Research: Departmental Seminars 2009
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 |
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Past Seminars
| Dr Ajay Seth Bioengineering Research Associate, Center for Physics-Based Simulation of Biological Structures (Simbios), Stanford University, USA Musculoskeletal modelling and simulation: benefits and challenges from an OpenSim developer's perspective. |
4 December |
| Prof Walter Herzog Faculties of Kinesiology, Engineering and Medicine; Co-director, Human Performance Laboratory, University of Calgary, Canada Molecular mechanisms of muscle contraction. |
23 November |
| Dr Muhammad Zaman TEWKESBURY FELLOW Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Cell-matrix interactions in 3D tumor environments: Mechanics, matrix and multi-scale modeling. |
18 November |
| Prof Dale I. Pullin Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA On the non-local geometry of turbulence. |
5 November |
A/Prof Nathan van de Wouw |
5 October |
Prof Ronald J. Adrian |
18 August |
| Prof Ian M. Kennedy Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Biophotonics Graduate Groups, University of California Davis, CA, USA. Nanoscale metal oxides in the environment and in technology. |
30 June |
| Prof Min Chong Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics Research in the Mechanical Engineering Department. |
18 June |
| Dr Rainer Hollerbach Reader, Department of Applied Mathematics, The University of Leeds, UK. Magnetorotational instabilities in cylindrical Taylor-Couette flow. |
9 June |
| Prof Doreen Thomas Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne Optimisation of underground mine networks. |
28 April |
| Dr Timothy B. Nickels TEWKESBURY FELLOW Reader in Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge University Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK Three-dimensional structures in turbulent flows. |
3 April |
| Dr Mary L. Bouxsein Assistant Professor, Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Biomechanics of age-related fractures. |
27 March |
| Prof Benno M. Nigg Co-director, Human Performance Laboratory & Professor of Biomechanics University of Calgary, Canada Impact forces, soft tissue vibrations and muscle tuning. |
26 March |
| A/Prof Rezaul Begg Biomechanics Unit, CARES/SES, Victoria University, Melbourne Biomedical Engineering Applications to the Study of Gait Control Dynamics. |
5 March |
| Prof Oussama Khatib TEWKESBURY FELLOW Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA Human-centered robotics. |
27 February |
| A/Prof Konrad Swanepoel TEWKESBURY FELLOW Faculty of Mathematics, Technical University, Chemnitz, Germany Geometric Methods in Combinatorics, Optimisation and Computer Science. |
23 February |
| Dr Nick Brown Head, Department of Biomechanics & Performance Analysis, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra Multi-muscle, multi-joint function: from movement restoration to elite sport. |
19 February |
| Prof Sergej Fatikow Division for Microrobotics and Control Engineering (AMiR), University of Oldenburg, Germany Automated robot-based nanohandling. |
6 February |
| Prof Debes Bhattacharyya Director, Centre for Advanced Composite Materials, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland, NZ Modeling of Fibre Formation and Oxygen Permeability in Micro-/Nano-Fibrillar Polymer-Polymer Composites. |
29 January |
| Prof James Wallace TEWKESBURY FELLOW Department of Mechanical Engineering, A.James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland USA Twenty years of experimental and DNS access to the velocity gradient tensor: What have we learned about turbulence? |
21 January |