Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering


2007-11-02 14:00: Multiscale Atomistic Simulation for Dry and Wet Systems (Dr Gabor Csanyi, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-09 14:00: Nanohardness of High Purity Single Crystals of Cu (111) and Polycrystalline Cu: The Effect of Indenter Load (Dr M. Munawar Chaudhri, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2008-01-25 14:00: Toward a design guide for the Y-frame sandwich core (Mr Luc St Pierre, CUED)

2008-01-25 14:00: The study of single macromolecules (Ms Csilla Varnai, CUED)

2008-01-25 14:00: Investigate the response of light weight structures to dynamic loading of sands (Mr Soohong Park, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2008-02-08 14:00: A new constitutive model for viscoplastic porous media (Dr Martin Idiart, CUED)

2008-02-15 14:00: Characterisation, modeling and applications of the functional behaviour of thin NiTi wires (Dr P Šittner, Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

2008-02-22 14:00: Molecular dynamics modelling of biomaterials interfaces (Dr Lucio Colombi-Ciacchi, University of Karlsruhe)

2008-02-29 14:00: Microstructure matters: why smaller is often (but not always) stronger (Dr Erica Lilleodden, GKSS Hamburg)

2008-04-04 14:00: The 2008 release of CES – new Bio and Eco tools (Professor Mike Ashby, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2008-05-02 14:00: High-Strain Rate Studies (Dr Bill Proud (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge))

2008-05-16 14:00: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ball Milled Nanocrystalline Copper Reinforced by Nano Alumina (Mr Sarig Nachum (Cambridge University Engineering Department))

2008-05-23 14:00: Nanomechanical Property Measurements for Sub-10 nm Thick Solid Films with Application in Magnetic Storage (Professor Andreas Polycarpou (University of  Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, Mechanical Sciences and Engineering Department))

2008-08-05 14:00: An Integrated Multiscale Framework for Performing Design and Analysis of Composite and Smart Structures (Dr Steven M Arnold, Chief Mechanics and Life Prediction Branch, Structures and Materials Division, NASA Glenn Research Center)

2008-10-17 14:00: I) A homogenization model for particulate composites; II) Spherical indentation of poroelastic layers (Dr Matteo Galli, CUED)

2008-10-24 14:00: On computational strategies for fluid-structure interaction: Why some algorithms fail? (Professor D Peric, University of Swansea)

2008-10-31 14:00: Measurement of coronary artery stiffness (Dr M P F Sutcliffe, CUED)

2008-11-14 14:00: Multi-field coupling strategies for large scale problems involving multi-fracturing solids and particulate media (Professor R Owen, University of Swansea)

2008-11-21 14:00: Reactive Steels: - the making of calm welds (Professor H Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy)

2008-11-28 14:00: Landmines in the lab: experimental techniques for investigating high velocity sand impacts (Dr G McShane, CUED)

2008-12-05 14:00: Onset of cavitation in compressible, isotropic, hyperelastic solids (Oscar Lopez-Pamies, Department of Mechanical Engineering State University of New York at Stony Brook)

2009-01-16 14:00: Recent Advances in Strain Gradient Plasticity Theory (Professor N A Fleck and Dr M I Idiart, CUED)

2009-01-19 14:30: How to decipher fracture surfaces and crackling noise (Dr Laurent Ponson, CalTech)

2009-01-30 14:00: Modelling displacive and diffusive transformations during heat treatment of steels (Mr Mirko Miraldi, University of Bologna)

2009-02-06 14:00: Fracture mechanics of brittle lattice materials (Mr Ignacio Quintana, CUED)

2009-02-13 14:00: Moving interfaces in solids: from conservative lattice models to macroscopic dissipation (Dr Johannes Zimmer, University of Bath)

2009-02-20 14:00: Reticulated tubes: effective elastic properties and actuation response (Dr Son Mai Phu, CUED)

2009-02-27 14:00: Collapse of hollow pyramidal lattice material as a sandwich core (Mr Shivnandan Pingle, CUED)

2009-03-06 14:00: Using Entropy in Materials Design (Professor Daan Frenkel, Department of Chemistry)

2009-03-19 15:00: Mechanical Behaviour of Cells on Tissue Engineering Scaffolds (Professor Lorna J. Gibson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT)

