What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Zongfu Yu, Stanford University When: Monday, February 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Managing broadband radiation for energy applications

What: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Who: Dr. Bogdan Epureanu, University of Michigan When: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Complex Dynamic Interactions of Multistage, Aeroelastic, and Localization Phenomena in Turbomachinery

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Grace OConnell, Columbia University, New York, New York When: Monday, March 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Soft Tissue Biomechanics and Functional Tissue Engineering

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Mr. Christopher Williamson, Dekalb Medical, Decatur, GA When: Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI):Development and Evolution

What: Seminar Who: Dr. Paolo Ermanni, ETH Zurich When: Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 3:30 PM Where: Guggenheim Building Room 442 Title: Morphing Airfoil Using Compliant Structures and Variable Stiffness Approaches

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Dr. Christoph Eberl, The Institute for Applied Materials,Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany When: Friday, March 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Probing Materials' Properties and Reliability at the Micron Scale and the Need for New Experiments

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Julie Linsey, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas When: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Enhancing Engineering Idea Generation: The Cognitive Impact of Physical Representations

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Dr. Weston Stacey, Georgia Tech When: Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: SUSTAINABLE EXPANSION OF NUCLEAR POWER

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Satbir Singh, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA When: Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Large-eddy simulations (LES) for computational analysis of thermo-fluid systems

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Dr. Youshi Hong, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China When: Friday, March 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: On Crack Initiation and Early Growth of Very-High-Cycle Fatigue for High Strength Steels