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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Ricardo Vinuesa
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nTitle: Explainable deep learning and foundation models: control and scientific discovery \n\n\n\nAbstract: In this seminar we discuss a unified framework that combines explainable deep learning\, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and foundation models to advance both understanding and control of turbulence\, with direct implications for accelerated design and discovery. First\, we will show how explainable deep learning techniques can be used to identify the flow features that are truly responsible for key turbulent processes in wall-bounded flows. By systematically interrogating trained neural networks\, we uncover the most influential coherent structures driving momentum transport and drag. Our results reveal that classically studied structures (while important) provide only a partial and sometimes misleading perspective\, motivating a more data-driven and physics-aware view of turbulence organization. Building on these insights\, we will demonstrate how deep reinforcement learning can be used to actively control turbulent flows by targeting the dynamically relevant structures identified through explainability. This approach achieves over 30% drag reduction in canonical wall-bounded turbulence and extends naturally to more complex configurations\, including turbulent wings\, highlighting the scalability of learning-based control strategies. Finally\, we will introduce a foundation-model-based framework for accelerated design\, optimization and scientific discovery. By learning compact\, interpretable latent representations of high-dimensional flow physics\, these models (combined with agentic-AI systems) enable rapid exploration of design spaces\, causal reasoning and closed-loop optimization\, bridging the gap between expensive simulations\, control and engineering decision making. Together\, these results illustrate how explainable and agentic AI are becoming essential for turbulence physics\, flow control and next-generation engineering design. \n\n\n\nBio: Dr. Ricardo Vinuesa is the Associate Chair for Research and an Associate Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering\, University of Michigan. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)\, and he received his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. His research combines numerical simulations and data-driven methods to understand\, control and predict complex wall-bounded turbulent flows\, such as the boundary layers developing around wings and the flow in urban environments. Dr. Vinuesa has received\, among others\, an ERC Consolidator Grant\, the Harleman Lecture Award\, the TSFP Kasagi Award\, the MST Emerging Leaders Award\, the Goran Gustafsson Award for Young Researchers\, the IIT Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the SARES Young Researcher Award. He received the Outstanding Reviewer Prize of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and he is also a member of the Young Academy of Science of Spain.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-ricardo-vinuesa/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Xiangru Xu
DESCRIPTION: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 Xiangru Xu is a professor at UW-Madison. \n\n\n\nTitle: Safe Control for Learning-Enabled Autonomous Systems \n\n\n\nAbstract: This talk presents recent advances in provably safe control for learning-enabled autonomous systems. In the first part\, I will discuss reachability analysis and controlled invariance of neural network control systems. I will introduce methods for safety verification and safe control synthesis based on forward and backward reachable set computations using constrained and hybrid zonotopes\, together with an interval-based invariance operator for computing the maximum controlled invariant set. In the second part\, I will present hierarchical safe control architectures that integrate a high-level optimization-based motion planner with a low-level safety filter\, providing formal guarantees of continuous-time safety constraint satisfaction. I will demonstrate their effectiveness through two case studies: safe trajectory planning and tracking for quadrotors\, and occlusion-free visual servoing of robotic manipulators. \n\n\n\nBio: Xiangru Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Michigan and the University of Washington. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the Best New Application Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control\, Control Theory and Technology\, and Autonomous Intelligent Systems\, and is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-xiangru-xu/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260320T120000
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Debanjan Mukherjee
