March 31 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Lori A. Setton, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States The Death and Re-Birth of the Intervertebral Disc Cell Lori A. Setton, PhDLopata Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biomedical EngineeringMcKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis Corrine Bahr Memorial Lecture Abstract:Intervertebral disc disorders are among the greatest contributors to pain and disability annually, such that low back pain and neck pain are ranked...
April 7 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Daniel Gallego-Perez, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Nanotransfection-driven gene and cell therapies Daniel Gallego-Perez, PhDEdgar C. Hendrickson Chair in Biomedical EngineeringProfessor, Surgery GeneralThe Ohio State University Abstract:Gene and engineered cell therapies hold transformative potential for treating a wide range of conditions. However, current approaches face significant practical and translational challenges, including a heavy reliance on viral vectors and high variability, which often...
April 21 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Alan Jassanof, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Analyzing Brain-Wide Function Using New Molecular Imaging Tools Alan Jasanoff, PhDProfessor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive SciencesMassachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract:Behavior and cognition depend on the integrated action of neural structures and populations distributed throughout the brain. Deciphering mechanisms by which this takes this place is both a tremendous scientific problem and a...
April 28 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Jessica Wagenseil, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Biomechanics of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms Jessica Wagenseil, DScProfessor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials ScienceVice Dean for Faculty AdvancementMcKelvey School of EngineeringWashington University Abstract:Thoracic aortic aneurysms are a dilation of the aortic...
July 28 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ECE Research Seminar Series: Dr. Oliver Burrow 2321 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison 2321 Engineering Hall Compact Cold-Atom Platforms Enabled by Grating MOTs and Progress to Real-World Quantum Sensing Abstract: Laser cooling of atoms is the first step in a wide range of atomic and molecular experiments, where low temperatures enable precision measurements. Traditionally, laser-cooling apparatus were large, often approaching room-scale, but over the past decade there have...
July 31 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ECE Research Seminar Series: Professor Carsten Ronning 2321 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison Join us as Carsten Ronning, professor and director of the Institute of Solid State Physics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, presents Ion Beams for Photonics and Quantum Technology.
September 9 @ 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...
September 11 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 150th Celebration: Distinguished Alumni, Dean Devesh Ranjan 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...
September 11 @ 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...
September 12 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Joseph Andrews 3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison 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.