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Candidate: Sheng Wang Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Olivier Desjardins (chair), Paul Steen, David Bindel Time and Place: Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, 10:30 a.m., 106 Upson Hall Dissertation Title: Towards Large-Scale Simulations of Two-Phase Flows with Moving Contact Lines
Candidate: Jordan Chipka Candidate’s Field: Aerospace Engineering Committee: Mark Campbell (chair), Hadas Kress-Gazit, Bart Selman Time and Place: Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, 2:00 p.m., 106 Upson Hall Dissertation Title: Estimation and Navigation Methods with Limited Information for Autonomous Urban Driving
Candidate: Quanxing Lu Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Silvia Ferrari (Chair), Douglas MacMartin Time and Place: Monday, October 1, 2018, 9:00 a.m., 531 Upson Hall Dissertation Title: A POMDP Approach to Underwater Robot Path Planning for Multiview Multi-target Classification
Candidate: Matthew Walsh Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Mason Peck (Chair), Dmitry Savransky, Ross Knepper Time and Place: Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 331 Upson Hall Title: Toward General Orbital Rendezvous
Candidate: Duhan Zhang Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Robert Shepherd (Chair), Lynden Archer, Christopher Ober, Carla Gomes Time and Place: Thursday, August 30, 2018, 3:00 p.m., 431 Upson Hall Title: Zinc Electrodeposition in Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polymer Aqueous Electrolyte
Candidate: Kyle Wellmerling Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Brian Kirby (Chair), Ankur Singh, Benjamin Cosgrove Time and Place: Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 383 Kimball Hall Title: Removal of Teratoma-forming Cells from Human-induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Neural Progenitor Cells
Candidate: Ashish Newale Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Perrine Pepiot (Chair), Olivier Desjardins, Stephen Pope Time and Place: Friday, August 17, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 531 Upson Hall Title: An Improved Pre-Partitioned Adaptive Chemistry (PPAC) Methodology for Efficient Particle PDF Computations
Candidate: Yu-Chern (Chad) Wong Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Christopher Hernandez (Chair), Chung-Yuen Hui Time and Place: Thursday, Aug 2, 2018, 12:00 p.m., 431 Upson Hall Dissertation Title: Stress Analysis of Bacteria Submitted to Extrusion Loading
Candidate: Matthew Mosquera Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Ankur Singh (Chair), Ilana Brito, David Putnam Time and Place: Monday, July 30, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 383 Kimball Hall Title: Biomaterials-based Immunomodulation in Metabolic Syndrome Models
Candidate: Alexander Ivanov Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering Committee: Mark Campbell (chair), Alexander Vladimirsky, Silvia Ferrari, Hadas Kress-Gazit Time and Place: Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 10:00 a.m., 531 Upson Hall Dissertation Title: Guaranteed Robotic Planning and Exploration in Unknown Environments