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2007-01-26 14:30: Biomechanics of the cytoskeleton: cell contractility and mechanosensitivity of cell adhesion (Dr Vikram Deshpande (CUED))

2007-03-16 14:30: Materials Information: from testing machines to drug-eluting stents (Prof David Cebon (CUED) / Prof Mike Ashby (EDC))

2007-10-05 14:00: Study on the Constitutive Model of Cardiac Muscle and Numerical Heart (Professor Zhuo Zhuang, Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University)

2007-10-19 14:00: From Bubbles to Cells (Dr Alexandre Kabla, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge)

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)

2007-11-16 14:30: Mono-monostatic bodies: the story of the Gömböc (Gabor Domokos)

2007-11-30 14:30: Future directions in structural dynamics (David Ewins)

2008-01-18 14:30: Crack tips' black box: Spectroscopic challenge to the strength of solids (Prof. Giuseppe Pezzotti, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)

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)

2008-03-07 14:30: **CANCELLED** Flow Induced Excitation of Elastic Modes (Dr Shreyas Mandre, Harvard Unviversity)

2008-03-14 14:30: A Methodology to Study Morphological Changes in Sclerotic Arteries, and Related Biomechanical Modelling and Simulation (Professor Gerhard Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology)

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)

2008-10-10 14:30: Maths, Engineering and Industry (John Ockendon, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mechanics)

2008-10-15 14:00: Studies of plastic flow localization in different materials (Professor V Tvergaard, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Solid Mechanics, Technical University of Denmark)

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)

2008-11-07 14:30: Fluid mechanical modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration (Professor Herbert Huppert, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

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)

2009-01-23 14:30: Domain switching in ferroelectric perovskites and applications (Professor Kaushik Bhattcharya, CalTech)

2009-01-23 14:30: Domain Switching in Ferroelectric Perovskites and Applications (Kaushik Bhattacharya (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)

2009-03-13 14:30: Stability and Plasticity in Structural Frame Behaviour Analysis and Design: Seeking a Conceptual Framework for the Computer Age (Prof Michael Rotter)

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

2009-03-23 14:15: Semi-Analytic Modeling of Micro-Defects in an Infinite Semi-Infinite Matrix (Professor Leon Keer (Northwestern University))

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)

2009-05-22 14:30: Why is brake squeal so twitchy?  Modelling and sensitivity studies of friction-driven vibration (Prof Jim Woodhouse)

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)

2009-10-30 14:30: Crack Propagation in Brittle Crystals under Combined Tensile and Shear Stresses (Dr Dov Sherman: Technion, Israel)

2009-10-30 14:30: Crack Propagation in Brittle Crystals under Combined Tensile and Shear Stresses (Dr Dov Sherman, Technion, Israel)

2009-11-06 14:30: Tissue Contact Mechanics (Georges Debregeas: Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS)

2009-11-06 14:30: Transduction of tactile information in human touch : a biomimetic approach (Dr Georges Debregeas, Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS)

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)

2010-02-05 14:30: Just How Does One Make Formula One More Exciting? (Tony Purnell (Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at CUED, Technical Consultant to the FIA, ex head of Jaguar F1 and Red Bull F1))

2010-02-12 14:30: Tribology at the Smallscale: Learning from Nature (Prof John Williams (CUED))

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)

2010-04-23 16:00: Dynamics of Stone Arches (Dr Matthew De Jong, CUED)

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)

2010-05-07 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)

2010-12-03 14:30: Fractals, Failure and Lightweight Structures (Robert Farr, Structured Materials and Process Science Department,)

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

2011-01-28 14:30: Bacterial flagellar filaments: smart structure, smart protein (Professor Chris Calladine, Emeritus Professor 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)

2011-05-13 14:30: Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substrates (Professor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)

2011-05-13 14:30: Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substrates (Professor Michael Thouless (University of Michigan))

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 (Prof David Cebon, CUED)

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)