2009-05-01 14:00: Effective constitutive relations for waves in composites and metamaterials (Professor J Willis, DAMTP)

2009-05-08 14:00: Sheet metal forming with six components of strain (Dr J Allwood, CUED)

2009-05-15 14:00: Martensitic transformations in TRIP-assisted carbon steels (Akke Suiker, Delft University of Technology)

2009-09-04 14:00: Reinforced elastomeric materials at large strains (Prof. Pedro Ponte Castaneda, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

2009-10-09 14:00: Mathematical modelling of solid tumour growth, and preliminary studies of the associated free energy changes (Dr Krishna Garikipati, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan)

2009-10-16 14:00: Size effects in plasticity: Discrete Dislocation Dynamics and Strain gradient formulations (Dr Kostas Danas, CUED)

2009-10-23 14:00: Granular/liquid flow in a conical centrifuge (Dr Digby Simons, CUED)

2009-11-13 14:00: Theory of Elasticity at the Nanoscale (Professor Bhushan Karihaloo, Cardiff University)

2009-11-20 14:00: Anelastic and viscoelastic behaviour of microstructured rocks and minerals: implications for the planet (Professor Simon Redfern, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-27 14:00: Computational fluid-membrane interaction with application to supersonic decelerators (Dr Fehmi Cirak, CUED)

2009-12-07 14:00: Mechanics and design of lightweight structures (Professor Dan Zenkert, KTH Sweden)

2010-01-11 14:00: Life at High Péclet Number (Dr Ray Goldstein, DAMPT)

2010-01-15 14:00: Phase field modelling of microstructure evolution (Dr John Huber, Oxford University, Department of Engineering Science)

2010-01-22 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Tony Cheetham, Department of Materials Science)

2010-01-29 14:00: Analysis of coupled atomistic/continuum models for solids (Dr Christoph Ortner, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)

2010-02-19 14:00: Processing of Gd-Ba-Cu-O single grain superconductors for high field applications (Professor David Cardwell, CUED)

2010-02-26 14:00: Composite lattice materials (Dr Benjamin Russell, CUED)

2010-03-05 14:00: Life at high péclet number (Professor R Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2010-04-30 15:00: T Upscaling Permeability in a Laboratory Context - Mathematics and Modelling (Patrick Selvadurai, McGill University)

2010-05-07 14:00: The CES hybrid-material synthesizer (Professor M F Ashby, CUED)

2010-05-21 14:00: Influence of strain gradients on the deformation of strain-softening material (Professor John Willis, DAMPT)

2010-06-03 14:00: Nearly Isostatic Periodic Lattices (Prof. Tom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

2010-10-08 14:00: Computational analysis of fluid-structure interaction using non-body-fitted grids (Dr Thomas Rueberg, CUED)

2010-10-15 14:00: Fibre Waviness Defects in Composite Materials (Dr Stuart Lemanski, CUED)

2010-10-22 14:00: Water vapour sorption kinetics of natural materials and the relationship to the micromechanical behaviour of the cell wal (Professor Callum Hill, Edinburgh Napier University)

2010-11-05 14:00: On the Structure-Mechanical Property Relationships of Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials: Nanoindentation, High-Pressure Crystallography and Computational Studies (Dr Jin-Chong Tan, Department of Material Science and Metallurgy)

2010-11-12 14:00: CANCELLED (Dr Daniel Balint, Imperial College)

2010-11-19 14:00: Collective Cell Migration: Leadership, Invasion and Segregation (Dr Alexandre Kabla, CUED)

2010-11-26 14:00: Numerical solution of partial differential equations with random coefficients: a stochastic finite element approach (Dr Eveline Rosseel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

2011-01-21 14:00: Friction between people and fabrics (Dr David Cottenden, CUED)

2011-02-04 14:00: Some recent multiphysics problems in geomechanics (Professor Kenichi Soga, CUED)

2011-02-11 14:00: Grains, interfaces and size effects in metal forming (Dr Daniel Balint, Imperial College)

2011-02-18 14:00: Crack front instability in mode i+iii: experimental and theoretical approaches (Professor Jean-Baptiste Leblond, Institut Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), French Academy of Sciences)

