2018 Events
Vibration Stabilization of NIF-scale Direct Drive Cryogenic Targets
Friday, February 23, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Ethan Burnham-Fay, PhD Defense
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingWhen granular flow modeling is simple, and when it isn't
Friday, March 23, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Ken Kamrin
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingA Multifunctional Structures Approach for Deployable In-Space Optomechanics
Friday, March 30, 2018
9 a.m.
Michael Echter, PhD Defense
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingTurbulence and waves in the presence of rotation and stratification*
Friday, March 30, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Annick Pouquet,Research Scientist, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder CO, Senior Scientist Emeritus, CISL/NCAR
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingRational design with inertia: particle migration and hairy surfaces
Friday, April 20, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Kaitlyn Hood
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingCrossing the Southern Ocean: Reconsidering the manner in which heat is transported across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Matthew Hecht, Senior Scientist, Computational Physics and Methods (CCS-2) group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingAn Integrated Approach for Alloy Design in Additive Manufacturing: Applications in the Marine Sector
Friday, April 27, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Mohsen Mohammadi, Assistant Professor and Director, Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence, University of New Brunswick
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingThe Importance of Reference Fiducials in Freeform Design, Manufacturing, and Metrology
Thursday, May 3, 2018
2 p.m.
Timothy Lynch, MS Defense
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingLarge-Eddy Simulations and Reduced-Models of the Unsteady and Baroclinic Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Monday, May 7, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Elie Bou Zeid, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , Princeton University
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingLaser Processing Advanced Ceramics Used in Optical Applications
Friday, May 18, 2018
1 p.m.
Allison Browar, PhD Qualifying Exam
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingAlpha heating and ignition in inertially confined plasmas
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
3 p.m.
Alison Christopherson, PhD Qualifying Exam
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingCoupling and stability of interfacial waves in liquid metal batteries
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Gerrit Maik Horstmann, Institut für Fluiddynamik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf e.V.
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingMechanically facilitated ion transportation in the mammalian hearing organ
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
10 a.m.
Catherine Knox, MS Defense
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingCharacterization of Subsurface Damage of Deterministic Microgrinding Silicon Carbide
Monday, July 30, 2018
10 a.m.
Thomas Ryan Smith, MS Defense
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingParametric Instability in laser plasma interaction
Friday, August 31, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Chuan Sheng Liu
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingCharacterization of inhomogeneous turbulence using the filter approach.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Bob Ecke
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingGeometry, Ordering, and Efficiency in the Turbulent Cascade
Friday, September 14, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Nicholas T. Ouellette, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingDirect Measurements of Nonlocal Heat Flux in Laser-Produced Coronal Plasmas Using Thomson Scattering from Electron-Plasma Waves
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
2 p.m.
Bob Henchen, PhD Defense
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingWhat’s grad school like? Experiences of a PhD student studying gas turbine heat transfer at Penn State
Friday, October 26, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Brian Knisely
Hopeman 224
Continue ReadingFormation mechanism of Anticyclonic Eddies South East of Sri Lanka during Summer Monsoons
Thursday, December 6, 2018
1:30 p.m.
Annunziata Pirro, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Hopeman 224
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