2011-11-18 14:30: Mechanical study of the C. elegans worm locomotion. From soft matter to biomimetics. (Prof Jean-Marc di Meglio, University of Paris Diderot)

2011-11-18 14:30: Mechanical study of the C. elegans worm locomotion.  From soft matter to biomimetics (Professor Jean-Marc di Meglio, Université Paris Diderot)

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)

2012-01-20 14:00: Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the ear (Prof Steve Elliott, University of Southampton)

2012-01-20 14:00: Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the ear (Professor Steve Elliott, University of Southampton)

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)

2012-02-10 14:00: Multi-scale computational-experimental analysis of the mechanics of interfaces (Prof Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven)

2012-02-10 14:00: Multi-scale computational-experimental analysis of the mechanics of interfaces (Professor Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven)

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)

2012-10-26 14:30: Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibre – a new sort of stuff? (Professor Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science)

2012-10-26 14:30: "Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibre - a new sort of stuff" (Professor Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science)

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)

2012-11-16 14:30: Aspects of science, technology and government (Professor Roderick Smith, Imperial College)

2012-11-16 14:30: Aspects of science, technology and government (Professor Roderick Smith, Imperial College)

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)

2013-02-01 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2013-02-01 14:30: Heart valve tissue engineering (Professor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology)

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

2013-02-15 14:30: Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models (Professor René de Borst, University of Glasgow)

2013-02-15 14:30: Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models (Professor René de Borst, University of Glasgow)

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)

2013-03-15 14:00: Peeling adhesive tape: A case study for understanding the effective properties of heterogenous materials (Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology)

2013-03-15 14:00: Peeling adhesive tape: A case study for understanding the effective properties of heterogenous materials (Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology)

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)

2013-10-18 14:00: Discrete modelling of fibrous networks (Dr Ron Peerlings, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2013-10-25 14:00: Compressive failure of fibre composites with random waviness (Dr Michael Sutcliffe, CUED)

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

2013-11-15 14:30:  Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality (Professor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)

2013-11-15 14:30:  Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality (Professor Alain Goriely, University of Oxford)

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)

2014-01-24 14:30: Nonlinearity in musical instruments (Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED)

2014-01-24 14:30: Nonlinearity in musical instruments (Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED)

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

2014-02-07 14:30: Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research (Professor Mark Miodownik, University College London)

2014-02-07 14:30: Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research (Professor Mark Miodownik, University College London)

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

2014-03-07 14:30: Modeling Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface Roughness (Professor Alan Needleman, University of North Texas)

2014-03-07 14:30: Modeling Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface Roughness (Professor Alan Needleman, University of North Texas)

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)

2014-03-28 14:00: Engineering tissue morphogenesis in vitro (Dr Alison P McGuigan, University of Toronto Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry)

2014-04-10 14:30: Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics (Professor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University)

2014-04-10 14:30: Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics (Professor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University)

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)

2014-07-11 14:00: Mechanical properties of highly particle-filled composites (Prof Pengwan Chen,  Head of School of Materials Science and Engineering,  Beijing Institute of Technology)

2014-07-16 10:00: Environmental challenges to the implementation of ceramic composites in gas turbines (Carlos G. Levi, Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara)

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)

2014-10-24 14:30: Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys (Professor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL)

2014-10-24 14:30: Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys (Professor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL)

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)

2014-11-21 14:30: New functional surfaces: from science to application (Professor Eduard Arzt, INM Saarbrueken)

2014-11-21 14:30: New functional surfaces: from science to application (Professor Eduard Arzt, INM Saarbrueken)

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

2015-01-23 14:00: Crustal deformation and Earthquakes (Professor Jean-Phillipe Avouac, BP McKenzie Professor of Earth Sciences)

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)

2015-02-06 14:00: Embodied intelligence: How the body shapes the way robots behave (Dr Fumiya Iida, CUED)

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))

2015-05-08 14:00: Perspectives on Designing Optimal User Interfaces (Dr Per Ola Kristensson, CUED)

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)