2011-03-11 14:00: Architecture characterisation of fibre network materials. MIcro-computed tomography and image analysis (Mr Dimitris Tsarouchas, CUED)

2011-04-29 14:30: From three-dimensional weavings to swollen corneocytes (Ms Myfanwy Evans, Australian National University)

2011-05-06 14:00: Micromechanical modelling of the mechanical behaviour of semi‐crystalline polymers (Dr Hans van Dommelen, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2011-05-20 14:00: What NanoAssembly can do for real world Nano-applications (Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge)

2011-06-03 14:00: Size Effects on Tensile Strength and Failure Mechanisms of Carbon/Epoxy Composites (Professor Michael Wisnom, University of Bristol)

2011-10-14 14:00: Micromechanics models for soft solids composite materials (Dr Maria Charalambides, Imperial College London)

2011-10-21 14:30: Design for environment and risk (Professor David Cebon, CUED)

2011-10-28 14:00: Mechanical behaviour of the lower limb under high strain rates (Dr Spiros Masouros, Imperial College London)

2011-11-11 14:00: Dislocation motion and instability (Professor Jon Chapman, University of Oxford)

2011-11-25 14:30: Microextrusion - process innovation to product application (Dr Bart Hallmark, Department of Chemical Engineering)

2011-12-02 14:00: Biomimetics of Fibrillar Adhesive Systems/Using principles of intrinsic motivation in inclusive design of ICT for the ageing population (Lizbeth Prieto-Lopez - Tanya Goldhaber, CUED)

2012-01-27 14:00: The textured response of nematic elastomers and other strange solids (Professor Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory)

2012-02-03 14:00: Calculation of adhesion between elastic spheres from molecular forces (Dr Jim Greenwood, CUED)

2012-02-24 14:00: Method of reduction of dimensionality in contact mechanics (Professor Valentin Popov, TU Berlin)

2012-03-02 14:00: The structural mechanics of crystals (Dr Simon Guest, CUED)

2012-03-09 14:00: Modeling of cemented granular aggregates - Application to the hardness of wheat endosperm (Professor Jean-Yves Delenne)

2012-03-16 14:00: CUED graduate seminar - Biomimetic materials for nucleus pulposus tissue engineering/Solid bonding of aluminium scrap (Daniel Strange, CUED and Daniel Cooper)

2012-05-04 14:00: Compressive failure mechanisms in Composite Laminates with Dropped Plies (Dr Stuart Lemanski, CUED)

2012-05-11 14:00: Insect biomechanics - from sticky feet to broken legs and ruptured wings (Dr Jan-Henning Dirks : Trinity College Dublin)

2012-05-18 14:00: Graduate Student  Seminar (Mr Iman Mohaghegian CUED  - Mr Wojciech Szlachta CUED)

2012-05-25 14:00: Modelling of Explosively Driven Fragmentation Metals (Professor  Rade Vignjevic  FRAeS,  Applied Mechanics and  Astronautics Department, School of Engineering, Cranfield University)

2012-06-01 14:00: Numerical simulation of two-phase chemically-active flows (Dr Nikos Nikiforakis, Cavendish Lab)

2012-06-08 14:00: Lattice materials for the design of hip replacement implants (Professor Damiano Pasini, McGill University)

2012-06-15 14:00: Mechanical properties of electrospun nanofibres (Dr Bin Wang, Brunel University)

2012-10-05 14:00: Biological Materials and Mechanics: An overview (Professor Marc André Meyers,  Departments of Nanoengineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, U. of California, San Diego)

2012-10-12 14:00: The response of submerged structures to blast in deep water (Andreas Schiffer, University of Oxford)

2012-11-02 14:00: Some spiral structures in biology (Professor Chris Calladine, CUED)

2012-11-09 14:00: Mechanics of soft membranes and interfaces: anisotropy; nonlinearity; buckling (Dr Pietro Cicuta, Cavendish Laboratory)

2012-11-23 14:00: High resolution electron microscopy of superalloys (Dr. Catherine Rae, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy)

2013-01-25 14:00: Superconducting Materials for Engineering Applications (Dr J Durrell, CUED)

2013-02-08 14:00: Elasticity and (dis)orders in networks and cellular patterns (Dr Marc Durand, Université Paris Diderot)

