Colloquium Year: SPRING 2014

TITLE: Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Tapered Closures in Sandwich Composites DATE: Friday, January 31st, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Satchi Venkatraman. Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Sandwich composites used in aerospace and marine structures due to their high specific bending stiffness and high specific in-plane strengths […]

TITLE: Geometric Numerical Integration and Computational Geometric Mechanics DATE: Friday, January 24th, 2014 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Dr. Melvin Leok, University of California, San Diego ABSTRACT: Symmetry, and the study of invariant and equivariant objects, is a deep and unifying principle underlying a variety of mathematical fields. In particular, geometric mechanics is […]