2015-10-30 14:00: Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids (Professor Michel W Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University)

2015-10-30 14:00: Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids (Prof. Michel W. Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

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

2015-11-20 14:00: Counting with symmetry for structural mechanics (Dr Simon Guest, CUED)

2015-11-20 14:00: Counting with symmetry for structural analysis (Dr Simon Guest, CUED)

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)

2016-01-22 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)

2016-02-05 14:00: Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes in Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier Coatings (Professor Bill Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy)

2016-02-05 14:00: Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes in Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier Coatings (Professor Bill Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy)

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)

2016-03-18 14:00: Strain gradient plasticity: Numerical modeling and fracture assessment (Mr Emilio Martinez Paneda, PhD candidate at University of Oviedo (Spain))

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

2016-04-29 14:00: Mechanics Colloquium: 'Modelling non-symmetry of collagen fibre dispersion in the elasticity of arterial wall tissue' (Professor Raymond Ogden, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow)

2016-04-29 14:00: Modelling non-symmetry of collagen fibre dispersion in the elasticity of arterial wall tissue  (Professor Raymond Ogden, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow)

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)

2016-10-21 14:00: Contacts and Fretting - Mechanics Colloquium  (Prof David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)

2016-10-21 14:00: Contacts and Fretting (Prof David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)

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)

2016-11-25 14:00: Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales - Mechanics Colloquium  (Prof Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy)

2016-11-25 14:00: Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales (Prof Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy)

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)

2017-01-13 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)

2017-02-03 14:00: A multiscale modelling strategy for virtual design of metallic alloys (Prof Javier LLorca, IMDEA Materials Institute, University of Madrid)

2017-02-10 14:00: TALK CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Hydrogen embrittlement in metals - the role of internal stresses (Prof Alan Cocks, Materials Engineering, University of Oxford)

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)

2017-06-23 14:00: 4-bar mechanisms in nature: their function and potential for biomimicry (Prof Stuart Burgess, University of Bristol)

2017-07-17 14:00: 3D Bioprinting of Vascularized Tissues (Mark Skyler-Scott, Harvard University)

2017-08-04 14:00: Defect tolerance and design principles for bio-inspired fibrillar dry-adhesives (Mattia Bacca, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of British Colombia, Vancouver)

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)

2017-12-08 14:00: Snaking, dripping, and fluttering of elastic rods (Professor Davide Bigoni,Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering University of Trento, Italy)

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)

2018-06-14 15:00: Mechanics of Hydrogen diffusion and embrittlement (Professor Norman Fleck, CUED)

2018-06-25 14:30: 3D bioprinting for in vitro tissue engineering (Prof Wei Sun, University of Nottingham)

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)

2019-01-28 18:00: Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder (Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering)

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

2019-02-08 14:00: Active Cell Mechanics (Professor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany	)

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)

2019-02-22 14:00: Coupled mechanical and electronic fields in graphene and their optimization for nanomechanical devices (Dr Gareth Wyn Jones, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester)

2019-03-01 14:00: Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures (Dr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto)

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)

2019-03-15 08:45: Bioengineering Conference (Mihaela van der Schaar, Somenath Bakshi, Sebastian Pattinson, Fumiya Iida, Rasha Rezk, Felice Torrisi, George Malliaras, James Ward, Roger Mason, Andrew Flewitt, Flavia Mancini)

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)

2019-05-03 14:00: Self-similarly expanding regions of phase change yield cavitational  instabilities and model deep earthquakes  (Prof Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego)

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)

2019-05-29 14:00: Cell Mechanics Based Microfluidics for Disease Diagnosis & Therapy:  From Bench to Bedside (Prof. Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore)

2019-05-31 14:00: Atomistically inspired origami  (Prof Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota)

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)

2019-11-29 14:00: Oncotripsy: Selective ablation of cancer cells through tuned low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (Prof Michael Ortiz, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech)

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)

2020-03-13 08:30: CUED Bioengineering Conference (- )