2013-02-22 14:00: Materials and Sustainable Technology (Professor M F Ashby CUED Emeritus)

2013-03-01 14:00:  Fibre Network Materials : Architecture, Mechanics and in vitro Cell Responses (Dr Athena Markaki, CUED)

2013-04-26 14:00: Multiscale and multiphysics modelling in wood (Dr Karin de Borst , University of Glasgow)

2013-05-03 14:00: Magnesium alloys microstructures: coupling experiments and simulations (Dr Antoine Jerusalem,  University of Oxford)

2013-05-10 14:00: Stress Generation in the Storage Particles of Lithium-Ion Batteries (Professor Robert McMeeking, University of California Santa Barbara)

2013-05-17 14:00: Climb-enabled discrete dislocation plasticity (Professor Vikram Deshpande, CUED)

2013-05-24 14:00: Mechanics of motility at microscopic scales (Prof Antonio DeSimone,  Scuola Internazionale de Studi Avanzati, Trieste)

2013-05-31 14:00: MR imaging and biomechanical analysis: the assessment of carotid atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability (Dr Zhongzhao Teng,  University Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-11 14:00: Multiscale Modelling of Nonwoven Fabrics (Dr Emrah Demirci, Loughborough University)

2013-11-01 14:00: Near-Field Electrospinning of Biomimetic Niche (Dr Yan Yan Shery Huang, CUED)

2014-01-17 14:00: On energy and momentum transfer to deformable structures from underwater explosions and air blast (P J Tan, University College London)

2014-01-31 14:00: Growth and form of the gut (Dr Thierry Savin, CUED)

2014-02-28 14:00: The micro-fluid mechanics of synthetic swimming (Dr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, Cambridge)

2014-03-14 14:00: Recent advances in lattice materials (Professor Norman Fleck, CUED)

2014-03-17 14:15: Characterizing nanoscale friction and work of adhesion using measurements followed by modeling (Professor G G Adams, Northeastern University, Boston)

2014-05-16 14:00: Cellular models for Tissue Engineering: potential and limitations (Professor C. James Kirkpatrick, Johannes Gutenberg University)

2014-05-23 14:00: Atomistic studies of interfacial failure in optical multilayer coatings (Dr Paul Bristowe, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy)

2014-05-30 14:00: Reverse Engineering the Forces that Drive Embryogenesis (Professor G. Wayne Brodland,  University of Waterloo)

2014-06-06 14:00: Novel energetic materials based on intermetallic reactions (Dr Chris Braithwaite, Cavendish Laboratory)

2014-06-13 14:00: Flexible Metal Forming: A Mathematical Perspective (Dr Chris Cawthorn, DAMTP)

2014-06-18 14:00: Nanotopographical (and other nano stuff) control of mesenchymal stem cell mechanotransduction and fate (Dr Matthew Dalby, University of Glasgow)

2014-08-14 14:00: Dynamic Response of Coatings on Substrates Subjected to Impulse Loading (Professor Matthew Begley, Mechanical Engineering Materials University of California, Santa Barbara)

2014-10-17 14:00: Generalized Grain Cluster Method for Multiscale Modelling of Microstructures (Professor Akke Suiker, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)

2014-10-31 14:00: Multiresolution shape and topology optimisation of shells and solids (Dr Fehmi Cirak, CUED)

2014-11-07 14:00: Design of microstructures for enhanced magnetostriction in active composites (Professor Pedro Ponte, University of pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science)

2014-11-14 14:00: Hydrogen uptake and diffusion – implications for evaluating resistance to hydrogen embrittlement (Dr Alan Turnbull, National Physical Laboratory)

2014-11-28 14:00: Impact perforation of polymers and polymer-metal laminates (Dr Graham McShane, CUED)

2015-01-30 14:00: Dynamics of fluid driven delamination and fracturing in elastic and magneto-elastic materials (Dr Jerome A Neufeld, BP Institute, Dept of Earth Sciences & Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)

2015-02-13 14:00: How to solve Ax=b when A is really big: applications in solid mechanics and geophysics (Dr Garth N Wells, CUED)

2015-02-20 14:00: Fracturing of geomaterials (Professor Kenichi Soga, CUED)