DESCRIPTION: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 Debanjan Mukherjee is a professor at University of Colorado Boulder. \n\n\n\nPresentation Title: The Biofluid Dynamics Of Thrombosis: what doors can custom in silico models open for us? \n\n\n\nAbstract: Thrombosis\, or the pathological clotting of blood in the human body\, is the key underlying cause of severe cardiovascular disease like heart attack and stroke; which together comprise major global causes of death and disability. Fluid dynamics plays an intricate underlying role in pathological clot initiation\, formation and growth\, and subsequent clot deformation and potential fragmentation (or embolization). There exists a significant body of evidence on this underlying role of flow\, and flow-mediated transport from in vivo murine models\, and microfluidic assays with whole human blood. Yet\, the recapitulation of dynamic clot-flow interactions within real human vascular segments continues to remain a major challenge; and there are currently limited avenues to probe and understand these interactions via standard-of-care imaging. Here\, we will showcase custom numerical modeling frameworks that we have developed over the years to address the aforementioned challenge; enabling deep quantitative insights on local clot-flow interactions\, clot mechanical response to flow-induced loading\, and biochemical transport within and around clots. We will specifically illustrate approaches that resolve key features of real human clots\, such as heterogeneous structure and micro-composition\, and their interplay with locally non-linear fluid flows. We will also illustrate numerical methods that help model and investigate physiologically critical processes such as clot contraction mechanics\, which are otherwise challenging to replicate in an in silico setting. We will close by showcasing our efforts on releasing these computational modeling tools to the broader community as open-source tools. \n\n\n\nBio: Debanjan Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a program faculty for the Biomedical Engineering program\, and a faculty council member at the BioFrontiers Institute at CU Boulder. He leads an inter-disciplinary flow physics and biofluids research group named FLOWLab. Prof. Mukherjee completed his undergraduate studies at IIT Madras in India\, and subsequently his doctoral and post-doctoral training at the University of California\, Berkeley. He has received several awards in recognition of his work: including the National Institutes of Health Trailblazer Award for new and early-career investigators; the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award; the American Heart Association post-doctoral fellowship award; and has recently been selected as a Research and Innovation Office Faculty Fellow and a Dean’s Excellence Fellow in Generative AI at the University of Colorado Boulder.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-dabanjan-mukherjee/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Xiaobo Tan
DESCRIPTION: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 Xiaobo Tan is a professor at Michigan State University. \n\n\n\nPresentation Title: Control of Underwater Robots with Localization Constraints \n\n\n\nAbstract: A key challenge for underwater robots and vehicles is the difficulty in obtaining location measurements for them or for targets they are tasked to track. In this talk I will share a few examples of our recent work on control of underwater robots with localization constraints. I will first discuss a distributed estimation approach to cooperative localization\, where a group of robots need to track a moving target (e.g.\, an acoustically tagged fish) based on time-difference-of-arrivals (TDOAs) of a signal emitted by the target. Then I will introduce a control barrier function approach to the incorporation of observability constraints and show its application to target tracking with only the range measurement. Finally\, I will present the problem of adaptive sampling under localization uncertainties\, and discuss how a multi-fidelity Gaussian process model is instrumental for best utilizing the measurement data for the reconstruction of the environmental field being sampled. Experimental results will be shown to illustrate the approaches. \n\n\n\nBio: Dr. Xiaobo Tan is an MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor and the Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in automatic control from Tsinghua University\, Beijing\, China\, in 1995\, 1998\, respectively\, and his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland in 2002. His research interests include underwater robotics\, soft robotics\, smart materials\, and control systems. He has published over 300 papers and been awarded 7 US patents in these areas. Dr. Tan is a Fellow of IEEE and ASME. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2006)\, MSU Teacher-Scholar Award (2010)\, MSU College of Engineering Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award (2018)\, Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland (2018)\, MSU William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award\, and multiple best paper awards. Dr. Tan is keen to integrate his research with educational and outreach activities\, and has served as the PI of an NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program on addressing real-world water problems (2023-2028)\, Director of an NSF-funded Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site program (2009 – 2016)\, and Curator of a robotic fish exhibit at MSU Museum (2016-2017). He has served the professional community in different capacities\, including the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics\, a member of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Executive Committee\, and the general chair of 2018 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference and 2023 American Control Conference.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-xiaobo-tan/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Theresa Saxton-Fox
