Graduate Seminars

Spring 2019 E SC 514/E MCH 514 Seminar Schedule

Please note: All E SC 514/E MCH 514 seminars will be held from 3:35-4:25 p.m. in 114 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building.

January 9

No seminar.

January 16

• Presentation: "Exploiting Structural Buckling: A Novel Manufacturing Approach to Three-Dimensional Functional Mesostructures"
• Speaker: Xin Ning, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Penn State

January 23

• Presentation: "Ethics discussion: Rambling among retractions"
• Speaker: Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

January 30

• Presentation: "Ultrasound for advanced material characterization"
• Speaker: Andrea Arguelles, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

February 6

• Presentation: "Advancing the science of metallic 3D printing through ultrasonic characterization of laser-generated melt pools"
• Speaker: Christopher Kube, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

February 13

• Presentation: "Diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound: Applications for earth and space exploration"
• Speaker: Julianna Simon, Graduate Program in Acoustics, Penn State

February 20

• Presentation: "Biocatalysis of oxygen defected nanoceria"
• Speaker: Sudipta Seal, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Central Florida

February 27

• Presentation: "Electrochemical biosensors: Point-of-care diagnostics and in-situ probing of biology"
• Speaker: Aida Ebrahimi, Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State

March 13

• Presentation: "Making waves in ice"
• Speaker: Francesco Simonetti, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati

March 20

• Presentation: "Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance and Near Zero-Field Magnetoresistance in Solid State Electronics"
• Speaker: Patrick Lenahan, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

March 27

• Presentation: "Ultrasonic characterization of rocks and geophysical implications"
• Speaker: Jacques Rivière, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State

April 3

• Presentation: TBA
• Speaker: Daniel Hayes, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Penn State

April 10

• Presentation: "Geophysical signatures of frictional processes in rock joints and fault gouges"
• Speaker: Reza Hedayat, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines

April 17

• Presentation: "Electromagnetic gain and loss with nanoengineered materials"
• Speaker: Tom G. Mackay, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

April 24

• Presentation: "Introduction to convolutional neural networks and application in ophthalmic diagnoses"
• Speaker: Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Departments of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Canada