Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

ME282 -- Spring 2004 Seminar Series

Votey 209 -- Fridays 2:30-3:30

Fall 2003 schedule below

Time Constraint

The seminar must fit into a 1 hour time slot and typically lasts 40-45 minutes with time for Questions and answers at the end. If the speaker is going long, then Dr. Iatridis will end the seminar at approximately 3:20 (50 minutes) to allow time for questions.

Date	Name	Title
January 23	Dr. Jason Bates	Power laws in nature - are they really there, and if so, where do they come from?
January 30	Dr. Tony Keller	Modeling of Vertebral Bone Fracture and Repair
February 6	No Seminar
February 13	Jon Miller	Robotic systems for homeland security
February 20	Dr. Dipankar Choudhury Fluent	Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Trenches - Status, Trends and Challenges
February 27	Dr. Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou MIT	Modeling and simulation of small scale gaseous flows
March 5	Dr. Miki Amitay RPI	Active Flow Control: A New Conceptual Approach in Aircraft Design
March 12	Cancelled due to weather
March 19	Spring Recess	NO SEMINAR
March 26	Dr. Nikos Gatsonis WPI	Microthruster research
April 2	Dr. John Outwater	On the mechanics of plants
April 9	Dr. Stavros Tavoularis University of Ottawa	Turbulence research
April 16	Honors Day	NO SEMINAR
April 23	Dr. Mike Buschmann Ecole Polytechnique Montreal	Articular Cartilage : Repair Studies and Electromechanical Evaluation
April 30	Dr. Robert Spilker RPI	Computational mechanics in biomedical engineering
May 7	Final Exams	NO SEMINAR

ME281 -- Fall 2003 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker	Title
September 5	Dr. Walter Varhue	Brief welcome & introduction to seminar series/ Growth of GaSb Thin Films on a Variety of Substrates
September 12	Dr. Delphine Perie-Curnier	Spine biomechanics
September 19	Dr. Bernd Heinrich Biology Dept.	Counter- and Alternating-current flow mechanics  regulating body temperature in bees"
September 26	Dr. Jun Yu	Weakly Nonlinear Evolution of Small Disturbances in the Presence of Linear Instability
October 3	Dr. Mariano Garcia	Why T-Rex Couldn't Run.
October 10	Fall Recess	NO SEMINAR
October 17	Dr. Darren Hitt	Progress Towards a Hydrogen Peroxide Catalytic Micro-Thruster for Nanosat Applications
October 24	Dr. James Iatridis	Mechanical and biological response of intervertebral discs to compression loading
October 31	Dr. Jose Davila	Boundary layer receptivity and transition
November 7	Dr. A Ostrogorsky RPI	Convection in Materials Processing: Growth Semiconductor Crystals and Carbon Nanotubes
November 14	Jeff Kujawa	NASA Academy experience – Computational analysis of a MEMS monopropellant micro-thruster
November 21	Dr. Sanjeeva Murthy	Influence of structure at multiple length scales on the mechanical properties of polymers
November 28	Thanksgiving Recess	NO SEMINAR
December 5	Dr. Rob Kierney (McGill University)	Biomedical engineering topic
December 12	Final Exams	NO SEMINAR

For the latest information, check on-line at: http://www.emba.uvm.edu/~iatridis/me281/
Contact james.iatridis@uvm.edu with any changes.