What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. H. Jerry Qi, University of Colorado at Boulder When: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 3:00 PM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Mechanics and Physics of Shape Memory Polymers

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Julien Meaud, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor When: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Simulating the active nonlinear dynamics of the cochlea using a computational multi-physics model

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. Netanel Korin, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University When: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Microfluidic and Nanomedicine Applications in Vascular Disease

What: NRE/MP Seminar Who: Dr. Chloe Arson, Georgia Tech, CEE When: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 11:30 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Thermodynamic Framework for Damage Poromechanics: Make It or Break It!

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Mr. Barton Fiske, zSpace, Director of Systems Engineering, Sunnyvale, CA When: Friday, March 29, 2013 at 12:00 PM Where: MARC Building Room Atrium/ Auditorium Title: zSpace - Revolutionizing the way people learn, play, and create

What: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Who: Prof. Ellen Stechel, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Deputy Director, ASU LightWorks; and Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University When: Friday, March 29, 2013 at 1:00 PM Where: Instructional Center Building Room 103 Title: Energy Sustainability and Solar Thermochemical Fuels

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. S.V. Sreenivasan, University of Texas at Austin When: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: High Throughput Nanopatterning with Enabling Applications in Electronics, Energy and Biomedicine

What: Faculty Candidate Seminar Who: Dr. James Swan, University of Delaware When: Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: MRDC Building Room 4211 Title: Strong or weak, quick or slow: interpreting viscoelasticity from large amplitude oscillatory flow

What: NRE 8011/8012 Seminar Who: Dr. Kurt Terrani, Oak Ridge National Laboratory When: Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM Where: Boggs Building Room 3-47 Title: Advanced Iron Based Cladding to Enhance Safety Margins during Severe Accidents

What: COE/Structural Mechanics Seminar Who: Prof. Oluwaseyi Balogun, Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University When: Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 3:00 PM Where: MARC Building Room 114 Title: Local Characterization and Imaging of Materials Using Photoacoustic Techniques