Upcoming Events for Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series

Thursday, April 16, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 Recent Progress on Liquid Jet Atomization Stéphane Zaleski, Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Sorbonne Université,

Monday, April 20, 2026
9:00 am - 10:00 am	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense Gates-Thomas 115 Nano-architected Composites Across Scales and Strain Rates Kevin Nakahara, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,

Thursday, April 23, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 Elasto-Plastic Stochasticity: The Role of Atomic Level Fluctuations on Mesoscale Deformation Properties in Complex Alloys Jaime Marian, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,

Thursday, April 30, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 Robots That Learn To Model The World By Playing Anirudha Majumdar, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department, Princeton University,

Thursday, May 7, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 No Small Measure: Using Nanostructure to Create Materials with Superior Toughness Lucas Meza, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington,

Thursday, May 14, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 Imaging Soil Plus Something Else: Ice Lenses And Plant Roots Cino Viggiani, Professor, Laboratoire 3SR, Université Grenoble Alpes,

Thursday, May 21, 2026
11:00 am - 12:24 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 X-ray Based Full Field Stress-Strain Measurements in Metals Angkur Shaikeea, Assistant Professor of Aerospace; Bren Scholar, The Lynn Booth & Kent Kresa Department of Aerospace, California Institute of Technology,