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MechE Colloquium: Cusps, tips, and threads: fluid dynamics and elasticity

Talk presented on December 19th 2023: J. Eggers is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol. His career has been devoted to the understanding of self-similar phenomena. He has…

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Honorary Lecture Prof W. Curtin: A Random Walk Through Random Materials - December 12th 2023

Professor Curtin earned a 4 yr. ScB/ScM degree in Physics from Brown University in 1981 and a PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 1986. He worked as staff researcher at British…

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MechE Colloquium: Design of composite materials and structures across the scales: physical and data-driven models

Talk presented on December 5th 2023; Prof. Pedro Camanho (FRAeS) received his PhD in Composite Materials from the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK, in 1999. He is currently Full…

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MechE Colloquium: Photothermal systems - from ultrafast nanophotonics to heat oscillations in solar thermal desalination

Talk presented on November 28th 2023, Alessandro Alabastri received his BSc (2007) and MSc (2009) in Engineering Physics from Politecnico di Milano specializing in Nano-Optics and Photonics. In 2009…

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MechE Colloquium: Material-Enabled Technologies for Soft and Fluidic Robots

Talk presented November 21st 2023, Dr. Daniel J. Preston directs the Preston Innovation Laboratory at Rice University conducting robotics research at the intersection of enegy, materials, and fluids.…

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MechE Colloquium: Turbulent flow behind aortic valve prostheses - D. Obrist

Talk presented on November 14th 2023, Dominik Obrist is Professor of Cardiovascular Engineering at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research of the University of Bern and is co-founder…

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MechE Inaugural Lecture: Leverage Liquid-Vapor Phase Change for High-Performance Sustainable Cooling

Zhengmao Lu is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at EPFL. Previously, Zhengmao was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT…

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Mech E Colloquium -Flexures for fast and fretting-free functioning, M. Nijenhuis

Talk presented on 24 October 2023 by Dr Marijn Nijenhuis, University of Twente - Invited Professor at Instant-Lab, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, EPFL - within the MechE Colloquium series.…

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