, Caltech, Mechanical Engineering November 7: Sergio Lucato, Teledyne Scientific November 14: Eckart Meiburg, UCSB, Mechanical Engineering Department November 21: Garrett Cole, Crystalline Mirrors Solutions, LLC December 5: Teresa Murray, LATech, Biomedical Engineering December 12: Roberto Zenit, UNAM, Rheology and Fluid Mechanics	January 9: Richard Hunt, Lead Writing Consultant, Graduate Writing Center, UC Riverside January 16: Dr. Maggie Gover, Director, Graduate Student Academic and Professional Development, UC Riverside Graduate Division January 23: Seminar canceled January 30: TBA February 6: TBA February 13: TBA February 20: Dr. Bruce Tromberg, Professor, UCI BME, and Director, Beckman Laser Institute (CANCELED) February 27: Kendrick Mensink & Darren Banks, Ph.D. Students, UC Riverside March 6: Dr. Damon Brink, VP Engineering, Architected Materials, Inc. March 13: Dr. Juan Hernandez-Cordero, UNAM Institute of Materials Research, Mexico	April 3: Dr. Cody Geary, Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University April 10: Dr. Hari Subramanian, ME Postdoctoral Researcher, Franco group April 17: SEMINAR CANCELLED (Prelim Exams) April 24: Eli Brewer & Elias Penilla, ME Graduate Students, Jung & Garay groups May 1: Prof. John Bischof, University of Minnesota, ME May 8: Prof. Samantha Daly, University of Michigan, ME May 15: SEMINAR CANCELLED (ME Department 15th Anniversary Celebration) May 22: Davil Garcia & Jamie Stewart, MSE & BIEN Graduate Students, Kumar & Franco groups May 29: Prof. Christopher Hernandez, Cornell University, MAE June 5: Thomas Lopez & Stephen Exarhos, ME Graduate Students, Mangolini group

• 2013-2014

  Fall 2013	Winter 2014	Spring 2014
  September 29: Environmental Health & Safety Training October 4: Graduate Student Presentations October 11: Dr. Pedro Cabrales, Assistant Professor, UCSD BIEN October 18: Dr. Fabio Pasqualetti, Assistant Professor, UCR ME October 25: Dr. Anna Grosberg, Assistant Professor, UCI BME November 1: Dr. Proyag Datta, Senikor Microfabrication Engineer, Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. November 8: Dr. Gerardo Diaz, Associate Professor,  Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics Chair,  UC Merced November 15: Dr. William Grover, Assistant Professor, UCR BIEN November 22: Dr. Aman Haque, Professor, Penn State, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering November 29: NO SEMINAR (Holiday) December 6: Dr. Caroline Genzale, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech ME	January 10: Dr. Jim Earthman, Professor, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, UCI January 17: Dr. Frank Zok, Professor, Materials Dept, UCSB January 24: Two internal speakers: Dr. Prashanthi Vandrangi, Post-doctoral Researcher, ME; Shannon Gott, Grad Student, ME January 31: Two internal speakers: Harish Dixit, Grad Student, BIEN; Omid Khandan, Grad Student, ME February 7: Dr. Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales, Managing Director, Research Faculty, Southern California-Research Initiative for Solar Energy, UCR February 14: CANCELED February 21: Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu, Program Officer — U.S. Army Research Office Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University February 28: Dr. Mark Losego, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University March 7: Dr. Arthur Miller, Engineer/Particle Scientist, CDC-NIOSH Spokane Research Lab March 14: Dr. Todd Steyer, Manager, Extreme Environment Materials, The Boeing Company	April 4: Beth Pruitt, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford April 11:  No Seminar (Graduate Open House) April 18: Mariana Kersh, McKenzi Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia April 25: Kaushik Bhattacharya, Senior Professor & Executive Officer, Mechanical & Civil Engineering, Caltech May 2: Michelle Khine, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine May 9: Geoff Spedding, Professor & Chair, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, USC May 16: Igor Mezic, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UCSB May 23: Derek Dunn-Rankin, Professor & Chair, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UC Irvine May 30: Laura Oropeza Ramos, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, UNAM, Mexico June 6: Deok-Ho Kim, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, University of Washington

• 2012-2013

  Fall 2012	Winter 2013	Spring 2013
  September 28: EH&S Fire Extinguisher Training October 5: Sandeep Kumar, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UCR (joint seminar w/ MSE) October 12: Liwei Lin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley October 19: Micro Implants for the Body, Yu-Chong Tai, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (TENTATIVE) October 26: Graduate student presentations: Thomas Lopez, Ph.D Student, Aleksey Volodchenkov, Ph.D Student. November 2: Joanna Bieri, Assistant Professor, Math & Computer Science, University of Redlands November 9: William Tang, Associate Dean for Research, Dean's Office, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Professor (Joint Appointment), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Irvine November 16: Assistant Professor, Masa Rao November 23: Holiday November 30: Erkİn Şeker, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, UC Davis December 7: TBA	January 11: Dr. L. Roy Xu, ASME Fellow, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso January 18: Michael J. Pazzani, Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, University of California, Riverside January 25: Dr. Carl Meinhart Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara February 1: Kimberly Turner, Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

• 2011-2012

  Fall 2011	Winter 2012	Spring 2012
  September 30: Hideaki Tsutsui, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside October 7: Elisa Franco, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside October 14: Tamar Shinar, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside October 21: Chiara Daraio, Ph.D. Aeronautics and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) November 4: Pete Trautman, Ph.D. Student, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	January 13: Tomonori Yamamoto, Ph.D., Robotics Engineer at SynTouch LLC January 20: Shu Chien, Ph.D., Department of Bioengineering and Medicine, and Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California San Diego January 27: Dr. Timothy S. Fisher, Birck Nanotechnology Center and School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University February 3: Dr. Chih-Ming Ho, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles February 17: Sutanu Sarkar, Ph.D, Chair and Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego Friday, February 24: Jorn Herner, Ph.D., Branch Chief of Emission Mitigation and Research Planning in the Research Division, California Air Resources Board March 9: Rupak Banerjee, Ph.D.

