Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series & MMEC Seminar Series: Analysis and Optimization of Extruded Thin-Walled Beams
12/03/2024 - 3-370 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPlease join us for the Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series with Haim Waisman, Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University. In this talk, Waisman will address "Analysis and Optimization of Extruded Thin-Walled Beams." Thin-walled beams are widely used in engineering due to their favorable stiffness-to-volume ratio, but they are also prone to complex mechanics like buckling, warping, and fracture. In this seminar, he will present a new topology optimization framework for designing thin-walled beams manufactured by extrusion This seminar is in person in 3-370.
Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series: Nonlinear Mechanics of Soft Fibrous Materials
11/14/2024 - 1-131 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPlease join us for the Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series with Luis Dorfmann, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University. Soft fibrous materials are composites with highly flexible filaments embedded in a soft base matrix. In this talk, Dorfmann will present overviews of active materials and connective tissue. This seminar is in person in Building 1 Room 131.
PhD Thesis Proposal workshop
10/28/2024 - 1-236 - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pmLed by Comm Fellow Souha El Mousadik (PhD ‘23), this Comm Lab workshop will provide information and guidance on the entire PhD proposal process. This event is in-person in 1-236.
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Seminar Series
10/18/2024 - 15 Vassar Street, 48-316 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPlease join us for the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Environmental Science Seminar Series with Professor Kristie A. Boering from University of California at Berkeley, who will discuss "Field and lab studies of nitrous oxide isotopologs: Lightning, biomass burning, and ocean and "Arctic hot spot" emissions." This seminar is in-person at 15 Vassar Street, 48-316.
Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series: Formation Flight and High Density Tidal Energy Harvesting: Taking Advantage of Coherent Vortex Wakes
10/23/2024 - 1-390 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPlease join us for the Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series with Kenny Breuer, Professor of Engineering at Brown University. In this talk, Breuer will present examples of highly structured wakes from his work on animal flight and the surprising connections with renewable energy harvesting using Oscillatory Flow Turbines. Lastly, he will demonstrate how these structured wakes enable high efficiency formation flight in birds as well as high density energy harvesting systems. This seminar is in person in 1-390.
Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series: Biomineralized engineered living materials for the built environment – progress and potential
10/09/2024 - 1-131 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPlease join us for the Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series with Chelsea Heveran, Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Montana State University. In this talk, Heveran will discuss the use of microbes and biological processes in creating biomineralized engineered living materials to improve the sustainability and functionality of construction materials, focusing on challenges like enhancing strength and prolonging cell viability within these materials. This seminar is in person in Building 1 Room 131.
Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series: Wall-modeled large-eddy simulation: an application to atmospheric boundary layer across a natural roughness transition.
10/02/2024 - 3-370 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPlease join us for the Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series with Assistant Professor George IIhwan Park from University of Pennsylvania. In this talk, Park will summarize the research on wall-modelled LES (WMLES) conducted by his group for engineering flows and test cases at moderate Reynolds number, and then discuss an application of WMLES to large-scale atmospheric flow over heterogeneous terrain featuring smooth-to-rough transition in the wall topology. This seminar is in person in Building 3 Room 370.
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Seminar Series
09/27/2024 - 48-316 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPlease join us for the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Environmental Science Seminar Series with Ethan Deyle, Research Assistant Professor at Boston University, who will discuss "Inferring causality from biological time series: A critical tool in the era of global change." The seminar is in-person at 15 Vassar Street, 48-316.
Ralph M. Parsons Seminar Series: Modernizing the Global Stocktake: The Role of Earth Observation and AI in Monitoring Land Carbon Fluxes
09/20/2024 - 48-316 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPlease join us for the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Environmental Science Seminar Series with Senior Research Scientist Sassan Saatchi from California Institute of Technology. The seminar is in-person at 15 Vassar Street, 48-316.
Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series
09/19/2024 - 1-131 - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPlease join us for the Henry L. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series with Professor Maximillian Schiffer from Technical University of Munich, who will be discussing "Optimization-augmented machine learning for contextual multi-stage problems." This seminar is in person in Building 1 Room 131.
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Seminar Series
11/22/2024 - 48-316 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPlease join us for the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Environmental Science Seminar Series with Tom Darrah from Ohio State University. The seminar is in-person at 15 Vassar Street, 48-316.
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Seminar Series
11/15/2024 - 48-316 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPlease join us for the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Environmental Science Seminar Series with Taylor Perron from MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. The seminar is in-person at 15 Vassar Street, 48-316.
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Seminar Series: Sunlight, sediment, and slime: Ecohydraulics in the costal zone
11/08/2024 - 48-316 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPlease join us for the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Environmental Science Seminar Series with Professor Tracy Mandel from University of New Hampshire. In this talk, Mandel will cover three important problems in vegetative coastal ecosystems and how we study these problems using laboratory, field, and numerical approaches. The seminar is in-person at 15 Vassar Street, 48-316.
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Seminar Series
11/01/2024 - 48-316 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPlease join us for the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Environmental Science Seminar Series with Daniel Segré from Boston University. The seminar is in-person at 15 Vassar Street, 48-316.
Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Seminar Series
10/25/2024 - 48-316 - 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPlease join us for the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory Environmental Science Seminar Series with Oliver Jagoutz from MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. The seminar is in-person at 15 Vassar Street, 48-316.