Department Seminars
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All seminars are held at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays unless otherwise indicated. Click on any link for additional speaker and event information.
Upcoming seminars
Oct
20
2026
Inkjet 3D Printing Using Molten Metal “Ink”
Tuesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
America/Chicago
ERF 1043
Oct
27
2026
Toward Useful Humanoids: Dexterous Manipulation and Imitation Learning for Real-World Tasks
Tuesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
America/Chicago
ERF 1043
Nov
10
2026
Current Understanding and Unsolved Problems in the Thermal Conductivity of Materials
Tuesday, 11:00 am–12:00 pm
America/Chicago
ERF 1043
Seminar calendar archive
2026-2027
- 04.27.2027: Maurizio Porfiri, New York University
- 04.20.2027: Carolyn Seepersad, Georgia Tech
- 04.13.2027: Milind Jog, University of Cincinnati
- 04.06.2027: Joseph Chow, New York University
- 01.19.2027: Chris Hogan, University of Minnesota
- 01.12.2027: Behnam Pourdeyhimi, North Carolina State University
- 12.01.2026: Satish Bukkapatnam, Texas A&M University
- 11.24.2026: George Karniadakis, Brown University
- 11.10.2026: David Cahill, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 10.27.2026: Monroe Kennedy III, Stanford University
- 10.20.2026: Denis Cormier, Rochester Institute of Technology
- 10.13.2026: Ying Sun, University of North Carolina Charlotte
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- 04.07.2026: Saniya LeBlanc, The George Washington University
- 03.31.2026: Monique McClain, Purdue University
- 03.17.2026: Alexander Leonessa, Clemson University
- 03.10.2026: Shan Bao, University of Michigan-Dearborn
- 02.27.2026: Venkat Krovi, Clemson University
- 02.10.2026: Sam Manzello, Tohoku University in Japan
- 11.04.2025: Sofía Pérez-Guzmán, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 10.14.2025: Jeff S. Shamma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 10.10.2025: Taner Cokyasar, Argonne National Laboratory
- 09.04.2025: Berok Khoshnevis, University of Southern California
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- 4.22.2025: Peter Cripton, University of British Columbia
- 4.15.2025: Dereje Agonafer, University of Texas at Arlington
- 4.11.2025: William E. Draper III, retired chief engineer, Ford Motor Company
- 4.8.2025: Joseph L. Gabbard, Virginia Tech
- 4.2.2025: Menghan Liu, Arizona State University
- 4.1.2025: Brendan Ruskey, Lehigh University
- 3.18.2025: Pratap Tokekar, University of Maryland
- 11.19.2024: Cameron Tropea, Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany
- 11.14.2024: Nina Andrejevic, Argonne National Laboratory
- 10.29.2024: Duane Cronin, University of Waterloo
- 10.17.2024: Nick Kateris, Stanford University
- 9.24.2024: Howard Stone, Princeton University
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- 04.16.2024: Yogendra Joshi, DARPA/Georgia Institute of Technology
- 03.05.2024: Satyandra K. Gupta, University of Southern California
- 2.27.2024: Michael Plesniak, The George Washington University
- 2.20.2024: Zhenyu “James” Kong, Virginia Tech
- 1.23.2024: Ayonga Hereid, The Ohio State University
- 11.28.2023: Philip Bayly, Washington University in St. Louis
- 11.14.2023: He (Helen) Huang, North Carolina State University
- 10.3.2023: Anish Tuteja, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
- 9.26.2023: Khalil Amine, Argonne National Lab
- 9.19.2023: James Michael, Iowa State University
- 9.12.2023: Ping Guo, Northwestern University (Video at Ping Guo seminar)
2022-2023
- 04.25.2023: Phebe Vayanos, University of Southern California
- 04.18.2023: Gareth McKinley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 02.21.2023: Brandon Rotavera, University of Georgia
- 02.14.2023: Patrick Wensing, University of Notre Dame
- 01.31.2023: Sarah Wolff, Ohio State University
- 10.04.2022: David Meaney, University of Pennsylvania
- 11.15.2022: Mark Fuge, University of Maryland
- 1.24.2023: Partha P. Mukherjee, Purdue University
- 01.31.2023: Sarah Jeannette Wolff, Ohio State University
2021-2022
- 02.08.2022: Vitaliy Rayz, Purdue University
- 02.22.2022: John A. Rogers, Northwestern University
- 03.15.2022: Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech
- 04.12.2022: Souma Chowdhury, University at Buffalo
- 04.18.2022: Amirhossein Arzani, Northern Arizona University
- 04.25.2022: Ying Li, University of Connecticut
- 04.27.2022: Zhenpeng Qin, University of Texas at Dallas
- 09.21.2021: Mark Tschopp, Army Research Laboratory
- 10.12.2021: Frances Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 11.02.2021: Iris Rivero, Rochester Institute of Technology
- 11.09.2021: Ranjana Mehta, Texas A&M University
- 11.16.2021: Nenad Miljkovic, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 11.30.2021: Valeria Molinero, University of Utah
Details and links will be added to the listings above as details become available.
