September 11, 2009
Prof. Kamran Mohseni (University of Colorado)
“Bio-Inspired Aerial and Underwater Vehicles for Distributed Mobile Sensor Networking”

September 18, 2009
Dr. Marc Ingber (National Science Foundation)
“Multiscale modeling of suspension flow”

September 25, 2009
Prof. Youssef Marzouk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Uncertainty quantification and statistical inference in transport and kinetic modeling”

October 2, 2009
Prof. Patrick Lynett (Texas A&M University)
“Towards Capturing the Complex Flow of a Tsunami Inundating the Built Environment”

October 9, 2009
Prof. Daniel Kirk-Davidoff (University of Maryland)
“Windfarm impacts on Climate and Weather”

October 16, 2009
Dr. Alan Kerstein (Sandia National Laboratory)
“Turbulent flames and other advected propagating fronts: Analysis, heuristics, speculation”

October 23, 2009
Dr. Marcello Magaldi (Johns Hopkins University)
“Turbulent coherent structures near coastal capes”

October 30, 2009
Dr. Michael Robinson (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
“Wind Energy Technology Development and Deployment in the US – 20% by 2030”

November 6, 2009
Prof. Sutanu Sarkar (University of California, San Diego)
“Turbulence and internal waves in a stratified environment”

November 13, 2009
Dr. Aristides A.N. Patrinos (Synthetic Genomics Inc.)
“Genomics-powered biology as an enabler in the greenhouse and energy worlds”

November 20, 2009
(No Seminar)

December 4, 2009
Prof. Liejin Guo (Xi’an Jiaotong University)
“Solar-Hydrogen Production by Photocatalytic Water Splitting and Thermochemical Gasification of Biomass in Supercritical Water”

December 11, 2009 (Special Seminar)
Dr. Tiffany Camp (Clemson University)
“Evaluation of Fluid Diodes as Pulmonary Heart Valve Replacements”