The seminar will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday May 10th  in Hackerman Hall, Room 209.

Click HERE for his full bio and abstract.

Don’t forget to join us for the first annual HEMI Mach Conference 4/10-4/12 in beautiful Annapolis, Maryland! For those arriving tonight, April 9th, we welcome you to attend our early arrivals reception in room Capitol BC.

On-site registration is available. See our conference site for details…

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Date: Friday, April 5, 9:30 – 10:30am 

Location: Hackerman B-17 

Speaker: Professor Michael Mills 

McDougal Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

The Ohio State University

Topic: Characterizing Novel Deformation Mechanisms in Metallic Alloys and Importance for ICME 

March 28:  Qian Yu , 10:30 – 11:30 am

March 29: Rich Haber , 11:00 am – 12:00 noon

April 5: Timothy Holmquist, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon

All in Hackerman 209

The talk will be held in Hackerman 209.

Read his seminar abstract HERE

Monday, 3/11: M. Zubaer Hossain “Engineering nanoscale transport of energy and momentum in solids”

from 10:30 –11:30 am in Hackerman 209

Read abstract HERE

Wednesday, 3/13: John Lambros “Wave mitigation in ordered granular media”

from 10:30 –11:30 am in Hackerman 209

Read abstract HERE

Friday, 3/15: Ibrahim Karaman from Texas A&M University

From 11:00 am –12:00 noon in Hackerman 209

Read abstract HERE

The seminar will be held at 9:00 AM on Wednesday March 6th  in Hackerman Hall, Room 209.

For an abstract and bio, please click HERE.

The seminar will be held at 10:30 AM on Tuesday February 26th  in Hackerman Hall, Room 209.

Click HERE for his full bio and abstract.

From the Johns Hopkins University HUB article, “How to save the planet from catastrophic asteroid impact“:

According to NASA, nearly 10,000 objects have been classified as Near Earth Objects, or NEOs. More than 1,300 of those NEOs—comets and asteroids—have been described as potentially hazardous to Earth. NASA monitors them closely and has not identified any imminent threats, but scientists estimate that an asteroid the size of DA14 or larger impacts Earth about once every 1,200 years.

A team at the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute has developed a computer model for asteroids to simulate a planetary impact event.

“Major impact events have the potential to create global catastrophes,” said K.T. Ramesh, a professor at the Whiting School of Engineering and founding director of the institute. “It is highly likely that the next destructive impact event on Earth will be a low-altitude airburst from an asteroid similar to 2012 DA14.”

From the Discover News article, “What Makes a Space Rock a Killer?”:

An SUV-sized boulder sounds pretty dangerous, but at those speeds in Earth’s atmosphere the meteor’s surface gets terrifically hot and the rock starts to crack, which lets air inside and leads to the explosion, explained K.T. Ramesh, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University. It’s the explosion that can be heard in the videos and the shock wave from the blast which broke windows and probably caused the most injuries, said Ramesh.

From the Christian Science Monitor article, “As asteroid zips past Earth, exploding meteor hints at what could have been“:

As scientists prepared to watch a massive asteroid zip past Earth Friday, a 10-ton meteor lit up the sky over the Russian region of Chelyabinsk before exploding into fragments high above the ground. And just like that, a day of one flying space rock became a day of two.

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will buzz within 17,200 miles of Earth – a record for a known object of that size
“This is a big deal,” says Kaliat Ramesh, a professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. “You really should view this meteoroid we saw in Russia as a wake-up call” regarding the hazards even small objects can present, he adds.

Indeed, it’s a day of multiple wake-up calls.

From the Washington Post article, “Meteor is the biggest since 1908“:

Meteors as large as the estimated 10-foot space rock that blew up over Russia today streak into the Earth’s atmosphere every “50 years or so,” said asteroid researcher K.T. Ramesh of the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering.
“It’s probably one of the bigger ones since Tunguska,” said Ramesh, referring to the 1908 event that flattened some 800 square miles of forest in Siberia. (Russia seems to be unlucky when it comes to getting hit with space debris.)

From the Fox News article, “Russian meteorite: Why didn’t scientists see it coming?:

“This thing is probably pretty small compared to DA14,” explained K.T. Ramesh, professor of science and engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and founding director of Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute.
“If you think about objects the size of the one that came into Russia, you’re probably looking at 100 million up there. Of those likely to intersect Earth, there’s less, maybe 100,000,” Ramesh told FoxNews.com. “Space is pretty big.”

From the Fox News article, “Russian meteorite 1,000 times bigger than originally thought“

“If you think about objects the size of the one that came into Russia, you’re probably looking at 100 million up there. Of those likely to intersect Earth, there’s less, maybe 100,000,” said K.T. Ramesh, director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute and a professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins. “Space is pretty big.”

Starting things off, Allison Beese, a postdoctoral fellow in the Micro and Nanomechanics Laboratory at Northwestern University will be giving a talk on “Multiscale mechanics: towards the development of hierarchical carbon nanotube fibers”. Dr. Beese’s seminar will be held at 10:30 AM on Tuesday February 19th in Hackerman Hall, 209

Click HERE for her abstract

Not far behind will be Lorenzo Valdevit, an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California, Irvine. He will be giving a lecture titled “Hierarchical architected materials as a platform for novel multifunctional systems” Prof. Valdevit’s seminar will be held at 10:30 AM on Thursday February 21st in Hackerman Hall, 209

Click HERE for his abstract