2021 Events
Generalized FEM to study localized material property changes in human cornea
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
1 p.m.
Elizabeth Bueno Diaz, PhD Qualifying Exam, Advised by Professors Paul Funkenbusch and Amy Lerner
Continue ReadingMeasuring laser illumination asymmetry for OMEGA symmetric direct-drive implosions
Thursday, January 28, 2021
3:30 p.m.
Dhrumir Patel, PhD Qualifying Exam, Advised by Riccardo Betti
Continue ReadingEnergy Transport in Extreme Thermal Materials
Friday, February 5, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Yongjie Hu, UCLA
Continue ReadingSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE MASSIVE ADOBE PYRAMID OF HUACA DE LA LUNA, PERU UNDER GRAVITATIONAL AND LATERAL ACCELERATIONS
Friday, February 19, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Selman Tezcan, PhD candidate, supervised by Renato Perucchio
Continue ReadingPassive heat switching using temperature-dependent magnetic forces
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Geoff Wehmeyer, Rice University
Continue ReadingNeutron spectroscopy in laser-direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions
Friday, March 12, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Owen Mannion, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Continue ReadingTwyman effect in thin curved optics
Friday, March 26, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Sanjay Lakshmanan
Continue ReadingAdvective drug delivery through the cochlear duct
Friday, April 2, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Mohammad Shokrian
Continue ReadingA brief look at numerical modelling in defense research
Friday, April 9, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Steinar Borve, FFI, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment
Continue ReadingDesign of mechanically robust nanoporous silicon nitride membranes via combined molecular dynamics and generative deep learning approach
Friday, April 9, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Ali K. Shargh, PhD Qualifying Exam, Advised by Niaz Abdolrahim
Continue ReadingExploring Transverse Raman Scattering in KDP Crystals for Large Optic Laser Damage Mitigation
Friday, April 23, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Dr. Tanya Kosc, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Continue ReadingPredicting hot electrons for inertial confinement fusion
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
9:30 a.m.
Shihui Cao, PhD Qualifying Exam, Advised by Chuang Ren
Continue ReadingCerebrospinal fluid flow in the brain
Friday, May 7, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Adi Raghunandan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Kelley Group
Continue ReadingRayleigh-Taylor Instability and Turbulence in the Presence of Magnetic Fields
Monday, May 24, 2021
11 a.m.
Xin Bian, PhD Defense, Advised by Hussein Aluie
Continue ReadingMicrofluidics for Cancer: exploring tumour cell transit, enabling clinical practice and optimising T cell immunotherapies
Friday, July 16, 2021
10 a.m.
Sam Au, Imperial College London
Continue ReadingGrain-level response of additively manufactured metals to hot isostatic pressing; a dislocation dynamics study
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
10 a.m.
Esosa Agbongiator, MS Defense, Advised by Professor Hesam Askari
Continue ReadingA Statistical Analysis of Cryogenic DT-Lined Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
10 a.m.
Varchas Gopalaswamy, PhD Defense, Advised by Riccardo Betti
LLE Coliseum
Continue ReadingHigh Pressure Neutron Diffraction on Quantum Materials
Friday, September 3, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Sachith Dissanayake, Department of Physics, Duke University
Continue ReadingA Pathway To Innovative Materials
Friday, September 24, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Jinhyuk Lim, Department of Physics, University of Florida
Continue ReadingHydrofoiling Honeybee
Friday, October 1, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Chris Roh, Cornell
Continue ReadingThermal Storage, Transport and Measurements Spanning Energy Technologies to Biology
Friday, October 15, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Sanjiv Sinha, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Continue ReadingThe squeezes, stretches, and whirls of turbulence
Friday, October 29, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Perry Johnson, UC Irvine
Continue ReadingDrippy soil and bouncing sand: The stuff that landscapes are made of
Friday, December 10, 2021
1:30 p.m.
Rachel Glade, University of Rochester
Continue ReadingAll-optical nanothermometry in challenging environments using NV centers in individual nanodiamonds
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Noon
Dinesh Bommidi, PhD Qualifying Exam, Advised by Professor Andrea Pickel
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