Past Themes and Discussion Leaders, iMechanica Journal Club

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2015 Themes and Discussion Leaders

• December, Mechanics of Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes, Huck Beng Chew (UIUC)
• November, Rethink Wood, Teng Li, Shuze Zhu, Zheng Jia (University of Maryland, College Park)
• October, Mechanics of Structure Genome, Wenbin Yu (Purdue University)
• September, Kinematics of Crystal Elasto-Plasticity: F=FeFp, Celia Reina (University of Pennsylvania)
• August, Nonlocality and yield in granular materials, David Henann (Brown University)
• July, Reconfigurable metamaterials -- putting the holes in the right place, Shu Yang (University of Pennsylvania), Jie Yin (Temple University)
• June, Gradient structures for optimal mechanical design, Yujie Wei (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• May, Mechanics of nano bionic materials, Chiara Daraio, ETH Zurich
• April, Mechanical characterization of soft hydrated materials, Yuhang Hu, UIUC
• March, Mechanics of 2D solid and liquid crystals, Sulin Zhang (Penn State University), Hongyan Yuan (University of Rhode Island)
• February, The Ruga Mechanics, Kyung-Suk Kim, Mazen Diab, Ruike Zhao (Brown University)
  
• January, Topology Optimization for Materials Design, James Guest (Johns Hopkins University)

2014 Themes and Discussion Leaders

• December, Neuromechanics, Ashutosh Agrawal (University of Houston)
  
• November, Catalyzed Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires - Multiscale Models, Wei Cai (Stanford University)
• October, Microbial fuel cells - When mechanics meets bioelectrochemistry, Christian Linder (Stanford University)
• September, Modeling thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling processes in porous media, WaiChing Sun (Columbia University)
• August, Geometry, topology, and solid mechanics,  Arash Yavari (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• July, Overcoming challenges in mechanically actuating liquid-crystalline elastomers, Chris Yakacki (UC Denver)
• June, Modeling Crystal Plasticity through Discrete Dislocation Dynamics Simulations , Jaafar El-Awady (Johns Hopkins University)
  
• May, in situ Nanomechanics,Ting Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• April, Challenges and Opportunities in 3D Printing: A Mini Introduction , Jerry Qi (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• March, 3D Experimental Measurements in Soft Materials, Christian Franck (Brown University)
• February, Energy Challenges and Mechanics, Henry Tan (University of Aberdeen)
• January, Electro- and magneto-active deformable composites , Stephan Rudykh (MIT)

2013 Themes and Discussion Leaders

• December, Bio-Integrated Flexible and Stretchable Strain Gauges , Nanshu Lu (UT Austin)
• November, Nano-architected Nanolattice Structures , Lucas Meza, Lauren Montemayor, Julia Greer (Caltech)
• October, Contortion of Thin Elastic Rods, Pedro Reis (MIT)
• September, Stretchable ionics , Zhigang Suo (Harvard)
• August, Synthetic Mechanochemistry , Meredith Silberstein (Cornell University)
• July, Predicting granular flows: A new size-dependent constitutive model , Ken Kamrin (MIT)
• June, Biological Ferroelectricity: from Speculation to Reality , Jiangyu Li (University of Washington)
• May, Mechanics of biological and bio-inspired supramolecular assemblies , Luis Ruiz, Sinan Keten,  (Northwestern University)
• April, Mechanical Metamaterials , Jongmin Shim (SUNY Baffalo)
• March, Interfacial adhesion of graphene - measurements and analysis, Rui Huang (UT Austin)
• February, Surface energy and mechanical instabilities in soft materials, Shengqiang Cai (UCSD)
• January, Error in constitutive equations approach for materials characterization, Wilkins Aquino (Duke University)

 2012 Themes and Discussion Leaders

• December, Metamaterials inspired concepts for elastic wave energy harvesting, Massimo Ruzzene (Georgia Tech)
• November, Harnessing Instabilities in Response to Stimuli, Xuanhe Zhao (Duke)
• October, instabilities of structures, Davide Bigoni (Univ of Trento - Italy)
• September, Fracture of gels, Wei Hong (Iowa State University)
• August, Mesh dependence in cohesive element modeling, Julian Rimoli (Georgia Tech)
• July, Mechanics of Biological and Biomimetic Cellular Structures, Ashkan Vaziri (Northeastern Univ)
• June, Composites with extreme and tunable properties, Dennis Kochmann (Caltech)
• May, Hierarchical and Quasiperiodic Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials, Alessandro Spadoni (EPFL)
• April, Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials, Mahmoud Hussein (University of Colorado)
• March, Brownian motion and entropic elasticity in filamentous molecules , Prashant Purohit (UPenn)
• February, Elastic Instabilities for Responsive Structures, Douglas Holmes (Virginia Tech)
• January, Mechanics of Growth, Ellen Kuhl (Stanford)