2015-02-27 14:00: Mechanics affecting the ballistic limit of thin metal plates (Dr Benjamin P Russell, CUED)

2015-03-06 14:00: Modelling Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotube Fibres (Dr James Elliot, Department of Materials Science)

2015-04-24 14:00: From Industry to Academia – How resilient are structural systems to highly transient loading conditions (Dr Ryan Judge, School of Structural Engineering, University of Liverpool)

2015-05-01 14:00: Indentation of a viscoelastic half-space (Dr J Greenwood, CUED (Emeritus))

2015-06-05 14:00: Hierarchical Structuring of Carbon Nanotubes (Dr Michael De Volder, CUED)

2015-06-11 14:00: Why fracking works and why not well enough (Zdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University)

2015-10-09 14:00:  Atomistic simulations for materials engineering (Dr Gabor Csanyi, CUED)

2015-10-16 14:00: Line Defect dynamics and solid mechanics (Professor Amit Archarya, Carnegie Mellon University)

2015-10-23 14:00: Magnetorheological elastomers: from micro-deformation mechanisms to macroscopic instabilities and applications (Dr Kostas Danas, École polytechnique)

2015-11-13 14:00: Micromechanics of metallic and graphene (nano-)foams (Dr Patrick Onck, University of Groningen)

2015-11-27 14:00: Emergent parabolic scaling of nano-faceting crystal growth (Dr Stephen Watson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow)

2016-01-15 14:00: Pressure-driven occlusive flow of a confined red blood cell (Dr Thierry Savin, CUED)

2016-01-20 15:30: How to pitch your idea in two minutes flat (-)

2016-01-22 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Miguel Perez)

2016-01-29 14:00: Instability-induced nonlinear dynamics in solids and structures: from snapping structures to ferroelectric switching (Dr Dennis M Kochmann, Caltech)

2016-02-12 14:00: The Ductility of 2D Cellular Solids: the Role of Imperfections (Dr William Ronan, CUED)

2016-02-26 14:00: Dynamic stability of structures under high loading rates by localized perturbation approach (Professor Nicolas Triantafyllidis, Ecole Polytechnique)

2016-04-22 14:00: The statistical mechanics of single cells (Professor Vikram Deshpande, CUED)

2016-05-06 14:00: Hydrogen embrittlement in steels (Professor Norman Fleck, CUED)

2016-05-20 14:00: Investigating plastic yielding across the strain rates (Dr Beñat Gurrutxaga Lerma, Imperial College)

2016-05-27 14:00: A brief summary of 20 years of research into random dynamic systems (Professor Robin Langley, CUED)

2016-09-07 14:30: Surface properties in additive manufacturing (Dr Tatiana Hentrich, Fraunhofer)

2016-10-07 14:00: Failure mechanism in thermal barrier coatings (Dr Philpp Seiler, CUED)

2016-10-07 14:30: Surface properties in additive manufacturing (Dr Tatiana Hentrich, Fraunhofer)

2016-10-14 14:00: Cohesive zone modelling of the dynamic behaviour of two shipbuilding adhesives (Kevin Maloney, CUED)

2016-10-14 14:30: Biomimetic inspired joining of composite and metal structures (Evangelos Avgoulas, CUED)

2016-10-28 14:00: Localized loading of compliant composite laminate (Dr Mark O'Masta, CUED)

2016-11-04 14:00: Computational modelling of fracture phenomena (Dr Arun Raina, CUED)

2016-11-11 14:00: Scalable computation of thermomechanical turbomachinery problems (Ettie Unwin & Nate Sime, CUED)

2016-11-18 14:00: High temperature creep of superalloys: discrete dislocation plasticity modelling (Dr Siamak Shishvan, CUED)

2016-12-12 14:00: Buckling of Spherical Shells Revisited (John W. Hutchinson, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)

2017-01-13 14:00: Materials Challenges for Rolls Royce (Dr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc)

2017-01-20 14:00: How many stem cells can you fit in a stem cell niche? (Prof Henrik Jönsson, Associate Director Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, )

2017-01-27 14:00: The non-linear mechanics of slender deformable bodies (Prof Basile Audoly, Laboratoire de mécanique des solides, École Polytechnique)

