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Upcoming Seminars

 1.18.19 – Robert Suter (Carnegie Mellon)
 2.1.19 – James Rustad (Dept. of Energy)
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 2.15.19 – David Camarillo (Stanford)
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 2.22.19 – Suzanne Ali (LLNL)
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 3.1.19 – James Edward Guilkey (Univ. of Utah)
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 3.8.19 – Eric Herbold (LLNL)
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 3.15.19 – Seokheun “Sean” Choi (SUNY)
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 3.27.19 – Lisa Rueschhoff (AFRL)
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 4.12.19 – Thomas Russell (UMass)
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 4.26.19 – Minta Akin (LLNL)
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 5.3.19 – Susanna Thon (JHU)
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Previous Seminars

Dr. Tanusree Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi – “Geomechanics of Blast”

Chris Wohl (NASA) – “Mitigating Contaminant Adhesion on Aerospace Surfaces”


Yunzhi Wang, Ohio State University – “Development of microstructure-sensitive and mechanism-based modeling tools for microstructure-property relationships in Ni-base superalloys”


Kejie Zhao, Purdue University – “Bridging mechanics and electrochemistry: Experiments and modeling on battery materials”


Guoliang Huang, University of Missouri-Columbia – “Programmable and Modulated Metamaterials for Unprecedented Wave Propagation Control”  


Huseyin Sehitoglu, University of Illinois – “Scientific Understanding of Shape Memory Alloys”


Boaz Pokroy, Technion – “Programmable and Modulated Metamaterials for Unprecedented Wave Propagation Control”  

Paul Asimow, Caltech – “Towards a Comprehensive Thermal Equation of State for Silicate Liquids at Lower Mantle pressure (and Beyond)”

Chris Eberl, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM – “From Mechanical Metamaterials to Simple Systems Made from Programmable Materials”

Yoonseob Kim, MIT – “Stretchable Electronic and Photonic Materials from Self-Organized Nanoparticles”  


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


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


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”

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


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

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”

Michelle Oyen, The Nanoscience Centre, Cambridge University Engineering Department  

“Physically Robust Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications”

Dwayne Arola, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington “Bioinspired Microstructures for Damage Tolerance and More”

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

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


Natalia Drichko, Associate Research Professor in Physics and Astronomy Department, JHU – “Strongly correlated and magnetic materials with structural disorder: Raman scattering study”


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



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

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Timothy P. Weihs, JHU – “Nanostructured Metal Fuels and Iodine Oxides for Defeating Bio-Agents
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Mark A. Tschopp, Army Research Laboratory – “Understanding Structure-Property Relationships of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces for Materials Design”
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Derek Warner, Cornell University – “Examining the Chemo-mechanics of Hydrogen Enhanced Fatigue Crack Growth in Aluminum Alloys”

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Michael Dickey, NC State University – “Soft, Stretchable, and Reconfigurable Materials for Electronics and Actuators”
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Christopher Yakacki, University of Colorado Denver – “Main-Chain Liquid-Crystal Elastomers with Tailored Thermomechanical Properties”

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


Eric Clough, HRL Laboratories – “Microlattice Structural and Energy Absorbing Materials”

Nasr M. Ghoniem, University of California, Los Angeles – “Development of Micro-Architected Materials for Space Propulsion and Pulsed Power Applications”
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Banahalli R. Ratna, Naval Research Laboratory – “Recent Breakthroughs in Molecular Biology, Physics, Nanoscience, and Chemistry and the emergence of Novel Biocentric Technologies”

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John Borg, Marquette University – “Dynamic Behavior of Earth Materials Subjected to Pressure-Shear Loading”
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Jongseung Yoon, University of Southern California – “New Approaches for Using III-V Compound Semiconductors in Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy Conversion”

Jay Gould, HEMI Artist in Residence – “Extreme Arts”


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

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

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


Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania – “Foldable and Responsive Soft Metamaterials”

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

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



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

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


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Dr. Irene Beyerlein, Los Alamos National Laboratory – “The Plasticity of Highly Oriented Nano Layered Zr/Nb Composites”
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Prof. Collin Broholm, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, “Strange Magnetism Exposed by Neuron Scattering”
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Dr. Wei Cai, Stanford University – “Dislocation Dynamics and Plasticity of FCC Materials”

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Dr. McLean Echlin, Research Specialist, University of California Santa Barbara “Performance and Design of Structural and Functional Materials and New Modes of Mesoscale Characterization”
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Dr. Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois – “Bone: Some Mechanics and Inspiration”

Dr. Timothy Harrigan, ScD MBA PE, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory “Pressure and Momentum Transfer to the Body Due to Blast Exposure: Simulation and Experimental Results”

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Dr. Stefan Hiermaier, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. and Director, Fraunhofer Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik, Ernst-Mach-Institut – “Resilient Dynamics”
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Dr. Thomas Hochrainer, Universität Bremen – “Thermodynamically Consistent Continuum Dislocation Dynamics”
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Mr. Larry Holmes, Jr., ARL Principal Investigator for Additive Manufacturing Materials and Technology Development – “Advanced Manufacturing R & D at the US Army Research Laboratory”


Dr. Noam Izenberg, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Dr. Lori Glaze, Goddard Space Flight Center – “Hopkins Goes to Venus!”
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Dr. Shailendra Joshi, Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, “Unraveling Texture, Triaxiality and Anisotropy Effects in Plycrystalline Magnesium Alloys”
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Dr. Nanshu Lu, University of Texas at Austin – “Epidermal Sensor Systems for Sensing and Therapy”

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Dr. Michele Manuel, University of Florida – “Tracking Mesoscale Evolution in Light Metals: How Design and Databases Play a Critical Role”
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Dr. Anna Pandolfi, Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, “On Electro-Active Anistropic Material Models for the Behavior of the Large Intestine”
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Dr. Pavana Prabhakar, University of Texas at El Paso – “Mechanics and Manufacturing of Hybrid Materials for Durability and Damage Tolerance”

Erica Schoenberger
Prof. Erica Schoenberger, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University- “Researching Interdisciplinary Research: Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments”
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Prof. Dr. Andre Studart, Associate Professor, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich – “Additive Manufacturing of Bio-inspired Composites”
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Dr. June Wicks, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University – “From Super-earth Interiors to Our Own Earth’s Surface: Using Dynamic Compression to Study Our Universe”
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Dr. Joanna Aizenberg – “Stealing from Nature: Bioinspired Extreme Materials”

Dr. Daniel Eakins – “Recent developments towards dynamic X-ray probing of extreme physical states”
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Dr. Mark Foster – “Photonic Systems for High-Speed Compressive Imaging and Sensing”

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Prof. Joelle Frechette, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
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Dr. Rajiv S. Mishra – “Microstructural Paths for Investigation of Deformation Mechanisms in High Performance Magnesium Alloys”
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Dr. Mark Opeka – “A Heated Subject – Hypersonic Vehicle Leading Edge/Nosetip Materials and Sub-Structures”

Proud
Dr. William Proud – “The High-strain Rate Loading of Structural Biological Materials”

Joseph M. Zaug, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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