Upcoming Events for Mechanical and Civil Engineering

Tuesday, May 7, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Towards a Synthetic Nucleus: Separating Transcription and Translation in Cell-Free Protein Expression Systems Zoila E. Jurado Quiroga, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 8, 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Machine Learning and Inference Methods for Surrogate Modeling and Inexpensive Characterization of Elastodynamic Systems Alexander C. Ogren, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,

Thursday, May 9, 2024
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 Mobile sand dunes - silent travelers of the desert Michel Louge, Emeritus Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University,

Tuesday, May 14, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 A theoretical framework for fault-slip styles from aseismic creep to regular earthquakes Davide Zaccagnino, PhD student in Geophysics, Department of Geophysics, Sapienza University,

Thursday, May 16, 2024
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 How "to see a world in a grain of sand"? Rouslan Krechetnikov, Professor, Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta,

Thursday, May 30, 2024
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Gates-Thomas 135 Two old machines and the attempts to analyze them: Roberval's weighing balance and Archimedes' screw pump John Hall, Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

Friday, May 31, 2024
9:00 am - 4:00 pm	James K. Knowles Lectures & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium Gates-Thomas 135 ,