2017-02-17 14:00: Uncovering fatigue damage development in unidirectional composites using x-ray computed tomography (Lars Mikkelsen, Institute for Wind Energy, DTU, Denmark )

2017-03-03 14:00: Shell buckling - without those ‘imperfections’ (Prof Chris Calladine, Structural Mechanics, CUED)

2017-03-10 14:00: Decompressive Craniectomy following Traumatic Brain Injury (Mr Hadie Adams, Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge )

2017-04-28 14:00: Unknowns of energy concentrating phenomena (Prof Seth Putterman, UCLA )

2017-05-12 14:00: Engineering with uncertain load regimes and strange materials – the story of aerospace and nuclear safety critical components (  Prof Dave Rugg, Senior Fellow, Rolls Royce)

2017-06-09 14:00: Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications (Dr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge)

2017-06-16 14:00: Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicine (Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University)

2017-10-06 14:00: Cracking of thin films (Professor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan)

2017-10-13 14:00: Bio- and Micromechanics group – An Introduction (Prof Norman Fleck and Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED)

2017-10-20 14:00: Properties of direct-spun carbon nanotubes mat and their composites ( Dr Wei Tan and Joe Stallard, CUED )

2017-10-27 14:00: Elastic instabilities in soft solids (Dr John Biggins, CUED)

2017-11-10 14:00: Functional materials: Exploiting dynamic self-assembly at interfaces (Professor Oren Scherman, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge)

2017-11-10 14:45: Innovations in Drug Delivery by Supramolecular Design (Eric Andrew Appel, PhD, Assistant Professor Stanford University)

2017-11-17 14:00: Coupled phenomena: theory and applications (Dr Václav Klika, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering,  Czech Technical University Prague)

2017-11-24 14:00: Using Simulation for Additive Manufacturing Designing and Process Simulation (Dr Claus Pedersen, Dassault Systèmes Deutschland)

2017-12-01 14:00: Adsorption-induced stresses and variations of permeability in coal seams during CO2 storage or CH4 production (Dr Matthieu Vandamme, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech)

2017-12-12 11:00: Modeling Collective Cell Migration: Clusters and Monolayers (Professor Nir Gov  Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel)

2018-01-26 14:00: The world is not flat: 3D cell biology and 3D devices (  Dr Róisín M. Owens, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge)

2018-02-02 14:00: Electrochemical and mechanical modeling of lithium-ion batteries (Dr Ying Zhao, CUED)

2018-02-02 14:30: Molecular Deformation of Polycarbonate: from Atomistic to Continuum Characterization (  Dr Lili Zhang, CUED  )

2018-02-09 14:00: Recent Advances in Solid State Batteries and Beyond Li Technologies - Challenges for Fundamental Science (Prof Clare Grey, Chemistry, Cambridge)

2018-02-16 14:00: Current-Induced Stresses in Ceramic Lithium-Ion Conductors (Professor Charles Monroe, Energy and Power Group Oxford University)

2018-02-23 14:00: Predictive modeling of hydrogen assisted cracking –  a Micromechanics  conquest (Dr Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, CUED)

2018-03-02 14:00: Mechanical performance of wall structures in 3D printing processes: theory, design tools and experiments (Prof Akke Suiker, Eindhoven University of Technology )

2018-03-09 14:00: On the elastic-brittle versus ductile fracture of lattice materials ( Dr Harika Tankasala and Dr Philipp Seiler, CUED)

2018-05-04 14:00: Biological and bio-inspired motility at microscopic scales: locomotion by shape control (Professor Antonio De Simone, SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

2018-05-11 14:00: Correlative Imaging of Electrochemical Devices Over Multiple Time and Length Scales (Dr Paul Shearing, Reader in Chemical Engineering & Materials, UCL)

2018-05-18 14:00: On the length scale, robustness and manufacturability in topology optimization ( Dr Boyan Stefanov Lazarov, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester)

2018-05-25 14:00: Materials and Devices for Interfacing with the Brain (Prof. George Malliaras, CUED)

2018-06-01 14:00: Bioengineering human liver organoids using induced-pluripotent stem cells in 3D hydrogel (Dr Soon Seng Ng, King’s College London)

