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Spring 2009 Seminars

Seminar Date Seminar Details
January 21
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Cynthia Reinhart-King (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University)
Title: Mechano-Chemical Regulation of Cell Adhesion

Host: Herbert Hui
January 28
4:30 PM
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Title: DATE RESERVED
February 4
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Xin-Yan Deng (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware)
Title: Aerodynamics of Insect Flight Revisited

Host: Jane Wang
February 11
4:30 PM
700 Clark Hall
Z. Jane Wang (Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University)
Title: Insect Flight: Aerodynamics, Energetics, and Evolution
TAM AND BIOPHYSICS JOINT SEMINAR (700 CLARK HALL)

Host: Herbert Hui
February 18
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Steve Strogatz (Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University)
Title: The Story of a Mathematical Friendship

Host: Herbert Hui
February 25
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Dan Luo (Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University)
Title: DNA as a Genetic Material

Host: Herbert Hui
March 4
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Anand Jagota (Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University)
Title: DNA Recognizes Carbon Nanotubes by Forming Beta Barrels

Host: Herbert Hui
March 11
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Sanjoy Mahajan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title: 2=1, or Teaching the Gentle Art of Lying

Host: Andy Ruina
March 25
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Changhong Ke (State University of New York at Binghamton)
Title: Detecting Intra-Molecule Interactions in Nucleic Acids by Single Molecule Atomic Force Spectroscopy
Host: Herbert Hui
March 26
2:00 PM
204 Thurston Hall
Umashankar Nagarajan (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: Control, Planning and Interaction with Dynamically Stable Single Spherical Wheeled Mobile Robot (Ballbot)

Host: Andy Ruina
April 1
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Paul S. Steif (Carnegie Mellon University (Applied Mechanics and Engineering Education))
Title: Cracking during Cryopreservation of Biological Tissues: Modeling and Experiments

Host: Herbert Hui
April 8
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Binquan Luan (Postdoctoral Scientist, IBM Research)
Title: A Peek into Nano-world Using Numerical Force Microscope

Host: Herbert Hui
April 15
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Kevin Lynch (Northwestern University)
Title: Robot Assembly: From Vibratory Manipulation to Self-Organization
Host: Herbert Hui
April 29
4:30 PM
205 Thurston Hall
Dmitri Vezenov (Lehigh University)
Title: SEMINAR CANCELED

Host: Herbert Hui