Seminar

Name: Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Professor Laura de Lorenzis
Start: 2026-04-17T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-04-17T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Engineering Research Building, Room 106

April 2026
BME Seminar Series: Natasah Seybani, PhD

April 6 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

Bench-to-Bedside Engineering of Precision Immunotherapy Paradigms with Focused Ultrasound Natasha Sheybani, PhDAssistant Professor of Biomedical EngineeringResearch Director at UVA Focused UltrasoundImmuno-Oncology (FUSION) CenterUniversity of Virginia Abstract:Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but significant limitations remain across solid tumor indications. This talk will highlight advances in the use of image-guided focused ultrasound (FUS) as a non-invasive, multi-pronged...
POSTPONED – ECE Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series: Professor Seth Ariel Tongay

April 7 @ 12:00 AM

Join us as Professor Seth Ariel Tongay, Arizona State University College of Engineering director of research, presents "Pushing the Limits of 2D Janus Layers."
CBE Seminar Series: Kayla Sprenger

April 7 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Kayla SprengerUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulder, CO Towards Modeling Antibody–Virus Coevolution and Escape: Integrating Evolutionary Modeling, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, and Interpretable Machine Learning In the Rationally Designed Immunotherapeutics and Interfaces (RDI) Lab, we integrate computational modeling, immuno-engineering, molecular biophysics, and machine learning to understand—and ultimately control—how immune systems respond to rapidly evolving viral pathogens. A key...
ECE RISE-AI SEMINAR SERIES: Dr. Omar Chehab

April 9 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Discovery Building 330 N. Orchard St., Madison, Wisconsin

Join us as Dr. Omar Chehab, postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, presents, "Toward efficient inference in complex systems".
ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Professor Riley Barta

April 9 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison

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. Professor Riley Barta is a professor at Purdue University.
Mechanics Seminar: Professor Ricardo Vinuesa

April 10 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1227 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

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 Ricardo Vinuesa is a professor at Michigan University. Title: Explainable deep learning and foundation models: control and scientific discovery Abstract: In this seminar we discuss a unified framework that...
ECE RISE-AI SEMINAR SERIES: Associate Professor Salman Asif

April 10 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Discovery Building 330 N. Orchard St., Madison, Wisconsin

Join us as Salman Asif, associate professor at the University of California, Riverside, presents, "Learning to See, Adapt, and Forget: From Computational Imaging to Trustworthy Multimodal AI."
Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot Lecture: Daniel Hammer

April 14 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room 1610 Engineering Hall Daniel HammerAlfred G. and Meta A. Ennis Professor of BioengineeringUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA A Tale of Two Motilities In the spirit of Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot, we have been studying an important problem in transport phenomena, the biological and bio-inspired motility of cells. Motility is important for the functioning of the...
ME 150th Celebration: Distinguished Alumni, Dr. Kelly Senecal

April 16 @ 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM

3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison

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. Kelly Senecal, who received his master's (’97) and PhD ('00) in mechanical engineering, is the cofounder of Convergent...
Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Professor Laura de Lorenzis

April 17 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Engineering Research Building, Room 106 1500 Engineering Dr., Madison, Wisconsin

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). This specific seminar is hosted in conjunction with the Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series. Professor Laura de Lorenzis is a professor at Institute for Mechanical Systems - Zurich.

April 2026