2011 Themes and Discussion Leaders

• December, Mechanics of Porous Materials, John Balk
• November,  Hierarchical Mechanics of Diatom Algae: From Atoms to Organism, Leon Dimas
• October,  AFM in Nano-biomechanics, Majid Minary
• September, See while Measure: In-situ Studies in Mechanics, Aman Haque
• August, Energy Harvesting Using Soft Materials, Adrian Koh
• July, Three Dimensional Biologically Inspired Microvascular Systems, Howon Lee
• June, Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of Advanced Structural Materials, Qiuming Wei
• May, Nanoscale electromechanics and piezoresponse Force Microscopy, Jiangyu Li
• April, Adhesion of Thin Membranes and Shells, Kai-tak Wan
• March, Mechanics at Nano-Bio Interfaces, Sulin Zhang
• February, Challenges of Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems Involving Incompressible, Viscous Flow, Yin (Julie) Young
• January, Mechanics of Materials for Solar Energy, Harley Johnson

  2010 Themes and Discussion Leaders

• December, Mechanics of Energy Storage, Hanqing Jiang
• November, Ultra-high Temperature Resisting Materials and Structures, Qingda Yang
• October, Mechanical behavior of highly packed particulate composites, Henry Tan
• September, Modeling the Mechanics of Cellular Membranes, Alexander Spector
• August, Deformation Mechanisms in Nanotwinned FCC Metals, Yashashree Kulkarni
• July, Mechanics of ionic polymer metal composites, Wei Hong
• June, Geometric nonlinearities in thin elastic objects, Pedro Miguel Reis
• May, Cavitation in Soft Solids, Oscar Lopez-Pamies
• April, Negative Poisson's ratio materials , Katia Bertoldi  
• March, Viscoelasticity of soft tissues , Thao (Vicky) Nguyen
• February, Mechanics of Patterned and Structured Interfaces, Kevin Turner
• January, MEMS-based Instrumentation for Experimental Nanomechanics, Yong Zhu

 2009

• December, Impact Behavior of Materials with Cellular Structures, Henry Tan
• November, Steady Granular Flow, Ken Kamrin
• October,  Peridynamics, Stewart Silling
• September, Elasticity and Failure, Konstantin Volokh
• August, One-Way Wave Equations for Imaging, Multiscale Modeling, and ABCs, Murthy Guddati
• July, Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery: Understanding of Efflux Kinetics and Diffusion, Ashfaq Adnan
• June, Bimaterial interfaces in nature: attachment of tendon to bone, Guy Genin
• May, Configurational forces in finite elements:  energy-based mesh adaptation, William Klug
• April, Mechanobiology and Molecular Mechanomedicine, Ning Wang
• March, Mechanics and materials issues in nanocapacitors for energy storage, Pradeep Sharma
• February, Finite element methods in quantum mechanics, N. Sukumar
• January, Impetus for cell mechanics, Rohit Khanna

2008

• December 1, Cyber-enabled predictive science-based continuum mechanics for multiscale fracture process discovery, Wing-Kam Liu
• November 1, Mechanical behaviour of rubber-like materials, Erwan Verron
• October 15, Experimental solid mechanics at the nanoscale, Krishnaswamy Ravi-chandar
• October 1, Fluid-structure interactions, an overview of current trends and challenges, Joël Cugnoni
• September 15, Defects in solids--where mechanics meets quantum mechanics, Vikram Gavini
• September 1, Self-healing polymers, Aaron Forster
• August 15, Variational formulations in fracture mechanics, Adrian Lew
• August 1, Regulation and stabilization of cell adhesion by external forces, Muhammad Zaman
• July 15, Plasticity at sub-micron scales, Wei Cai
• July 1, Mechanics in Neuronal Development, Kristian Franze
• June 15,  Kinetics of structural phase transitions, Kaushik Dayal
• June 1, Magnetic resonance imaging in biomechanics, Valentina Taviani
• May 15, Experimental mechanics at the nanoscale, Julia Greer
• May 1, Mechanical behavior of polymer-matrix nanocomposites, L. Roy Xu
• April 15, Fracture of ferroelectrics, Chad Landis
• April 1, Strain measurement in soft tissues, Tammy Haut Donahue
• March 15, Impact of Chip-Package Interaction on Reliability of Copper/Low K Interconnects and Beyond, Rui Huang
• March 1, Measuring Cellular Tractions, Vesna Damljanovic
• February 15, Plasticity and failure in metallic glasses, Yanfei Gao
• February 1, Spider silk and protein mechanics , Sinan Keten
• January 15, Active polymer nanocomposites, Zoubeida Ounaies
• January 1, Role of mechanics in biomimetics, Michelle Oyen

2007

• December, Elastodynamic band gaps and metamaterials, Biswajit Bannerjee
• November, Surface effects on properties of nanostructures, Harold Park
• October, Irreversible thermodynamics of continuous media, Anurag Gupta
• September, Quantum effects in solid mechanics, Harley Johnson
• August, Nanoindentation with focus on soft matter, Virginia Ferguson
• July, Mechanics of hydrogels, Jerry Qi
• June, Cellular mechanotransduction, Patrick Onck
• May, Experimental mechanics of nano building blocks, Xiaodong Li
• April, Analytical modeling of biomolecules, Xi Chen
• March, Mechanics of flexible electronics, Teng Li
• February, Computational mechanics of biomembranes, John E. Dolbow
• January, Biomechanics and non-affine kinematics, Michelle L. Oyen

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