Research: Departmental Seminars 2012
Departmental seminars are made up of the Renowned Speaker Series (highlighted), Visiting Academic Series and PhD Confirmation Seminars.
Information regarding the speakers and topics is sent to staff and postgraduate students in the Department by email. If you want your name added to the mailing list, or would like to present a seminar, please email Professor Ivan Marusic at
Upcoming Seminars
Speaker |
Date, time & venue |
| Prof M. Pino MartÃn Aerospace Engineering Department, and University of Maryland Institute for Computer Studies, University of Maryland, USA Descriptions of wall turbulence from DNS data. |
3pm Tuesday 24th January Brown Lecture Theatre Level 1 Electriical & Electronic Engineering Building 193 Parkville |
Past Seminars
| Dr Karol Miller Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory The University of Western Australia Real-time finite element analysis and meshless methods for computational biomechanics for medicine. |
24 November 2011 |
| Dr Stuart Warden Director of Research, Department of Physical Therapy, Indiana University (IU), USA Lifelong skeletal benefits of exercise during growth: an exercise in structure. |
10 June 2011 |
| Professor Joe Klewicki Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne The scientific importance and technological challenges of high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers. DEAN'S SEMINAR |
31 May 2011 |
Dr. Hugh Hunt |
7 April 2011 |
| Prof. Hans G. Hornung Clarence L. Johnson Professor of Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, USA Transition between regular and Mach reflection of shock waves. MERIT FELLOWSHIP SEMINAR |
1 April 2011 |
| Dr. Shaoping Quan Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Numerical simulations of deformable liquid drops and bubbles. |
31 March 2011 |
| Dr. Roy Featherstone Fellow, Department of Information Engineering Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science The Australian National University Branch-induced sparsity in rigid-body dynamics. |
4 March 2011 |
| Prof. Graham 'Gus' Nathan Director, Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide Thermal energy hybrids - opportunities and challenges. |
23 February 2011 |
| A/Prof. Gary Rosengarten Head, Energy, Fluids & Environment, School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of NSW, Sydney Using small-scale engineering to solve large-scale energy issues. |
27 January 2011 |
Dr Mohammad Zamir Asfar FLUID & THERMAL SCIENCES SEMINAR |
10 December 2010 |
| Professor Wolfgang Kollmann Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department University of California, Davis, USA Numerical simulation of vortex ring interactions. |
10 November 2010 |
| Dr Etienne Burdet Reader in Human Robotics, Imperial College, London Rules of Mechanical Virtual Reality and Therapeutic Games for Neurorehabilitation. |
14 October 2010 |
| Professor Dale I. Pullin Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, USA Progress and problems in LES of wall-bounded flows. |
13 October 2010 |
| Professor Joe Klewicki Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, USA On the Hierarchical Structure of Turbulent Wall-Flows. |
15 July 2010 |
| Professor J Scott Provan Department of Statistics and Operations Research University of North Carolina, USA Data Analysis on Phylogenetic Trees. |
9 June 2010 |
Professor Ronald J. Adrian Physics and Compact Synthesis of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition. |
27 May 2010 |
| Professor William Easson Professor of Fluids Mechanics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland Particle Motion in Human Arteries |
25 May 2010 |
| Professor Joe Klewicki Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, USA von Karman's Constant from Newton's Second Law |
24 February 2010 |