2018-06-08 14:00: Breathing Solids: from Human Hair to Designer Nanoporous Materials (Dr Alex Neimark, Rutgers, Rutgers University, USA)

2018-10-05 14:00: Welcome Division C’s Bio- and Micromechanics seminar (Prof Michael Sutcliffe)

2018-10-12 14:00: Elasticity as the basis of allosteric interactions in DNA and membranes (Prof Prashant K Purohit, University of Pennsylvania)

2018-10-19 14:00: On accounting for quasi-brittle fiber damage in computational homogenization of UD-composites (Dr Konstantinos Poulios, Technical University of Denmark)

2018-10-26 14:00: Tailoring two-dimensional materials for wearable electronics and bio-engineering applications (Dr Felice Torrisi, Cambridge Graphene Centre)

2018-11-02 14:00: 7 tesla magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy (Prof Chris Rodgers, Neuroscience, Cambridge)

2018-11-09 14:00: Anomalous dynamics of snap-through instabilities ( Dr Michael Gomez, DAMPT, Cambridge)

2018-11-16 14:00: Internet of Everything – From Molecules to the Universe (Dr Ozgur B. Akan, IEEE Fellow, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-23 14:00: Multiscale physics-based strategies to address parameter uncertainty in crystal plasticity (Dr Gustavo M Castelluccio, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University)

2019-01-25 14:00: Microstructure for continuous and localised intrinsic curvature creation – “strong” micromechanics (Prof Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge)

2019-02-01 14:00: Metamorphic architected materials for dynamic application (Dr Stefan Szyniszewski, University of Surrey )

2019-02-15 14:00: Phase field modelling of crack propagation (Dr Emilio Martinez-Paneda, CUED)

2019-02-15 14:30: General theory of the Kanzaki force field: static and dynamic models of dislocations and other extended defects  (Dr Benat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, CUED)

2019-03-08 14:00: Carbon Nanotube Mechanics: nano and macro; liquid and solid; stiff and soft—but always conductive (Prof Pasquali, Rice University, Huston Texas)

2019-04-09 14:00: Assessing the contribution of hydrogen-deformation interactions to hydrogen-induced intergranular fracture in nickel-base alloys (Dr Zachary Harris. University of Virginia)

2019-04-26 14:00: Bio-electromechanical interfaces and sensors based on functional nanomaterials (Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-10 14:00: Advanced digital drop control: Managing the mechanical forces when printing for new material and device development (Dr Ronan Daly, CUED)

2019-05-17 14:00: The effect of pore structure and pore fluids on the elastic moduli and wavespeeds in porous rocks (Prof. Robert Zimmerman. Imperial College London)

2019-05-24 14:00: Strain gradient plasticity: Numerical modeling of size-effects in porous metals (Prof Christian F. Niordson, DTU)

2019-06-07 14:00: Additive Manufacturing of Biomechanically Tailored Meshes for Compliant Wearable and Implantable (Dr Sebastian Pattinson, CUED)

2019-06-12 14:00: Rethinking the development of constitutive relations (Prof. Kumbakonam Rajagopal, Texas A&M University)

2019-06-14 14:00: Mechanics of Polymer Brushes (Prof Srikantha Anasavarapu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA)

2019-10-11 14:00: Hydrogen induced fast fracture  (  Profs Gábor Csányi  and Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge))

2019-10-18 14:00: The Evolution of Solutions (Prof Harry Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge)

2019-10-25 14:00: Surface energy approaches in modeling of nano-objects (Prof Anna Zemlyanova, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University)

2019-11-01 14:00: Motile cilia - understanding the origin of collective dynamics (Dr Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-08 14:00: Modelling physiological and pathological glia-neuron interactions in cerebral organoids (Dr Andras Lakatos, MRC Clinician Scientist, Neurologist, Cambridge)

2019-11-15 14:00: Understanding the chemistry of ageing and disease in the extracellular matrix (Prof Melinda J Duer, Professor of Biological and Biomedical Chemistry, Cambridge)

2020-01-17 14:00: Phase engineered two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides for electrochemistry  ( Dr Manish Chhowalla Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge)

2020-01-31 14:00: Hierarchical structuring of micro and nanoparticles for Li-ion battery electrodes (Dr Michael De Volder, IfM, CUED)