2020-04-15 15:00: New Developments in Shell Stability- https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 (Professor John W Hutchinson, Harvard University)

2020-04-22 15:00:  Enabling Ideas in the Mechanics of Bio-Integrated Electronic Systems – From COVID-19 Patients to Engineered Mini-Brains (Prof John A Rogers at Northwestern University)

2020-04-29 15:00: Simulation-assisted discovery of membrane targeting nanomedicine (Prof  Huajian Gao, Nanyang Technological University)

2020-05-01 15:00: Self-excited motions of volatile drops on swellable sheets (Dr Aditi Chakrabarti, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)

2020-05-06 15:00: Extreme mechanics of soft materials for merging human-machine intelligence (Prof  Xuanhe Zhao, MIT)

2020-05-08 15:00: Injectable therapeutic vascularized micro-tissues engineered using sacrificial hydrogels (Dr Ninna Rossen (BRIC-University of Copenhagen))

2020-05-13 15:00: Multistable structures - from energy trapping to morphing. ( Prof Katia Bertoldi, Harvard)

2020-05-20 15:00: Soft-bodied Magnetic Small-scale Mobile Robots. (Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)

2020-05-22 15:00: Shaping Shells with Spontaneous Curvature (Dr Douglas P. Holmes, Mechanical Engineering, Boston University  )

2020-05-27 15:00: New Horizons in Microarchitectured  Materials  ( Prof Norman Fleck, Cambridge University)

2020-06-03 15:00: The mechanical side of artificial intelligence (Dr Rob Wood, Harvard)

2020-06-08 15:00: The mechanics of Robotic Matter ( Professor Chiara Daraio,Caltech)

2020-06-11 15:00: Transmission and reflection at the boundary of a random two-component composite (Professor  John R. Willis, University of Cambridge)

2020-06-12 15:00: 3D Printing and Biofabrication of Functional Material and Dynamic Systems (Dr Yan Yan Shery Huang, CUED)

2020-10-07 15:00: EML webinar Liquid crystal elastomers (Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharaya's)

2020-10-09 14:00: Mechanobiology of Cells and Extracellular Matrices (  Prof Carlijn Bouten, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2020-10-16 14:00: Taming Liquid Crystal Elastomers (Dr LukaCmok, CUED)

2020-10-16 15:30: Efficient Constitutive Model for Crash Analysis of Mineral-filled Polymers (Dr Andrea Codolini, CUED)

2020-10-23 14:00: New 1D models for localisation in slender structures (Claire Lestringant, Structural Engineering, Cambridge)

2020-10-30 14:00: On the Multiscale Mechanics of Plasticity and Damage in Magnesium (Padmeya Indurkar,CUED)

2020-10-30 14:30: Analytical homogenization estimates for the transient and steady-state response of elasto-viscoplastic polycrystals (Shuvrangsu Das, CUED)

2020-11-06 14:00: Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation ( Prof Gabor Domokos, Budapest University of  Technology and Economics)

2020-11-13 14:00: Failure of a pre-cracked epoxy sandwich layer in shear (Dr Sina Askarinejad, CUED)

2020-11-13 14:30: Wrinkling and Creasing in Soft Solids: A Global Bifurcation and Symmetry-Breaking Approach to Surface Instabilities (Dr Shrinidhi Pandurangi, CUED)

2020-11-18 14:00: Ballistic and blast response of structural materials: lessons from architecting materials (Prof Vikram Deshpande, CUED)

2020-11-20 16:00: Rapid 3D Bioprinting for Precision Tissue Engineering (Prof Shaochen Chen, Chair of NanoEngineering Department, University of California)

2020-11-27 14:00: Micromechanics of near-ideal polymer networks (  Dr Laurence.Brassart, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford)

2021-01-22 14:00: Leading Multiphysics Modeling for AM and Emerging Design Approaches for Impacts ( Prof Claus Pedersen, R&D SIMULIA - Dassault Systèmes)