2020-2021
- 02.02.2021: Matthew Panzer, University of Virginia
- 02.09.2021: Gustaaf Jacobs, San Diego State University
- 03.02.2021: Nam Chang, North Carolina State University
- 03.16.2021: Samuel Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 11.20.2020: Kyoungchul Kong, of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- 11.02.2020: Madhusudhan Venkadesan, of Yale University
Details and links will be added to the listings above as details become available.
2019-2020
- 09.10.2019: George Crabtree, University of Illinois at Chicago
- 09.24.2019: Inanc Senocak, University of Pittsburgh
- 10.01.2019: Hamid Garmestani, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 10.22.2019: Justin A. Weibel, Purdue University
- 11.05.2019: Jonathan Boreyko, Virginia Tech
- 11.19.2019: Michael Barsoum, Drexel University
- 12.03.2019: Dagman Sternand, Northeastern University
- 1.28.2020: Ardalan Vahidi, Clemson University
- 3.3.2020: Huolin Xin, University of California, Irvine
- 3.17.2020: Samuel Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 3.31.2020: Madhu Venkadesan, Yale University
2018-2019
- 10.09.2018: Neelesh A. Patankar, Northwestern University
- 11.20.2018: Young-Jun Son, The University of Arizona
- 11.27.2018: Yuagshan Kevin Chou, University of Louisville
- 4.12.2019: Spiridon Reveliotis, Georgia Institute of Technology
2017-2018
- 10.31.2017: José L. Lage, Southern Methodist University
- 11.7.2017: Maria Chan, Argonne National Laboratory
- 12.5.2017:Paul Gribble, Western University, Canada
- 3.12.2018: Catalin R. Picu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- 4.24.2018: Yong Chen, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2016-2017
- 9.27.2016: Santanu Chaudhuri, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 10.4.2016: Hitomi Yamaguchi Greensle, University of Florida
- 10.11.2016: Jitesh H. Panchal, Purdue University
- 10.18.2016: Mohammad R.K. Mofrad, University of California, Berkeley
- 10.25.2016: Monica Cox, The Ohio State University
- 11.1.2016: David J. Ostry, McGill University and Haskins Laboratories
- 11.8.2016: Yong Huang, University of Florida
- 11.15.2016: Karren L. More, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 11.29.2016: Denis Cormier, Rochester Institute of Technology
2015-2016
- 9.1.2015: Hai Wang, Stanford University
- 9.15.2015: Souma Chowdhury, Mississippi State University
- 9.29.2015: Stephen Garoff, Carnegie Mellon University
- 10.13.2015: Nathan P. Guisinger, Argonne National Laboratory
- 10.20.2015: Ryan Enright, Bell Labs Ireland
- 11.3.2015: Arumugam Manthiram, University of Texas at Austin
- 11.10.2015: Hongtao Ding, University of Iowa
- 2.9.2016: Alaa A. Ahmed, University of Colorado, Boulder
- 2.26.2016: Patrick Phelan, US Department of Energy
- 3.1.2016: Lincoln J. Lauhon, Northwestern University
- 3.15.2016: Jian Cao, Northwestern University
- 4.12.2016: Jonathan Cagan, Carnegie Mellon University
- 4.19.2016: James J. Wu, NASA Glenn Research Center
2014-2015
- Archive entries coming soon