DESCRIPTION: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 Theresa Saxton-Fox is a professor at University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-theresa-saxton-fox/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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CREATED:20260120T211424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T172842Z
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Wonmo Kang
DESCRIPTION: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 Wonmo Kang is a professor at Arizona State University. \n\n\n\nPresentation Title: Mechanisms Behind Enhanced Electrical and Mechanical Properties in Graphene–Metal Composites \n\n\n\nAbstract: Graphene–metal composites are widely regarded as promising candidates for high-performance electrical conductors as well as advanced structural and functional applications\, owing to graphene’s exceptional electron mobility\, mechanical strength\, and thermal conductivity. To leverage these attractive properties\, small graphene flakes are often dispersed within a macroscopic metal matrix to form bulk composites. However\, this approach intrinsically introduces discontinuous interfaces between the nanoscale carbon reinforcements and the much larger metal matrix\, which hinder efficient load transfer and limit performance gains. In this regard\, this talk investigates how both graphene continuity and quality influence the electrical and mechanical performance of graphene–metal composites. Using axially bi-continuous graphene–copper wires\, we achieve a 41% reduction in electrical resistivity and a 450% increase in current-carrying capacity compared to pure copper. We further show that this architecture enables enhanced mechanical\, thermal\, and anti-oxidation performance. Notably\, axially bi-continuous graphene–nickel wires break the traditional strength–ductility trade-off\, achieving an exceptional combination of both. Finally\, I will discuss our ongoing efforts toward high-throughput\, cost-effective manufacturing of macroscopic graphene–metal composites with continuous graphene networks. \n\n\n\nBio: Wonmo Kang is an associate professor in the School for Engineering of Matter\, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University (ASU). He received his Ph.D. in 2012 with the Outstanding Mechanical Engineering PhD Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining ASU\, he was a research scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory. His current research includes graphene-metal composites for multifunctional applications\, in situ material characterization\, nano/bio-mechanics\, and NEMS/MEMS/bioMEMS. Dr. Kang has published his work in leading scientific journals including Advanced Materials\, Advanced Functional Materials\, Small\, Nano Letters\, and Acta Biomaterialia. Dr. Kang is the recipient of several awards/fellowships including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award\, the ASME Rising Stars of Mechanical Engineering Award\, the postdoctoral fellowship from the American Society for Engineering Education\, and the Leidos technical publication awards.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-wonmo-kang/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Midwest Mechanics Seminar: Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani
DESCRIPTION: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 Bharath Ganapathisubramani is a professor at University of South Hampton. \n\n\n\nPresentation Title: Vortex Dominated Flows: Can’t live with them…Can’t live without them… \n\n\n\nAbstract: Vortex-dominated flows are in abundance in engineering applications and natural environment. Vortical structures influence not only the flow field but also have major implications on forces and moments experienced by objects as well as noise generated by them. In this talk\, I will present results from work carried out in my group across different projects. We will focus on at least two case studies. The first is aimed at understanding the fluid-structure interactions in flow past porous bluff bodies while the second will focus on swimming efficiency of marine reptiles in Mesozoic era. These case studies will show that the behaviour of vortex interactions have a profound impact well beyond their specific application and that understanding these interactions can spawn new applications in varied areas including flow manipulation and bio-inspired vehicle design.  \n\n\n\nBio: Bharath Ganapathisubramani is a Professor of Experimental Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the University of Southampton. He completed his Masters and PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Minnesota and an undergraduate degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras. He was an Assistant Professor at Imperial College London and moved to Southampton as an Associate Professor. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Experiments in Fluids and Flow. He is a Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society and the American Physical Society as well as an Associate Fellow of AIAA.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/midwest-mechanics-seminar-professor-bharath-ganapathisubramani/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor D. Emma Fan
