Seminars

Scheduled Seminars

Date	Time		Location
03-27-2007	4:30 pm	Christina Tsai,SUNY Buffalo Coping with extreme events and uncertainties: novel approaches to modeling sediment transport and water quality in natural rivers	312 Hollister
04-24-2007	4:30 pm	Leslie Banks-Sills, The Dreszer Fracture Mechanics Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, M-Integral For Calculating Intensity Factors For Cracks In Piezoelectric Ceramics	366A Hollister Hall
04-25-2007	10:00am	Alberto Salvadori, Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Territory and Atmosphere, Universit'a di Brescia,Cornell University A Plasticity-Like Framework for Fracture Mechanics	McManus
08-30-2007	4:30 pm	Masanori Hamada ,Waseda University Roles of Civil Engineers for Disaster Mitigation under Global Change of Natural Environments and Social Circumstances	110 Hollister Hall
08-30-2007	4:30 pm	Eugene Madsen,Cornell University, Department of Microbiology Aerobic Naphthalene Biodegradation: Physiology, Toxicity, and Insights from the Genome of Polaromonas naphthalenivorans	366 Hollister
09-05-2007	4:30 pm	Wilkins Aquino,Cornell University, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering An Object-Oriented Framework for Implementing Reduced-Order Models of Complex Physical Systems using the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Technique	366 Hollister
09-06-2007	4:30 pm	Dr. Daniel Sheer, Hydrologics Water Management, Science, and the Role of the Analyst	366 Hollister Hall
09-13-2007	4:30 pm	Monroe Weber-Shirk,Cornell University, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering AguaClara: an innovative model for providing safe drinking water	366 Hollister Hall
09-18-2007	4:45 pm	Paulette N. I. Rudolph,Walter P Moore When Buildings Move...	366 Hollister Hall
09-20-2007	4:30 pm	Charles J. Vörösmarty ,University of New Hampshire The Science of Global Hydrology: Lessons from the	366 Hollister Hall
09-25-2007	4:45 pm	Steve Koutsourelakis,Cornell University, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering Designing Complex Systems in the presence of Large Uncertainties: A statistical approach	366 Hollister Hall
09-27-2007	4:30 pm	Joseph Yavitt,Cornell University, Department of Natural Resources Mad as a Hatter: Mercury in the Environment	366 Hollister Hall
10-04-2007	4:30 pm	Walter Hang,Toxics Targeting, Inc. Not Part of My Business Plan: Annals of an Impromptu Citizen Environmental Clean up Effort in Ithaca, NY (1998 - 2007)	366 Hollister
10-09-2007	4:30 pm	Galen Gisler,Physics of Geological Processes, University of Oslo, Norway Simulations of a rock-slide impact into water	162 Hollister
10-11-2007	4:30 pm	Arup K. SenGupta,Lehigh University Arsenic Crisis in the Developing World:	366 Hollister Hall
10-18-2007	4:30pm	P. Aarne Vesilind,Bucknell University Kermit’s Lament: It’s Not Easy Being Green	366 Hollister
10-23-2007	1:00 pm	Markus J. Buehler,Massachusetts Institute of Techology Hierarchical nanomechanics of protein materials: Implications for diseases and biomimetic materials	McManus Lounge
10-25-2007	4:30 pm	Jeffrey R. Koseff,Woods Institute for the Environment Internal Wave Breaking on Submerged Topographic Features	366 Hollister Hall
10-29-2007	4:30 pm	N. Sukumar,University of California Three-Dimensional Non-Planar Crack Growth by a Coupled Extended Finite Element and Fast Marching Method	366 Hollister Hall
11-01-2007	4:30 pm	Geoff Spedding,University of Southern California Pattern development from initially-turbulent conditions in stably stratified fluids	366 Hollister Hall
11-08-2007	4:30 pm	Tom Peacock,Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stratified flows: From the lab to the ocean	366 Hollister Hall
11-12-2007	4:30 pm	Baskar Ganapathysubramanian,Cornell University, Materials Process Design and Control Laboratory Data driven strategies for constructing reduced-order stochastic models of random heterogeneous media	366 Hollister Hall
