Lectures and Seminars

Nasr Ghoniem UCLA, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department Abstract: Extreme-environment materials present some of the most significant challenges to the development of many advanced technologies in the nuclear, aviation, space, defense, automotive, and power generation industries. Such materials are subject to unprecedented assaults of high thermal heat flux, plasma and nuclear interactions, extremely fast mechanical […]

Sergio Carbajo University of California-Los Angeles, Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Physics Departments Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Abstract: Photon and particle sources are powerful tools with extremely high societal impact because they underpin myriad groundbreaking scientific, technological, and medical advancements. Topological and structured photonics can probe, excite, and manipulate matter with unparalleled […]

Allison “Allie” Pelzel Aerodynamics Engineer, Boom Supersonic BS Engineering Physics, MS Mechanical Engineering (Thermal Fluid Systems) Colorado School of Mines Equestrian Team Founder Biography: Allison is an aerodynamics engineer for Boom supersonic working on the supersonic civil transport, Overture. She is on the aircraft preliminary design team specializing in aircraft performance as well as being […]

Daniel Porpora Ball Aerospace Abstract: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest, most complex, space telescope undertaken in NASA’s history. But why is it so? This talk will discuss why JWST is being built and how the ambitious science goals for it have led to such a unique and massive system. And we’ll […]

Callie Higgins NIST Abstract: Vat photopolymerization is a powerful additive manufacturing technique that address many applications ranging from personalized medicine to large-scale manufacturing. Unfortunately, these printing processes introduce micrometer-scale anisotropic inhomogeneities due to the resin absorptivity, diffusivity, reaction kinetics, and swelling during the requisite photoexposure. Previously, it has not been possible to characterize high-resolution mechanical […]

Zhexuan Gong Colorado School of Mines, Physics Department Abstract:  Experimental quantum simulators have become large and complex enough that discovering new physics from the huge amount of measurement data can be quite challenging, especially when little theoretical understanding of the simulated model is available. Unsupervised machine learning methods are particularly promising in overcoming this challenge. […]

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