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Michael Tonks, Ph.D. Professor, Associate Department Chair Department of Materials Science & Engineering University of Florida Dr. Michael Tonks obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include computational materials science and mechanics, coevolution of microstructure and properties, materials in harsh environments, mesoscale modeling and simulation, nuclear materials, and numerical methods. Abstract This […]

The Wonderful World of Heat Transfer Tuesday, January 17, 2022, at 12:50 pm Location: MAE-A, Room 303 Tom I-P. Shih School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Purdue University Abstract Biological and engineered systems are often exposed to environments that are hostile to their survival. Examples include humans in space, electronics, hypersonic vehicles, and gas turbines. For […]

Travis J. Anderson, Ph.D. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Title: Research Advances Wide- and Ultrawide-Bandgap Devices and Naval Applications Abstract: Wide bandgap semiconductors such as SiC and GaN (WBG) and emerging ultrawide-bandgap materials such as Ga2O3, AlGaN, and Diamond (UWBG) represent the next-generation materials for high performance medium voltage and high voltage power switch […]

Jennifer Hite, Ph.D. Materials Research Engineer U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Dr. Jennifer Hite is a Materials Research Engineer with the Electronic Science and Technology Division at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida in 2000 and worked in industry at Lucent Technologies/Agere […]

Yamil J. Colón, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Notre Dame Title: Navigating the Landscape of Advanced Materials Abstract: The fourth industrial revolution will be facilitated by the discovery of advanced materials that increase the interconnection of technology and human life. One of the main challenges is identifying promising material candidates for […]

Angelika Neitzel, Ph.D., Rhines Rising Star Robert DeHoff Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida Charged polymers are abundant in nature and their electrostatic interactions provide rich physics that pose many open questions. For example, solutions of oppositely charged polymers spontaneously form soft condensed phases known […]

Dr. Yueyue Fan wil will give a NSF outreach seminar on Funding opportunities for research related to infrastructure systems and smart and connected communities at National Science Foundation. Dr. Yueyue Fan, the Program Director of the Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program at NSF will discuss funding opportunities related to infrastructure systems, disasters and resilience, and […]

Register for workshop here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_bWiQ3nFCcgvLDLns_UJZM2V3aJk63-cUq2X1c34QkEpz7Q/viewform Workshop Synopsis With quickly growing quantity and variety of transportation data, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are revolutionizing transportation research from system management to automated vehicle and infrastructure control. Emerging AI technologies combined with other analytical methods will lead to improved scientific understandings, transformative informed decisions, and innovative, proactive management solutions […]

Research Seminar: Title: Physics-informed data analytics approaches using constrained optimization – exploiting domain knowledge with hard information in a transportation network Abstract: Civil infrastructure as a system often faces challenges and complexity brought by interactions between spatially- and functionally- distributed components. Recognizing and incorporating these physical interactions in data driven approaches present challeng-es but also […]

Physics-informed data analytics approaches using constrained optimization – exploiting domain knowledge with hard information in a transportation network. Dr. Yueyue Fan Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Davis. https://ufl.zoom.us/j/9514383897 Dr. Fan will use Transportation networks as examples to discuss how constrained optimization, by providing a flexible modeling framework for integrating domain knowledge, […]