Spring 2012 GAME Lunch Seminars
The GAME Lunch Seminar Series gives MechE graduate students the opportunity to present their work to their peers. All members of the MIT community are welcome to attend.
This seminar is an excellent opportunity to practice your qualifying exam research presentation or prepare for a conference presentation!
All Lunch Seminars are Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1:15 pm in room 3-442. The Spring 2012 Lunch Seminar is sponsored by GAME and GSC. Check out the schedule for more information:
September 16
- 12:00pm
Sankha Banerjee
Numerical Study of Flag flapping and Variable Density Turbulence
- 12:30pm
Lennon Rodgers
Designing, Building, and Racing an Electric Motorcycle on the Isle of Man
September 30
- 12:00pm
Reza Karimi
Role of Hydrodynamic Interactions in F-Actin Dynamics
- 12:30pm
Daniel Hanks
Characterization of a condenser for a high performance multi-condenser loop heat pipe
October 14
- 12:00pm
Brett Shapiro
Adaptive Modal Damping of Suspensions for Gravitational Wave Detectors
- 12:30pm
Sheida Anya Danesh
Real time simulation of active sonars in deep ocean environment
October 28
- 12:00pm
Hyungryul Choi
TBA
- 12:30pm
Stephanie Chin Steele
Global Vorticity Shedding on a Vanishing Foil
November 11
- 12:00pm
Adam Paxson
Direct Observation of Hierarchical Contact Line Depinning
- 12:30pm
Matt Klug
Biologically-Assembled Plasmonic Devices: Synthesis and Applications
December 9
- 12:00pm
Tapovan Lolla
TBA
- 12:30pm
James Schulmeister
TBA
Spring 2011 GAME Faculty Seminars
The GAME Faculty Seminars gives MechE grad students the opportunity to interact with the Mechanical Engineering faculty and broaden your awareness of the vast field of mechanical engineering.
All Faculty Seminars are Thursdays from 4pm to 5pm in room 3-133.
February 17
Gareth McKinley, The Joy of Academia...or* why I do what I do...*
March 17
Cullen Buie, Alternative Energy: A New Frontier for Microfluidics
March 31
Carol Livermore, If only I'd brought a map: a physicist's road to engineering
April 14
Nicholas Fang, Molding the flow of sound using acoustic metamaterials
April 21
Domitilla Del Vecchio, Control System Design: Emerging Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
To view seminar listings from previous semesters, visit our archives.