2021-01-29 14:00: Modelling the creep deformation of engineering alloys for energy applications at different scales (Prof Alan Cocks, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)

2021-02-05 14:00: Symmetry in Crystal Structure Prediction (James Darby, CUED)

2021-02-05 14:30: The impact of glioblastoma heterogeneity on preclinical studies and treatment response (Dr Rasha Rezk (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-12 14:00: Bioengineered ECM-Based Constructs as a tool for Composite Tissue Fabrication (Idan Redenski, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)

2021-02-19 16:00: Model-Free Data-Driven Science: Cutting out the Middleman (Prof Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology )

2021-02-26 16:00: Learning based multi-scale modeling (Prof Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology)

2021-03-05 16:00: Machine Learning in Structural Dynamics (Prof Keith Worden, Sheffield University)

2021-03-10 16:30: The Mechanics of Bioinspired Artificial Intelligence (Prof Markus J. Buehler, McAfee Professor of Engineering, MIT)

2021-04-30 14:00: Finite element modelling of hot compression testing of titanium alloys (Dr Patryk Jedrasiak, CUED)

2021-04-30 14:30: Inflight printing of micro/nano fibres: from harvesting acoustic energy to detecting cell movement (Andy Wenyu Wang, CUED)

2021-05-07 16:00: Putting 3D Bioprinting to Tissue and Tissue Model Fabrication (Dr Y. Shrike Zhang, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School)

2021-05-14 16:00: Robotic Metamaterials: Additive Fabrication for Multi-materials and Multi-functionalities (  Dr  Rayne Zheng, UCLA)

2021-05-21 14:00: Microstructurally-guided modeling of hard magnetorheological elastomers (Dr Dipayan Mukherjee, CUED)

2021-05-21 14:30: Electrochemo-poromechanical interactions: the case of ionic polymer metal composites (Alessandro Leronni, CUED)

2021-05-28 14:00: Linear and nonlinear inverse problems in imaging  ( Dr Leslie Greengar, New York University)

2021-06-04 14:00: Elastocapillary singularities in creasing & wetting (  Dr Jacco Snoeijer)

2021-06-11 14:00: A New Approach for 3D hydrogel printing; and a Study of Single-Cell Microfibre Interaction Dynamics (Duo Zhang, CUED)

2021-06-11 14:30: Mechanics, Additive Manufacture, and Characterisation of Lattice Biostructures (Faezeh Shalchy, CUED)

2021-10-08 14:00: The Statistical Finite Element Method  (Prof Mark A Girolami, Div D, CUED)

2021-10-15 14:00: Real Time Optical Probes of Phase Transitions in Nanoscale Materials  ( Dr  Akshay Rao, Cavendish Laboratory, Physics, Cambridge)

2021-10-22 14:00: Mechanically Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators (Dr Morgan Barnes, CUED)

2021-10-22 14:30: Crack dynamics simulations in wood and other heterogeneous materials  (Dr Jenny Carlsson, CUED)

2021-10-29 14:00: Harnessing helpful heterogeneity in healing at the humeral head: The mechanics of the rotator cuff and its surgical repair   (Prof. Guy M Genin, Co-Director, NSF Science and Technology Centre for Engineering MechanoBiology Washington University in St Louis)

2021-11-05 14:00: Bioprinting with Microgel Materials (Professor Marcy Zenobi-Wong, Head of Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich)

2021-11-10 09:30: Model-Free Data-Driven Mechanics: A tutorial  (Prof. Michael Ortiz, Caltech)

2021-11-12 14:00: Active light-driven microfluidic components made of soft smart materials (Dr Klaudia Dradrach, CUED)

2021-11-12 14:30: Energy absorption of foams with non-linear variation in cross-sectional area under stationary impact BD (Dr Sri Datta Rapaka, CUED)

2021-11-19 14:00: Learning based multiscale modeling (Dr Burigede Liu, CUED)

2021-11-26 14:00: Forward and inverse homogenization of cellular metamaterials ( Prof Dennis Kochman, ETH Zürich)

