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Seminar Title: How Do Dispersed Inertial Particles Modify Turbulent Flows?

Eric Appel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, MSE Stanford University Dr. Eric Appel received his BS in Chemistry and MS in Polymer Science from California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, CA. He performed his MS thesis research with Dr. Jim Hedrick and Dr. Robert Miller on synthesizing polymers for drug delivery applications at the IBM Almaden Research Center […]

Jonathan Scheffe, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of Florida Title: Solar Energy Conversion and Storage by Splitting H2O and CO2 Abstract: Solar energy is a vast and energy rich resource, capable of providing clean, renewable, and sustainable energy to residential, commercial and transportation sectors. While commercial solar conversion technologies, such […]

Georgette Alexander-Morrison V.P., Government Research & Development X-Energy, LLC Georgette Alexander-Morrison leads X-energy’s Government Research and Development (Govt R&D) Division where she is responsible for X-energy’s portfolio of US Government contracts/grants and establishing a pipeline of contract opportunities for terrestrial microreactors and space nuclear projects including winning one of three DOE/NASA awards to perform Phase 1 […]

Shailendra Singh, Ph.D. Director, UF Environmental Health & Safety Division University of Florida Dr. Shailendra Singh is the Director of the Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Division at the University of Florida. He oversees laboratory and research safety, occupational safety and risk management, and facility support programs. His team supports the University’s mission to establish a […]

Frazier Rogers, room 284 https://abe.ufl.edu/faculty/carpena/seminars/index.shtml

The Intersection of Mechanobiology and Cellular Metabolism in Cancer Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 12:50 pm Location: In-Person MAE-A, Room 303 Cynthia A. Reinhart-King, Ph.D. University Distinguished Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Research in the School of Engineering Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University […]

Norman J. Wagner, Ph.D. Alison Professor Unidel Robert L. Pigford Chair in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering University of Delaware 2023 Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Fluid Mechanics Title: Shear thickening fluids and their application as protective materials for first responders, athletes, and astronauts (and some recent work on “planetopolymers”). Abstract:  Shear thickening colloidal and/or nanoparticle suspensions […]

Meena M. Makary, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Biomedical Engineering Department, Cairo University, and a Research Scientist at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center, Harvard Medical School Neuroinflammation is implicated in the pathophysiology of a growing number of human disorders, including multiple sclerosis, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In this talk, […]

Chaitanya Kolluru, Ph.D. Postdoc, Center for Nanoscale Materials Argonne National Laboratory Dr. Chaitanya Kolluru is a Postdoc at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne, working with Dr. Maria Chan. He completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida in 2021. His research focuses on combining atomistic simulation methods with AI/ML […]