M&AE Departmental Colloquia
Spring 2008

Spring 2008 colloquia are held in Kimball B11 on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm, with refreshments served in Upson Lounge at 4:15 pm.  The M&AE Colloquia cover a broad range of topics of interest to the mechanical and aerospace engineering communities.  The public is welcome to attend.

Date	Speaker & Topic	Location
January 22	"The Challenges and Opportunities Afforded by Close Encounters with Asteroid Apophis." Professor John L. Junkins.  Professor Ephrahim Garcia, Faculty Host. Regents Professor, Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Holder of the Royce E. Wisenbaker '39 Chair in Engineering, Director of Center for Mechanics and Control.  Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University.	Kimball B11
January 29	"Novel On-Chip Isotachophoresis Assays." Professor Juan G. Santiago.  Professor Brian Kirby, Faculty Host. Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University.	Kimball B11
Februrary 5	"Simulating the Primary Atomization of Turbulent Liquid Jets." Professor Marcus Herrmann.  Professor Stephen B. Pope, Faculty Host. Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University.	Kimball B11
February 12	"Development of Surrogate Jet Fuels." Dr.  Meredith Colket.  Professor Frederick C. Gouldin, Faculty Host. United Technologies Research Center, Hartford, Connecticut.	Kimball B11
February 19	"Measurement of the Local Mechanical Environment of Skeletal Tissues." Professor Elise Morgan.  Professor Marjolein van der Meulen, Faculty Host. Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering / Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Boston University.	Kimball B11
February 26	CANCELED - RESCHEDULED APRIL 1, 2008. "The Personal Microenvironment: A New Focus of Indoor Environmental Research." Professor H. Ezzat Khalifa.  Professor K. Max Zhang, Faculty Host. NYSTAR Distinguished Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.  Director, STAR Center for Environmental Quality Systems, Syracuse University.	Kimball B11
March 4	"Mechanical Highlights from Interactive and Emerging Multi-sensory Digital Physics." Professor Doug James. Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University.	Kimball B11
March 11	Reserved	Kimball B11
March 18	Spring Break	n/a
March 25	"Curvature and Coordination in Robotics." Professor Rob Ghrist.  Professor Mark Campbell, Faculty Host. Professor, Department of Mathematics, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Information Trust Institute; University of Illinois.	Kimball B11
April 1	"The Personal Microenvironment: A New Focus of Indoor Environmental Research." Professor H. Ezzat Khalifa.  Professor K. Max Zhang, Faculty Host. NYSTAR Distinguished Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.  Director, STAR Center for Environmental Quality Systems, Syracuse University.	Kimball B11
April 8	"Control of Spacecraft Arrays for High Resolution Imaging." Lindsay Millard, PhD Candidate.  Professor Mason Peck, Faculty Host. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University.	Kimball B11
April 15	"Orthopaedic Interface Tissue Engineering For Soft Tissue-to-Bone Integration." Professor Helen H. Lu.  Professor Marjolein van der Meulen, Faculty Host. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Dental and Craniofacial Bioengineering.  Columbia University.	Kimball B11
April 22	"Validation of the Reynolds Equation in lubricated contact - Application to analysis of the mixed lubrication regime in heavily loaded bearings." Professor Michel Fillon.  Professor Jack Booker, Faculty Host. Director of Research CNRS.  Universite de Poitiers, France.	Kimball B11

We gratefully acknowledge partial support for the colloquium from the Elmer Lindseth Fund.

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