The C.C. Mei Distinguished Speaker Series was founded and has been organized since 2015, in honor of Prof. Chiang C. Mei. It aims to provide a vibrant forum for highly distinguished speakers, from around the world, to share their research with the CEE, MIT, and the local Boston community.
The talks are held on Mondays 4:15-5:00 pm in Building 1-190 (campus map).
Reception starts at 4:00 pm. Check our event page for upcoming speakers.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Plant Age: Materials for the Future
Northwestern University
Data Driven Computational Design of Engineered Material Systems
Stanford University
Climate & Sustainability: The defining issue of the 21st century
University of Houston
Flexoelectricity & Electrets
University of California, Berkeley
Synchrotron X-ray probes to study the multiscale structure of concrete
Texas A&M University
Discrete defect plasticity & implications of requiring non-negative dissipation
University of Oxford
The Mechanics of Chirality: from Darwin’s Perversion to Feynman’s Obsession
Sorbonne University
Challenges in the modeling of multiphase flow from large to small scales
Twente University
Rayleigh vs. Marangoni
(No recording available)
University of Houston
Resolved simulations of particulate flows
Stanford University
The interaction between gravity currents and breaking internal waves
Ecole Centrale Paris
Progress and challenges in combustion dynamics
New York University and UC Berkeley
Flood protection infrastructure, transportation, and government networks
Founder & retired chairman of ABAQUS Inc.
ABAQUS and it’s market: evolution of an engineering simulation software venture
UCLA
Control of jets in energy and propulsion systems
| 10/01/2018 | Prof. Andrew Lo | MIT | Fear, greed and financial crisis 10 years later | Financial crisis, evolutionary models of human behavior, nonlinear dynamical systems | YouTube |
| 03/19/2018 | Prof. Nadine Aubry | Northeastern University | From reduced models of turbulence to microfluidics | Fluid mechanics, low dimensional models, microfluidics | YouTube |
| 04/09/2018 | Prof. Arif Masud | University of Illinois Urbana | A new class of numerical methods with enhanced stability and accuracy: application to residual-based turbulence and non-newtonian bio-fluid dynamics | Numerical methods, fluid dynamics | YouTube |
| 04/23/2018 | Prof. Serge Hoogendoorn | Delft University of Technology | Making mobility smart again | Urban mobility, traffic flow, simulation and management | YouTube |
| 05/07/2018 | Prof. Maria Feng | Columbia University | If Bridges Could Talk | Advanced imaging and sensing of structures, sustainability and resilience | YouTube |
| 05/14/2018 | Prof. Howard Stone | Princeton University | New ideas for separation processes | Dynamics of complex fluids | YouTube |
| 02/27/2017 | Prof. Costas Synolakis | University of Southern California | Tsunami hydrodynamics, coastal engineering, Fukushima | YouTube | |
| 03/06/2017 | Prof. Ashok Gadgil | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Inventing environmental technologies for the bottom of the pyramid: some lessons learnt | Water treatment, technology placement, systems, energy efficiency | YouTube |
| 04/10/2017 | Prof. Ruben Kretzschmar | ETH Zurich | Speciation and biogeochemical cycling of arsenic in a minerotrophic peak wetland | Arsenic, speciation, redox, wetlands | YouTube |
| 04/24/2017 | Prof. Emanuela Del Gado | Georgetown University | Soft matter in construction: computational statistical physics of sustainable cements | Amorphous solids, microstructure, non-linear mechanics, cement gels, jammed soft solids | YouTube |
| 10/02/2017 | Prof. George Sugihara | UCSD | Understanding nature holistically | Chaos and patterns, data-analysis and prediction, ecology, environment, and finance | YouTube |
| 03/28/2016 | Prof. Huajian Gao | Brown University | Mechanics as an enabling tool in bioinspired materials and biological interactions of nanomaterials | Mechanics and materials, fracture amorphous alloys, metallic glasses, lithium ion battery | YouTube |
| 04/04/2016 | Prof. Mimi A. R. Koehl | University of California, Berkeley | Swimming and crawling in a turbulent world | Swimming, turbulence, biofluid dynamics, biomechanics | |
| 04/23/2016 | Prof. L. Pamela Cook | University of Delaware | Non-newtonian fluids and the mathematics of surfactant fluids | Fluids, mathematics, surfactant fluids | YouTube |
| 05/02/2016 | Prof. James M. Hughes | Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health | Reflections on emerging microbial threats | Emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, One Health, SARS, MERS | YouTube |
05/23/2016 | Prof. Steve Weiner | Weizmann Institute of Science | The complex 3D hierarchical organization of bone: surprising structure-function relations | FIB-SEM 3D image reconstruction, embedded geometrical motifs, bone materials | YouTube |
| 10/17/2016 | Prof. Luis Amaral | Northwestern University | Traveling reports from an “illegal alien”: crossing into scientific domains without a degree | Complex Systems, data Science, modeling | YouTube |
| 10/24/2016 | Prof. Jacob Israelachvili | University of California Santa Barbara | Dynamic (non-equilibrium, rate, time, and history-dependent) adhesion and rupture forces in material, soft matter and biological systems | Non-equilibrium interaction forces | YouTube |
| 10/31/2016 | Prof. S. Travis Waller | University of New South Wales | Representing information and adaptivity in transportation network planning | Transport, complex networks, graph theory | YouTube |
| 03/09/2015 | Prof. Henri Van Damme | ESPCI-ParisTech and MSE2, MIT-CNRS | From sand castles to urban modeling: A physicist’s naive thoughts on construction and cities | Vernacular architecture, earth, concrete, urban physics, sustainability | |
| 03/30/2015 | Prof. Emmanuel Villermaux | Université de Provence and Institut Universitaire de France | Explosive fragmentation | Explosions, fragmentation, thin films, drops | YouTube |
| 05/04/2015 | Prof. Alessandro Vespignani | Northeastern University Physics Department | Modeling and forecast of contagion phenomena in the age of big data | Complex networks, network theory, big data, phenomena, modeling | YouTube |
| 09/21/2015 | Prof. Michael Zhang | University of California Davis | From individual behavior to COLLECTIVE DYNAMICS: modeling the control of congestion waves in highway networks | Traffic congestion, flow control, driver behavior, queuing networks | YouTube |
| 09/28/2015 | Prof. Chris Field | Stanford University | Climate change: mapping the problem space and the opportunity space | Climate change, risk management | YouTube |
| 10/05/2015 | Prof. Harry L. Swinney | University of Texas at Austin | Universality in nature | Instability, pattern formation, dynamical systems | YouTube |
| 10/19/2015 | Prof. Simon Levin | Princeton University | The challenge of sustainability | Sustainability, modeling, public goods, economics, ecology | YouTube |