DESCRIPTION: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 D. Emma Fan is a professor at University of Texas – Austin. \n\n\n\nRobotic Materials and Devices Across Scales for Biomedical Applications \n\n\n\nAbstract: In this talk\, I will discuss our recent work in materials fabrication\, manipulation\, assembly\, and manufacturing tailored towards biomedical applications. The focus is on active materials and robotic devices enabled by materials control across a wide range of length scales. At the nanoscale\, I will discuss 3D electrokinetic tweezers\, an ultra-precision tool developed in my lab\, which can be used to manipulate nanowires in room-temperature aqueous solutions. With this technique\, designed nanoparticles are maneuvered as untethered robotic tools for probing single biological cells; the precision reaches 20 nm in position and 0.5° in orientation in solution under a standard microscope. At a slightly larger\, chip-scale\, I will describe a recent innovation that permits the light-controlled patterning of soft actuators made of microbubbles\, which assemble large arrays of nanoparticles in parallel. The co-assembly of nanosensor-cell hybrids can be further achieved that detect metabolites of bacterial cells. Finally\, I will present a rational scheme for developing large-scale\, hierarchically porous superstructures for applications in monitoring human health and public-health relevant water treatment. \n\n\n\nBio: Dr. D. Emma Fan is Harry L. Kent\, Jr. Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin\, with affiliated appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering\, the Materials Science and Engineering Program\, and the Texas Materials Institute. \n\n\n\nProf. Fan leads a research program focused on the fabrication\, manipulation\, and assembly of intelligent micro/nanoscale structures\, 3D hierarchical porous materials\, and stimulus-responsive systems.She is a recipient of two NSF awards: the NSF CAREER Award (2012) and the NSF Mid-Career Advancement Award (2022). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2021) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2024)\, where she was elected to the Board of Directors (2025) by a vote of over 2\,000 Fellows. She was named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2025 and has served as an Official Nominator for the Japan Prize since 2017. Dr\, Fan was selected as the 2022 Ilene Busch-Vishniac Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University—an honor that celebrates outstanding women in engineering and aims to inspire the next generation.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-d-emma-fan/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260130T130000
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Haneesh Kesari
DESCRIPTION: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 Haneesh Kesari is a professor at Brown University.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-haneesh-kesari/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering
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SUMMARY:Mechanics Seminar: Professor Melissa Brindise
DESCRIPTION: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 Melissa Brindise is a professor at Penn State University. \n\n\n\nTitle: Uncovering mechanical drivers of cerebral aneurysm growth and rupture \n\n\n\nAbstract: Clinical evaluation of cerebral aneurysms requires a difficult decision of whether to treat or monitor the aneurysm. While hemodynamics and other objective physics-based factors are known to influence an aneurysm’s risk of growth and rupture\, no robust and mechanics-based method currently exists to accurately assess an aneurysm’s risk. As a result\, aneurysm treatment decisions are most often made using subjective evaluations by physicians. \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, I will discuss my lab’s work towards addressing this issue. Specifically\, I will detail our multi-modality investigations which aim to uncover how physiological conditions\, vascular morphology\, and flow instabilities\, including turbulent features\, shape aneurysmal hemodynamics\, impose mechanical consequences\, and individually and collectively influence aneurysm growth and rupture. \n\n\n\nAneurysm rupture ultimately is the result of mechanical failure of the aneurysm tissue wall. However\, direct\, non-invasive assessment of aneurysm tissue strength remains beyond current clinical capabilities. I will therefore also discuss our ongoing work to develop clinical tools for inferring aneurysm wall properties from standard clinical imaging. In the long-term\, such a tool represents a critical step towards objective-physics-based aneurysm risk assessments and treatment decisions \n\n\n\nBio: Dr. Melissa Brindise is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University. She received her B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering (2013) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2019) both from Purdue University. Prior to joining Penn State in 2021\, she was a post-doctoral research associate at Purdue as part of the Eli Lilly-Purdue partnership. Her research combines experimental flow physics with image and signal processing to improve analysis methods and current clinical understanding of neuro- and cardiovascular disease\, injury\, function\, and treatment. Broadly\, her lab focuses on 1) advancing our understanding of the role of hemodynamics and vascular changes in the onset\, progression\, and efficacy of treatment of diseases and 2) developing objective\, evidence-based methods to transform how we interpret patient data. Her current research interests include the application areas of cerebral aneurysms\, Moyamoya disease\, cognitive function\, heart disease and arrhythmias\, and transition to turbulence in unsteady flows.
URL:https://engineering.wisc.edu/event/mechanics-seminar-professor-melissa-brindise/
LOCATION:1227 Engineering Hall\, 1415 Engineering Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering
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