Past Seminars

Thursday October 14, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Earthquake sequence simulations with fault zone fluid flow, pore pressure evolution, and viscoelasticity
Speaker: Eric Dunham, Stanford
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday October 7, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
The Mechanics of Slow Slip
Speaker: Kyungjae Im, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday September 29, 2021 1:00 PM
"Leading in a New Era of Innovation"
Speaker: Naveed Hussain, Boeing Research & Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday September 13, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Speaker: John Harmon, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday August 30, 2021 11:00 AM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Engineering tools to probe and manipulate the immune system at single-cell resolution
Speaker: Tatyana Dobreva, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 17, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Modeling and Programming Shape-Morphing Structured Media
Speaker: Connor McMahan, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 17, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Instabilities in the Flow Over a Spinning Disk at Angle of Attack
Speaker: Marcus Lee, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday July 22, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Industry Job Talks
Location: Online Event
Wednesday July 21, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Academic Job Talks
Location: Online Event
Tuesday June 29, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Modeling and Parameterization of Basin Effects for Engineering Design Applications
Speaker: Peyman Ayoubi, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday June 23, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Applications of Machine Learning to Finite Volume Methods
Speaker: Ben Stevens, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday June 4, 2021 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
RUN as fast as you can: efficient tape spring analysis
Speaker: Zahra Soltani, Imperial College London
Location: Online Event
Thursday June 3, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Caltech Young Investigators Forum
Location: Online Event
Tuesday June 1, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Numerical Simulation of performance and solar fuel conversion efficiency for photoelectrochemical devices
Speaker: Yikai (Katie) Chen, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Electronic skins for medical and sports applications
Speaker: Takao Someya, Ph.D., The University of Tokyo
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 27, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Machine Learning approaches for predicting Seismic, Acoustic and Atmospheric Data
Speaker: Maria Giselle Fernandez, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Tuesday May 25, 2021 3:30 PM
Reduced Order Model Inspired Robotic Bipedal Walking: A Step-to-Step Dynamics Approximation Based Approach
Speaker: Xiaobin Xiong, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday May 24, 2021 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Theoretical, computational, and experimental characterization of nematic elastomers
Speaker: Victoria (Tori) Lee, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 20, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Growth, instability, and failure: bringing order into the chaos of natural phenomena
Speaker: Tal Cohen, MIT
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 13, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Soft materials: from fundamental mechanics to applications
Speaker: Shengqiang Cai, UC San Diego
Location: Online Event
Monday May 10, 2021 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Smart NFC implantable optogenetic neuromodulator for frontier neuroscience research
Speaker: Abraham Vázquez-Guardado, PhD, Northwestern University
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 6, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Multi-Resolution Lattice Green's Function Method for High Reynolds Number External Flows
Speaker: Ke Yu, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 6, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Additive Manufacturing of Polymers and Polymer Composites
Speaker: Mehran Tehrani, The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 5, 2021 3:30 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches
Speaker: Wenlong Ma, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday May 3, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Speaker: Qi Lei, Princeton
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 29, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Speaking the Language of Autonomic Nerves
Speaker: Nicole (Nikki) Pelot, PhD, Duke University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 29, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Speaker: Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT
Location: Online Event
Monday April 26, 2021 1:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Dielectric metasurfaces for integrated imaging devices and active optical elements
Speaker: Hyounghan Kwon, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Creating a Dynamic Virtual Presence
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
The Viscoelastic Behavior of a Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Speaker: Thao (Vicky) Nguyen, Johns Hopkins
Location: Online Event
Friday April 16, 2021 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Speaker: Bhavini Singh, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Coping with Trauma: Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Speaker: Nil Gurel
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Misbehavin': anomalous atoms in solids and the extremes of thermal transport
Speaker: Prof. Austin J. Minnich, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Speaker: Ramina Ghods, Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Strength of materials under high dynamic pressures
Speaker: Dr. Suraj Ravindran, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday April 5, 2021 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Speaker: Melinda Perkins, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 1, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Phase-field modeling and simulation in biomechanics: cell migration and other applications
Speaker: Dr. Adrian Moure, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 11:00 AM
Imaging Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87's Black Hole
Speaker: Monika Mościbrodzka, Radboud University
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 10:00 AM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Eddy Current Damping Stroke Sensor
Speaker: Shane Shahrestani, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday March 22, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Reducing Computational Costs for Many-Body Physics Problems
Speaker: Erika Ye, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 10, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Identifying New CFC Emissions Through Joint Inference of Banks and Lifetimes, with Impacts on the Ozone Layer and Climate
Speaker: Megan Lickley
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 25, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Continuous measurements of biomolecules in live subjects
Speaker: Dr. Tom Soh, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 25, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Capturing (and Keeping!) Attention on Zoom
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 23, 2021 5:00 PM
IDEAS Lecture Series: Innovation and Discovery in Engineering and Applied Science
How Do You Like Your Materials – with Multi-functionality and Reconfigurability or Just Lightweight? Additive Manufacturing of 3D-Architected Materials
Speaker: J.R. Greer
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 23, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Towards Learning Robotic Dynamics: Application to Multirotor Takeoff and Landing
Speaker: Daniel Pastor Moreno, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday February 22, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion: From Hybrid Zero Dynamics to Control Lyapunov Functions via Experimentally Realizable Methods
Speaker: Jenna Reher, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 18, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Unconventional Bioelectronics based on Soft Materials and Wireless Technology
Speaker: Dae-Hyeong Kim, PhD, Seoul National University
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 4, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Noninvasive Drug Delivery, Immunomodulation and Neuromodulation using Focused Ultrasound
Speaker: Professor Elisa Konofagou, Columbia University
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 4, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Resolvent Modeling of Turbulent Jets
Speaker: Ethan Pickering, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event