4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Harry Atwater September 9, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Harry Atwater Harry AtwaterDepartment of Applied Physics and Materials ScienceCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadena, California Design of Materials and Devices for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion using Sunlight Over the next two decades, science advances will be needed to enable scalable technologies for i) direct capture of dilute CO2 at the gigaton scale as well as ii) CO2...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 150th Celebration: Distinguished Alumni, Dean Devesh Ranjan September 11, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 150th Celebration: Distinguished Alumni, Dean Devesh Ranjan To celebrate 150 years of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the Department of Mechanical Engineering will feature distinguished alumni in mechanical engineering and engineering mechanics who have made a lasting impact on the field. Newly appointed dean to the College of Engineering, Devesh Ranjan graduated from UW-Madison with his master's degree...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Ted Lightfoot September 11, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Ted Lightfoot Reception 3:30-4:00pm (2-story space besides 1610 E Hall) E.J. (Ted) LightfootTed Lightfoot ConsultingAmherst, NY Transport Phenomena and Coating Science In the 1960s Transport Phenomena triggered a shift in engineering education from engineering technology to engineering science. In the 1970s the more advanced coating companies (in the photographic, magnetic tape, and paper industries) began to undertake...
12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Joseph Andrews September 12, 2025 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Joseph Andrews The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Joseph Andrews is a professor at UW-Madison.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Allen Garner PhD September 15, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Allen Garner PhD Electrical Manipulation of Biological Cells: Models and Applications Allen Garner, PhD, PEProfessor, Graduate Program ChairSchool of Nuclear EngineeringPurdue University Electric waveforms, including electric pulses (EPs) and alternating current (AC) fields, such as radiofrequency and high-power microwaves, can induce deleterious or beneficial effects that require additional characterization. We combine thermal models with the Smoluchowski equation to...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Mike Molnar September 18, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Mike Molnar The ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture Series features campus and visiting speakers who present on a variety of research topics in the field of mechanical engineering. Michael Molnar (BSME '85) is the founding director of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office at NIST. Presentation Title: The Federal Role in Accelerating Technology and Manufacturing Innovation Abstract: The...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Pramod Wangikar September 18, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Pramod Wangikar Seminar 9-10am at Union South Landmark Room Pramod WangikarChair Professor for Green Chemistry and Industrial BiotechnologyDepartment of Chemical EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology BombayMumbai, India Harnessing Metabolomics for Precision Medicine and Fermentation Metabolomics is an emerging tool in bioengineering research, based on profiling hundreds of metabolites in biological systems to provide a detailed view of cellular...
12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Matthew Brake September 19, 2025 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Matthew Brake The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Matthew Brake is an Associate Professor at Rice University. Presentation Title: Videographic Modal Analysis Abstract: Experimental modal analysis is a classical tool that has formed the basis of modern...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Marty Pagel, PhD September 22, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Marty Pagel, PhD Molecular Imaging of the Tumor Microenvironment Marty Pagel, PhDProfessorDepartment of Medical PhysicsDepartment of RadiologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract:Tumor acidosis, hypoxia, and vascular perfusion are well-known characteristics of the tumor microenvironment. We have developed MRI, MR Fingerprinting, PET/MRI, electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI), and photoacoustic imaging (PAI) to quantitatively measure extracellular pH, oxygenation, and pharmacokinetic transport rates...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: David Schaffer September 23, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: David Schaffer David SchafferDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA Directed Evolution of New AAV Vectors for Clinical Gene Therapy Gene therapy has experienced an increasing number of successful human clinical trials, leading to 6 FDA approved products using delivery vectors based on adeno-associated viruses (AAV). These successes were possible due to the identification of...
12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Professor Daniel Chung September 26, 2025 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Professor Daniel Chung The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Daniel Chung is an Associate Professor at The University of Melbourne. Presentation Title: Fluid mechanics of riblets drag reduction Abstract: Riblets are a surface texture composed of tiny...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Hua Wang, PhD September 29, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Hua Wang, PhD Molecular to Systemic Engineering of Immune Cells for Robust Immunotherapy Hua Wang, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract:Immunotherapy has achieved significant clinical progress for the treatment of cancer and other diseases over the past decade, but challenges, including low patient responses, off-target side effects, and poor efficacy against solid...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Hal Alper September 30, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Hal Alper Hal S. AlperProfessor & Cockrell Family Regents Chair in EngineeringDepartment of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Texas-AustinAustin, TX Beyond the test-tube: metabolic engineering for next-generation applications Advances in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology can enable microbes to produce nearly any organic molecule of interest—from biofuels to biopolymers to pharmaceuticals. While this approach has fueled the industrial biotechnology,...
12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar: Tanmoy Chatterjee October 3, 2025 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar: Tanmoy Chatterjee The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Tanmoy Chatterjee is the Lead Research Engineer in Aerodynamics at GE Research Inc. Presentation Title: From Turbulence to Turbines: Exascale CFD in Wind Energy Abstract: Wind energy is rapidly expanding...
September 11, 2025 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 150th Celebration: Distinguished Alumni, Dean Devesh Ranjan