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Mornings @ McCormick: "Self-Assembly and Applications of Nanostructured Materials"
Friday May 9, 2008 at 7:30 AM — McCormick School of Eng., 2145 Sheridan, JBC Commons, 4th Floor, Evanston
Mornings @ McCormick: "Self-Assembly and Applications of Nanostructured Materials" presented by Professor Bartosz Grzybowski, McCormick's Chemical and Biological Engineering Department.
Self-assembly of nanoscopic components into higher-order architectures defines the forefront of
fundamental nanoscience research and is important for the development of new materials with
potential applications in optoelectronics, high-density data storage, catalysis, and biological
sensing.
This presentation will focus on how electrostatic and photoinduced dipole-dipole forces acting
between nanoscale components can mediate their self-assembly into fundamentally new types of
functional materials with applications in electronics (photoactive materials), metallurgy (“plastic
metals”), data storage (self-erasing “nanopaper”) and biomedical coatings (antibacterial and
antifungal)
Event URL: http://www.industry.northwestern.edu/mornings
For more information, contact:
Debra Daniel
d-daniel@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-8670
McCormick Office of Corporate Relations
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Environmental Engineering & Science Seminars
Friday May 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM — 2145 Sheridan Rd./ A230
Professor Chris Wolverton from the department of Material Sciences & Engineering here at Northwestern will present his talk entitled "Discovery of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials:An Atomic-Scale Computational Approach."
For more information, contact:
Neal Blair
n-blair@northwestern.edu
847-491-8790
McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Hosoi: Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion
Friday May 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM — Tech M416
Applied Math Colloquium
Title: Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion
Speaker: Anette (Peko) Hosoi, MIT
Abstract: In this talk I will discuss two optimization topics related to low Reynolds number locomotion: optimal stroke patterns in linked swimmers and optimal fluid material properties in adhesive locomotion. In the first case, we begin by optimizing stroke patterns for Purcell's 3-link swimmer modeled as a jointed chain of three slender links moving in an inertialess flow. We then go on to investigate uniflagellate and biflagellate organisms and compare the
optimized results to biological data. In the second case, we analyze adhesive locomotion used by common gastropods such as snails and slugs. Such organisms crawl on a solid substrate by propagating muscular waves of shear stress on a viscoelastic mucus. Using a simple mechanical model, we derive criteria for favorable fluid material properties to lower the energetic cost of locomotion.
For more information, contact:
Danielle Jackson
danielle-jackson@northwestern.edu
847-491-5586
McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Appli
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EECS "Meet the Faculty" SEMINAR: "Thermal-Aware Design Automation"
Friday May 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM — Technological Institute - Room L324
EECS "Meet the Faculty" Seminar
Dr. Seda Ogrenci Memik, Assistant Professor
Computer Engineering & Systems Division
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
"Thermal-Aware Design Automation"
Steady miniaturization and large-scale integration lead to increasing power densities. As a result, on-chip temperatures are rising steadily as technology is scaling down. Making matters worse, power management techniques such as clock gating, voltage islands, and power gating may lead to drastic temporal and spatial variations of chip temperatures. As a result, temperature has become one of the most important challenges in design of integrated circuits.
Seda Ogrenci Memik's research group attacks the problem of thermal-aware design along three avenues. First, they tackle the problem at design time. They develop thermal-aware synthesis algorithms and tools for embedded processor design. For various stages of hardware/software co-synthesis, they aim to enable effective control of peak temperature and uniform thermal profiles. Particularly, they focus on incorporating thermal-awareness into synthesis (such as resource selection, allocation, and assignment, task scheduling, and memory allocation), and system management (such as DRAM system control). Second, they develop a self-adjusting paradigm to design structures with inherent resilience towards dynamic effects of temperature. Finally, they approach the problem from the management perspective. They developed a systematic approach to design of thermal monitoring infrastructures for microprocessors systems. This entails, design of thermal sensing schemes and allocation and placement of thermal sensors in a given system.
Event URL: http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/events/
For more information, contact:
Brooke Hildebrand
brooke@eecs.northwestern.edu
847-491-3451
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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