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Dr. Heidi-Lynn Ploeg - Why you can stand on the floor
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“Why You Can Stand on the Floor” is in large part due to the mechanics of your musculo-skeletal system, and is the primary research focus of the Bone and Joint Biomechanics (BJB) Laboratory. Osteoporosis (OP) is a debilitating disease o...
Dr. Mariana Kersh - The scaling up of biological strength
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Over a lifespan of approximately 70 years, bone withstands millions of loading cycles from muscle forces with incredible resilience to fatigue. However, the mechanisms driving bone formation, organization, and strength are yet to be ful...
Dr. Kyle Niemeyer - Strategies for tackling the computational cost of modeling reacting fluids
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Accurate simulations of combustion and reacting fluid flows require complex, multi-step chemical kinetic models for describing the coupled chemical reactions. These models are often large and mathematically stiff, and contribute to the ...
Dr. Marina Vance - Quantifying human exposure to particulate matter: Emissions from 3D printers
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The field of indoor air quality continually grows to accommodate novel pollutant sources as they are developed. Office equipment such as laser printers and photocopiers are known to emit volatile and particulate air pollutants, especia...
Dr. Carlotta Berry - Robotics as a Gamechanger
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Robotics is the study of robots interacting in the physical world through sensing, perception, planning, and interacting. However, robotics is about about so much more than just a robot. This presentation will highlight the many aspects...
Dr. Haink Tu: Build it, Break it, Fix it-A Boston Dynamicist’s guide to solving hard design problems
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Since 2016, Atlas has been changing the idea of what robots can do with YouTube hits such as “What’s new, Atlas?”, where it backflipped its way to 19M views, as well as showcasing its latest dance moves in “Do You Love Me?”. Tune in to ...
Dr. Susan Mantell - Debonding in Dental Composites
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In dental restorations, debonding between the tooth and restoration causes critical failure. Dental composites are comprised of micron sized, spherical glass beads embedded in a UV curable polymer matrix. The evolution of the stiffness ...
Dr. Dan Negrut - Billion-degree of freedom Computational Dynamics
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This talk will focus on how a Lagrangian perspective on dynamics is used to capture the time evolution of complex systems, e.g., granular flows, fluid-solid interaction problems, etc. In this context, the aspects that turn out to be mor...
Dr. Timothy Kowalewski - To Err is Human - Surgical Skill and Robotics
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Surgical robots enjoy widespread adoption. This provides opportunities to augment the art of surgery with more rigorous, quantitative science, giving rise to the field of computational surgery. Such opportunities may help tackle long-st...
Dr. Jason Moore - Estimating competitive rowing kinematic metrics
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Competitive rowing highly values boat position and velocity data for real-time feedback during training, racing and post-training analysis. The ubiquity of smartphones with embedded position (GPS) and motion (accelerometer) sensors moti...