Lectures and Seminars

Jon Belof, LLNL – “Metastable Phases Far from Equilibrium: A New Frontier in Dynamic Material Science”

David Yoo, PhD and Nathan Hertlein – “Bistable Architected Elastomer Beam Unit: Design & Liquid Crystal Elastomer Re-Programming”

Prof. Jimmie Oxley, Univ. of Rhode Island – “Toward Small-scale Characterization of Energetic Materials”

Prof. David Frost, McGill University, “Enhanced Blast Pressure, Temperature, and Impulse from Metalized Explosive Fireballs”

Mark J. Schmitt, LLNL – “The Quest for Inertial Confinement Fusion using Large Directly Driven Targets with 1, 2 or 3 Concentric Shells”

Prof. Subith S. Vasu, Univ. of Central Florida – “Revealing the High-Temperature Destruction of Chemical Weapon Simulants Using Shock Tube and Time-Resolved Laser Diagnostics”

Prof. K-C. Kenneth Park, Northwestern Univ. –  “Learning from Natural Surfaces: from Transport to Phase Change of Water”

Prof. Mark Foster, JHU – “In-Situ Spectroscopic Monitoring for Metal Additive Manufacturing”

Akeisha N. Owens, DTRA – ”Modeling and Simulation (M&S) of Biological Weapons Agents and Infectious Diseases”

Students from the JHU Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering – “Building Platforms for Active Hierarchical Colloidal Assembly and Data-directed Design Toward Material Resiliency”

Prof. Ryan Harne, Penn State University – “Mechanical Materials that Sense, Think, React, and Learn”

Jennifer L. Gottfried, CCDC ARL – “Microscale Experiments to Measure Energetic Material Performance and Sensitivity”

Junjie Yang, Johns Hopkins University – “Plastic Deformation Reconstruction Based on Acoustic Emission”

Prof. Ling Li, Virginia Tech – “Natural Structural Materials: Lessons on toughening mechanisms, weight reduction, and multifunctionality”

Tim Long, JHU – “Rapid Determination of Grain Size Distributions by EBSD with Quasirandom Sampling”

Prof. Seong Su Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – “A study on the optimal curing process of tow-preg laminated composites through multi-scale computational modeling”

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Dana Dlott, UIUC – “Watching solids and liquids through the ultrafast shock compression microscope” [/third][third]

Steve Son, Purdue – “Engineering Energetic Materials” [/third][third]

Carolyn C. Kuranz, University of Michigan – “Hydrodynamic Instability and Radiation Hydrodynamics Experiments in High-energy-density Plasmas” [/third][third]

Tim Mueller, JHU – “Machine-learned Potential Models for Atomic-scale Calculations” [/third][third]

Laura Berzak Hopkins, LLNL – “X-ray:matter interaction experiments at the National Ignition Facility” [/third][third]

Kim Knight, LLNL – “Understanding the Influence of Environment on Nuclear Explosion Physics and Chemistry” [/third][third]

Steven Storck, JHU APL – “Realizing Materials by Design: Harnessing the Full Potential of Additive Manufacturing Using In Situ Sensing and Machine Learning” [/third][third]

Rebecca Hersman, CSIS – “Talking Tech: The Importance of Science and Technology Leadership in Policy Decisionmaking” [/third][third]

Junjie Yang, JHU – “Acoustic signature and reconstruction of defect avalanches in metals“[/third]

Andrea Kritcher, LLNL – “Laboratory equation of state measurements of the carbon envelopes of white dwarf stars” [/third][third]

Nick Glumac, UIUC – “Optical Physics of Explosive Fireballs” [/third]

KT Ramesh, HEMI – “Shock and Awe” mini-course[/third][third]

KT Ramesh, HEMI – “Dynamic Deformations in Nature and in Technology” [/third][third]

Stéphane Avril, IMT – “Inverse Problems in Cardiovascular Continuum Mechanics and Medical Applications” [/third]

Tim David, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand – “Neurovascular Coupling: “A Balance of Power”” [/third][third]

Ximin He, UCLA – “Bioinspired Adaptive Materials based on Smart Hydrogels: Sensing, Solar Harvesting, and Soft Robotics” [/third][third]

Lorenzo Valdevit, UC Irvine – “Fabrication, Mechanical Performance, Deformation and Damage Mechanisms of Ceramic Nano-architected Materials” [/third]

Baoxing Xu, Univ. of Virginia – “Mechanics-Driven Extreme Transfer Printing of Functional Films”[/third][third]

Bruce Remington, NIF Discovery Science Program – “Frontier HED Science on NIF Through the Discovery Science Program” [/third][third]

Lauren Zarzar, Pennsylvania State University – “Structural Coloration by Cascading Total Internal Reflection and Interference at Microscale Concave Interfaces” [/third]

Cayman Unterborn, Arizona State University – “Exoplanet Geoscience: Challenges and Opportunities for the Extreme Materials Community”[/third] [third]

Dan Gianola, UC Santa Barbara – “Characterization of Defects and their Dynamics using Transmission Scanning Electron Microscopy” [/third][third]

Arup Neogi, University of North Texas – “Active Periodic and Non-Reciprocal Phononic Structures for Control of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation” [/third]

Wei Tong, Southern Methodist University – “On Modeling Strength Differential Effects of Anisotropic HCP Metals” [/third] [third]