2021-12-03 14:00: Shape-shifting assemblies in cutting and dividing cells (Dr Andela Šarić, UCL)

2022-01-21 14:00: Mechanical metamaterials: Does toughness characterise fracture? (Dr Angkur Jyoti Dipanka Shaikeea, Ashby Fellow, CUED)

2022-01-28 14:00: Decarbonising Road Freight (Prof David Cebon CUED)

2022-02-04 14:00: Biofabrication techniques for vascular graft and network  (  Dr Alex Justin )

2022-02-04 14:30: Designing vascular networks for tissue engineering (Andrew Guy)

2022-02-11 14:00: Exploding, weeping and reversible phase transformations in ceramics (Prof Richard James, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota)

2022-02-18 14:00: A phase-field model for ferroelectrics with general kinetics (Prof Laurent Guin, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique)

2022-02-25 14:00: Mechanics of Architected Materials Across Length and Time Scales (Prof Carlos M Portela, School of Engineering, MIT)

2022-03-04 14:00: Complexes and conservation: constructing numerical methods for physical systems (Prof Garth Wells, Hibbit Professor of Solid Mechanics, CUED)

2022-03-11 14:00: Mechanically-instructive Scaffolds to Steer Tissue Regeneration:  Merging Mechaniobiology with Biofabrication (   Prof Lorenzo Moroni, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Complex Tissue Regeneration Department. Maastricht University)

2022-03-18 14:00: blblblb (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-06 14:00: Graphene: from point defects to tunable twins (Prof Pilar Ariza, University of Sevilla)

2022-05-20 14:00: Emerging Energy Materials: Electrified Heating and Wood  (Prof Liangbing Hu, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor,  Department of Materials Science and Engineering Center for Materials Innovation  University of Maryland)

2022-07-01 10:00: Architected Materials Beyond the Laboratory: harnessing self-architecture and exploring extreme conditions (Carlos M Portela, MIT)

2022-09-09 14:00: Kinking in Atomically Layered Solids (Dr Ankit Srivastava, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University)

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

2022-10-21 14:00: Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment (Prof Geert Degrand, KU Leuven)

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)

2022-11-18 14:00: Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective (Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford)

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)

2023-01-27 14:00: Computationally derived correlations between segregation, microstructure variations and process-induced cracks in AM  (Prof Hector Basoalto, Sheffield University)

2023-02-03 14:00: Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond (Prof Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder)

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)

2023-02-16 12:00: Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines    (Prof Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology )

2023-02-17 14:00: Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure (Prof Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria)

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)

2023-03-31 14:00: Advanced Tissue Biofabrication (Prof Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School)

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)

2023-06-15 14:00: WISE(Wearable Intelligent Sensors & Electronics)   Research and Applications (Prof. Xueji Zhang, Shenzhen University)

2023-06-16 14:00: Leapfrog in Fracture and Damage Mechanics inspired by   Gap Test and Curvature-Resisting Sprain Energy (Prof Zdenek Bazant )

2023-07-05 10:00: Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials  (Professor J.R. Greer, California Institute of Technology)

2023-07-05 14:00: Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence (Prof. Wanlin Guo, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

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)

2023-08-31 14:00: Journey of Droplet through various spatio-temporal scales (Prof Saptarshi Basu)

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)

2023-10-27 14:00: Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites (Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,)

2023-11-03 14:00: Friday 3 November - no seminar today (-)

2023-11-10 14:00: Resource Efficiency: delivering future energy and material services with less environmental impact.  (Prof Jonathan Cullen, 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)

2024-01-26 14:00: Dynamic rupture behavior and friction evolution revealed by laboratory experiments using ultra high-speed digital image correlation (Prof Vito Rubino École Centrale de Nantes, France)

2024-02-02 14:00: Role of Phase Transformation on Shock Compression Behavior of Iron  (Dr Vatsa Gandhi, Ashby Fellow)