2020-02-10 14:00: A phenomenological constitutive theory for polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics based on orientation distribution functions (Dr Martin I. Idiart, Departamento de Aeronáutica, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata / CONICET, Argentina)

2020-02-14 14:00: Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy: characterisation of elastic and anelastic behaviour of metals, ceramics and functional oxides associated with ferroic, multiferroic and normal-superconductor phase transitions (Prof Michael A. Carpenter, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2020-02-21 14:00: Geometry and rheology of epithelial monolayers (Dr Alexandre Kabla, CUED)

2020-02-28 14:00: The modern-day blacksmith ( Dr Gareth Conduit, Theory of Condensed Matter, Physics, Cambridge)

2020-03-06 14:00: Optical superresolution microscopy of molecular mechanisms of disease ( Prof Clemens Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge)

2022-10-07 14:00: Welcome to term and to new PhD students (Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED)

2022-10-28 14:00: Smart micro-textiles: from bioinspired sensing to bioelectronic interface (Andy Wang  CUED)

2022-10-28 14:30: Simulating the Tumor Microenvironment for Immune Cell Interactions via Deployable Extrusion  (Corrado Mazzaglia, CUED)

2022-11-04 14:00: Cut it out - residual stresses in dynamic cell sheets (Dr Stephanie Hoehn, DAMTP, Cambridge)

2022-11-11 14:00: Microstructure control in metal additive manufacturing: a LEGO analogy (Dr Matteo Seita, CUED)

2022-11-25 14:00: What machine learning can do for (meta)materials-by-design  (Dr Sid Kumar, Materials Science and Engineering at TU Delft)

2023-01-20 14:00: A hyperplasticity framework for efficient modelling of cyclic loading ratcheting (Dr Christelle Abadie, CUED)

2023-02-10 14:00: Stress-unsupervised learning of material models using experimental data (Dr Akshay Joshi, CUED)

2023-02-10 14:30: Geometric compatibility: from simple mathematics to complex materials, structures and mechanics (Dr Fen Fang, CUED)

2023-02-24 14:00: Strength prediction of polymer composite laminates under uncertainties using theory-guided machine learning (Prof Pedro Camanho, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Porto)

2023-03-03 14:00: The chase for fluid-structure interaction effects – An obsession or something important? (Dr Vegard Aune, NTNU, Norway)

2023-03-10 14:00: Physics-enhancing machine learning strategies for friction force evaluation  (Alice Cicrello, TU Delft)

2023-03-17 14:00: Seeing opportunity in failure: can common issues in metal Additive Manufacture help deliver innovative material solutions? (Prof. Iain Todd from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield )

2023-03-31 11:00: The mechanics of nature-inspired heterogeneous architected materials (HAMs) (Prof Bosco Yu, University of Victoria)

2023-05-05 14:00: Coiled Muscle + Snapping Beams: From Nonlinear Mechanics to Miniature Robotic Design (Dr Sam Tawfick, University of Illinois )

2023-05-19 14:00: Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision (Prof William P. King, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC )

2023-05-26 14:00: Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness (Prof Laura M. Machesky, department of Biochemistry, Cambridge)

2023-07-21 10:00: The elastic stability and transitions between the unusual equilibrium states of a special hexagram ring (John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University)

2023-09-21 14:00: Multiscale design strategies for the progressive failure of architected materials and structures – Focus on interface cracking (Dr Federica Daghia, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay )

2023-09-29 14:00: Toward Better Bone Regeneration: Innovation in Metallic and Ceramic Scaffolds (Prof. Donghui Zhu,)

2023-10-04 14:00: Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys (Prof. Upadrasta Ramamurty, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

2023-10-20 14:00: Measurement, Assessment and Modelling of Heavy Goods Vehicle Energy Consumption (Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED)

2023-11-17 14:00: The rational design of sociotechnical systems in healthcare (Tom Bashford,CUED)

2023-11-24 14:00: Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering (Prof Kumar Shanmugam, Professor of Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing, University of Glasgow)

2023-12-01 14:00: Data-driven ML-enhanced approaches to support accelerated materials design for extreme conditions (Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University)

2024-01-19 14:00: In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces (Professor Daniele Dini, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College)