Christopher Ober, Cornell University – “Metal Organic Cluster Photoresists for EUV Lithography Using Cornell’s CNF, the Original NSF Nanofabrication Facility” [/third]

Dr. Tanusree Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi – “Geomechanics of Blast” [/third][third]

Chris Wohl (NASA) – “Mitigating Contaminant Adhesion on Aerospace Surfaces” [/third][third]
Yunzhi Wang, Ohio State University – “Development of microstructure-sensitive and mechanism-based modeling tools for microstructure-property relationships in Ni-base superalloys”
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Kejie Zhao, Purdue University – “Bridging mechanics and electrochemistry: Experiments and modeling on battery materials” [/third][third]

Guoliang Huang, University of Missouri-Columbia – “Programmable and Modulated Metamaterials for Unprecedented Wave Propagation Control”  
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Huseyin Sehitoglu, University of Illinois – “Scientific Understanding of Shape Memory Alloys”[/third]

Prof. Dipankar Banerjee, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore – “Novel High Temperature, High Strength Eutectic Intermetallics”[/third][third]

Prof. Julie Cairney (Univ. of Sydney), Prof. Sophie Primig (Univ. of South Wales), Prof. Simon Ringer (Univ. of Sydney)[/third]

Yixiang Gan, Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney Australia – “Transport Phenomena in Compacted Granular Media: How mass, heat, and electrons flow in such materials”[/third][third]

George Em Karniadakis, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT “Physics-Informed Learning Machines”[/third]

Chris Marone, Prof. of Geophysics & Associate Director, Institute for Natural Gas Research, Pennsylvania State University “The Mechanics of Slow Earthquakes and the Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors”[/third][third]

Tyrel McQueen,
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, JHU – “The Dawn of the Chemistry of Quantum Materials: Discovery, Synthesis, and
Behavioral Insights”[/third][third]

Marius Millot, Research Scientist, High Energy Density Physics, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory “Experimental Discovery of Superionic Water with Dynamic Compression”[/third]

Michelle Oyen, The Nanoscience Centre, Cambridge University Engineering Department  [/third][third]

“Physically Robust Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications”[/third][third]

Derek Richardson, Department of Astronomy, University of MD, College Park – “Granular Dynamics in Low Gravity”[/third]

Dr. Harold Robinson, Naval
Undersea Warfare Division,
Office of Naval Research – “Relaxor Piezoelectric Single Crystals: Materials, Devices and Application Impacts” [/third][third]

Raymond Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-
“An Overview of Frontiers in Lazer-based Dynamic Compression Experiments” [/third]

Gregory A. Banyay, Gregory Meyer, Michael R. Ickes, Westinghouse Electric Company – “Reviews of the AP1000® Plant Comprehensive Vibration Assessment Program and Radioactive Materials Testing”[/third][third]

Zdeněk P. Bažant, Northwestern University – “Branching of Hydraulic Fractures in Shale and the Fiction of Preexisting Large-Scale Permeability”[/third][third]

John Borg, Marquette University – “Dynamic Behavior of Earth Materials Subjected to Pressure-Shear Loading”[/third]

Eric Clough, HRL Laboratories – “Microlattice Structural and Energy Absorbing Materials”[/third][third]

Cristian I. Contescu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – “The Amazing Properties of Nuclear Graphite and Its Use for Clean Energy Generation”[/third][third]

Michael Dickey, NC State University – “Soft, Stretchable, and Reconfigurable Materials for Electronics and Actuators”[/third]

Nasr M. Ghoniem, University of California, Los Angeles – “Development of Micro-Architected Materials for Space Propulsion and Pulsed Power Applications”[/third][third]

Jay Gould, HEMI Artist in Residence – “Extreme Arts”[/third][third]

Jamie Guest, Johns Hopkins University – “Topology Optimization for the Design of Manufacturable Architected Materials and Components”[/third]

Kisuk Kang, Seoul National University – “Rational Design of Advanced Materials for Post li-Ion Batteries”[/third][third]

Ivan Kirov, New York University – “Metabolic Imaging of Traumatic Brain Injury Using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy”[/third][third]

Dennis Kochmann, California Institute of Technology – “Challenges in predicting microstructure evolution in metals from the atomic to the macroscopic scale”[/third]

Banahalli R. Ratna, Naval Research Laboratory – “Recent Breakthroughs in Molecular Biology, Physics, Nanoscience, and Chemistry and the emergence of Novel Biocentric Technologies”[/third][third]

Mark A. Tschopp, Army Research Laboratory – “Understanding Structure-Property Relationships of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces for Materials Design”[/third][third]

Derek Warner, Cornell University – “Examining the Chemo-mechanics of Hydrogen Enhanced Fatigue Crack Growth in Aluminum Alloys”[/third]

Timothy P. Weihs, JHU – “Nanostructured Metal Fuels and Iodine Oxides for Defeating Bio-Agents[/third][third]

Christopher Yakacki, University of Colorado Denver – “Main-Chain Liquid-Crystal Elastomers with Tailored Thermomechanical Properties”[/third][third]

Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania – “Foldable and Responsive Soft Metamaterials”[/third]

Jongseung Yoon, University of Southern California – “New Approaches for Using III-V Compound Semiconductors in Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy Conversion”[/third][third]

Nikki Zander, Dan Cole, Kevin Hart, and Frank Gardea, U.S. Army Research Laboratory – “Projects in Additive Manufacturing and Charged Polymers at ARL”[/third]