2024-02-02 14:30: Nanovoid Irradiation Hardening in Metals: A Mesoscale Perspective". (Dr Ashley Roach)

2024-02-09 14:00: Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolution (Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong)

2024-02-16 14:00: Full field measurement technique enabling the discovery of new materials laws (Dr Zifan Wang, CUED)

2024-02-16 14:30: Data-parallel based deep learning for the model order reduction of parametrized partial differential equations    (Dr Nirav Vashant Shah, CUED)

2024-02-23 14:00: Scientific machine learning - opportunities and challenges from an industrial perspective (Dr Dirk Hartmann, Siemens)

2024-03-01 14:00: Mechanics of Soft Composites:  The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and  Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior (Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia)

2024-03-08 14:00: Whereto for physical metallurgy – vision and the role of design (Roger Reed, University of Oxford)

2024-03-15 14:00: Automated discovery of material models (Professor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich)

2024-03-21 14:00: SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES (Prof. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. )

2024-05-03 14:00: Self-assembled active actomyosin gels spontaneously curve and wrinkle similar to biological cells and tissues ( Prof. Anne Bernheim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

2024-05-17 14:00: Unravelling the Mechanics of MAX Phases: Investigating Deformation and Failure Mechanisms in Single and Polycrystalline Structures (Professor Miladin Radovic, Texas A&M University)

2024-05-24 14:00: EQUALITY-BASED FORMULATION FOR NON-SMOOTH VIBRATING SYSTEMS (Prof. Christopher Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology)

2024-06-14 14:00: Inverse design of multiscale structures and meta-materials by topology optimization and dehomogenization (Prof. Ole Sigmund, Technical University of Denmark)

2024-10-11 14:00: Welcome to term and new PhD students (Professor Michael Sutcliffe, Head of Division, Mechanics, Materials and Design)

2024-10-18 14:00: Mechanics and Design of Next-Generation Protective Overlayers for Extreme Environments (Dr Isha Gupta, University of Southampton)

2024-10-25 14:00: OptimUS: an open-source Python library for 3D acoustic wave propagation (Dr Pierre Gélat, University College London, UK)

2024-11-01 14:00: Designer alloys for tailored deformation-induced phase transformations: Revealing per-grain behaviour  (Dr David Collins, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge )

2024-11-08 14:00: Puncture mechanics of soft solids: A theoretical perspective (Professor Mattia Bacca, University of British Columbia)

2024-11-15 14:00: Impacting Medicine with Microfluidics & Nanotechnology: Advancing Diagnostics and Medicine (Professor Utkan Demirci, Stanford University)

2024-11-22 14:00: Soft but Tough! Engineering Protein Assemblies and Interfacial Mechanics for Stem Cell Technologies and the Design of Biomimetic Niches (Professor Julien Gautrot, Queen Mary University of London)

2024-12-06 14:00: Inverse Design of Architected Materials: From Mechanics-Based Methods to Data-Driven Methods    (Professor Wei Tan, Queen Mary University of London)

2025-01-17 14:00: Structural design and optimisation of smart electrodes for Li ion batteries (Professor Patrick Grant, Oxford University)

2025-01-31 14:00: Mechanically-grown morphogenesis of Voronoi-type materials (Dr Zahra Hooshmand Ahoor, CUED)

2025-01-31 14:30:  Numerical Investigation of Orientation Effects in Cross-grain Fracture of Wood (Dr Hao Yin, CUED)

2025-02-07 14:00: Harnessing non-smooth dynamics for self-propelled gastrointestinal endoscopies with vibro-impact capsules (Prof. Yang Liu University of Exeter)

2025-02-14 14:00: Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Deformation and Fracture of Metallic Glasses. (Dr Wenqing Zhu, CUED )

2025-02-14 14:30: Data-driven homogenisation of the mechanical response of solids (Dr Mirac Onur Bozkurt, CUED )

