Upcoming Events for Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series

Thursday, January 29, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 Homogenizing Origami and Kirigami Metamaterials Paul Plucinsky, Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,

Tuesday, February 3, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium Gates-Thomas 135 "Variational phase-field modeling of fracture: toward second-generation models" Laura De Lorenzis, Professor of Computational Mechanics, ETH Zürich,

Thursday, February 12, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 What a Digital Twin Can Learn from Data, Thermodynamics, and Action Principles for Damage Assessment in Complex Materials Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen, William Prager Chair Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego,

Thursday, February 19, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 "The Inherent Resilience of Large Cities to Natural Hazards: Records, Evidence and Predictions" Nicos Makris, Professor of Structures and Mechanics, Addy Family Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University,

Thursday, March 5, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 Yoonjin Won, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCI Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine,

Thursday, March 12, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 Mikhail G. Shapiro, Max Delbrück Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,

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 21, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 From Primary Atomization to Impact: Dynamics of Viscoelastic Droplets Orr Avni, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Engineering, Brown University,