Past Seminars

Thursday January 13, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
New experimental approaches for measuring and controlling fluid flows
Speaker: Matt Fu, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 6, 2022 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Biomedical Engineering at a Corporate Research Center (Case Studies): From Concept to Product Prototype and Business Model … and Back Again
Speaker: Chris Puleo, Ph.D., General Electric Research Center
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 6, 2022 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
How colloidal physics instantiate life in biological cells
Speaker: Roseanna N. Zia, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 9, 2021 3:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy-derived 3D Conductivity Tomography for Atherosclerosis Detection
Speaker: Zi Yu (May) Huang, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 7, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Slip Patterns on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces
Speaker: Kavya Sudhir, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 2, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Biomolecular Engineering to Realize Continuous, Real-time, in vivo Biosensing System
Speaker: Professor Koji Sode, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 2, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Machine learning in solid mechanics: improving modeling and design
Speaker: Miguel Bessa, Delft University of Technology
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday November 18, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Granular and particle-laden flow: Novel approaches to characterize avalanches and dunes across scales
Speaker: Nathalie Vriend, University of Cambridge
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday November 18, 2021 9:00 AM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine
Speaker: Professor George Malliaras, University of Cambridge
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 11, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Building Biomolecular Sensors for a New Era of Physiological Monitoring
Speaker: Professor Shana Kelley
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 11, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Micro-continuum approach for the multi-scale modeling of coupled processes in the subsurface
Speaker: Cyprien Soulaine, Institute of Earth Sciences of Orléans
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday November 9, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Bioscience Industry Day
Location: Chen Breezeway
Thursday November 4, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Data-driven mechanics – the challenge to model inelastic material behaviour and structures
Speaker: Stefanie Reese, RWTH Aachen University
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Monday November 1, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Health Sensor in wearables
Speaker: Dr. Justin Kim, Samsung Electronics
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 28, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Cellular NeuroMechanics – Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury and the mysterious Havana Syndrome
Speaker: Christian Franck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday October 21, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Bridging between clinic and engineering: development of oxygen-transporting mesh for cell transplantation
Speaker: Dr. Hirotake Komatsu, MD, Research Institute of City of Hope,
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 21, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Acoustically Levitated Granular Matter
Speaker: Heinrich M. Jaeger, The University of Chicago
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
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