Spring 2012 GAME Lunch Seminars

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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:

GAME Lunch Seminar Spring 2012 Schedule.pdf


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

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

To view seminar listings from previous semesters, visit our archives.