2025-02-21 14:00: Conceiving, designing and testing giant ultralight coilable space structures (Prof. Sergio Pelligrino, California Institute of Technology)

2025-02-28 14:00: 25 years with MathWorks and its customers (David Sampson, MathWorks)

2025-03-07 14:00: Lithography metal manufacturing: The next generation of precision 3D printing (Dr. Ruslan Melentiev (KAUST）)

2025-03-14 14:00: Physics-Enhanced Machine Learning for Monitoring & Twinning | An Exercise in Balance (Professor Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zürich)

2025-05-09 14:00: A variational structure underpinning higher-order homogenization ( Manon Thbaut, Ecole Polytechnique  )

2025-05-16 14:00: Biocomputation with Motile Agents in Networks (Professor Dan V Nicolau, McGill University)

2025-06-06 14:00: Mechanobiology-Inspired Antithrombotic Strategies and Point-of-Care Microtechnologies (Professor Arnold Lining Ju, University of Sydney)

2025-06-13 14:00: Progress in Additively Manufactured Gradient Materials: Predicting, Making, and Qualifying (Dr Peter C. Collins, Iowa State University)

2025-10-03 14:00: Intelligent Sensing and Energy Devices for Pervasive and Sustainable Healthcare (Dr Changsheng Wu, National University of Singapore)

2025-10-10 14:00: Material Discovery via Machine Learning and Research Lab Automation (Professor Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London)

2025-10-24 14:00: Integrating thermodynamic and kinetic simulations within a CALPHAD framework for alloy design (Dr Yanheng Xie, CUED)

2025-10-24 14:30: Metallic Lattice Metamaterials: Extreme Manufacturing and Multifunctional Applications (Dr Liqiang Wang, CUED)

2025-10-31 14:00: Programmable multifunctional materials and structures: Design, realization, and validation (Prof Shelly Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2025-11-07 14:00: Active solids: percolation and pattern formation (Professor Anton Souslov, Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-14 14:00: Liquid Crystalline Elastomers for Reversible Actuation and Energy Dissipation (Professor Mohand Saed, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University)

2025-11-14 16:00: Morphing materials: from brains to robots (Professor John Biggins, Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2025-11-21 14:00: Bond-Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials: Strength, Reconfigurability, and Connectivity (Dr Zhiqiang Meng, CUED)

2025-11-21 14:30: Grain Boundary Plasticity in FCC Metals and Nanotwinned Alloys (Dr Ruoqi Dang, CUED)

2025-11-21 16:00: Tactile-Embodied Soft Robots: Enabling Perception and Intelligent Physical Interaction in Compliant Systems ( Professor Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London)

2025-11-24 14:00: Perceiving Through Contact: Designing Dexterous Robots with Touch and Vision (Dr. Shan Luo, King's College London )

2025-11-27 16:00: Engineered biomaterials for regeneration and mechanobiology  (Professor Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, University of Glasgow)

2025-11-28 14:00: Mechanics and data science to model aneurysms (Professor Jose Merodio, Polytechnic University of Madrid)

2026-01-28 11:00: Ultra-tough metals via high strain-hardening (Professor Thomas Pardoen, UCLouvain and WEL Research Institute)

2026-02-06 14:00: Data-Driven Constitutive Modelling for Non-Equilibrium Systems (Dr. Shenglin Huang,  Sheffield University )

2026-02-13 14:00: 3D/4D static recrystallisation and grain growth behaviour in magnesium alloys (Dr Dikai Guan, University of Southampton)

2026-02-20 14:00: Microstructurally informed material modelling workflows for fusion engineering applications ( Dr. Pratheek Shanthraj, UKAEA)

2026-03-13 14:00: On the Feasibility of a Digital Twin of Additive Manufacturing and Fatigue (Professor Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University )

2026-03-20 14:00: Shock-Induced Pore Collapse in PMMA: Deformation Physics and Failure Mechanics (Professor Guruswami Ravichandran, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology)

2026-05-01 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Duncan MacLachlan, Rolls Royce)