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MEAM Seminar: “The Role of Manipulation Primitives in Building Dexterous Robotic Systems”

In this talk I will illustrate four different perspectives that we as a community have embraced to study robotic manipulation: 1) controlling a simplified model of the mechanics of interaction […]

MEAM Seminar: “Time and Rate Dependent Fracture of Polymer Gels and Interfaces”

Fracture of materials and interfaces is often time and rate dependent. The underlying mechanisms for the time and rate dependent fracture may include local molecular processes, viscoelasticity, and poroelasticity (solvent […]

MEAM Seminar: “Soft-Matter Engineering for Robotics and Wearables”

Progress in soft lithography and soft materials integration have led to extraordinary new classes of soft-matter sensors, circuits, and transducers. These material technologies are composed almost entirely out of soft […]

MEAM Seminar: “Deep Learning and Uncertainty Quantification: Methodologies and Applications”

Uncertainty is ubiquitous in physical and engineering science because of the lack of knowledge, inaccuracy in measurements, objective stochastic nature. “You cannot be certain about uncertainty”. Uncertainty quantification plays an […]

MEAM Seminar: “Metal and Air Generate Power for Robots”

In many cases, the size and weight of energy storage technologies required to power robotic systems are too large or massive for a robot to carry, leading to limited operational […]

MEAM Seminar: “Accelerated Design of Heterogeneous Materials for Improved Failure Characteristics”

Nature provides countless examples of the use of heterogeneity to enhance the failure properties of materials. Many biological materials, such as bone, marine shells, and fish scales, are extremely resilient […]

MEAM Seminar: “A Differential Homogenization Framework for Precipitation Strengthened Metals”

Precipitation-strengthened alloys are a commercially important class of materials because their mechanical properties can be altered by changing the microstructure through heat-treatment. Specifically, precipitates are introduced into the bulk (matrix) […]

MEAM Seminar: “Exploiting Interface Patterning for Adhesion Control”

Surface force-mediated adhesion, e.g. van der Waals forces, is critical for direct bonding of bulk solids in the absence of an adhesive layer. However, no two surfaces are ideally flat […]

PICS Colloquium: “Kinetic theory for superparameterization of sea ice dynamics”

Arctic sea ice comprises of many ice floes whose dynamics is driven by oceanic/atmospheric currents and floe-floe interaction. Models of the effective sea ice dynamics  at large scales typically employ hydrodynamic equations of […]

MEAM Seminar: “Rheological Behavior and Field Statistics of Suspensions of Rigid Particles in Yield Stress Fluids”

Suspensions of non-Brownian particles in fluids are commonly found in nature (e.g. mud, soils, and debris flows) and in the industry (e.g. paints, food, and cosmetics). Understanding the relations between […]

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