• 2010-2011

  Fall 2010	Winter 2011	Spring 2011
  October 15: Dr. Lorenzo Mangolini, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, University of California, Riverside October 22: Dr. Van P. Carey, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley October 29: Dr. Renkun Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego November 5: Dr. Yifang Zhu, Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences Department, University of California, Los Angeles November 12: Dr. Philip Fine, Atmospheric Measurements Manager, South Coast Air Quality Management District November 19: Dr. Ankur Jain, Senior Microsystems Technology Engineer, Tessera MEMS Technologies, Inc. December 3: Jay Sharping, Department of Physics, University of California, Merced December 10: Dr. Sami Samuel, Founder & CTO, TransPacific Energy, Inc	January 14: Dr. Juan Muñoz Saldana, CINVESTAV, Querétaro, Mexico January 28: Prof. Wangcun Jia, Assistant Researcher, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, UC Irvine February 4: Prof. John Viator, Associate Professor, Departments of Biological Engineering and Dermatology, University of Missouri, Columbia February 11: Prof. Andrew Minor, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley February 18: Prof. JoAnn Lighty, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah February 25: Prof. Costas Grigoropoulos, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley March 4: Prof. Hohyun Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Santa Clara University March 11: Dr. Lina Kim, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara	April 1: Prof. Sung-Yong Park, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Los Angeles April 8: Tamim Diab, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) April 15: Dr. Anthony Norman, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, UC Riverside April 22: Elisa Franco, Ph.D., Department of Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology May 20: Julia R. Greer, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics, California Institute of Technology May 27: Arman Hovakemian June 3: Jennifer Barton, Professor and Head of Biomedical Engineering, Assistant Director of BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona

• 2009-2010

  Fall 2009	Winter 2010	Spring 2010
  October 2: Dr. Lia Stanciu, School of Materials and Engineering, Purdue University, West LaFayette, Indiana October 9: Dr. Douglas Altshuler, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside October 16: Dr. Regina Ragan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Irvine October 23: Dr. Donald Lucas, Deputy Director, EH&S Division & Investigator in The Environmental Energy Technologies Division in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley November 6: Dr. Tadahiro Ohmi, Professor, The New Industry Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai City Japan November 13: Dr. Nathan Mara, Materials Science and Technology Division & Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory December 4: Dr. Carlton F. Brooks, Ph.D., Sandia National Laboratories Org. 1513: Microscale Science and Technology, Albuquerque, New Mexico	January 8: Dr. Alireza Moharrer, Project Manager, Worley-Parsons Group, Monrovia, California January 22: Dr. K. Morsi, Professor & Graduate Advisor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University January 29: Dr. Dean R. Evans, National Research Council Advisor & Agile Filters Project Leader, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio February 12: Dr. Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside February 19: Dr. Randall M. German, Associate Dean of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University February 26: Dr. Prab Bandaru, Associate Professor of Materials Science, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego March 5: Dr. Gregory Paul Carman, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles March 12: Dr. Frank Abdi, Chief Scientist, Alpha STAR Corporation, Long Beach, California	April 2: Dr. Ram Sheshadri, Materials Department, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara April 9: Dr. Kwang Min Chun, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea April 23: Dr. Haris J. Catrakis, Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine April 30: Dr. Kalyanasundaram Seshadri, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego May 7: Dr. Henrik Bruus, Professor, Department of Micro and Nano Technology, Technical University of Denmark May 14: Dr. Alison Marsden, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego May 21: Dr. Gary L. Achtemeier, Ph.D., USDA Forest Service Scientist and Co- Director of the FCAMMS, Southern High-Resolution Modeling Consortium May 28: Dr. William S. Klug, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

• 2008-2009

  Fall 2008	Winter 2009	Spring 2009
  October 10: Dr. Derek Dunn-Rankin,l Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine October 24: Dr. Andrea M. Hodge, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles October 31: Tim Johnson, TSI Incorporated, St. Paul, Minnesota November 21: Dr. Eric P. Y. Chiou, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles December 5: Dr. Adrienne Lavine, Chair, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles	January 16: Dr. Forman A. Williams, Professor of Engineering Physics and Combustion, Director, Center for Energy and Combustion Research, University of California, San Diego February 6: Dr. Lynn M. Russell, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego February 13: Dr. Hai Wang, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California February 27: Dr. Manuel Gamero-Castaño, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine March 6: Dr. Joanna McKittrick, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, San Diego March 13: Dr. Yun Wang, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine	April 3: Dr. Paul Ronney, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles April 10: Dr. Jeff D. Eldredge, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles April 17: Dr. Andrzej Bytnerowicz, US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 4955 Canyon Crest Drive, Riverside, CA, 92507, USA May 1: Dr. Kyle D. Squires, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Arizona State University May 8: Dr. Melany L. Hunt, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology May 15: Dr. Charles S. Campbell, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453 USA May 22: Dr. Javier González, Department of Physics and Engineering, San Luis Potosi Autonomous University, San Luis Potosi, Mexico May 29: Dr. Laurent Pilon, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles June 5: William Watkins, BME, Ohio State University, Former Chief Mechanical Engineer, Walt Disney Imagineering