Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering 2017-10-12 14:00: Frequency domain tools for the analysis of Lur'e feedback dominant systems (Felix Miranda-Villatoro, University of Cambridge) 2018-02-08 14:00: Engineering Biomaterials to Enhance Stem Cell-based Tissue Regeneration: from 'outside-in' and from 'inside-out' (Dr Fan Yang, Associate Professor, Stanford 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) 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) 2024-02-16 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) 2024-03-08 14:00: Whereto for physical metallurgy – vision and the role of design (Roger Reed, University of Oxford) 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) 2024-10-11 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) 2024-11-08 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 ) 2025-02-28 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）) 2025-05-09 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) 2025-07-07 14:00: Uncovering 3D microstructural and crystallographic texture evolution in additively manufactured alloys (Dr Sravya Tekumalla, University of Victoria) 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) 2025-11-21 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) 2025-11-28 14:00: Mechanics and data science to model aneurysms (Professor Jose Merodio, Polytechnic University of Madrid) 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) 2026-05-01 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Duncan MacLachlan, Rolls Royce)