Departmental Seminar (E9500)
Note: Attendance required for full-time graduate students

Lecture Series: The Biot Lecture, The Burmister Lecture, The Mindlin Lecture,
 The DJ Memorial Lecture, Lou Silano Lecture

Past Seminars and Lectures

FALL 2012
- to be announced -



SPRING 2012
Tuesday, 2:30-3:30 pm (Mudd 644)

1/26 (Thursday) Dr. Vitomir Racic, University of Sheffield, UK [host: Prof. Smyth]
Dynamic Performance of Civil Engineering Structures under Human-Induced Excitation


1/31 Prof. P. Ladevèze [host: Prof. Fish]

*PGD Approximation in Multiscale Structural Mechanics: Basic Features and Verification  

2/7 Prof. Alexander Ketov, Perm State Technical University, Russia [host: Prof. Meyer]
Technologies of Waste Glass Reuse: New View for the Old Material

2/14 Dr. Ben Leshchinsky, Columbia University
Enhancing Ballast Performance using Geocell Confinement

3/20 Prof. Young Sang Cho, Hanyang University [host: Prof. Yin]
Development of Structural Assessment System using Nondestructive Tests & Artificial Neural Network
Development of Add-on Program for Re-bar Placement in the Building Information Model(BIM) Environment


3/21 (Wed, 2:30-3:30 pm, Davis Auditorium)
Mr. Richard Coackley
President, Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom
Harnessing the Energy

4/3 Dr. Ryan Karkkainen, Army Research Lab, MD [host: Prof. Waisman]
Micromechanical Finite Element Analysis for Development of Composite Material Design Capabilities

4/4 (Wed, 2:30-3:30 pm, Davis Auditorium)
Dr. Tim Ingham, T.Y. Lin International

Silano Lecture: Innovation in Bridge Design -- Some Examples

4/12 (Thurs, 6:30-7:30 pm, Davis Auditorium)
Prof. Yannis F. Dafalias, University of California at Davis and National Technical University at Athens
Mindlin Lecture. Challenging the Paradigm of Critical State Soil Mechanics: The Role of Fabric

4/17 Dr. Sissy Nikolaou [host: Prof. Deodatis]
Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Earthquake Ground Motion in New York City: What Makes Us Different?


4/24
(10:00 am - 2:30 pm, Davis Auditorium)
Workshop: Global Energy and Ecology Initiatives
The Workshop is sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations
Registration: free (coffee and lunch will be served)

(2:30-3:30 pm, 644 Mudd)
Dr. Badri Hiriyur, Columbia University [host: Prof. Waisman]
Development and Parallel Implementation of Algebraic Multigrid Algorithms for XFEM to Model 3D Crack Problems

4/30 (Monday, 2:30-3:30 pm, Mudd 834) [host: Prof. Betti]
Prof. Paolo Gaudenzi, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Smart Structures: Engineering an Innovative Technology

5/1
Dr. Arturo Montoya, Columbia University
A Validated Methodology to Estimate The Reliability and Safety of Suspension Bridge Cables

other seminar/conferences
ASCE Met Section Geo-Institute Chapter Specialty Seminar, May  9, 2012
Bologna Conference, 14-16 October, 2013

* cross listed with ASCE Met Section Engineering Mechanics Committee Seminar