11-15-2007	4:30 pm	James Gossett,Cornell University Polaromonas sp. Strain JS666 as a Potential Bioaugmentation Agent for Aerobic, cDCE-Contaminated Site	366 Hollister Hall
11-15-2007	4:45 pm	Glenn R. Bell, CEO,Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. Architecture and Tomorrow’s Building Engineering: Leading a New Design Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond	162 Hollister Hall
11-27-2007	4:30 pm	Chiang C. Mei,Massachusetts Institute of Technology Approximate Theories of Water Waves Around Structures or in Nonuniform Environment	McManus Lounge
11-28-2007	4:30 pm	Cristina Pislaru, M.D. Assistant Professor,Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Diastolic Dysfunction: Current Challenges and Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities	366 Hollister Hall
11-29-2007	5:00 pm	John Wilson,USEPA Kerr Lab Use of molecular biological tools to predict natural biological degradation of chlorinated solvents in ground water	366 Hollister Hall
01-21-2008	12:00 noon	Kuang-An Chang,Texas A&M University Velocity Measurement, Bubble Sizing, and Particle Counting in Multiphase Flows Applying Imaging and Optical Fiber Methods	208 Hollister Hall
01-24-2008	12:00 noon	Yukie Tanino,Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flow and Solute Transport in Emergent Aquatic Plant Canopies	201 Hollister Hall
01-29-2008	4:30 pm	C. A. Duarte,University of Illinois Robust and Accurate Global-Local Finite Element Analysis of Three-Dimensional Fracture Mechanics Problems	366 Hollister Hall
01-30-2008	4:30 pm	Steven M. Kurtz, Ph. D.,Exponent, Inc. Virtual Clinical Studies: Structural Modeling of Bone-Implant Systems in the Spine and Lower Extremities	366 Hollister Hall
01-31-2008	12:00 noon	Chiang C. Mei,Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hydrodynamics of power extraction from wind waves	McManus Lounge
02-05-2008	4:30 pm	Robert Talby, PhD CEng MICE and Andrew Cushing, P.E., Cornell University Geotechnical Presentation	366 Hollister Hall
02-13-2008	4:30 pm	Assad A. Oberai,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Biomechanical Imaging	205 Thurston Hall
02-19-2008	4:30 pm	David Gonzales, PE,Degenkolb Engineers Performance Based Engineering and Advanced Seismic Analysis to Reduce Seismic Upgrade Costs: Case Studies	366 Hollister Hall
03-04-2008	4:30 pm	Lori Graham-Brady,Johns Hopkins University Material property simulation based on probabilistic characterization of random microstructure	366 Hollister Hall
03-11-2008	4:30 pm	John F. Abel,Professor Emeritus, School of CEE, Cornell University New Challenges for Structural Designers and Educators	366 Hollister Hall
03-25-2008	12:15 pm	Sandy Chang,US Enviromental Protection Agency Small-scale flow variability inside branched coral colonies: computations and experimental validation	162 Hollister Hall
03-25-2008	4:30 pm	Prof. Paul Barbone,Boston University Biomechanical Imaging: Noninvasive measurement of tissue mechanical properties	366 Hollister Hall
03-27-2008	12:00 noon	Nicholas Scott,University of Florida Statistical Scale Structure of the Surface Temperature Field at Low to Moderate Wind Speeds	162 Hollister Hall
04-02-2008	4:30 pm	Lucy T. Zhang,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Fluid and Deformable-Structure Interactions in Bio-Mechanical Systems	366 Hollister Hall
04-04-2008	4:30 pm	Jeremy Isenberg, PhD, PE,Hon. Member ASCE, NAE GERGELY LECTURE: Recent Lessons and Changing Practice in Structural Engineering	McManus Lounge
04-08-2008	4:30 pm	Herbert Lee,University of California, Santa Cruz Bayesian Statistical Approaches for Inverse Problems	366 Hollister
04-22-2008	4:30 pm	P.S. Koutsourelakis,Cornell University, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering A multi-resolution, non-parametric, Bayesian framework for identification of spatially varying model parameters	366 Hollister Hall
04-25-2008	4:30 pm	Alberto Salvadori,Universit`a di Brescia A plasticity-like framework for fracture mechanics	205 Thurston Hall